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Stoneyford
Stoneyford (Stonyford) names several places: a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland, on the N10 with a reported first-century Roman burial; an electoral ward in Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland; a Grade II Worcestershire house; and a Derbyshire canal wharf.
Stonham Aspal
Stonham Aspal, Suffolk (formerly Stonham Antegan, Estuna in Domesday): Mid Suffolk village and parish of 589 people on a Roman road, with a Roman bath house, Grade I St Mary and St Lambert church, and 46 listed buildings.
Stonin
Stonins (stonin 1, stonin 2; Drosophila stoned B, C. elegans UNC-41) are monomeric endocytic adaptor proteins with mu-homology and stonin homology domains; stonin 2 sorts synaptotagmin 1 for synaptic vesicle recycling, stonin 1 mediates NG2 endocytosis.
Stoning
Stoning (lapidation, rajm) is execution by group stone-throwing. Known from Biblical law, developed as a zina punishment in Islamic law, authorized by nine countries but rarely used judicially; UN bodies deem it torture.
Stoning of the Devil (رمي الجمرات)
The Stoning of the Devil (رمي الجمرات, ramy al-jamarat) is a Hajj pilgrimage rite in which pilgrims throw pebbles at three walls in Mina near Mecca, re-enacting Abraham pelting Satan.
Stono Rebellion
The Stono Rebellion, also known as Cato's Conspiracy, was a 1739 slave uprising near Charleston, South Carolina, in which about one hundred enslaved Africans marched toward Spanish Florida.
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University (SUNY at Stony Brook), New York's flagship public research university on Long Island, founded 1957; R1, AAU member, 27,700+ students, #1 public university in New York, seventh president Andrea Goldsmith since 2025.
Stony Brook University Hospital
Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH), also called Stony Brook Medicine's flagship, is a 628-bed academic medical center in Stony Brook, NY, opened February 18, 1980; Long Island's only tertiary care center and Level 1 Trauma Center, ranked No. 10 in New York State.
Stony Brook, New York
Stony Brook, New York: a Suffolk County hamlet and CDP on Long Island's North Shore, home of Stony Brook University and its 628-bed hospital; 13,467 residents (2020), founded as part of the 1655 Setauket land purchase.
Stony coral tissue loss disease
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is a lethal coral disease first seen off Miami in 2014 that has killed over 22 Caribbean stony coral species; cause unidentified, treated with amoxicillin paste and probiotics.
Stony desert
Stony desert, also called reg, serir, gobi, or gibber terrain, is a gravel-armored desert plain formed by deflation and dust accretion; sand covers only about 20 percent of Earth's deserts, while stony and rocky surfaces dominate.
Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania: a township incorporated in 1792 from Quemahoning Township, one of Somerset County's six original townships, containing Shanksville, the Flight 93 crash site; population 2,162 over 61.1 square miles.
Stonyhurst College
Stonyhurst College: Jesuit Catholic co-educational boarding and day school (ages 11-18) at Clitheroe, Lancashire, descendant of the 1593 College of St Omers; oldest continuously active Jesuit school, moved to England in 1794.
Stool culture
Stool culture is a microbiological test that grows bacteria from fecal specimens to identify the pathogens causing bacterial gastroenteritis, including Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, and E. coli O157:H7.
Stool DNA test
A stool DNA test is an at-home colorectal cancer screening test that detects DNA shed from tumors into stool, marketed as Cologuard and FDA approved in 2014.
Stop & Shop
Stop & Shop is a Northeastern US supermarket chain founded from the 1914 Economy Grocery Company of the Rabb (Rabinovitz) family of Boston, pioneer of self-service supermarkets, owned by Ahold Delhaize since 1996.
Stop AI
Stop AI is a Bay Area activist group founded in 2024 that uses nonviolent civil disobedience to demand a permanent global ban on frontier artificial intelligence development, including AGI.
Stop and identify statutes
Stop and identify statutes: US state laws requiring a person lawfully detained on reasonable suspicion to state a name, also called Hiibel laws. Upheld name-only in Hiibel v. Nevada (2004); limited by Brown v. Texas and Kolender v. Lawson.
Stop codon
Stop codon: UAA, UAG, UGA trinucleotides ending translation; recognized by release factors eRF1/eRF3 (eukaryotes) or RF1/RF2 (bacteria), not tRNA; basis of nonsense-suppression therapies.
Stop it. Get some help.
"Stop it. Get some help." is a line from a 1987 McDonald's-sponsored Michael Jordan anti-drug PSA aired on ABC after 'Cracked Up', later a Vine and YouTube reaction meme mocking cringeworthy behavior.
Stop Killing Games
Stop Killing Games (Stop Destroying Videogames) is a consumer-rights campaign started by Ross Scott in 2024 to keep purchased video games playable after support ends.
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense (1984) is Jonathan Demme's concert film of Talking Heads, shot at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, released October 19, 1984, and restored in 4K by A24 for its 2023 40th anniversary.
Stop Making Sense (album)
Stop Making Sense is Talking Heads' 1984 live soundtrack album to Jonathan Demme's concert film, recorded December 1983 at Hollywood's Pantages Theater; reissued complete in 2023 with over two million copies sold.
Stop motion
Stop motion (stop-frame animation) is a filmmaking technique photographing physical puppets, clay figures, or objects one frame at a time with tiny incremental movements, creating motion on playback; known from Aardman's Wallace and Gromit, Ray Harryhausen, and Laika.
Stop Online Piracy Act
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), H.R. 3261, was a 2011 US anti-piracy bill by Rep. Lamar Smith that would have ordered ISPs, payment processors, and search engines to block foreign infringing sites; it died after January 2012 protests.
Stop sign
Stop sign: regulatory traffic sign requiring a complete stop; US MUTCD R1-1 red octagon with white STOP legend, standardized 1915 Detroit origin, 1954 red color; Vienna Convention B2a/B2b worldwide.
Stop squark
The stop squark, or top squark (symbol t̃), is the hypothetical spin-zero superpartner of the top quark predicted by supersymmetry; its loops would cancel the top quark's contribution to the Higgs mass.
Stop the Clocks
Stop the Clocks (2006) is Oasis's first best-of compilation, an 18-track double album hand-picked by Noel Gallagher. Notable for omitting its own title song and all of Be Here Now; sold 1.5 million in the UK.
Stop the War Coalition
The Stop the War Coalition (StWC) is a British anti-war group founded in 2001, best known for organizing the massive February 2003 protest against the Iraq invasion.
Stop-and-frisk in New York City
Stop-and-frisk in New York City is a police practice allowing officers to stop, question, and frisk people on reasonable suspicion, peaking at nearly 700,000 stops in 2011.