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Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer, born Stephanie Morgan in 1973, is an American novelist whose Twilight Saga vampire romance series has sold over 160 million copies and spawned a five-film franchise.
Stephenson Yang
Stephenson Yang is a stellar astrophysicist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, known for precise stellar radial velocities, variable stars, and exoplanet detection work.
Stephenson's Rocket
Stephenson's Rocket, built by Robert Stephenson & Co. in 1829, won the Rainhill Trials for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and became the template for later steam locomotives.
Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador
Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador is a town of about 6,600 people on Bay St. George on the west coast of Newfoundland, serving a surrounding area of roughly 25,000.
Stephenville, Texas
Stephenville, Texas, county seat of Erath County on the North Bosque River, home of Tarleton State University, known as the Rodeo Cowboy Capital of the World, population 20,897 (2020).
Stephnie Weir
Stephnie Weir (Stephnie Carmel Weir), American actress, comedian, and writer born 1967 in Odessa, Texas; MADtv cast member and writer 2000-2006, creator of Dot Goddard and Anna Nicole Smith impression, Second City and WeirDass improviser.
Stephon Gilmore
Stephon Gilmore (Gilly Lock), American NFL cornerback, 2012-2024; 2019 AP Defensive Player of the Year with the Patriots, Super Bowl LIII champion, 5x Pro Bowl; retired April 2026.
Stephon Marbury
Stephon Marbury, "Starbury", Brooklyn-born NBA point guard (1996 draft, 4th pick), 2x All-Star with Timberwolves, Nets, Suns, Knicks; later CBA star winning three titles with Beijing Ducks and their head coach.
Stephy Mavididi
Stephy Mavididi (Stephy Alvaro Mavididi), English winger born 1998 in Derby; Arsenal academy product, 2019 Serie A champion with Juventus, Montpellier 2020-23, Leicester City 2023-26, on loan at Watford 2026/27.
Stepin Fetchit
Stepin Fetchit was the stage name of Lincoln Perry, an American comedian and film actor who became Hollywood's first Black movie star in the late 1920s.
Stepmom (1998 film)
Stepmom is a 1998 American comedy-drama directed by Chris Columbus, in which Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon play a girlfriend and ex-wife who move from hostility to cooperation after a cancer diagnosis.
Stepmother
Stepmother: a woman partnered to a child's biological parent, not the biological mother. Also called father-stepmother families. Key facts: 19% of US children with a stepparent lived with father and stepmother; stepmothers face role ambiguity, more conflict, and give less support than stepfathers.
Steponas Kairys
Steponas Kairys (1879–1964) was a Lithuanian engineer and social democratic politician who signed Lithuania's Act of Independence in 1918 and led the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party for over four decades.
Stepovak Bay Group
Stepovak Bay Group: volcanic field of four Quaternary vents (Stepovak Bay 1-4) on the western Alaska Peninsula, SW of Kupreanof volcano; tholeiitic andesite, Holocene flows, GVP number 312055.
Stepparent and second-parent adoption
Stepparent and second-parent adoption, also known as coparent adoption, lets a stepparent or a parent's unmarried partner adopt a child without ending that parent's rights.
Steppe
A steppe is a level, treeless grassland plain, the name coming from the Russian stepi; the vast Eurasian Steppe stretches from Eastern Europe to Mongolia.
Steppe bison
Steppe bison (Bison priscus), extinct Pleistocene Holarctic bison, ancestor of American bison; large-horned, grass-feeding mammoth-steppe herbivore known from Blue Babe and European cave art.
Steppe eagle
Steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis), a large Endangered migratory raptor of Eurasian steppe breeding in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia, wintering in Africa, Arabia, and South Asia; threatened by electrocution, poisoning, and habitat loss.
Steppe Governorate-General
The Steppe Governorate-General (Степное генерал-губернаторство), informally the Steppe Region, was a Russian Empire administrative unit governing what is now northern and eastern Kazakhstan from its center in Omsk from 1882 to 1917.
Stepped care model
The stepped care model is a healthcare approach that offers patients the least intensive effective treatment first, escalating only if monitoring shows it is insufficient.
Stepped spillway
A stepped spillway is a dam spillway whose chute is built as a series of steps that dissipate flowing water's energy before it reaches the downstream channel.
Stepped Stone Structure
The Stepped Stone Structure is a large terraced stone construction on the eastern slope of Jerusalem's City of David, a rampart possibly identified with the biblical Millo.
Stepped wedge design
The stepped wedge design is a cluster randomized trial design in which clusters switch from control to intervention at staggered randomized times until all have crossed over.
Stepped-frequency microwave radiometer
The stepped-frequency microwave radiometer (SFMR) is an airborne instrument that measures ocean surface wind speed and rain rate in tropical cyclones from NOAA and Air Force reconnaissance aircraft.
Stepped-wedge trial
A stepped-wedge trial is a cluster-randomized design where all clusters start in control and cross over to the intervention group by group at randomized times called steps.
Steppenwolf (band)
Steppenwolf: Canadian American hard rock band formed 1967 in Los Angeles from The Sparrow, led by John Kay. Hits "Born to Be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride"; first band to use "heavy metal" in a song; disbanded 1972, reformed, final show 2018.
Steppenwolf (novel)
Der Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse's 1927 novel (S. Fischer Verlag), follows nearly-fifty-year-old outsider Harry Haller through crisis, Hermine, and the Magic Theater; it became a 1960s countercultural classic and named the rock band Steppenwolf.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago ensemble theater founded in 1974 by Gary Sinise, Jeff Perry, and Terry Kinney, based at 1650 N. Halsted St. Known for Balm in Gilead, The Grapes of Wrath, August: Osage County, and Purpose; winner of the 1985 Regional Theatre Tony and the National Medal of Arts.
Stepper (photolithography)
A stepper, or wafer stepper, is a photolithography machine that prints circuit patterns onto silicon wafers one die-sized field at a time, stepping and repeating exposures.
Stepper motor
A stepper motor, or stepping motor, is a brushless DC motor that rotates one fixed step per input pulse, enabling sensorless position control in 3D printers and CNC machines.