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Streets of Rage (ベア・ナックル 怒りの鉄拳) (video game)
Streets of Rage (Bare Knuckle, ベア・ナックル 怒りの鉄拳) is Sega's 1991 Mega Drive side-scrolling beat 'em up, its answer to Final Fight, with three ex-cops fighting a syndicate and a landmark Yuzo Koshiro house-music soundtrack.
Streets of Rage 4 (ベア・ナックルIV)
Streets of Rage 4 (ベア・ナックルIV, Bare Knuckle IV) is a 2020 side-scrolling beat 'em up by Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, and Lizardcube, the first core series entry in about 25 years, with hand-drawn art, recoverable-health specials, combo scoring, and the Mr. X Nightmare DLC (2021).
Streets of SimCity
Streets of SimCity is a 1997 Maxis vehicular combat and driving game for Windows, a SimCity 2000 spin-off that imports player cities for street-level driving, missions, and up to eight-player network deathmatch.
Streetwear
Streetwear is casual, culture-driven fashion built around hoodies, graphic T-shirts, and sneakers, which grew out of 1980s and 1990s youth subcultures including hip-hop, skateboarding, surf, punk, and graffiti.
Streetwise
Streetwise (1984) is Martin Bell's Oscar-nominated documentary on homeless Seattle teenagers, made with Mary Ellen Mark and Cheryl McCall from their 1983 Life article "Streets of the Lost," featuring Tiny, Rat, and DeWayne.
Strega Nona
Strega Nona is Tomie dePaola's 1975 Caldecott Honor picture book, an Italian retelling of the porridge-pot tale in which helper Big Anthony floods a Calabrian town with pasta from a magic pot and must eat it all.
Strega Prize
The Strega Prize (Premio Strega) is Italy's leading annual literary award for narrative fiction, decided in Rome each July since 1947 by a jury of cultural figures.
Streisand effect
The Streisand effect is when censorship attempts backfire and amplify the suppressed information. Named for Barbra Streisand's failed 2003 $50 million lawsuit over an aerial photo of her Malibu home; term coined by Mike Masnick in 2005.
Strela (crane)
Strela, Russian for "arrow," is a class of four Russian-built, manually operated cargo cranes used during spacewalks on the Mir station and the International Space Station.
Strela (rocket)
Strela, Russian for "Arrow," is a Russian space launch vehicle made by converting the UR-100NUTTKh ICBM, developed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya and flown three times from Baikonur silos.
Streletsky Prikaz
The Streletsky Prikaz (Стрелецкий приказ) was the central Muscovite chancellery administering the streltsy musketeer corps in service, pay, and court, first mentioned in 1571 and transformed into the Prikaz of Zemstvo Affairs in 1701.
Strelitzia
Strelitzia, bird-of-paradise or crane flower genus, five southern African species in Strelitziaceae; named for Queen Charlotte, bird-pollinated via feet, S. reginae most cultivated.
Strelitzia reginae
Strelitzia reginae, known as the bird-of-paradise flower or crane flower, is a South African perennial herb grown worldwide for its orange and blue flowers that resemble a bird's head.
Streltsy
The Streltsy (Стрельцы) were the permanent musketeer force of Russia, created by Tsar Ivan IV in Moscow in 1550 and disbanded by Peter I after the 1698 uprising.
Streltsy revolt of 1698 and abolition of the streltsy
The Streltsy revolt of 1698 (Расформирование стрелецкого войска) was an uprising of Moscow streltsy regiments, defeated on 18 June 1698 while Peter I was abroad.
Streltsy Uprising of 1698
The Streltsy Uprising of 1698 (Стрелецкий бунт) was a mutiny of four Moscow streltsy regiments that marched on Moscow while Peter I was abroad and was defeated on 18 June 1698.
Strength athletics
Strength athletics: competitive strength sports, chiefly Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting (squat, bench, deadlift), and strongman/World's Strongest Man; history from odd lifts, 1977 WSM, Wilks scoring.
Strength of materials
Strength of materials, also called mechanics of materials, is the branch of engineering mechanics that describes how solid objects deform and fail under applied forces such as tension, compression, and shear.
Strength reduction
Strength reduction is a compiler optimization that replaces expensive arithmetic operations, such as multiplication and division, with cheaper equivalents like addition, subtraction, and bit shifting.
Strength Through Joy
Strength Through Joy, or Kraft durch Freude, was the leisure and tourism organization of Nazi Germany. Founded in 1933 under the German Labor Front, it sold subsidized trips and cruises to workers.
Strength training
Strength training, also called resistance or weight training, is exercise against resistance to build muscle strength, size, and power. Key facts: neural plus morphological adaptations, higher loads favor 1RM strength, free weights and machines perform similarly, CDC advises 2+ weekly sessions.
Strengthening mechanisms of materials
Strengthening mechanisms of materials, also called strengthening mechanisms, are methods such as grain refinement and work hardening that impede dislocation motion to make metals stronger.
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a free 25-item behavioral screening questionnaire for children and adolescents, introduced by Robert Goodman in 1997 and translated into more than 80 languages.
Strenia Fluctus
Strenia Fluctus is a 490-km-wide lava flow field (fluctus) on Venus at 41°N, 250°E in Kawelu Planitia near Sekmet Mons, IAU-named in 1997 for the Roman goddess of New Year festivities, with pahoehoe-like flows from small shields near Mist Chasma.
Strepsiceros
Strepsiceros, a genus of African spiral-horned antelopes (kudus) in Bovidae; also the Cape kudu species S. strepsiceros. Valid genus per ITIS and Catalogue of Life, subgenus of Tragelaphus per the Mammal Diversity Database.
Strepsils
Strepsils is Reckitt's throat lozenge brand, launched 1958, whose original formula pairs amylmetacresol 0.6 mg with 2,4-dichlorobenzyl alcohol 1.2 mg for sore throat relief; variants add lidocaine, flurbiprofen, or ambroxol.
Strepsiptera
Strepsiptera (twisted-wing parasites), order of ~630 species of obligate insect endoparasites with extreme sexual dimorphism; phylogenetic position long disputed, now resolved as sister to Coleoptera.
Strepsirrhini
Strepsirrhini, the wet-nosed primates, is a primate suborder of lemurs, lorises, galagos, and pottos, defined by a rhinarium, toothcomb, and grooming claw, split from Haplorhini roughly 63-74 Ma.
Streptavidin
Streptavidin is a tetrameric protein secreted by the bacterium Streptomyces avidinii that binds biotin with extraordinary affinity, making it one of biotechnology's most widely used reagents in immunoassays, biosensors, and affinity purification.
Streptobacillus
Streptobacillus is a genus of fastidious Gram-negative rods in Leptotrichiaceae (Fusobacteriota) whose type species, Streptobacillus moniliformis, causes rat-bite fever and Haverhill fever; six species are recognized, carried mainly in rodent nasopharynx.