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Starmer ministry
Starmer ministry: UK Labour government under Keir Starmer, July 2024 to July 2026, formed after Labour's 2024 landslide ending 14 years of Conservative rule; marked by 'rewiring the state', the 2025 immigration white paper, NHS England abolition plans, and ending with Starmer's resignation in favor of Andy Burnham.
Starmie (スターミー)
Starmie (スターミー), No. 121, the Mysterious Pokémon, is a Water/Psychic Generation I species evolving from Staryu, with base 115 Speed, Natural Cure, long Smogon OU history, and a Mega form in Pokémon Champions and Pokémon GO.
Starnberg
Starnberg is a Bavarian town at the northern end of Lake Starnberg, about 25 km southwest of Munich, first recorded in 1226, with about 23,940 residents (2023), a Wittelsbach summer palace history, and connections to Empress Sisi and King Ludwig II.
Starobesheve Raion
Starobesheve Raion (Старобешівський район) was a district in southeastern Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Starobesheve on the Kalmius river; founded 1923 as Stylskyi raion, settled by Greeks from Crimea in 1779, home of Pasha Angelina's women's tractor brigade and the Starobesheve thermal power station.
Starobinsky inflation
Starobinsky inflation is a model of cosmic inflation in which the Universe's early expansion is driven by an added R² term in gravity, proposed by Alexei Starobinsky in 1980.
Starosta
A starosta is a senior local official in Central and Eastern Europe, historically presiding over castle courts, and today the elected head of a Polish county.
Starotitarovskaya 4
Starotitarovskaya 4 is an archaeological site near Starotitarovskaya on the Taman Peninsula, Krasnodar Territory, Russia, best known for 113 excavation coins from 2019–2022, mostly of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.
StarPlus
StarPlus is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment pay TV channel, launched 1991 in English under STAR TV, converted to Hindi in July 2000 with Kaun Banega Crorepati, now owned by JioStar (Reliance).
StarPlus Energy
StarPlus Energy is a joint venture of Stellantis and Samsung SDI, formed in 2022 to build two battery plants in Kokomo, Indiana, backed by over $6.3 billion in investment and a $7.54 billion federal loan.
STARR-seq
STARR-seq (self-transcribing active regulatory region sequencing) is a massively parallel reporter assay, reported in 2013, that directly and quantitatively measures enhancer activity for millions of genomic DNA fragments at once.
Starrcade
Starrcade: annual NWA/Jim Crockett Promotions and WCW year-end supercard (1983-2000), wrestling's closed-circuit and PPV pioneer, WCW's WrestleMania equivalent; revived by WWE 2017-2019.
Starrcade (1997)
Starrcade (1997), WCW's December 28, 1997 pay-per-view at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C., where Sting beat Hollywood Hulk Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship after a botched fast-count finish; WCW's highest-buyrate show, followed by a vacated title and SuperBrawl VIII rematch.
Starrcade (2018)
Starrcade (2018): WWE's second revived Starrcade event, held November 24, 2018 at U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, Ohio; a Raw-SmackDown live event with about 7,500 attendance, from which a one-hour WWE Network special aired November 25, headlined by AJ Styles beating Samoa Joe in a steel cage.
Starrcade (2019)
Starrcade 2019, WWE's third modern Starrcade, was a December 1, 2019 live event in Duluth, Georgia with a one-hour WWE Network special; the Kabuki Warriors retained the Women's Tag Titles, and it became the final Starrcade.
Starred Up
Starred Up (2013) is a British prison drama directed by David Mackenzie, written by ex-prison therapist Jonathan Asser, starring Jack O'Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, and Rupert Friend; 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Starrgirl
Starrgirl (StarrGirl) is Ayra Starr's third studio album, released August 14, 2026 on Mavin/Republic; 16 tracks, 46 minutes, featuring ZAYN, Wizkid, Rema, Leon Thomas, kwn, Theodora, and Danny Ocean.
Starro
Starro the Conqueror, DC Comics alien starfish villain created by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky, debuted in The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960) as the Justice League's first enemy, controlling minds via face-attaching spores; weaknesses are cold and quicklime.
StarRocks
StarRocks is an open-source MPP OLAP database and lakehouse query engine forked from Apache Doris in 2020, donated to the Linux Foundation in 2023, with a vectorized engine, cost-based optimizer, and sub-second Iceberg analytics.
Starrucca Viaduct
The Starrucca Viaduct is a stone masonry railroad viaduct completed in 1848 for the New York and Erie Railroad at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, and still carrying freight today.
Starry Eyes
Starry Eyes is a 2014 American body-horror film by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, starring Alex Essoe as an aspiring actress whose Faustian deal with a satanic Hollywood production company transforms her physically and mentally; premiered at SXSW 2014.
Starry Is the Night
Starry Is the Night (今夜星光燦爛, Gam ye sing gwong chan lan) is a 1988 Hong Kong drama-romance directed by Ann Hui, starring Brigitte Lin, George Lam, and David Wu; the first Hong Kong film to unambiguously depict the 1967 riots, produced by Shaw Brothers and Tomson Films.
Starry Night Over the Rhône
Starry Night Over the Rhône (Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône), Vincent van Gogh, September 1888, Arles; oil on canvas, 72.5 × 92 cm, Musée d'Orsay RF 1975 19, catalog F474. Distinct from the 1889 MoMA Starry Night; painted outdoors by gaslight, first full night sky.
Stars Align Tour
Stars Align Tour names two unrelated concert tours: the 2018 North American co-headlining rock tour by Jeff Beck, Paul Rodgers, and Ann Wilson of Heart, and Freya Skye's 2026 debut headlining world tour supporting her EP stardust.
Stars and bars (combinatorics)
Stars and bars is a counting technique in combinatorics that determines the number of ways to place n indistinguishable objects into k distinguishable bins, yielding the binomial coefficient of n + k − 1 choose n.
Stars and Stripes Vol. 1
Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 is the Beach Boys' 1996 River North Nashville album on which country singers including Lorrie Morgan, Junior Brown, and Willie Nelson lead re-recordings of the group's hits while the band sings backing vocals; it peaked at No. 12 on Top Country Albums.
Stars Dance
Stars Dance is Selena Gomez's 2013 debut solo album on Hollywood Records, her fourth overall and first without The Scene. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, led by the double-platinum single "Come & Get It."
Stars Hollow
Stars Hollow is the fictional Connecticut town created by Amy Sherman-Palladino as the setting of Gilmore Girls and its 2016 revival. Founded in-show in 1779, population under 10,000, 30 miles from Hartford, inspired by Washington Depot, filmed on the Warner Bros. Burbank lot.
Stars in fiction
Stars in fiction: astronomical stars as symbols, settings, and plot devices, from Homeric and mythological starlore through exotic-star science fiction (Niven, Clarke, Anderson) to Liu Cixin's three-body problem and the astronomy-fiction feedback loop.
Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant (신상출시 편스토랑)
Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant (신상출시 편스토랑) is a South Korean cooking variety show on KBS2, first aired in 2019, where celebrities compete with original recipes.
Starsailor (album)
Starsailor (1970) is Tim Buckley's experimental album on Straight Records: nine avant-jazz songs with extreme vocal overdubbing, odd time signatures, and "Song to the Siren". The English band Starsailor took its name from it.