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Stockfish (chess)
Stockfish: free open-source UCI chess engine forked from Glaurung 2.1 in November 2008 by Costalba, Romstad, and Kiiski; GPL v3, CPU-only NNUE evaluation, CCRL 3650 Elo, 19 TCEC titles.
Stockholm
Stockholm, capital of Sweden, founded by Birger Jarl with the name first recorded in 1252 letters; built on 14 islands, passed one million inhabitants in 2026, Sweden's financial centre and a leading European green city.
Stockholm (2018 film)
Stockholm (2018) is Robert Budreau's comedy-drama-crime film starring Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace, based on the failed 1973 Swedish bank robbery that coined "Stockholm syndrome"; Metascore 54, 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. Distinct from the 2013 Spanish film of the same name.
Stockholm Arlanda Airport
Stockholm Arlanda Airport, also known as Arlanda Airport, is Sweden's largest airport and primary international gateway, located about 40 kilometers north of Stockholm and serving over 24 million passengers in 2025.
Stockholm Bloodbath
Stockholm Bloodbath (Stockholms blodbad): mass executions in Stockholm, 8–9 November 1520, ordered by Christian II after his Swedish coronation; over 100 heresy-convicted opponents died, triggering Gustav Vasa's uprising and the Kalmar Union's end.
Stockholm Bloodbath (film)
Stockholm Bloodbath is a 2024 Swedish-Danish English-language action film by Mikael Håfström, written by Erlend Loe and Nora Landsrød, starring Sophie Cookson, Claes Bang, and Alba August, dramatizing the 1520 Stockholm Bloodbath through a revenge plot.
Stockholm City Hall
Stockholm City Hall (Stockholms stadshus) is the red-brick seat of Stockholm's municipal government on Kungsholmen, built 1911 to 1923 and host of the Nobel banquet.
Stockholm congestion tax
The Stockholm congestion tax (Swedish: trängselskatt i Stockholm) is a time-differentiated tax on vehicles entering and leaving Stockholm's inner city, tested in 2006 and made permanent on 1 August 2007.
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is a global treaty adopted 22 May 2001, in force 17 May 2004, with 186 Parties. It bans or restricts POPs, requires National Implementation Plans, four-yearly reporting, POPRC chemical review, and Global Monitoring Plan effectiveness evaluation.
Stockholm County
Stockholm County (Stockholms län), Sweden's most populous county with 2,486,251 residents in 2025 across 26 municipalities; governed by Region Stockholm (healthcare, transport, planning) and a County Administrative Board; 31% of national GDP.
Stockholm Exergi
Stockholm Exergi is a Swedish district heating and cooling company owned equally by the City of Stockholm and an investor consortium, supplying heat to more than 800,000 Stockholmers.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), founded by the Swedish Parliament 1 July 1966 as an independent foundation in Stockholm, is a peace and security research institute known for its databases on military expenditure, arms transfers, and nuclear arsenals.
Stockholm Municipality
Stockholm Municipality (Stockholms kommun) is Sweden's most populous municipality, near one million residents, governed by a city council, with 11 district areas, 132 districts, and climate-positive-by-2030 goals.
Stockholm Palace
Stockholm Palace (Stockholms slott), officially the Royal Palace of Stockholm, is the official residence of the King of Sweden, built after the Tre Kronor castle burned in 1697.
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC): international resilience and sustainability research institute at Stockholm University, founded 2007 with the Beijer Institute; home of the 2009 planetary boundaries framework, now led by Line Gordon with 160 staff.
Stockholm school (economics)
The Stockholm school was a group of Swedish economists, active from 1927 to 1937, including Gunnar Myrdal, Bertil Ohlin, and Erik Lindahl, who developed dynamic macroeconomics for unemployment policy.
Stockholm School of Economics
Stockholm School of Economics (Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, SSE): private Swedish business school founded 1909, based at Sveavägen 65, Stockholm. EQUIS-accredited since 1999; FT European Business Schools 2025 rank 19; six departments, SSE Business Lab incubator.
Stockholm syndrome
Stockholm syndrome: term for hostages bonding with captors, coined by Nils Bejerot as Norrmalmstorg syndrome after the 1973 Kreditbanken robbery; not a DSM or ICD diagnosis.
Stockholm University
Stockholm University (Stockholms universitet) is a public university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 1878 as Stockholms Högskola and now one of Sweden's largest, with about 33,000 students.
Stockholm water supply
Stockholm water supply delivers drinking water from Lake Mälaren to about 2 million people, treated at the Norsborg and Lovö waterworks and distributed through some 2,200 km of pipes.
Stocking
Stockings, also called hose, are close-fitting leg coverings worn since the Middle Ages. Key facts: William Lee's 1589 stocking frame, English hand-knitting trade of 1595, and the 1939–1940 nylon debut distinguish the garment's history.
Stockpile stewardship
Stockpile stewardship is the United States program of science, surveillance, and manufacturing that keeps the nuclear weapons stockpile safe and reliable without explosive testing, established in 1993.
Stockport
Stockport, a town in Greater Manchester, England, on a red sandstone promontory over the River Mersey. Saxon origins, 1220 mayoral charter, 1840 brick viaduct, County Borough 1888, Metropolitan Borough 1974, major town centre regeneration since 2019.
Stockport air disaster
Stockport air disaster: crash of British Midland Airways Canadair C-4 Argonaut G-ALHG at Hopes Carr, Stockport, 4 June 1967, on approach to Manchester from Palma; 72 of 84 killed; cause fuel starvation from inadvertent fuel transfer.
Stockport County F.C.
Stockport County F.C. (the Hatters), English football club founded 1883 as Heaton Norris Rovers, renamed 1890; plays at Edgeley Park since 1902; League Two champions 2023–24, now in League One under owner Mark Stott.
Stocks
Stocks are a wooden restraint device locking an offender's ankles for public humiliation, distinct from the pillory, which locks head and hands. Used from Solon's Athens through medieval and early modern Europe; pillory abolished in England 1837, stocks last used 1872.
Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.
Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C., a South Yorkshire non-league club founded in 1986 from a steelworks team merger, plays at Bracken Moor, won NCEL titles in 1992 and 1994, and reached Step 3 via the 2024-25 play-offs.
Stockstadt
Stockstadt names two German municipalities: Stockstadt am Main in Bavaria, site of a major Roman Main-Limes fort, vicus, harbour, and mithraeum (c. 90-270 AD), and Stockstadt am Rhein in Hesse, a former Rhine harbor town.
Stockton and Darlington Railway
The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 as the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, hauling its first train behind George Stephenson's Locomotion No. 1.
Stockton Rush
Stockton Rush (Richard Stockton Rush III) was an American engineer who founded OceanGate and died in 2023 when its Titan submersible imploded on a dive to the Titanic wreck.