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Stranraer F.C.
Stranraer F.C., The Blues, Scottish club founded 1870, third oldest league club in Scotland, playing at Stair Park since 1907; Challenge Cup winners 1996, currently top of Scottish League Two under Chris Aitken.
Strap It On
Strap It On (also Strap It On by Helmet) is the 1990 debut studio album by the American alternative metal band Helmet, released on Amphetamine Reptile Records; its nine tracks and roughly 40,000 sales on a small indie label triggered the Interscope bidding war that produced Meantime.
Strap-on booster
A strap-on booster is a rocket motor attached to the side of a launch vehicle's core stage, burning in parallel to increase liftoff thrust and payload capacity.
Strap-on dildo
A strap-on dildo, also called a strapon, is a dildo held in place by a harness worn at the pelvis, letting the wearer penetrate a partner without using their genitals.
Strappado
Strappado (Spanish garrucha, Italian strappata) is a pulley torture: hands tied behind the back, victim hoisted and dropped with a jerk, dislocating shoulders. Used by medieval and Spanish Inquisitions, Templar and witch trials, and secular courts across Europe.
Strapping Young Lad
Strapping Young Lad: Canadian industrial/extreme metal band formed 1994 in Vancouver by Devin Townsend, with Gene Hoglan, Byron Stroud, Jed Simon; five Century Media albums, landmark City (1997), ended 2007.
Strasbourg
Strasbourg, capital of Alsace and the Grand Est region in eastern France, seat of the European Parliament and Council of Europe; founded as Roman Argentoratum in 12 BC, annexed by France in 1681, German 1871–1918, UNESCO-listed Grande-Île and Neustadt.
Strasbourg astronomical clock
The Strasbourg astronomical clock (horloge astronomique de Strasbourg) is a monumental astronomical clock in Strasbourg Cathedral, France, built by Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué between 1838 and 1842.
Strasbourg Cathedral
Strasbourg Cathedral, also known as Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, is the Catholic cathedral of Strasbourg, France, built of pink Vosges sandstone from 1015 to 1439 with a single 142-meter spire.
Strasbourg, Grande-Île and Neustadt
Strasbourg, Grande-Île, and Neustadt: UNESCO World Heritage property in Strasbourg, France. Grande-Île medieval centre inscribed 1988, Neustadt German imperial district added 2017, criteria (ii) and (iv), 183 ha.
Strashilidae
Strashilidae (type genus Strashila, species S. daohugouensis) are extinct Middle Jurassic flies from Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, once thought to be feather-grasping dinosaur ectoparasites but reinterpreted in 2013 as amphibious, paedomorphic dipterans related to Nymphomyiidae.
Strassen algorithm
The Strassen algorithm, or Strassen's method, is a recursive matrix multiplication algorithm Volker Strassen published in 1969 that uses seven multiplications of half-sized submatrices instead of eight, the first with sub-cubic complexity.
Strassen Roman Milestone
Strassen Roman Milestone: uninscribed cylindrical Roman sandstone milestone found 1969 between Strassen-Dorf and Tassenbach in East Tyrol, Austria; marked 20 Roman miles from Aguntum; now east of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche, a protected Austrian monument.
Straßenverkehrsordnung
The Straßenverkehrsordnung (StVO) is the German federal road traffic ordinance governing how road users must behave, traffic flow, and traffic signs; the current version took effect on 1 April 2013.
Strasserism
Strasserism is the anti-capitalist strand of Nazism associated with Gregor and Otto Strasser in the NSDAP before 1933, combining nationalization proposals and worker rhetoric with antisemitism and anti-Weimar politics; it ended with Gregor's 1934 murder and Otto's exile.
Strat-O-Matic
Strat-O-Matic, also called Strat-O-Matic Baseball, is a dice-and-card sports simulation game series created by Hal Richman, first issued 1961, with Basic/Advanced/Super Advanced levels and the online Baseball 365 162-game league format.
Strata title
Strata title: Australian property ownership dividing land into individually titled lots plus jointly owned common property, managed by an owners corporation (body corporate, strata company) under a registered strata plan with unit entitlements.
Stratasys
Stratasys is an Israeli-incorporated 3D printing company headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota and Rehovot, Israel, best known as the origin and commercializer of Fused Deposition Modeling.
Strategic Air Command
Strategic Air Command (SAC), US Air Force Major Command and DoD specified command, 1946-1992, controlling land-based nuclear bombers, ICBMs, tankers, and reconnaissance aircraft; headquartered at Offutt AFB, inactivated 1992 into ACC and AMC.
Strategic Air Command (film)
Strategic Air Command (1955) is a Paramount VistaVision drama directed by Anthony Mann, starring James Stewart as recalled baseball player Dutch Holland, with June Allyson; made with Air Force cooperation, featuring B-36 and B-47 footage.
Strategic alliance
A strategic alliance is a voluntary agreement between two or more legally separate companies that share risk, returns, control, and some operational integration to pursue shared goals, each remaining independent.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT): US-Soviet negotiations 1969-1979 producing the ABM Treaty, the 1972 Interim Agreement freezing 1,054/1,618 ICBM launchers, and the unratified 1979 SALT II treaty with 2,400/2,250 ceilings, observed until 1985.
Strategic asset allocation
Strategic asset allocation is the setting of a long-term policy mix of asset classes, with target weights and ranges, that an investor rebalances to meet return and risk goals.
Strategic authority
Strategic authorities are the new tier of local government in England created by the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026, typically combined authorities, combined county authorities, or the GLA, in foundation, mayoral, and established mayoral levels.
Strategic authority mayor
Strategic authority mayor, also called strong mayor, is a city chief executive with consolidated powers to appoint department heads, draft the budget, and veto council legislation, mainly in mayor-council governments, distinct from council-manager cities where the mayor is largely ceremonial.
Strategic bomber
A strategic bomber is a long-range, heavy-payload military aircraft designed to strike an adversary's infrastructure, industry, and bases far beyond the battlefield, carrying nuclear or high-yield conventional weapons.
Strategic bombing
Strategic bombing, or strategic bombardment, is the use of air power against an enemy's home territory, industry, and will to continue a war rather than its field armies.
Strategic bombing during World War II
Allied strategic bombing campaign of WWII: RAF night area bombing and USAAF daylight precision attacks on Germany and Japan, from the Butt report and Casablanca directive to Hamburg, Dresden, the oil offensive, and the Tokyo firebombing, with USSBS effectiveness findings.
Strategic business unit
A strategic business unit (SBU) is a semi-autonomous unit of a diversified company with its own competitors and profit accountability, formalized at General Electric around 1971.
Strategic communication
Strategic communication: planned, insight-based, evaluated communication used by governments, militaries, and organizations to reach defined goals; closely tied to public diplomacy, strategic narratives, and UK GovS 011 practice.