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Stříbrná Skalice
Stříbrná Skalice (Silver Skalitz) is a Central Bohemian municipality in Praha-východ District with 1,607 residents (2025), four cadastral parts, medieval silver mining first recorded in 1536, and the castle hill behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance's Skalitz.
Strichartz estimates
Strichartz estimates are space-time integral inequalities for dispersive partial differential equations, such as the Schrödinger and wave equations, introduced by Robert Strichartz in 1977 and now a fundamental tool for nonlinear dispersive equations.
Strict constructionism
Strict constructionism: American constitutional doctrine that the Constitution must be read narrowly in accordance with its letter, denying implied federal powers; historically associated with Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans, opposed to broad construction, and distinct from originalism and textualism.
Strict liability
Strict liability is liability regardless of intent or mental state, also called liability without fault. In tort it covers abnormally dangerous activities, certain animals, and defective products (Rylands v Fletcher line); in criminal law it applies mainly to minor offenses such as statutory rape and possession crimes.
Strict liability (criminal)
Strict liability in criminal law: conviction without proof of mens rea, used mainly for regulatory and public welfare offenses such as possession and statutory rape; exemplified by R v Woodrow (1846) and moderated by due diligence defences in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Strict scrutiny
Strict scrutiny is the highest U.S. standard of judicial review, applied to fundamental rights and suspect classifications like race. Government must prove a compelling interest pursued by narrowly tailored, least restrictive means.
Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...
Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... is 2Pac's second studio album, released February 16, 1993 on Interscope; his breakout, with singles 'I Get Around' and 'Keep Ya Head Up', No. 24 Billboard 200, RIAA platinum 1995.
Strictly 4 the Scythe
Strictly 4 the Scythe is the March 6, 2026 debut mixtape by The Scythe, Denzel Curry's supergroup with A$AP Ferg, TiaCorine, Bktherula, and Key Nyata; eight Southern rap tracks on Loma Vista, Metascore 71.
Strictly Ballroom
Strictly Ballroom (1992) is Baz Luhrmann's debut Australian romantic comedy, first of the Red Curtain trilogy, about dancer Scott Hastings and Fran defying the Dance Federation; it won 8 AFI Awards and the Cannes Award of the Youth.
Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing is a BBC One celebrity ballroom competition launched 15 May 2004 as a revival of Come Dancing, combining judges' scores and public votes, sold to over 75 countries as the Dancing with the Stars format.
Strictly Come Dancing series 12
Strictly Come Dancing series 12 (2014): twelfth BBC One celebrity ballroom series, launch 7 September, final 20 December 2014. Won by Caroline Flack and Pasha Kovalev with perfect 40s in all three final dances, the first full-marks final.
Strictly Come Dancing series 22
Strictly Come Dancing series 22 (2024), BBC One's 22nd celebrity ballroom series, won by blind comedian Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell on 14 December 2024, against finalists JB Gill, Sarah Hadland, and Tasha Ghouri, amid welfare reforms.
Strictly Come Dancing series 23
Strictly Come Dancing series 23 (2025), the BBC One ballroom competition's 23rd series, ran 20 September to 20 December 2025 with 15 couples, judges Ballas, Mabuse, Revel Horwood and Du Beke, and hosts Daly and Winkleman's final series; Karen Carney and Carlos Gu won.
Strictly Come Dancing series 24
Strictly Come Dancing series 24 (2026) is the BBC dance competition's 24th series, its first with a three-host team of Emma Willis, Josh Widdicombe and Johannes Radebe, 15 couples, and 25 episodes from 19 September 2026.
Strictly Confidential (2024 film)
Strictly Confidential is a 2024 erotic mystery thriller directed and written by Damian Hurley, his feature debut, starring Elizabeth Hurley, Georgia Lock, Lauren McQueen, Freddie Thorp, and Genevieve Gaunt; shot in St. Kitts, released April 5, 2024 by Lionsgate, and poorly received (17% Tomatometer).
Strictness analysis
Strictness analysis is a static program analysis that determines at compile time which arguments of a function in a lazy language are always evaluated, enabling safe eager evaluation and big performance gains.
Stricture of artery
Stricture of artery (arterial stenosis), ICD-11 BD52.2: narrowing of an arterial lumen, usually from atherosclerosis; severity thresholds, imaging (duplex, CTA, MRA), and revascularization versus medical therapy by vascular bed.
Stricturotomy
Stricturotomy, or endoscopic stricturotomy, is an endoscopic technique that incises fibrotic gastrointestinal strictures with an electrosurgical knife to widen the lumen, used mainly for refractory Crohn's disease and benign anastomotic strictures.
Strida
Strida is a belt-driven folding bicycle with a distinctive triangular A-shaped frame, designed by British engineer Mark Sanders in 1985 and launched in 1987 for commuters with limited storage space.
Stride (music)
Stride (Harlem stride piano) is a jazz piano style from 1910s-1930s New York, growing out of ragtime. Its left hand strides between bass notes or tenths and chords; James P. Johnson was its father.
Strider Hiryu (ストライダー飛竜)
Strider Hiryu (ストライダー飛竜, "Flying Dragon") is Capcom's ninja assassin protagonist of the Strider series, created with Moto Kikaku in 1989, wielder of the plasma Cypher sword, and a Marvel vs. Capcom series regular.
Striding Lion
Striding Lion is a molded glazed-brick relief of a striding lion that lined Babylon's Processional Way, made under Nebuchadnezzar II in the 6th century BC.
Stridor
Stridor: high-pitched noisy breathing from turbulent airflow through a partially obstructed upper airway (pharynx, larynx, trachea). Timing localizes the lesion; stridor at rest is an emergency; croup and laryngomalacia dominate in children.
Stridsvagn 103
Stridsvagn 103, or S-Tank, was a Swedish Cold War main battle tank built by Bofors, turretless with a fixed hull-mounted 105 mm gun aimed by turning the vehicle.
Stridsvagn 122
Stridsvagn 122 (Strv 122) is Sweden's version of the German Leopard 2A5 (Leopard 2S), a 62.5-tonne main battle tank with 1,500 hp MTU diesel, 120 mm L/44 gun, heavy add-on armour, in Swedish service since 1997.
Strife of Princes
The Strife of Princes (제1차 왕자의 난) was a 1398 Joseon coup in which Yi Bang-won killed Jeong Do-jeon and cleared his path to the throne.
Striga
Striga (witchweed) is a genus of root-parasitic Orobanchaceae weeds attacking maize, sorghum, rice, and millet in sub-Saharan Africa; obligate germination via strigolactones, haustorium-mediated nutrient theft, and yield losses near US$1 billion annually distinguish it.
Striga hermonthica
Striga hermonthica (purple witchweed), Orobanchaceae hemiparasitic annual weed native to Africa, parasitizes maize, sorghum, and millets via strigolactone-triggered germination and haustoria, causing 30–80% cereal yield losses across sub-Saharan Africa.
Strigidae
Strigidae, the typical or true owls, is the larger of the two owl families (with Tytonidae), with roughly 190-234 species in 23-28 genera, circular facial disks, worldwide range except Antarctica, mostly tropical forest-dwelling non-migratory hunters.
Strigil (στλεγγίς)
A strigil (Greek: στλεγγίς) is a curved bronze scraper ancient Greeks and Romans used to scrape oil, sweat, and dirt from the skin after bathing or exercise.