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Stadler FLIRT
The Stadler FLIRT, short for Fast Light Innovative Regional Train, is a family of low-floor regional trains built by Stadler Rail since 2004, with about 2,700 sold.
Stadler METRO
The Stadler METRO is a family of lightweight electric metro trains built by Swiss manufacturer Stadler Rail, ordered for the Tyne and Wear Metro, Glasgow Subway, and Merseyrail.
Stadler Rail
Stadler Rail is a Swiss rolling stock manufacturer headquartered in Bussnang, founded in 1942, building locomotives, high-speed, regional, and underground trains, tram-trains, trams, and rack railways.
Stadler SMILE
The Stadler SMILE, also known as the Giruno, is a high-speed electric multiple unit built by Stadler Rail for Swiss Federal Railways, reaching 250 km/h and in service since 2019.
Stadtbahn
Stadtbahn (German for "city railway") is urban rail transit in German-speaking countries, developed from tramways, with vehicles running in tunnels downtown and on street or regional tracks outside it.
Stadtholder
Stadtholder (stadhouder, "place-holder" of the sovereign) was the chief magistrate and commander of the Dutch Republic's provinces; held by the House of Orange-Nassau, suspended in 1650-1672 and 1702-1747, made hereditary in 1747, and abolished in 1795.
Stadtwaldsee
Stadtwaldsee, also called Unisee, is a 29-hectare quarry pond in Bremen's Horn-Lehe district, created in the 1970s during A27 motorway and university construction; a groundwater-fed bathing lake with beaches, water sports, and the adjacent Uni-Wildnis nature reserve.
Stadtwerke München
Stadtwerke München (SWM) is the municipal utilities company of Munich, Germany, supplying electricity, gas, water, heating, transport, and telecommunications; it was formally constituted on 1 April 1939.
Staff (military)
Military staff: officers who plan, gather intelligence, draft orders, and advise a commander without command authority. Originated in the Prussian general staff of 1808 under Scharnhorst; spread via staff colleges; appears as the US Joint Staff and NATO's International Military Staff.
Staff (music)
Staff (music), also called stave: the set of five horizontal lines and spaces on which Western musical notes are written to show pitch, used with clefs; developed from 9th-century lines and Guido of Arezzo's four-line staff around 1030 AD.
Staff Benda Bilili
Staff Benda Bilili are a band of street musicians from Kinshasa, Congo, most of them polio survivors in wheelchairs, who rose to fame through the 2010 documentary Benda Bilili!.
Staff God
Staff God: frontal staff-bearing deity of ancient Andean art, also called Front-Face Deity, from Chavín through Tiwanaku and Wari, often identified with Inca Viracocha; distinct from the Polynesian Cook Islands staff god (atua rakau).
Staff of Moses
The Staff of Moses, also called Moses' rod or the Staff of God, is the staff the Book of Exodus ties to the serpent sign, the plagues, and the splitting of the sea.
Staff Selection Commission (कर्मचारी चयन आयोग)
Staff Selection Commission (कर्मचारी चयन आयोग, SSC), Indian central recruitment body set up 4 November 1975, renamed 26 September 1977; recruits Group B and C posts via CGL, CHSL, MTS and other exams; about 3.61 lakh candidates recommended 2022-23 to 2025-26.
Staff sergeant
Staff sergeant is an NCO rank: U.S. Army and Marine Corps E-6, U.S. Air Force E-5, British Army OR-7. Covers duties, promotion policy, and cross-service grade differences.
Staffan Helgesson
Staffan Helgesson is a Swedish venture capitalist who founded the Stockholm early-stage firm Creandum in 2003, known for SaaS and climate investing and early bets on Spotify and iZettle.
Staffan I. Lindberg
Staffan I. Lindberg (Staffan Ingemar Lindberg), Swedish political scientist, professor at the University of Gothenburg, founding director of the V-Dem Institute 2012-2025 and principal investigator of the Varieties of Democracy democracy-measurement project; PhD 2005 Lund, Juan Linz Award.
Staffan Normark
Staffan Normark is a Swedish medical microbiologist known for work on bacterial pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance, and winner of the 2018 Robert Koch Gold Medal.
Staffan Persson
Staffan Persson is a Swedish plant cell biologist, professor at the University of Copenhagen since 2020, who studies how plants build cell walls and make cellulose.
Staffan Westerberg
Staffan Westerberg (1934–2026) was a Swedish director, playwright, actor, and puppeteer best known for the surrealistic children's television program Vilse i pannkakan, broadcast by Sveriges Television in 1975.
Staffbase
Staffbase, formerly Staffbase GmbH, is a German employee-communications software company founded in Chemnitz in 2014 by Frank Wolf, Martin Böhringer, and Lutz Gerlach; it became a unicorn in 2022.
Stafford
Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire, England, founded as an Anglo-Saxon burh in 913 AD by Aethelflaed and chartered by King John in 1206; a market and former shoemaking town of about 136,900 people (2021 borough population) now undergoing major town-centre regeneration.
Stafford County, Virginia, United States
Stafford County, Virginia: county formed 1664 from Westmoreland County, named for the English county; boyhood home of George Washington at Ferry Farm; 170,803 residents estimated 2025; Washington, D.C. commuter county on I-95.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
The Stafford Act (Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, P.L. 100-707, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) is the 1988 U.S. statute authorizing presidential major disaster and emergency declarations, FEMA-administered aid, and the Disaster Relief Fund.
Staffordshire
Staffordshire, a county in the West Midlands, England, with two-tier local government of a county council and eight districts plus Stoke-on-Trent; population 898,500 (2023); two unitary councils approved 2026, then paused for review.
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
Staffordshire Bull Terrier (Staffie), a medium-sized English dog breed from Birmingham and Staffordshire, bulldog-terrier crosses, Kennel Club recognized 1935; VetCompass data show no higher aggression odds than other dogs.
Staffordshire figures
Staffordshire figures are cheap press-molded earthenware pottery figures made in the Staffordshire Potteries of England from the 18th century into the 20th, peaking in the Victorian era.
Staffordshire Hoard
The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver ever found, unearthed by a metal detectorist near Hammerwich, Staffordshire, in July 2009 and valued at £3.285 million.
Staffrider
Staffrider was a South African literary and arts magazine published by Ravan Press in Johannesburg from 1978 to 1993, named for township youth riding commuter trains, and a key platform for black anti-apartheid writers.
Staffrider poetry
Staffrider poetry is the body of poems published in Staffrider, an anti-apartheid South African literary magazine issued by Ravan Press in Johannesburg from 1978 to 1993.