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Spirit of St. Louis

The Spirit of St. Louis is the Ryan NYP monoplane flown by Charles Lindbergh on the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic, from New York to Paris in May 1927.

Spirit possession

Spirit possession, also called demoniacal possession, is the belief that an alien spirit can enter a person's body and act, speak, or cause affliction through them, documented across most recorded societies.

Spirit Riding Free

Spirit Riding Free is a DreamWorks/Netflix CGI animated series (2017, creator Aury Wallington) about Lucky Prescott, her mustang Spirit Jr., and friends Pru and Abigail in Miradero; inspired by the 2002 film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.

Spirit Untamed

Spirit Untamed is a 2021 American computer-animated adventure film from DreamWorks Animation, directed by Elaine Bogan, about a girl named Lucky Prescott who befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.

Spirit way

A spirit way (神道, shendao) is the ceremonial approach road to a Chinese tomb, lined with rows of stone statues reproducing the deceased's honor guard.

SPIRIT-P1 trial

SPIRIT-P1 (NCT01695239) is Eli Lilly's phase III trial of ixekizumab, an IL-17A antibody, in biologic-naive active psoriatic arthritis; 417 patients, adalimumab reference, 156-week efficacy and safety follow-up.

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a 2002 DreamWorks animated Western directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook, with Matt Damon narrating a mute mustang's story, Bryan Adams songs, a Hans Zimmer score, an $80 million budget, $122.6 million gross, and a Best Animated Feature Oscar nomination lost to Spirited Away.

Spiritbox

Spiritbox, Canadian heavy metal band from Victoria, British Columbia, formed by Courtney LaPlante and Mike Stringer; breakout single Holy Roller (2020), debut album Eternal Blue (2021, #13 Billboard 200), second album Tsunami Sea (2025), Grammy-nominated.

Spirited (film)

Spirited (2022) is an Apple Original Films Christmas musical comedy retelling A Christmas Carol from the ghosts' perspective, directed by Sean Anders, starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds, with songs by Pasek and Paul, released on Apple TV+ November 18, 2022.

Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し)

Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) is Studio Ghibli's 2001 Hayao Miyazaki film about Chihiro working in a spirit bathhouse; Japan's then record-grossing film, Golden Bear and Oscar winner.

Spirited Garden

Spirited Garden (생각하는정원, 思索之苑) is a private bonsai and stone garden in Jeju City, South Korea, built from 1968 by farmer Sung Bum-yeong on rocky wasteland; first nationally designated private garden, 2015.

Spiritist literature

Literatura espírita, or spiritist literature, is the body of writing tied to Spiritism, the doctrine Allan Kardec systematized in France, with its densest tradition in Brazil.

Spirits Rebellious

Spirits Rebellious (Arabic: الأرواح المتمردة) is a 1908 collection of four symbolic stories by Lebanese-American writer Kahlil Gibran attacking forced marriage, feudal tyranny, and religious corruption.

Spiritual and treaty charters of Dmitri Donskoi

The spiritual and treaty charters of Dmitri Donskoi (духовная грамота Дмитрия Донского) are his 1389 will and dynastic agreements, the first Moscow testament passing the grand principality of Vladimir to his son Vasily as hereditary patrimony.

Spiritual but not religious

Spiritual but not religious (SBNR) is a self-description used by people who value spirituality while distinguishing it from organized religion, covering 18% to 23% of US adults.

Spiritual Canticle

The Spiritual Canticle (Cántico espiritual) is a 40-stanza mystical poem by the Spanish Carmelite St John of the Cross describing the soul's search for Christ the Bridegroom.

Spiritual gift

A spiritual gift, or charisma (plural charismata), is in Christian theology a capacity granted by the Holy Spirit to believers for building up the Church, including prophecy, healing, and tongues.

Spiritual Healing (album)

Spiritual Healing is Death's third studio album (1990, Relativity/Combat), recorded at Morrisound in Tampa with Scott Burns. It shifted the band toward technical songwriting and social-issue lyrics, bridging early death metal and 1991's Human.

Spiritual Letter of Dmitry Donskoy

The Spiritual Letter of Dmitry Donskoy (Духовная грамота Дмитрия Донского) is the last will of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow, drawn up in 1389.

Spiritual letter of Vasily I

The spiritual letter of Vasily I (Духовная грамота Василия I) is the last will of Grand Prince Vasily I of Moscow, blessing his son with the grand principality.

Spiritual Regulation

The Spiritual Regulation (Духовный регламент), drafted by Feofan Prokopovich, was the 1721 act by which Peter I abolished the patriarchate and replaced it with the Spiritual Collegium, governing the Russian Church until 1917.

Spiritual successor

A spiritual successor, also called a spiritual sequel, is a new work resembling an earlier one under a separate brand, most commonly in video games.

Spiritual Therapies

Spiritual therapies are mystical, religious, or spiritual practices performed for health benefit, including prayer, faith healing, Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, meditation, and yoga; randomized trial evidence is mixed with very low certainty.

Spiritual warfare

Spiritual warfare is the Christian belief and practice of combating invisible demonic forces through prayer, fasting, and exorcism, anchored in Ephesians 6 and systematized by C. Peter Wagner in the late 1980s.

Spirituality

Spirituality is a family of beliefs, experiences, and practices centered on connection with something beyond the ordinary self, whether God, nature, other people, or one's true self.

Spiritualized

Spiritualized is an English rock band formed in 1990 by Jason Pierce (J Spaceman) after Spacemen 3 split. Known for Lazer Guided Melodies (1992) and Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997); albums through Everything Was Beautiful (2022).

Spiritually Israeli

Spiritually Israeli is a pejorative internet slang phrase popularized in mid-2025 on TikTok and X for things seen as vapid, soulless, or overcommercialized, with no real link to Israel; it grew from the Albert Levi 'artist from Israel' meme and is widely criticized as antisemitic.

Spirituals

Spirituals are religious folk songs created by enslaved African Americans in the American South, blending Christian themes with West African elements like call-and-response, and sometimes carrying coded messages about escape.

Spiro (company)

Spiro is an African electric mobility company, founded in 2019, that sells electric motorcycles and operates the continent's largest battery-swapping network across seven countries, with over 100,000 bikes by mid-2026.

Spiro Agnew

Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918–1996), 39th vice president of the United States under Nixon (1969–October 10, 1973) and 55th governor of Maryland, resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion over kickbacks; succeeded by Gerald Ford.