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St. Joseph's Hospital
St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota, founded 1853 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, was Minnesota's first hospital; it closed as a general hospital in 2020 and became Fairview's Community Health and Wellness Hub. Other hospitals share the name.
St. Joseph's Indian School
St. Joseph's Indian School is a tuition-free residential school for Lakota and other Native American children in Chamberlain, South Dakota, founded in 1927 by Fr. Henry Hogebach of the Dehonians, serving about 200 students in grades 1–12, funded over 98% by private donations.
St. Joseph's School, Darjeeling
St. Joseph's School, Darjeeling (North Point) is a Jesuit-run Catholic boys' day and boarding school founded 13 February 1888 by Fr Henri Depelchin at Sunny Bank, moved to North Point in 1892, ICSE/ISC under CISCE, alumni include kings of Nepal and Bhutan.
St. Joseph's University, New York
St. Joseph's University, New York, formerly St. Joseph's College, is a private Catholic university with campuses in Brooklyn and Patchogue, founded in 1916 by the Sisters of St. Joseph.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, founded by Danny Thomas in Memphis in 1962, is a nonprofit pediatric cancer research hospital where families never receive bills; ALSAC raised over $2.5 billion in 2024.
St. Kilda Village
St. Kilda Village is the abandoned 1830s crofting settlement in Village Bay, Hirta, Outer Hebrides, with blackhouses, 1860s houses and 1,400 cleits; evacuated 1930, now a scheduled monument within the mixed St Kilda World Heritage Site.
St. Lawrence Island
St. Lawrence Island is an island in the northern Bering Sea, closer to Russia than mainland Alaska, home to about 1,700 Yupik people in Gambell and Savoonga.
St. Lawrence River
The St. Lawrence River (fleuve Saint-Laurent) drains the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, about 800 miles long with freshwater, estuary, and Gulf sections; home of the 1959 St. Lawrence Seaway and IJC-regulated Lake Ontario outflows.
St. Lawrence River Divide
The St. Lawrence River Divide is a continental divide in central and eastern North America separating the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence basin from the Mississippi and Hudson Bay basins.
St. Lawrence Seaway
The St. Lawrence Seaway (Voie maritime du Saint-Laurent) is a system of canals and locks opened in 1959, carrying ocean ships from the Atlantic to Lake Superior.
St. Lawrence University
St. Lawrence University is a private liberal arts university in Canton, New York. It was chartered in 1856 and hosts one of the nation's earliest environmental studies programs.
St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri: independent city since 1876, founded 1764 by Laclede and Chouteau as a fur trading post. Peak population 856,000 in 1950, long decline, north-south racial divide, fragmented regional government.
St. Louis Arena
St. Louis Arena, also called the Checkerdome (1977–1983), was a 1929 multi-purpose arena on Oakland Avenue, home of the NHL St. Louis Blues 1967–1994 and the St. Louis Eagles; closed 1994, demolished February 27, 1999, site now The Highlands.
St. Louis Blues
St. Louis Blues, NHL franchise founded 1967, based in St. Louis, Missouri, playing at Enterprise Center. Won their first Stanley Cup in 2019 after being last in the standings in January; Alexander Steen became GM in 2026 and Robert Thomas the 25th captain.
St. Louis Cardinals
The St. Louis Cardinals, called the Perfectos until 1900, are a Major League Baseball club in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1882, with 11 World Series championships and 23 pennants.
St. Louis City SC
St. Louis City SC (St. Louis CITY SC), MLS expansion club, 28th franchise, debuted 2023; first majority female-owned MLS team; first expansion side to win a conference (Western, 56 points, 17 wins).
St. Louis County, Missouri
St. Louis County, Missouri is Missouri's most populous county, organized in 1812 and surrounding, but not including, the independent City of St. Louis after their 1876 separation.
St. Louis encephalitis
St. Louis encephalitis: mosquito-borne flavivirus disease (SLEV) spread by Culex mosquitoes from birds; identified in the 1933 St. Louis epidemic; no vaccine or specific treatment; mostly U.S. cases.
St. Louis Lambert International Airport
St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) is a public airport 14 miles northwest of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1920 by Albert Bond Lambert.
St. Louis Rams
St. Louis Rams: NFL franchise based in St. Louis 1995-2015 after Georgia Frontiere moved it from Los Angeles; won Super Bowl XXXIV (1999, Greatest Show on Turf); Stan Kroenke returned it to LA in 2016, triggering a $790M settlement.
St. Louis tornado history
St. Louis, Missouri, has one of the most extensive tornado records of any major American city, including the deadly Great Cyclone of 1896 and a 2025 EF3 tornado.
St. Lucia (musician)
St. Lucia is a synth-pop and indie-electronic project founded by South African-born musician Jean-Philip Grobler in Brooklyn in 2010, now a duo with his wife Patti Beranek.
St. Lucia System
St. Lucia System: Ramsar site no. 345 (1986, 155,500 ha) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, centered on Lake St. Lucia, Africa's largest estuarine system, within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park; distinct from the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia.
St. Lucie Mets
St. Lucie Mets: Single-A Florida State League affiliate of the New York Mets since 1988, based at Clover Park in Port St. Lucie, Florida; league champions in 1988, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2006, and 2022.
St. Lucie nuclear power plant
The St. Lucie Nuclear Plant is a two-unit nuclear power station on Hutchinson Island on Florida's Atlantic coast, operated by Florida Power & Light, with Unit 1 online in 1976 and Unit 2 in 1983.
St. Luke's Hospital
St. Luke's Hospital, Bradford: NHS hospital on Little Horton Lane (BD5 0NA) run by Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, providing outpatient and rehabilitation services; a former 1852 workhouse and England's first municipal general hospital (1920).
St. Lunatics
St. Lunatics: St. Louis hip hop group formed 1993 (Nelly, Ali, Murphy Lee, Kyjuan, City Spud); regional hit "Gimme What You Got"; platinum 2001 album Free City; later Country Grammar copyright lawsuit.
St. Marie, Montana
St. Marie, Montana, a Valley County census-designated place also called Saint Marie, is the abandoned housing area of Glasgow Air Force Base, a Cold War ghost town of about 300-489 residents with a 13,500-foot Boeing test runway.
St. Martin's Day
St. Martin's Day (Martinmas, Martinstag, Sint-Maarten), November 11 feast of Saint Martin of Tours (c. 316-397), marked by goose dinners, children's lantern processions in Central Europe, medieval harvest thanksgiving customs, and public holiday status in Saint Martin.
St. Martin's Island
St. Martin's Island (Narikel Zinzira) is Bangladesh's southernmost island in the Bay of Bengal near Teknaf, its only coral-bearing island, with sandstone base rock, 98 hard coral species, severe shoreline erosion, and a nine-month tourism ban since 2025.