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Spencer Smith (musician)
Spencer Smith (born 1987) is an American drummer who co-founded Panic! at the Disco, played on its first four albums (2004–2015), later became a DCD2 talent agent, and rejoined Brendon Urie at When We Were Young 2025.
Spencer Smith (neuroscientist)
Spencer L. Smith is an American neuroscientist and neuroengineer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose laboratory builds two-photon microscopes recording many neurons across multiple brain areas.
Spencer Stone
Spencer Stone, former US Air Force Staff Sergeant, subdued Thalys train gunman Ayoub El Khazzani on August 21, 2015 with friends Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler; received Legion of Honour, Airman's Medal.
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy (1900–1967), American actor of classic Hollywood; 74 films 1930–1967, two consecutive Best Actor Oscars for Captains Courageous and Boys Town, nine nominations, nine films with Katharine Hepburn, AFI's ninth-greatest male screen legend.
Spencer Turrin
Spencer Turrin OAM (Spencer Alf Turrin, born 1991) is an Australian rower, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist in the men's coxless four, two-time world champion (2017, 2018), three-time Olympian, and now Rowing Australia's Beach Sprint Coach.
Spencer W. Kimball
Spencer W. Kimball was the twelfth president of the LDS Church from 1973 to 1985, known for the 1978 revelation extending the priesthood to all races.
Spencer's Case
Spencer's Case (1583), King's Bench, 5 Co. Rep. 16a, is the landmark English decision on covenants running with leasehold land: touch and concern, intent, and privity of estate bind assignees.
Spencer's method
Spencer's method, published by E. Spencer in Géotechnique in 1967, is a limit equilibrium method of slices for computing a slope's factor of safety against failure.
Spencerian script
Spencerian script, or Spencerian Method, is an American cursive penmanship style. Developed by Platt Rogers Spencer, it was widely taught in U.S. schools starting in the late 1850s.
Spendesk
Spendesk is a Paris-based fintech company founded in 2016 inside the startup studio eFounders, offering corporate cards, invoice payment, and expense management for medium-sized European businesses.
Spendius
Spendius (Greek: Spendios) was a Campanian runaway slave who, with the Libyan Mathos, led the mercenary revolt against Carthage after the First Punic War and was crucified by Hamilcar Barca.
Spendthrift
A spendthrift is a person who spends freely and often beyond their means; in US trust law, a spendthrift provision shields a beneficiary's interest from creditors.
Spendthrift trust
Spendthrift trust: a US trust restraining a beneficiary from transferring the beneficial interest and blocking creditors from reaching it before distribution. Exception creditors (child/spousal support, federal tax liens) can still attach; DAPTs exist in about 20 states.
Spenser (character)
Spenser is the unnamed Boston private eye created by Robert B. Parker in The Godwulf Manuscript, star of 40-plus hard-boiled novels, companioned by Susan Silverman and Hawk, and adapted for TV and film.
Spenser Confidential
Spenser Confidential is a 2020 Netflix action-comedy directed by Peter Berg, starring Mark Wahlberg as ex-cop Spenser with Winston Duke and Alan Arkin, based on Ace Atkins' Robert B. Parker's Wonderland, watched by 85 million households in four weeks.
Spenser: For Hire
Spenser: For Hire is an American crime drama (1985–1988) adapted from Robert B. Parker's novels. It starred Robert Urich as a Boston private detective and Avery Brooks.
Spenserian sonnet
The Spenserian sonnet is a fourteen-line form with interlocked quatrains rhyming ABAB BCBC CDCD EE, named for Edmund Spenser, who used it in his Amoretti.
Spenserian stanza
The Spenserian stanza is a nine-line verse form of eight iambic pentameter lines and an alexandrine, rhyming ababbcbcc, devised by Edmund Spenser for The Faerie Queene.
Spent fuel pool
A spent fuel pool is a water-filled basin at a nuclear power plant where irradiated fuel assemblies removed from the reactor are stored underwater for cooling, shielding, and contamination control.
Spent mushroom compost
Spent mushroom compost (SMC, spent mushroom substrate) is the composted leftover substrate from mushroom farming, used as soil amendment, organic fertilizer, peat substitute, and disease suppressant; high in salts and organic matter.
Spent nuclear fuel
Spent nuclear fuel is the intensely radioactive fuel removed from a nuclear reactor after it can no longer sustain a chain reaction, stored in pools and dry casks.
Speos Artemidos
Speos Artemidos, also called the Speos of Pakhet, is a rock-cut temple for the lioness goddess Pakhet near Beni Hasan, begun by Queen Hatshepsut around 1473 BC.
Spercheiai
Spercheiai (Σπέρχεια, also Sperchiae) was a Classical-Hellenistic fortified settlement of the Spercheios valley in ancient Thessaly, ravaged by the Aitolians in 198 BC per Livy, probably at Kastrorachi or Makrakomi in Phthiotis, Greece.
Spergula
Spergula (spurry) is a Caryophyllaceae genus of annual herbs, published by Linnaeus in 1753, native to temperate Eurasia and southern South America; S. arvensis, corn spurrey, is a cereal weed producing 5,000-10,000 seeds per plant.
Spergula arvensis
Spergula arvensis (corn spurrey, corn spurry, sandweed) is an annual Caryophyllaceae weed of sandy acid arable land, native from Europe to NW. India and tropical Africa, with tiny whorled linear leaves, white flowers, a persistent seed bank, and ALS-herbicide-resistant biotypes in Norway.
Spergularia
Spergularia, sand-spurreys or sea-spurreys, a conserved genus of about 60-67 herbs in Caryophyllaceae, type S. rubra, diverse in the Mediterranean and temperate South America, mostly in saline coastal habitats.
Sperm
Sperm (spermatozoon) is the male gamete: a small, motile haploid cell with head, midpiece, and flagellum, discovered in 1677, requiring capacitation before fertilization and shaped evolutionarily by sperm competition.
Sperm bank
Sperm bank (semen bank): facility freezing and storing human sperm in liquid nitrogen for donor insemination or fertility preservation. First frozen-sperm births 1953 by Bunge and Sherman in Iowa; first banks 1964; FDA screening and family limits govern donors.
Sperm banking
Sperm banking is a reproductive medicine service that collects, freezes, and stores sperm in liquid nitrogen, mainly to preserve fertility before cancer treatment and for donor conception.
Sperm competition
Sperm competition, also called post-copulatory sexual selection, is competition between sperm of different males to fertilize a female's eggs; founded by Geoff Parker's 1970 insect review, it drives larger testes, longer sperm, strategic ejaculation, and cryptic female choice.