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Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross, adapted from Robert Harling's play, about six women who gather at a Louisiana beauty shop; it earned Julia Roberts an Academy Award nomination.
Steel mill
A steel mill, also known as a steel works or steel factory, is an industrial plant that turns iron ore and recycled scrap into finished steel through ironmaking, steelmaking, casting, and rolling.
Steel Panther
Steel Panther (Metal Shop, Metal Skool) is a Los Angeles glam metal parody band formed in 2000, fronted by Michael Starr (Ralph Saenz), known for Feel the Steel (2009), six albums, and crude 1980s hair-metal satire.
Steel Pier (Atlantic City)
Steel Pier is an amusement pier on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, opened in 1898 and once billed as the Showplace of the Nation.
Steel Pulse
Steel Pulse is a British roots reggae band formed in 1975 in Handsworth, Birmingham, led by David Hinds and Selwyn Brown. Known for Handsworth Revolution (1978), the 1986 Grammy-winning Babylon the Bandit, and playing Bill Clinton's 1993 inaugural.
Steel Rain (강철비)
Steel Rain (강철비) is a 2017 South Korean political action thriller directed by Yang Woo-suk, adapted from his own webtoon, in which a North Korean agent defects with the wounded leader after a coup to stop a nuclear war; it drew about 4.45 million admissions and a 2020 sequel.
Steel Rain 2: Summit (スティール・レイン)
Steel Rain 2: Summit (강철비2: 정상회담) is a 2020 South Korean thriller by Yang Woo-suk, sequel to Steel Rain, in which a North Korean coup traps the South, North, and US leaders on the nuclear submarine Baekdu-ho.
Steel Serpent
Steel Serpent is the Marvel Comics supervillain Davos, son of Lei-Kung the Thunderer and arch-nemesis of Iron Fist, created by Claremont and Byrne in 1975; he steals the Iron Fist's chi and is played by Sacha Dhawan in Netflix's Iron Fist.
Steel syndrome
Steel syndrome (STLS, OMIM 615155): rare autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia from biallelic COL27A1 variants, with short stature, congenital hip and radial head dislocation, carpal coalition, scoliosis; Puerto Rican founder mutation p.Gly697Arg.
Steel Vengeance
Steel Vengeance is a Rocky Mountain Construction hyper-hybrid roller coaster at Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio, opened May 5, 2018 on the former Mean Streak's structure; 205 ft, 74 mph, 5,740 ft, 4 inversions, record airtime.
Steel Wheels
Steel Wheels is a 1989 studio album by the Rolling Stones, their first in three years, reaching the Top 5 on both sides of the Atlantic.
Steel Wool Studios
Steel Wool Studios, also known as Steel Wool Games, is an American video game studio founded in 2012 by five Pixar veterans, best known for Five Nights at Freddy's.
Steelcase
Steelcase is an American office furniture manufacturer founded in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1912, known for ergonomic seating such as the Leap and Gesture chairs.
Steele dossier
Steele dossier: 17 memos by ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele, funded via Fusion GPS for Clinton-linked law firm, alleging Trump-Russia coordination; published by BuzzFeed January 10, 2017; central to Carter Page FISA controversy.
Steele Island
Steele Island, an ice rise on the Larsen Ice Front off the Black Coast of Palmer Land, British Antarctic Territory, at 71°00'S 60°43'W; surveyed by USAS in 1940 and named for Clarence E. Steele, East Base tractor driver.
Steeleye Span
Steeleye Span is an English folk rock band formed in 1969 by Ashley Hutchings, Maddy Prior, and Tim Hart, named after a character in the song 'Horkstow Grange'; with Fairport Convention it defined British folk rock, scoring hits with 'Gaudete' (1973) and 'All Around My Hat' (1975).
Steelhead
Steelhead are the anadromous ocean-migrating form of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, not a separate species. Distinguished by iteroparous repeat spawning, up to 30 lb size, 11 ESA-listed West Coast DPSs, and hatchery-wild genetic management issues.
Steelheart
Steelheart is an American hard rock band formed in 1990 in Norwalk, Connecticut, also known as Red Alert, led by Croatian-born vocalist Miljenko Matijevic; known for the platinum 1990 debut, "She's Gone," and the 1992 stage accident.
Steelmaking
Steelmaking, also known as steel production, is the set of industrial processes converting pig iron, direct reduced iron, and recycled scrap into crude steel via basic oxygen and electric arc furnaces.
Steelpan
Steelpan (steel drum, pan): pitched percussion instrument invented in Trinidad and Tobago around 1939 from 55-gallon oil drums; national instrument, born from tamboo bamboo after colonial drum bans, with Panorama competition since 1963.
Steely Dan
Steely Dan is an American rock band founded by songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, known for polished studio recordings blending rock, pop, and jazz harmony with ironic lyrics.
Steen Lerche Olsen
Steen Lerche Olsen (1886-1960), Danish artistic gymnast from Copenhagen; won bronze in the men's team free system at Stockholm 1912 and gold in the same event at Antwerp 1920, his only two Olympic appearances.
Steen Raskopoulos
Steen Raskopoulos, Australian-born UK-based character comedian and improviser, The Bear Pack duo with Carlo Ritchie, Sydney Best Newcomer 2013, Edinburgh nominee 2014, star of The Office Australia (2024).
Steen Secher
Steen Klaaborg Secher (born 1959, Torsted, Horsens) is a Danish Soling sailor, Olympic gold medalist at Barcelona 1992 with Jesper Bank and Jesper Seier, and bronze medalist at Seoul 1988 with Bank and Jan Mathiasen.
Steen Steensen Blicher
Steen Steensen Blicher (1782–1848) was a Danish writer and Lutheran pastor whose short stories about rural Jutland made him a founder of modern Danish prose and its first great realist.
Steens Mountain
Steens Mountain is a 9,733-foot fault-block mountain in southeastern Oregon, the state's highest point east of the Cascades, with glacial gorges, the 170,200-acre Steens Mountain Wilderness, and the 2000 CMPA.
Steep (video game)
Steep is a 2016 open-world winter sports game by Ubisoft Annecy for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, featuring skiing, snowboarding, wingsuit, and paragliding in the Alps; Metacritic 71, Road to the Olympics expansion, ~15 million players.
Steep Canyon Rangers
Steep Canyon Rangers: American bluegrass band from Brevard/Asheville, North Carolina, formed around 2000 at UNC-Chapel Hill; Grammy winner for Nobody Knows You (2013), Steve Martin's backup band since 2009, 15th album Next Act (2026).
Steepest descent method (optimization)
The steepest descent method is an iterative first-order method for minimizing a differentiable function by moving opposite the gradient; it dates to the mid-19th century and underlies gradient-based training.
Steeplechase (athletics)
Steeplechase (athletics), 3000m steeplechase: track race with 28 fixed barriers and 7 water jumps, five jumps per lap; barriers 0.914 m (men) and 0.762 m (women); derived from 1850 Oxford cross-country runs.