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Stupa of the Fifth Dalai Lama
The stupa of the Fifth Dalai Lama is the gilded reliquary stupa in Lhasa's Potala Palace holding the remains of Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso, who died in 1682.
Stupid Girls
"Stupid Girls" is Pink's 2006 lead single from I'm Not Dead, a satirical critique of young-Hollywood celebrity culture. Its video parodies Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, sparked feminist controversy, and drew an eating-disorder professionals' endorsement.
Stupid Love (Lady Gaga song)
Stupid Love is a 2020 dance-pop song by Lady Gaga, released February 28, 2020 as the lead single from Chromatica; produced by BloodPop, Burns, and Tchami with Max Martin, it leaked in January 2020 and peaked at number 5 in the UK.
Stupid Song
"Stupid Song" is a 2026 song by Olivia Rodrigo, written with Daniel Nigro and released on Geffen Records, which peaked at number 2 in the UK.
Stupidity
Stupidity is a behavioral label for unreasonable, counterproductive acts, distinct from ignorance, irrationality, and low IQ. The article covers its conceptual history, cognitive-bias research, bounded rationality, and organizational stupidity.
Štúr generation
The Štúr generation (Slovak: Štúrovci) was a group of Slovak Romantic writers of the 1830s and 1840s, led by Ľudovít Štúr, who codified the modern Slovak literary language.
Stura Vallis
Stura Vallis is a 75 km valley on Mars at 22.71°N, 142.47°E, approved by the IAU in 1985 and named after a classical river east of Rome, Italy.
Sture Bergwall
Sture Bergwall, alias Thomas Quick, the Swede who confessed to over thirty murders, was convicted of eight (1994–2001), recanted in 2008, and was acquitted of all eight in 2013; the Bergwall Commission found systemic flaws.
Sture oil terminal
The Sture oil terminal (Stureterminalen) is an Equinor-operated petroleum terminal in Øygarden, Norway, northwest of Bergen, which opened in 1988 and exports Oseberg Blend and Grane Blend crude oil.
Sture Sivertsen
Sture Sivertsen (born 1966, Levanger), Norwegian cross-country skier from Verdal, club Leirådal IL. Classical specialist; 1993 Falun 10 km world champion, four world relay golds, 1998 Nagano Olympic relay gold, 1994 Lillehammer 50 km bronze and relay silver; later a farmer.
Sture Stork
Sture Stork (1930–2002), Swedish Olympic sailor, KSSS Stockholm. Won 5.5 Metre class gold at Melbourne 1956 on Rush V and silver at Tokyo 1964 on Rush VII, crewing for helmsman Lars Thörn; engineer at Atlas Copco.
Sturer Emil
Sturer Emil was the nickname of the 12.8 cm Selbstfahrlafette L/61, a German experimental heavy tank destroyer of World War II of which two prototypes fought on the Eastern Front.
Sturge–Weber syndrome
Sturge–Weber syndrome, also called encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis, is a rare congenital neurocutaneous disorder featuring a facial port-wine birthmark, leptomeningeal angioma, and glaucoma, caused by a GNAQ mutation.
Sturgeon
Sturgeon (Acipenseridae, order Acipenseriformes) are ancient bony-plated fish prized for caviar. All 26 remaining species are threatened per IUCN 2022; CITES-listed since 1997; farmed caviar now dominates.
Sturgeon Refinery
The Sturgeon Refinery is a bitumen refinery in Sturgeon County, Alberta, northeast of Edmonton, the first built in Canada since the 1980s, producing diesel from 2017.
Sturgeon-class submarine
The Sturgeon class was a class of 37 United States Navy nuclear-powered attack submarines, built between 1963 and 1975 as a quieter refinement of the Thresher/Permit class for Cold War anti-submarine warfare.
Sturgeon's law
Sturgeon's law, also called Sturgeon's Revelation, is Theodore Sturgeon's 1950s aphorism that ninety percent of everything is crud, coined in defense of science fiction; his original 'Law' was 'Nothing is always absolutely so'.
Sturges's rule
Sturges's rule is a formula, k = 1 + log2(n), for choosing the number of histogram bins from sample size alone, published by Herbert Sturges in 1926.
Sturgill Simpson
Sturgill Simpson, also known as Johnny Blue Skies, is an American country singer-songwriter born 1978 in Jackson, Kentucky, known for Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, the Grammy-winning A Sailor's Guide to Earth, and his 2024 pseudonymous reinvention.
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, first held in 1938 as the Black Hills Classic, is an annual ten-day motorcycle gathering in Sturgis, South Dakota, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors.
Sturgis, South Dakota
Sturgis, South Dakota: Meade County seat city of about 7,000 at the northern Black Hills, named for General Samuel D. Sturgis, host since 1938 of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, the world's largest motorcycle rally.
Sturia
Sturia is an extinct genus of Triassic ammonoid cephalopods in the family Sturiidae, established by Mojsisovics in 1882; not to be confused with the European sturgeon Acipenser sturio. Characterized by involute, smooth shells with sharp spiral lines and ammonitic septa.
Sturla Holm Lægreid
Sturla Holm Lægreid (born 1997, Bærum) is a Norwegian biathlete, 2024/25 overall World Cup champion, Beijing 2022 relay gold medalist, and winner of 19 World Cup races with 14 World Championship medals.
Sturlunga saga
Sturlunga saga is a compilation of contemporary sagas about twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland, assembled around 1300 and named for the powerful Sturlung family, covering 1117 to 1264.
Sturm und Drang
Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress), German literary movement c. 1767–1785 named after Klinger's 1776 play; genius cult, Shakespeare worship, prose drama; Goethe, Herder, Schiller, Lenz; reaction to Enlightenment rationalism, precursor to Weimar Classicism and Romanticism.
Sturm–Liouville theory
Sturm–Liouville theory is the branch of analysis studying second-order linear differential eigenvalue problems with boundary conditions; created by Sturm and Liouville in 1836–1837, it underlies Fourier series and eigenfunction expansions in mathematical physics.
Sturm, Ruger & Co.
Sturm, Ruger & Co. is an American firearms manufacturer founded in 1949 by William B. Ruger and Alexander Sturm in Southport, Connecticut, making rifles, pistols, revolvers, and shotguns.
Sturmabteilung
Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing, also called Storm Troopers or Brownshirts. Founded 1921, peaked at about 4 million members by April 1934, purged in the Night of the Long Knives, reduced to pre-military training, disbanded 1945.
Sturmey-Archer
Sturmey-Archer is a bicycle component manufacturer founded in Nottingham, England, in 1902, best known for the internal gear hub sold to over 80 million cyclists.
Sturmgeschütz III
The Sturmgeschütz III, also known as the StuG III, was a German assault gun of the Second World War built on the Panzer III chassis with a fixed casemate gun.