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Staunton, Virginia
Staunton, Virginia: independent Shenandoah Valley city, seat of Augusta County, population about 26,800. Settled 1732, named for Rebecca Staunton; birthplace of Woodrow Wilson and home of the nation's first city manager (1908) and the Blackfriars Playhouse.
Staurolite
Staurolite is a brown iron–aluminum silicate mineral, named from the Greek stauros for cross, best known for its cross-shaped penetration twins and as an index mineral of medium-grade metamorphic schists.
Stauromedusae
Stauromedusae, the stalked jellyfishes, are an order of class Staurozoa (Haeckel, 1879) of about 50 sessile marine cnidarians whose polyp metamorphoses directly into a stalked adult medusa, without strobilation.
Staurosporine
Staurosporine, originally designated AM-2282, is an indolocarbazole alkaloid isolated in 1977 from Streptomyces staurosporeus that potently and promiscuously inhibits protein kinases by competing with ATP, becoming the founding lead compound for kinase inhibitor drugs.
Staurotypus triporcatus
Staurotypus triporcatus, the Northern or Mexican Giant Musk Turtle (Guao), a large three-keeled freshwater kinosternid turtle of eastern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras; XY sex chromosomes, Vulnerable IUCN status, proposed for CITES Appendix II.
Stavan
Stavan, from the Sanskrit root stu meaning "to praise", is a Jain devotional song addressed to the tirthankaras, sung chiefly in Gujarati and Hindi by the Jain laity.
Stavanger
Stavanger is a city and municipality in Rogaland county, southwestern Norway, with about 151,000 inhabitants, traditionally founded in 1125 around its cathedral, and Norway's oil capital since 1972.
Stave church
Stave church (stavkirke): medieval Norwegian timber church built on load-bearing vertical staves; most erected 1150–1350; about 1,300 indexed, 28 preserved, Urnes the oldest and a UNESCO site.
Stavelot Triptych
The Stavelot Triptych is a Mosan reliquary of the True Cross, made in the Meuse valley around 1156 to 1158 and held at the Morgan Library in New York.
Stavisky
Stavisky... (1974) is Alain Resnais's French-Italian biographical drama, written by Jorge Semprún, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as the swindler Serge Alexandre Stavisky, with Charles Boyer and a Stephen Sondheim score.
Stavka
The Stavka (Ставка Верховного главнокомандующего) was the supreme field headquarters of the Russian armed forces in the First World War, first led by Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich.
Stavka of the Supreme High Command
The Stavka of the Supreme High Command (Ставка Верховного Главнокомандования) was the supreme military control organ directing the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II, created on 23 June 1941.
Stavns Fjord and adjacent waters
Stavns Fjord and adjacent waters is a shallow coastal wetland on the Danish island of Samsø, a Ramsar site important for breeding cormorants and eiders.
Stavropol
Stavropol (Ставрополь), administrative center of Stavropol Krai, Russia; founded 1777 as a fortress of the Azov-Mozdok line, city status 1785, briefly Voroshilovsk 1935-1943; population about 458,000 in 2022. Distinct from Stavropol-on-the-Volga (Togliatti).
Stavropol Krai (Ставропольский край)
Stavropol Kray (Ставропольский край), a Russian federal subject in the North Caucasian Federal District, geographic center of southern Russia; 66,200 km², 2.7 million people, a leading grain producer (8–10% of Russian grain) with the Caucasian Mineral Waters resorts.
Stavropol Upland
Stavropol Upland (Ставропольская возвышенность), upland in central Subcaucasia, Stavropol Krai, Russia; elevations 300–600 m, maximum 831 m at Mount Stryzhament; Black Sea–Caspian watershed dividing Ciscaucasia into western and eastern parts.
Stavropolskaya GRES power plant
Stavropolskaya GRES (Ставропольская ГРЭС) is a gas-fired power station in Solnechnodolsk, Stavropol Krai, Russia, with eight units totaling 2,423 MW and owned by OGK-2 under Gazprom.
Stavros Anthony
Stavros Anthony is an American Republican politician elected Nevada's 37th lieutenant governor in 2022, serving as President of the Nevada Senate after a Las Vegas City Council career.
Stavros C. Manolagas
Stavros C. Manolagas is a physician-scientist, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, known for research on osteoporosis and sex steroid action in bone.
Stavros Halkias
Stavros Halkias, Baltimore-born Greek-American stand-up comedian and podcaster, co-founded Cum Town, hosts Stavvy's World, released Netflix's Fat Rascal (2023), and acts in Tires, Bugonia, and Tony.
Stavros Konstantinides
Stavros V. Konstantinides (Greek: Σταύρος Κωνσταντινίδης) is a Greek-born German cardiologist who has spent 35 years studying pulmonary embolism and designed the 2014 PEITHO trial.
Stavros Lomvardas
Stavros Lomvardas is an American neuroscientist and epigeneticist who studies how each olfactory neuron expresses one receptor gene, and is a professor and principal investigator at Columbia University since 2014.
Stavros Niarchos
Stavros Niarchos (Σταύρος Νιάρχος) was a Greek shipping tycoon who was the world's largest independent shipowner by 1964, a rival of Aristotle Onassis, and founder of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Stavros S. Papadopulos
Stavros S. Papadopulos is a groundwater hydrologist who founded S.S. Papadopulos & Associates in 1979 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.
Stavros Xarhakos
Stavros Xarhakos (Σταύρος Ξαρχάκος) is a Greek composer and conductor who is recognized for his diverse output and his role in creating the unique "entechno laiko" music style.
Stavroula Kousteni
Stavroula Kousteni is a physiologist at Columbia University, where she directs the Edward P. Evans Center for Myelodysplastic Syndromes and studies bone's hormonal role in metabolism and blood cancers.
Stavudine
Stavudine, also known as d4T and sold as Zerit, is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor approved in 1994 to treat HIV-1, phased out worldwide by 2020 because of mitochondrial toxicity.
Stax Records
Stax Records, originally founded as Satellite Records, is an American label based in Memphis, Tennessee, known for the Memphis Sound and for launching Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes.
Stay (2005 film)
Stay (2005) is an American psychological thriller directed by Marc Forster, written by David Benioff, starring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, and Ryan Gosling; a psychiatrist tries to stop a suicidal patient, released by 20th Century Fox, grossing $8.5 million.
Stay (Ariana Grande song)
"Stay" (stylized "stay") is a track by Ariana Grande from her 2026 album petal, distinct from songs of the same name by The Kid Laroi and Rihanna. Written with Ilya and Max Martin, it debuted at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.