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Stewart Menzies
Stewart Graham Menzies (1890–1968), British major-general and the third 'C', Chief of MI6 (SIS) from November 1939 to 1952, delivered daily Ultra decrypts to Churchill, built ties with Bill Donovan, and appointed the Soviet spy Kim Philby.
Stewart Morris
Stewart Harold Morris (1909-1991), British Olympic sailor; won 1948 London gold in the Swallow class with David Bond aboard Swift; record 12 Prince of Wales Cup wins; OBE 1944 for Normandy landing service in the RNVR.
Stewart platform
A Stewart platform, also known as a hexapod or Gough-Stewart platform, is a parallel manipulator in which six extensible legs join a fixed base to a moving platform, giving six degrees of freedom.
Stewart Resnick
Stewart Resnick is an American billionaire businessman, chairman, president, and co-owner with wife Lynda of The Wonderful Company (Wonderful Pistachios, POM Wonderful, FIJI Water, Teleflora), a $6 billion firm, and a philanthropist behind a $750 million Caltech sustainability gift.
Stewart Rhodes
Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, Yale Law-trained lawyer, former Army paratrooper, and founder of the Oath Keepers militia (2009), was convicted of seditious conspiracy for January 6, 2021, sentenced to 18 years, then had his sentence commuted by Trump in 2025.
Stewart Shuman
Stewart Shuman is an American molecular biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute, known for work on RNA and DNA ligases, mRNA capping enzymology, and the RNA polymerase II CTD code.
Stewart T. Cole
Stewart Thomas Cole is a British mycobacterial geneticist known for his pioneering research on M. tuberculosis genomics and his tenure as President of the Institut Pasteur from 2018.
Stewart Udall
Stewart L. Udall (1920–2010), Arizona congressman and 37th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1961–1969) under Kennedy and Johnson; expanded the national park system, championed the Wilderness Act, wrote The Quiet Crisis, and later advocated for Navajo uranium miners.
Stewart–Treves syndrome
Stewart–Treves syndrome is angiosarcoma arising in chronically lymphedematous tissue, classically the arm after mastectomy; first described 1948, it appears about 15 years after lymphedema with poor survival.
Stewarts Lane
Stewarts Lane, also called Stewarts Lane Depot, is a railway depot in Battersea, south-west London, opened in 1862 and still serving passenger and Pullman trains.
Stewie (TV series)
Stewie is an upcoming Fox animated sitcom, a Family Guy spin-off created by Seth MacFarlane and Kirker Butler, ordered for two seasons in March 2026. It follows Stewie Griffin at a new preschool using time- and space-travel devices, premiering in the 2027-28 season.
Stewie Griffin
Stewie Griffin is the infant genius of Family Guy, voiced by creator Seth MacFarlane; originally a matricidal, British-accented would-be world conqueror, he evolved into a flamboyant comedian and will headline the Fox spinoff Stewie in 2027-2028.
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, also called Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, is a 2005 direct-to-DVD animated film in which Stewie meets his future self after a near-death experience; it later aired as three Season 4 episodes.
Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie
Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie are the Family Guy season 6 two-parter (2007) in which Stewie finally kills Lois, seizes power, and is killed by her, before the whole arc is revealed as his computer simulation.
Steyning
Steyning is a historic market town in Horsham District, West Sussex, at the foot of the South Downs. Known for its Norman church of St Andrew and St Cuthman, its market dating to Edward the Confessor, and its 1771 rebuilt Market House at 72 High Street.
Steyr
Steyr is a statutory city in Upper Austria at the Enns-Steyr confluence, third-largest in the state with about 37,900 people. Known for the 980 Styraburg, the iron trade, Werndl's arms works, and Steyr-Daimler-Puch.
Steyr 90 series
The Steyr 90 series, known in German as the Steyr 90-Plus Serie, is a cab-over-engine truck range built by Steyr-Daimler-Puch in Austria from 1968 to 1978.
Steyr AUG
The Steyr AUG (Armee-Universal-Gewehr), adopted by Austria in 1977 as the StG 77, is a 5.56×45mm NATO bullpup assault rifle, the first bullpup to enter large-scale military service.
Steyr Mannlicher
Steyr Mannlicher, renamed STEYR ARMS in 2019, is an Austrian firearms manufacturer founded by Josef Werndl in 1864, known for the Steyr AUG and SSG 69 rifles.
Steyr SSG 69
The Steyr SSG 69 is an Austrian bolt-action sniper rifle adopted by the Austrian Army in 1969, the first serially produced high-precision rifle with a polymer stock.
Steyr-Daimler-Puch
Steyr-Daimler-Puch, also known as Steyr-Puch, was an Austrian industrial conglomerate formed in 1934 by merger, building cars, trucks, tractors, and tanks until its divisions were sold from 1987.
STFC Hartree Centre
The STFC Hartree Centre is a UK research center for high performance computing, data analytics, and AI, helping businesses and the public sector adopt these technologies since opening in 2013.
StG 44
The StG 44, also known as the MP 44 and MP 43, was a German assault rifle of the Second World War and the first mass-produced rifle of its type.
StG 45(M)
The StG 45(M), or Sturmgewehr 45, was a prototype assault rifle developed by Mauser for the Wehrmacht in 1945, using roller-delayed blowback and the 7.92×33mm Kurz cartridge.
Sthala Purana
A Sthala Purana, Tamil talapurāṇam, is a local legend or temple lore attached to a sacred place in India, explaining its shrine, deity, name, and rituals.
Sthanika
Sthanika (ಸ್ಥಾನಿಕ) was a local administrative and temple official in South India, attested in Kautilya's Arthasastra and prominent under the Vijayanagara Empire in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Sthaviravada
Sthaviravada was an early Buddhist school formed by elder monks after the first schism of the Buddhist sangha, producing lineages from which the Sarvastivada and Theravada later descended.
Sthayibhava
Sthayibhava (स्थायिभाव, "stable emotion") is the permanent, dominant emotion in Sanskrit dramaturgy and poetics that, awakened by appropriate dramatic or poetic means, is savored by spectators as rasa.
Sthiramati
Sthiramati (स्थिरमति) was an Indian Yogacara Buddhist scholar of the sixth century, traditionally based at Valabhi, best known for his extensive commentaries on Vasubandhu's treatises.
Sthree Hridayam
Sthree Hridayam (സ്ത്രീ ഹൃദയം, "Woman's Heart") is the title of several Malayalam works: a novel by S. Sreedevi, a book by poet Balamani Amma, and a 1960 film.