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Stig of the Dump
Stig of the Dump is a 1963 children's novel by Clive King, in which a boy named Barney befriends a stone-age boy living in a chalk-pit dump.
Stig Rønne
Stig Rønne, full name Hans Stig Trappaud Rønne, was a Danish gymnast who won a gold medal in the team all-around, free system, at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.
Stigand
Stigand (c. 1000–1072) was an English prelate who served as archbishop of Canterbury from 1052 to 1070, in a tenure never recognized by five successive popes.
Stigler's law of eponymy
Stigler's law of eponymy is the proposition that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer, set out by statistician Stephen Stigler in 1980 and credited to Robert Merton.
Stigmaeidae
Stigmaeidae is a family of small predatory mites in the superfamily Raphignathoidea, found worldwide on plants and in soil and feeding mostly on plant-feeding mites.
Stigmasterol
Stigmasterol, also called stigmasterin, is a plant sterol found in soybean oil and vegetable oils, one of the three dominant dietary phytosterols and a starting material for synthesizing progesterone and other steroid drugs.
Stigmata
Stigmata, also called holy stigmata, are bodily marks or pains matching the wounds of the crucified Jesus Christ, reported almost entirely among Catholics since Francis of Assisi in 1224.
Stigmata (film)
Stigmata is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright, in which an atheist hairdresser in Pittsburgh develops the wounds of Christ and the Vatican sends a priest to investigate.
Stigmergy
Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination in which agents communicate by modifying the environment, guiding other agents' later behavior without centralized control; it was coined in 1959 by Pierre-Paul Grassé.
Stihl
Stihl, formally Andreas Stihl AG & Company, is a German family-owned manufacturer of outdoor power equipment, founded in Stuttgart in 1926 and the world's top-selling chainsaw brand since 1971.
Stihl family
The Stihl family (German: Familie Stihl) is the owner family of STIHL, the Waiblingen-based maker of the world's best-selling chainsaw brand, founded by Andreas Stihl in 1926.
Stijn Claessens
Stijn Claessens is a Dutch financial economist who held senior roles at the World Bank, IMF, and BIS, and is an Executive Fellow at Yale.
Stijn Streuvels
Stijn Streuvels, pseudonym of Frank Lateur (1871–1969), was a Belgian naturalistic novelist of Flemish farming life, whose masterpiece De vlaschaard (1907) is his best-known book.
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh is a Belgian-born economist at Columbia Business School known for research on housing collateral, mortgage credit, and remote work's effect on office real estate.
Stijn Wuyts
Stijn Wuyts is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Bath, holding the Hiroko Sherwin Chair in Extragalactic Astronomy and studying galaxy formation and evolution.
Stikine River
Stikine River (Shtax'héen, "Great River" in Tlingit): a 640 km transboundary river from BC's Spatsizi Plateau to Wrangell, Alaska; fourth-longest in BC, Tahltan territory, with a 300 m deep Grand Canyon, abandoned BC Hydro dam plans, and Red Chris and Galore Creek mines on its Iskut tributary.
STIL
STIL (SCL/TAL1 interrupting locus, SIL) is a human gene at 1p33 encoding a centriole duplication protein, ortholog of SAS-5/ANA-2. Knockout mice lack centrioles and cilia and die midgestation; truncating mutations cause autosomal recessive primary microcephaly MCPH7.
Stilbene
Stilbene (1,2-diphenylethene, C14H12) is a colorless hydrocarbon of two phenyl groups joined by a double bond, occurring as E and Z isomers, parent of dyes, optical brighteners, and resveratrol.
Stilbon Planitia
Stilbon Planitia, a 1,550 km wide plain (planitia) on Mercury in quadrangle H-04, centered at 57.54°N, 209.61°W; IAU-approved March 14, 2017, named after the Ancient Greek word for the planet Mercury.
Stiletto
A stiletto is a slender Italian dagger with a narrow triangular blade made for thrusting, developed to pierce armor; the word also names a high heel.
Stiletto (2026 film)
Stiletto is a 2026 American slasher film directed by Samuel Gonzalez Jr., co-written by and starring former exotic dancer Gigi Gustin as Lyric, who hunts the masked, shoe-collecting killer of her sister; released October 30, 2026 by Eli Roth's The Horror Section.
Stiletto heel
The stiletto heel, named after the Italian dagger, is a tall, very slender high heel first described in the 1930s and realized in the 1950s with steel-reinforced construction, credited to Vivier, Ferragamo, or Perugia.
Stilicho
Flavius Stilicho (c. 365–408 CE), Vandal-descended Roman general and regent for Emperor Honorius, dominated the Western Roman Empire 395–408, defeated Alaric at Pollentia and Radagaisus at Florentia, and was executed at Ravenna on 22 August 408.
Stiliyan Petrov
Stiliyan Petrov (born 1979) is a Bulgarian former midfielder for CSKA Sofia, Celtic, and Aston Villa, Bulgaria captain with 105-106 caps, diagnosed with acute leukaemia in 2012, now a TNT Sports pundit and cancer charity founder.
Still (Karol G and Bruno Mars song)
"Still" is a 2026 pop and R&B ballad by Karol G and Bruno Mars, released on August 4, 2026, from the album No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto.
Still 17 (서른이지만 열일곱입니다)
Still 17 (서른이지만 열일곱입니다, Thirty But Seventeen) is a 2018 South Korean romantic comedy drama directed by Jo Soo-won and Kim Young-hwan, starring Shin Hye Sun and Yang Se Jong, about a violinist who wakes from a 13-year coma at 30 with a 17-year-old mind.
Still Alice
Still Alice (2014) is a drama by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, adapted from Lisa Genova's 2007 novel, starring Julianne Moore as a Columbia linguistics professor with early-onset Alzheimer's; Moore won the Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA.
Still Crazy After All These Years
Still Crazy After All These Years is Paul Simon's fourth solo studio album, released October 25, 1975 on Columbia, produced with Phil Ramone; it hit Billboard 200 number 1, won the 1976 Album of the Year Grammy, and yielded "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover".
Still D.R.E.
Still D.R.E. is a 1999 hip-hop single by Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg, lead single of the album 2001. Piano riff by Scott Storch, lyrics ghostwritten by Jay-Z; peaked at number 6 in the UK, over 1.1 billion Spotify streams.
Still Fabulous
Still Fabulous (Pensati sexy) is a 2024 Italian romantic comedy by Michela Andreozzi, starring Diana Del Bufalo as Maddalena and porn star Valentina Nappi as her guardian angel, released on Prime Video 12 February 2024.