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Spring Silkworms
Spring Silkworms (春蚕) is a 1932 short story by Mao Dun, which follows a farmer's family facing ruin after their record silk cocoon harvest is rejected.
Spring Snow (春の雪)
Spring Snow (春の雪, Haru no Yuki) is Yukio Mishima's 1969 novel, first volume of The Sea of Fertility tetralogy: the doomed 1912 Tokyo love of aristocrats Kiyoaki and Satoko, built on dream, reincarnation, and Yogācāra Buddhism.
Spring Stampede (1994)
Spring Stampede 1994, WCW's inaugural Spring Stampede pay-per-view, held April 17, 1994 at the Rosemont Horizon near Chicago; 12,200 fans; Flair vs. Steamboat double-pin main event, Sting wins the International title.
Spring steel
Spring steel is a high-carbon or alloy steel heat treated to a high elastic limit, so it bends and returns to its original shape without permanent deformation.
Spring tide
A spring tide is the larger-than-average tide at new and full moon, when Earth, Moon, and Sun align and tidal forces add, producing higher highs and lower lows.
Spring training
Spring training: MLB's preseason in Florida (Grapefruit League) and Arizona (Cactus League), 15 teams each; began 1886 in Hot Springs, Arkansas; exhibition games whose stats never count officially.
Spring Valley, Nevada
Spring Valley, Nevada: an unincorporated Clark County town and census-designated place in the western Las Vegas Valley, west of the Strip. Population 215,597 (2020); home of the Spring Mountain Road Chinatown district.
Spring View
Spring View (春望) is a five-character regulated verse by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, written in 757 in rebel-occupied Chang'an and considered his most famous poem.
Spring viraemia of carp
Spring viraemia of carp (SVC), also spring viremia of carp, is a WOAH-listed rhabdoviral disease of cyprinids, mainly common and koi carp, causing haemorrhage, dropsy, and 1–70% mortality at 11–17°C water temperatures.
SPring-8
SPring-8, formally the Large-Scale Synchrotron Radiation Facility, is a synchrotron in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, producing intense X-rays with 8 GeV electrons; open since 1997, it serves over 200,000 users.
Spring-heeled Jack
Spring-heeled Jack, also Springheel Jack, a Victorian English urban legend of a leaping, blue-flame-breathing night assailant first reported around London in 1837–38, named by The Times, reported across Britain until 1904, and later a penny dreadful character.
Spring-loaded inverted pendulum
The spring-loaded inverted pendulum (SLIP) is a reduced-order model of running, hopping, and trotting in which a point mass rides on a massless spring leg, formalized by R. Blickhan in 1989.
Spring, Spring
Spring, Spring (봄봄) is a short story by the Korean writer Kim Yu-jeong, published in 1935, about a son-in-law who works unpaid for over three years while his prospective father-in-law delays the wedding.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄) is Kim Ki-duk's 2003 South Korean-German Buddhist drama following a monk's life in five seasonal chapters, shot at Jusanji Pond, a festival award winner with an 85 Metascore.
Spring, Texas
Spring, Texas is an unincorporated census-designated place in north Harris County, about 20 miles north of Houston on I-45. Founded as a farming settlement and 1871 railroad town, it had 62,559 residents in 2020 and centers on the Old Town Spring shopping district.
Springbok
Springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis), a gazelle-like antelope of southern Africa's arid plains and South Africa's national animal; only living Antidorcas species, 33–46 kg, known for pronking leaps up to 3.5 m and surviving without drinking water.
Springbrook National Park
Springbrook National Park: 6,558 ha Queensland park in the Gold Coast hinterland, part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area, with four sections, waterfalls, glow-worms, and the Natural Bridge arch.
Springer Nature
Springer Nature is a research, health and education publisher formed in May 2015 by merging Springer Science+Business Media with Macmillan brands including Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan; listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2024, it published 539,000 primary research articles in 2025, over 53% open access, with FY 2025 revenue of €1,926.4m.
Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media: STM publisher formed in 2004 from the Springer and Kluwer Academic merger, owned by Cinven/Candover then BC Partners, merged into Springer Nature in May 2015.
Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
Springer Tracts in Modern Physics is a book series from Springer Berlin Heidelberg presenting critical reviews of current physics topics, continuing the German series Ergebnisse der exakten Naturwissenschaften since 1965.
Springerville power station
The Springerville Generating Station is a four-unit, 1,649 MW coal-fired power station in Apache County, Arizona, owned by Tucson Electric Power, Tri-State, and Salt River Project.
Springfield
Springfield, a common English place name from Essex, England, names 14 incorporated US places of 1,000+ across 14 states and dozens more communities; largest is Springfield, Missouri, and it is The Simpsons' fictional hometown.
Springfield (The Simpsons)
Springfield is the fictional, state-unnamed town setting of The Simpsons, home of the Simpson family at 742 Evergreen Terrace since 1989; Matt Groening named it after Springfield, Oregon, though he later said the show is not set there.
Springfield Armory
Springfield Armory, the United States' first federal armory, manufactured small arms for the U.S. military in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1794 until 1968 and pioneered interchangeable-parts manufacturing.
Springfield Armory Echelon
The Springfield Armory Echelon is a modular, striker-fired 9mm semi-automatic duty pistol introduced in 2023, built around a removable serialized chassis called the Central Operating Group.
Springfield Armory M1A
The Springfield Armory M1A is a semi-automatic civilian rifle produced since 1974 by Springfield Armory, Inc. of Geneseo, Illinois, as a commercial version of the M14.
Springfield Armory, Inc.
Springfield Armory, Inc. is an American firearms manufacturer based in Geneseo, Illinois, founded in 1974 and known for the M1A rifle, XD pistols, and SAINT AR-15s.
Springfield Cardinals
Springfield Cardinals, Double-A Texas League affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals in Springfield, Missouri, 2005-2026; won Texas League titles in 2012 and 2025; rebranded as the Ozarks Springbirds for 2027.
Springfield Model 1861
The Springfield Model 1861 was a .58-caliber muzzle-loading percussion rifle musket, the most common Union infantry weapon of the American Civil War, with about one million made.
Springfield model 1873
The Springfield model 1873, nicknamed the Trapdoor Springfield, was the U.S. Army's standard single-shot breech-loading rifle and carbine of the 1870s and 1880s, chambered in .45-70.