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Stormi Henley
Stormi Bree Henley (born 1990, Crossville, Tennessee) is an American model and Miss Teen USA 2009, later a singer with the band U.G.L.Y. and an actress; mother of Gravity Blue Smith with Lucky Blue Smith, distinct from Kylie Jenner's daughter Stormi and Stormi Steele.
Storming of Izmail
The Storming of Izmail (Штурм Измаила) was the capture of the Ottoman fortress on the Danube by about 31,000 Russian troops under Suvorov on 11 December 1790, a victory commemorated as Russia's Day of Military Glory.
Storming of the Bastille
Storming of the Bastille (14 July 1789): Parisians seized the royal fortress-prison seeking gunpowder, freeing seven prisoners; it sparked the French Revolution and has marked France's 14 July national holiday since 1880.
Storming of the Byrsa
The Storming of the Byrsa was the Roman assault under Scipio Aemilianus on Carthage's citadel hill in the spring of 146 BC, ending the Third Punic War and preceding the city's destruction.
Storming of Yogyakarta
The Storming of Yogyakarta, remembered in Javanese as Geger Sepehi (the sepoy calamity), was the British-Indian assault on the royal palace of the Sultanate of Yogyakarta in June 1812, ending the sultanate's effective independence.
Stormorken-Sjaastad-Langslet syndrome
Stormorken-Sjaastad-Langslet syndrome (Stormorken syndrome, OMIM 185070) is a rare autosomal dominant CRAC channelopathy from gain-of-function STIM1 mutations, causing thrombocytopenia, asplenia, miosis, and tubular aggregate myopathy; York platelet syndrome is the same spectrum.
StormShroud
StormShroud is an electronic warfare uncrewed aircraft of the British Royal Air Force, pairing the Tekever AR3 airframe with Leonardo's BriteStorm jammer and entering service in May 2025.
Stormtrooper
Stormtroopers (German Stoßtruppen, Sturmtruppen) were WWI German elite assault units using infiltration tactics: small groups led by an NCO, 18 storm battalions by 1918, Riga 1917, Spring Offensive 1918, legacy in Reichswehr doctrine and the Star Wars name.
Stormtrooper (Star Wars)
Stormtroopers are the Galactic Empire's fictional elite shock troops in Star Wars, white-armored soldiers named after Germany's WWI Sturmtruppen; designed by Ralph McQuarrie, sculpted by Brian Muir and Liz Moore, and continued by the First Order.
Stormtroopers (Imperial Germany)
Stoßtruppen (stormtroopers) were Imperial Germany's elite trench-assault infantry of World War I, first authorized 2 March 1915 and grown to 18 Sturmbataillone; they pioneered infiltration tactics used in the 1918 Spring Offensive.
Stormtroopers of Death
Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.) was a New York crossover thrash side project of Anthrax's Scott Ian and Charlie Benante with Dan Lilker and Billy Milano; its 1985 debut Speak English or Die, recorded in three days, defined crossover thrash.
Stormwater
Stormwater is rain and snowmelt that flows over impervious surfaces such as paved streets and rooftops instead of soaking into the ground, picking up pollutants and stressing urban streams.
Stormwater best management practice
A stormwater best management practice (BMP) is a structure or procedure that reduces the volume, rate, or pollutant load of runoff, through facilities like detention ponds and source controls.
Stormy (rapper)
Stormy (Yasser El Malih, born 1997, Rabat), Moroccan rapper in Darija and French; breakout "Fratello" 2020, debut solo album ICEBERG (2024) with "POPO"; distinct from British grime rapper Stormzy.
Stormy Daniels
Stormy Daniels is an American adult film performer, director, writer, and television presenter. She testified in the2024 New York criminal trial concerning Donald Trump’s business records.
Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal
The Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal covers the $130,000 2016 hush payment by Michael Cohen, FEC campaign finance findings, Cohen's 2018 guilty plea, and Trump's 2024 New York conviction on 34 falsified business records counts.
Stormzy
Stormzy (Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr, born 1993) is a Croydon-born British grime artist of Ghanaian heritage; his 2017 debut Gang Signs & Prayer was the first grime album to top the UK chart, and he was the first British rapper to headline Glastonbury.
Stornelli Legionari
Stornelli Legionari, also titled Vogliamo scolpire una lapide, is an anonymous 1943 Italian Social Republic fascist song set to the Inno a Oberdan melody, cursing Badoglio, the Savoy monarchy, and Pope Pacelli while praising Graziani.
Stornoway
Stornoway (Steòrnabhagh) is the largest town of the Outer Hebrides, on Lewis, Scotland; historic herring port and seat of Lews Castle, the Stornoway Trust, and the Ullapool ferry link.
Storozhynets Raion
Storozhynets Raion (Сторожинецький район, Raionul Storojineț), a district in southwestern Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Storozhynets; 1,160 km², 95,679 residents, borders Romania, formed 1940, reorganized in the 2020 raion reform.
Storr Oil and Gas Field
Storr is an oil and gas field in the northern North Sea, discovered in 2016 and producing since November 2019 as a subsea tieback to Apache's Beryl field.
Storsjön
Storsjön is a large, regulated lake in Jämtland, Sweden. It is the fifth largest by surface area and acts as a reservoir for the Indalsälven hydropower system.
Storsjöodjuret
Storsjöodjuret (Great Lake Monster) is the lake monster of Swedish folklore said to live in Lake Storsjön, Jämtland, first recorded in 1635, hunted in 1894 with royal backing, legally protected 1986-2005/2006, yet never shown to exist.
Storstockholm
Storstockholm (Greater Stockholm), the Stockholm metropolitan region, usually defined as all of Stockholm county: about 2.49 million people, 23.4% of Sweden's population, with the Stockholm tätort at 1.65 million and the city passing one million in 2026.
Storting
The Storting (Stortinget) is Norway's national parliament: a 169-member, unicameral-since-2009 legislature elected every four years by proportional representation, established by the 1814 Constitution, with parliamentarianism practiced since 1884.
Storuman
Storuman (Ume Sami Stuora Ubmeje, Lusspie) is a regulated lake in southern Lappland, Sweden, the Umeälven's largest hydropower reservoir, and the name of the Västerbotten municipality and Inlandsbanan railway town beside it.
Story (music)
Story is a 2005 song by Japanese-American R&B singer AI, her twelfth single, which peaked at number 8 on the Oricon chart and sold over 3 million downloads.
Story arc
Story arc, also called narrative arc, is the structural shape of a story from exposition through climax to resolution, or a storyline spanning multiple TV episodes, comics, or books; distinct from character arc and from the broader multi-work narrative arc.
Story Bridge
The Story Bridge, Brisbane's steel cantilever bridge across the Brisbane River, links Kangaroo Point with Fortitude Valley; opened in 1940, it remains Australia's longest cantilever bridge.
Story mapping
Story mapping is a reading comprehension intervention where students complete a graphic organizer of story grammar elements, such as character, setting, problem, and solution, while reading a story.