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Stonecreek Coal Mine
Stonecreek Coal Mine is an operating surface coal mine near New Philadelphia in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, opened in 1979 and operated by Kimble Clay & Limestone.
Stonecutters Bridge
Stonecutters Bridge is a cable-stayed road bridge in Hong Kong carrying Route 8 across the Rambler Channel between Stonecutters Island and Tsing Yi, opened in December 2009.
Stoned ape theory
The Stoned Ape theory, or Stoned Ape Hypothesis, is Terence McKenna's 1992 proposal, in Food of the Gods, that psilocybin mushrooms drove human brain evolution; mainstream science rejects it as unsupported.
Stoned Jesus
Stoned Jesus, Ukrainian stoner/doom and progressive rock band formed in Kyiv in 2009 by Igor Sydorenko. Albums First Communion, Seven Thunders Roar with I'm the Mountain, and the Songs to Sun/Moon/Earth trilogy on Season of Mist.
Stonehammer UNESCO Global Geopark
Stonehammer UNESCO Global Geopark, in southern New Brunswick, Canada, is North America's first geopark (2010), a 2,500 km² Bay of Fundy area with a 1-billion-year geological record and over 60 geosites.
Stonehearst Asylum
Stonehearst Asylum, also released as Eliza Graves, is a 2014 Brad Anderson psychological thriller starring Jim Sturgess, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Kingsley, and Michael Caine, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's story about patients taking over a Victorian asylum.
Stonehenge
Stonehenge: Neolithic stone circle on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, built from about 3100 BC and aligned on the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset; its bluestones came from Wales and its Altar Stone from Scotland, and the proposed 365.25-day "Stonehenge calendar" has been shown to be a modern construct.
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites: UNESCO World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England, inscribed 1986 under criteria (i)(ii)(iii); two chalkland landscapes of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments used circa 3700-1600 BC, including Stonehenge and Avebury's world-record stone circle.
Stoneman
Stoneman: press-given name for unidentified killer(s) of sleeping pavement dwellers in Mumbai (mid-1980s) and Kolkata (13 deaths from June 1989), heads crushed with stones or slabs; never solved, no conviction, single-killer theory unproven.
Stonemasonry
Stonemasonry, also known as stonecutting, is the craft of building structures from natural stone, shaping blocks laid with mortar or dry stacked without it, one of the oldest construction methods, first seen in ancient Egyptian temples.
Stonepeak
Stonepeak, legally Stonepeak Partners LP, is a New York-based alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, founded in 2011 and managing about $93 billion.
Stoner (novel)
Stoner is a 1965 novel by John Williams about William Stoner, a farm-born English professor at the University of Missouri who died in 1956, and his quiet professional and personal setbacks.
Stoner 63
The Stoner 63, also known as the Stoner Weapons System, is a 5.56mm modular weapon system designed by Eugene Stoner and used by Navy SEALs in Vietnam.
Stoner Cats
Stoner Cats: adult animated web series by Mila Kunis's Orchard Farm Productions, financed by 10,320 Ethereum NFTs ($8.2 million, 2021); SEC found the NFT sale an unregistered securities offering, settled for $1 million in 2023.
Stoner film
Stoner film: a film genre, mostly comedy, centered on marijuana use and its pursuit, founded by Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke (1978), with conventions of buddy pairs, single-day plots, and films like Friday and Pineapple Express.
Stoner rock
Stoner rock, also called stoner metal or desert rock, is a fusion of heavy metal, doom metal, and psychedelic rock that emerged in the early 1990s California desert scene around Kyuss, defined by downtuned fuzz riffs, slow-to-mid tempo, and groove over speed.
Stones Gambling Hall cheating scandal
Stones Gambling Hall cheating scandal, also called Postlegate: 2019 poker controversy in which Veronica Brill accused Mike Postle of cheating in RFID-equipped livestreamed cash games at Stones in Citrus Heights, California; no court established cheating.
Stoneshield Capital
Stoneshield Capital is a Luxembourg-based European real assets and private equity firm founded in 2018 by former Lone Star executives Juan Pepa and Felipe Morenés Botín.
StoneToss
StoneToss is a pseudonymous four-panel webcomic launched July 18, 2017 at stonetoss.com, presenting itself as comedy about current events and internet culture while critics, researchers, and the Counter Extremism Project describe it as promoting alt-right, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, and white nationalist ideas; the artist was identified as Hans Kristian Graebener in 2024.
Stonewall (2015 film)
Stonewall is a 2015 American historical drama film directed by Roland Emmerich, dramatizing the 1969 Stonewall riots. Criticized as whitewashing history, it was a box office failure.
Stonewall Brigade
Stonewall Brigade: Confederate Civil War unit of five Virginia regiments and a battery, formed April 27, 1861 under Thomas J. Jackson; named for his 'stone wall' stand at First Manassas; 210 of over 6,000 men remained at Appomattox.
Stonewall Inn
The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar at 51-53 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, was the site of the June 28, 1969 police raid and uprising that catalyzed the modern gay rights movement; now a National Historic Landmark within Stonewall National Monument.
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Jackson (1824–1863), Confederate lieutenant general commanding the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Nicknamed at First Manassas, famed for the 1862 Valley Campaign and Harpers Ferry, mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville.
Stonewall riots
Stonewall riots, also the Stonewall uprising or rebellion: June 28 to July 3, 1969 Greenwich Village protests after a police raid on the mafia-run, unlicensed Stonewall Inn gay bar; catalyst of the modern LGBTQ rights movement and the first Pride marches in 1970.
Stoneware
Stoneware is a category of pottery fired at 1200 to 1300 °C until the clay body partially vitrifies, becoming dense, non-porous, and impervious to liquids even unglazed.
StoneWise (望石智慧)
StoneWise (望石智慧) is a Beijing-based AI drug discovery company founded in 2018 by Zhou Jielong, selling small-molecule design software and developing its own drug candidates.
StoneX Group
StoneX Group Inc. is a global financial services firm connecting clients to derivatives, securities, foreign exchange, and commodity markets; it is the largest non-bank futures commission merchant in the United States.
Stoney (album)
Stoney is Post Malone's debut studio album (Austin Richard Post), released December 9, 2016 on Republic Records; hip-hop/R&B with pop and country influences, featuring Bieber, Quavo, Kehlani, and Pharrell; five times RIAA platinum with a record 51-week climb to No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Stoney (Martian crater)
Stoney, Martian crater, IAU-approved 1973, named for physicist George Johnstone Stoney; 161.37 km diameter at 69.61°S, 221.49°E in Mars's cratered southern highlands.
Stoney units
Stoney units, also called the Stoney scale, are natural units built from the speed of light, gravity, and electron charge, proposed by George Johnstone Stoney in 1874.