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Stone Island
Stone Island: Italian luxury sportswear brand founded 1982 by Massimo Osti in Ravarino; known for Tela Stella fabric, garment dyeing, the compass sleeve badge, football casual culture, and Moncler ownership since 2021.
Stone mastic asphalt
Stone mastic asphalt (SMA), also called stone matrix asphalt, is a gap-graded asphalt mixture developed in Germany in the mid-1960s to resist studded-tire wear on pavements.
Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain, Georgia: world's largest exposed granite mass near Atlanta, site of the giant Confederate Memorial Carving (Davis, Lee, Jackson, 1915–1972), Stone Mountain Park, and the 1915 KKK rebirth.
Stone Mountain, Georgia
Stone Mountain, Georgia: a small DeKalb County city (population 6,703 in 2020) at the base of Stone Mountain, incorporated as New Gibraltar in 1839, renamed 1847, historically a granite quarrying town adjacent to Stone Mountain Park.
Stone Music Entertainment (스톤 뮤직 엔터테인먼트)
Stone Music Entertainment (스톤뮤직엔터테인먼트), descended from Mnet Media, was a South Korean CJ ENM record label that managed artists like Wanna One and Davichi until its 2021 liquidation, surviving as a distribution brand.
Stone Ocean (ストーンオーシャン)
Stone Ocean (ストーンオーシャン) is Part 6 of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: 158 chapters in 17 volumes, serialized 1999/2000-2003, set in 2011 Florida's Green Dolphin Street Prison with Jolyne Cujoh, the first female JoJo, versus Father Pucci; 38-episode Netflix anime 2021-2022.
Stone of Scone
The Stone of Scone, called the Stone of Destiny, is the sandstone coronation seat of Scottish monarchs, taken by Edward I in 1296 and used in British coronations since.
Stone of the Pregnant Woman
The Stone of the Pregnant Woman (Hajar al-Hibla) is an unfinished Roman limestone monolith of about 1,000 tonnes in an ancient quarry near Baalbek, Lebanon.
Stone of Tizoc
The Tizoc Stone (Piedra de Tízoc) is a carved cylindrical Aztec monolith from Tenochtitlan, decorated with conquest scenes commemorating the reign of the ruler Tízoc, from 1481 to 1486.
Stone Pagoda of Mireuksa
The Stone Pagoda of Mireuksa (미륵사지 석탑) is a Baekje-era stone pagoda at the Mireuksa temple site in Iksan, South Korea, built in 639 and designated National Treasure No. 11.
Stone Phillips
Stone Phillips (born 1954, Texas City, Texas) is an American broadcast journalist, founding co-anchor of Dateline NBC with Jane Pauley from 1992 to 2007, formerly ABC 20/20 correspondent, Emmy winner for the Bernhard Goetz interview.
Stone pine
Stone pine (Pinus pinea), Mediterranean umbrella pine of Section Pinea, source of pignoli pine nuts; symbol of Rome, ~6,000 t/yr world shelled production, threatened by Leptoglossus occidentalis and Diplodia blight.
Stone Reliefs of the Wu Liang Shrine
The Stone Reliefs of the Wu Liang Shrine (武梁祠画像石) are carved Eastern Han stone pictures from an ancestral shrine built before Wu Liang's tomb in Jiaxiang County, Shandong.
Stone Reliefs of the Xiaotang Mountain Shrine
The Stone Reliefs of the Xiaotang Mountain Shrine are Han dynasty incised stone carvings inside a first-century CE funerary shrine in Jinan, Shandong, itself the earliest surviving above-ground building in China.
STONE score
The STONE score is a clinical prediction rule that estimates the probability of a ureteral stone in emergency department patients with suspected renal colic, using five bedside variables.
Stone Soup
Stone Soup (ATU type 1548, The Soup-Stone) is a European folktale in which a clever traveler makes "soup" from a stone and coaxes villagers into contributing real ingredients; first printed by Madame de Noyer in 1720, with nail soup, axe soup, and pebble soup variants.
Stone Sour
Stone Sour, the Des Moines, Iowa alternative metal and post-grunge band formed in 1992 around Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Jim Root with Josh Rand; known for Come What(ever) May, Through Glass, House of Gold & Bones, and Hydrograd.
Stone space
A Stone space, also called a Boolean or profinite space, is a compact, Hausdorff, totally disconnected space dual to a Boolean algebra via Stone's 1936 theorem.
Stone spheres of Costa Rica
Stone spheres of Costa Rica (Las Bolas): over 300 pre-Columbian sculpted stone balls, up to 2.6 m and 25 tons, in the Diquís Delta; four sites became Costa Rica's first cultural World Heritage sites in 2014.
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots, San Diego rock band formed as Mighty Joe Young, fronted by Scott Weiland; Core (1992) and Purple (1994) multi-platinum; later singers Chester Bennington and Jeff Gutt.
Stone tool
Stone tool: lithic implements made by percussion, pressure, or grinding, from the 3.3-million-year-old Kenyan finds through Oldowan and Acheulean handaxe traditions to the Middle Stone Age, until metal tools replaced stone within the last 10,000 years.
Stone Town
Stone Town (Mji Mkongwe), the historic core of Zanzibar City, Tanzania: a Swahili coastal trading town of coral-rag architecture, carved doors, and sultanate monuments, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000 facing development and conservation pressures.
Stone Yard Devotional
Stone Yard Devotional is Charlotte Wood's 2023 Allen & Unwin novel, shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, about an unnamed atheist ex-environmentalist who retreats to a convent on the Monaro plains of New South Wales during the pandemic and a mouse plague.
Stone–Čech compactification
The Stone–Čech compactification βX of a topological space X is the largest compact Hausdorff compactification, into which every bounded continuous real-valued function on X extends uniquely.
Stone–von Neumann theorem
The Stone–von Neumann theorem, or Weyl relations theorem, states that quantum canonical commutation relations have essentially one irreducible representation, proved by von Neumann in 1931.
Stone–Weierstrass theorem
The Stone–Weierstrass theorem is a result of real analysis, proved by Marshall Stone in 1937, generalizing Weierstrass's approximation theorem: any point-separating subalgebra of continuous functions on a compact space is dense.
Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras
Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras states that every Boolean algebra is isomorphic to the clopen subsets of its Stone space; Marshall Stone proved it in 1936.
Stonea
Stonea, Cambridgeshire: fen island near March holding Stonea Camp, Britain's lowest hillfort at 2 m OD, an Iron Age multivallate fort of the Iceni with a nearby Roman stone building and tower.
Stonebwoy
Stonebwoy (Livingstone Etse Satekla), Ghanaian Afro-dancehall, reggae and afrobeats artist from Ashaiman near Accra; 2015 BET Best International Act Africa winner, Def Jam signee, founder of BHIM Festival.
StoneCo
StoneCo, known as Stone, is a Brazilian payments fintech founded in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro by André Street and Eduardo Pontes, listed on Nasdaq since 2018.