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Stokes' law
Stokes' law, or Stokes' drag, gives the drag force on a sphere in a viscous fluid, F = 6πμaU, derived by George Stokes in 1851.
Stokes' theorem
Stokes' theorem, also called the Kelvin–Stokes theorem, is a vector calculus result relating a line integral around a closed curve to the surface integral of the curl.
Stokke
Stokke, former municipality in Vestfold, Norway (no. 0720), merged with Andebu and Sandefjord into new Sandefjord (0710) on 1 January 2017; now a village of 4,287 people (2025) on the Vestfold Line.
Stokoe notation
Stokoe notation, created by William C. Stokoe in 1960, is the first notation system for writing American Sign Language signs as location (tab), handshape (dez), and movement (sig) components; it founded ASL linguistics and inspired HamNoSys and later systems.
STOL
STOL, or short takeoff and landing, describes fixed-wing aircraft that take off and land on runways far shorter than conventional airplanes of comparable size require.
Stolberg gas field
The Stolberg gas field is a natural gas and gas-condensate field in the Alberta foothills near Stolberg and Nordegg, producing from Rundle, Mannville, and Cardium reservoirs since at least 1974.
Stolen (2012 film)
Stolen is a 2012 American action thriller directed by Simon West and starring Nicolas Cage as a bank robber whose daughter is kidnapped in New Orleans.
Stolen (2023 film)
Stolen (2023) is Karan Tejpal's Hindi thriller debut, produced by Gaurav Dhingra's Jungle Book Studio, about two brothers caught in a baby-kidnapping case inspired by the 2018 Karbi Anglong lynching; it premiered at Venice and streamed on Prime Video India from 4 June 2025.
Stolen base
Stolen base: a baseball statistic credited when a runner advances to an unentitled base during a steal attempt. Key facts: 1898 modern rule, 75% break-even success rate, Rickey Henderson's record 130 in 1982, and the 2023 rule-change revival.
Stolen Focus
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention (2022) is Johann Hari's nonfiction book arguing attention loss stems from twelve external causes, from app design to pollution, not personal willpower; a NYT bestseller and 2022 Porchlight Business Book of the Year.
Stolen Generations
The Stolen Generations are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families under government assimilation policies from the late 1800s until 1969.
Stolen Girl (2025 film)
Stolen Girl (2025 film), not the Disney+ series The Stolen Girl, is a James Kent action thriller starring Kate Beckinsale as Maureen Dabbagh, based on her real search for a daughter abducted by her ex-husband; released by Vertical in September 2025.
Stolen Happiness
Stolen Happiness (Ukrainian: Украдене щастя) is a five-act social and psychological drama by Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko, first staged in Lviv in 1893 and regarded as his most important work for the theater.
Stolen Kingdom
Stolen Kingdom is a 2025 documentary by Joshua Bailey about urban explorers and theft at Walt Disney World, centered on the unsolved 2018 theft of the Buzzy animatronic from Epcot's Cranium Command.
Stolen Kisses
Stolen Kisses (Baisers volés) is François Truffaut's 1968 French romantic comedy, the third Antoine Doinel film, following Jean-Pierre Léaud's discharged soldier through Paris jobs and love affairs with Delphine Seyrig and Claude Jade.
Stolen Valor Act of 2013
Stolen Valor Act of 2013, Public Law 113-12, a US federal law amending 18 U.S.C. 704 to criminalize fraudulent claims of military decorations made for tangible gain, enacted after the Supreme Court struck down the 2005 Act in United States v. Alvarez.
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence is a three-part 2023 Hulu docuseries directed by Zach Heinzerling about Larry Ray's cult of Sarah Lawrence College students, told through survivor interviews, tapes, and video recordings.
STOLI
STOLI (StoLi) was a Cold Spring Harbor inbred mouse strain, pink-eyed dilute brown, H-2q haplotype, famous for complete resistance to inoculated leukemia; maintained in Bombay until 1970, then discarded.
Stolichna Obshtina
Stolichna Obshtina (Столична община), Sofia Municipality, is Bulgaria's capital municipality, also a region, with 24 districts, 38 localities, and 1,303,813 residents (2025), the country's largest municipality.
Stolichnaya (Столичная)
Stolichnaya (Столичная), or Stoli, a wheat-and-rye vodka brand of Soviet origin, produced in Riga, Latvia, owned by Luxembourg's SPI Group, rebranded Stoli in 2022 amid trademark disputes with Russia.
Stoll (company)
Stoll was a German manufacturer of flat knitting machines based in Reutlingen, known for its knit and wear technique; its parent KARL MAYER discontinued the business in 2025.
Stollen
Stollen is a dense German Christmas yeast loaf rich in butter, dried fruit, almonds, and spices; the Dresdner Christstollen is EU PGI-protected since 2010 and tied to Dresden's 1474 first record, the 1491 Butterbrief, and the 1730 giant 1.8-tonne stollen.
Stolper–Samuelson theorem
The Stolper–Samuelson theorem, from a 1941 paper by Wolfgang Stolper and Paul Samuelson, holds that a rise in a good's price raises the real return to the factor used intensively in it.
Stolperstein
Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are Gunter Demnig's brass-topped 10 cm concrete cubes set in sidewalks before Nazi victims' last homes; first laid 1992 in Cologne, over 116,000 stones in 31 European countries.
Stolpersteine
Stolpersteine are small brass-plated concrete blocks set into pavement at victims' last homes, laid by artist Gunter Demnig since 1992 in over 1,860 European municipalities.
Stolt-Nielsen
Stolt-Nielsen is a Norwegian-founded, London-headquartered shipping and logistics group founded in 1959 by Jacob Stolt-Nielsen, inventor of the parcel tanker, with businesses in tankers, terminals, and aquaculture.
Stolypin agrarian reform
The Stolypin agrarian reform (Столыпинская аграрная реформа) was a Russian Empire reform launched by Pyotr Stolypin in 1906 that let peasants leave the village commune and own their land.
Stoma
Stoma (plural stomata): microscopic pores on plant surfaces, each formed by two guard cells, regulating CO2 uptake and transpiration; about 90% of plant water loss passes through them, and they originated over 400 million years ago.
Stoma (medicine)
A stoma, also known as an ostomy, is a surgically created opening that connects a hollow organ such as the bowel or urinary tract to the abdominal surface.
Stomach
Stomach: hollow muscular digestive organ mixing food with acid and enzymes and releasing chyme into the duodenum; also an endocrine and defensive organ. Varies from simple acid sac in humans to fermenting chambers in ruminants; H. pylori causes most gastric cancer.