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Stove God Cooks
Stove God Cooks (Aaron Cooks, formerly Cook$), Syracuse, New York coke rapper and singer; debut Reasonable Drought (2020) fully produced by Roc Marciano; frequent Griselda collaborator via Westside Gunn; featured on Clipse's F.I.C.O. (2025).
Stow-on-the-Wold
Stow-on-the-Wold: hilltop Cotswold market town in Gloucestershire, England, about 2,000 people, the highest Cotswold town at 800 feet on the Fosse Way, known for its wool-trade square, the 1646 Battle of Stow, and St Edward's Church yew door.
Stowaway (2021 film)
Stowaway (2021) is a Joe Penna sci-fi drama on Netflix: a Mars-bound crew finds an accidental stowaway who damaged the CO2 scrubber, forcing a lifeboat-style moral choice. Stars Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson.
Stowe (Venusian crater)
Stowe is an IAU-approved impact crater on Venus at 43.2°S, 233.2°E, about 75-80 km across, named in 1994 for novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe and known for its wind-eroded radar-dark parabola.
Stowe House
Stowe House is a Grade I listed country house in Buckinghamshire, England, built for the Temple family from 1677, seat of the Temple-Grenville family for over 300 years.
Stowe School
Stowe School: co-educational independent boarding and day school for ages 13-18 at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire; founded 1923 with 99 boys under J. F. Roxburgh to save the house; fees £58,560 boarding (2026-27).
Stoya
Stoya (Jessica Stojadinović, born 1986 or 1987) is an American adult film performer (since 2006/2007), director, and writer; known for Digital Playground, the 2015 James Deen accusation, the book Philosophy, Pussycats and Porn, and Slate's 'How to Do It' column.
Stoyan Danev
Stoyan Danev (Стоян Данев, 1858–1949) was a Bulgarian lawyer and politician who served twice as prime minister and led the Bulgarian delegation at the London peace talks of 1912–1913.
Stoyan Delchev
Stoyan Delchev (Стоян Делчев), Bulgarian artistic gymnast born 1959 in Plovdiv; 1980 Olympic horizontal bar champion and all-around bronze medalist, 1979 European all-around champion, eponym of the Delchev release skill.
Stoyan Mihaylovski
Stoyan Mihaylovski (Стоян Михайловски), 1856–1927, was a Bulgarian writer, satirical poet, teacher, and political figure, author of "Varvi, narode vazrodeni," the hymn sung every 24 May.
Stoyanka Gruycheva Kurbatova
Stoyanka Gruycheva Kurbatova (Стоянка Груйчева-Курбатова), Bulgarian rower born 1955 in Starosel; Olympic gold in coxless pairs with Siyka Kelbecheva at Montreal 1976 and bronze at Moscow 1980.
STP marketing model
The STP marketing model is a three-step strategic process in which a firm segments a market, targets the segments it will serve, and positions a distinct offer for each.
STPR domain
STPR domain (score and three amino acid peptide repeats), a 23-residue tandem-repeat DNA-binding domain first found in silkworm FMBP-1; Pfam PF21107, InterPro IPR048998; also in human ZNF821.
STR (hospitality data company)
STR, originally Smith Travel Research, is a hospitality data company collecting performance data from hotels worldwide for benchmarking; founded in 1985, it has been owned by CoStar Group since 2019.
STR analysis
STR analysis, or short tandem repeat analysis, is a forensic DNA profiling method that identifies individuals from biological samples by measuring repeated DNA segments, and also serves paternity testing and mass-disaster investigations.
Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton
Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton is Eazy-E's second and final studio album, released posthumously January 30, 1996 on Ruthless/Relativity, 14 tracks completed by DJ Yella after his March 1995 AIDS death, certified Gold.
Straatsma syndrome
Straatsma syndrome: rare ophthalmologic triad of myelinated retinal nerve fibers, axial myopia, and amblyopia, usually unilateral; described by Bradley R. Straatsma et al. in 1979, with strabismus frequent and amblyopia typically refractory to treatment.
STRABAG
STRABAG SE is an Austrian construction group active in more than 50 countries, Central and Eastern Europe's largest, building transport infrastructure, buildings, and tunnelling across roughly 14,000 projects.
Strabismus
Strabismus (squint) is misalignment of the eyes, affecting 2-5% of people. Types include esotropia, exotropia, hypertropia; treated with glasses, prisms, exercises, or eye muscle surgery, sometimes with adjustable sutures.
Strabismus surgery
Strabismus surgery adjusts the position or tension of the extraocular muscles to realign eyes that point in different directions, improving binocular vision, stereoacuity, and head posture.
Strabo (Στράβων)
Strabo (Στράβων), Greek geographer of the early Roman Empire, wrote the Geography in seventeen books, the most complete surviving ancient work on geography, valued for preserving lost sources and blending mathematical and human description.
Strabomantidae
Strabomantidae, a family of New World direct-developing frogs (Terraranae) named by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke in 2008; Andean-centered, includes Pristimantis, with disputed synonymy under Craugastoridae.
Stracathro
Stracathro (Roman fort and camp, Angus, Scotland): Flavian/Agricolan fort of the AD 80s with annexe and 15.8 ha temporary camp whose clavicular 'Stracathro-type' gateways name a whole class of Roman camp; conventionally the most northerly Roman fort.
Stracciatella (ice cream)
Stracciatella ice cream is a gelato flavor of milk (fiordilatte) base with thin dark-chocolate shards, invented by Enrico Panattoni at La Marianna, Bergamo, in 1961; distinct from the Roman soup and the Pugliese cheese of the same name.
Straddle
A straddle is an options position combining a call and a put with the same strike and expiration, betting on a large move in either direction.
Strade Bianche
Strade Bianche, a UCI WorldTour and Women's WorldTour one-day race over Tuscan gravel roads from and to Siena's Piazza del Campo; first held 2007 as Monte Paschi Eroica, won 2026 by Tadej Pogačar, his fourth title.
Stradivarius
A Stradivarius is a violin, viola, or cello made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy, before his death in 1737; the finest examples have sold for over $15 million.
Strafford County
Strafford County, New Hampshire: county with seat at Dover, organized 1771, named for the 2nd Earl of Strafford; 130,889 residents (2020), three cities and ten towns, fourth most populous of ten NH counties.
Strafgesetzbuch
Strafgesetzbuch (StGB), Germany's criminal code since 15 May 1871; General Part rebuilt 1 January 1975; Verbrechen vs Vergehen, murder section 211, current version consolidated 1998.
Strafgesetzbuch section 86a
§ 86a StGB, Germany's Criminal Code provision on use of symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organizations: three-year maximum penalty, lookalike rule, social adequacy exemptions, key constitutional and ECHR case law.