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Spain men's national basketball team
Spain men's national basketball team (Selección Española), FEB-governed FIBA side: two World Cup titles (2006, 2019), four EuroBasket titles, 14 medals since 2000; currently 6th in FIBA ranking, coached by Chus Mateo.
Spain national football team
Spain national football team (La Roja), men's team of the Royal Spanish Football Federation. Two-time World Cup winners (2010, 2026) and four-time European champions (1964, 2008, 2012, 2024), coached by Luis de la Fuente.
Spain national under-21 football team
Spain national under-21 football team (Selección sub-21), RFEF men's U21 side in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship; record 9 finals, 5 titles (1986, 1998, 2011, 2013, 2019), coach Santi Denia, 2023 runners-up to England.
Spain women's national football team
Spain women's national football team (La Roja), RFEF side; first unofficial match 1971, official debut 1983; 2023 World Cup champions, two-time Women's Nations League winners, 2025 Euro runners-up, FIFA world number one.
Spain, Take This Cup from Me
Spain, Take This Cup from Me is the final poetry collection by Peruvian poet César Vallejo, fifteen poems on the Spanish Civil War published posthumously in 1939.
Spain's entry into the American Revolutionary War
Spain's entry into the American Revolutionary War was Charles III's 1779 decision, sealed by the Treaty of Aranjuez, to join France against Britain in support of the Thirteen Colonies.
Spalax
Spalax, the greater blind mole rats, is a genus of blind subterranean Spalacidae rodents of eastern Europe and the Middle East, with 13 ITIS-listed species, chromosomal speciation clines, and hypoxia adaptations.
Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray (1941–2004), American actor and monologuist, Wooster Group co-founder, famed for Swimming to Cambodia, filmed by Jonathan Demme in 1987; died by suicide after a 2001 Irish car crash.
Spall
A spall is a fragment broken from the surface of a material such as stone, metal, or concrete, and spalling is the process that breaks it away.
Spallanzani (Martian crater)
Spallanzani is a 72.5-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 58°S, 86.3°E, noted for a layered, light-toned sedimentary mound on its floor, imaged by MGS MOC and HiRISE.
Spallation
Spallation is a nuclear reaction in which a high-energy proton knocks many nucleons from a heavy nucleus, powering neutron sources and forming light elements via cosmic rays.
Spallation Neutron Source
The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is a Department of Energy user facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, producing the world's most intense pulsed neutron beams for materials research since 2006.
Spalling
Spalling is the breaking off of layers or fragments from a material's surface, occurring in fire-exposed concrete, corroded reinforced concrete, freeze–thaw pavements, rock, and bearing rails.
Spalone
Spalone is a 2012 solitaire puzzle by Cameron Browne for the Shibumi set, the solitaire version of Spanic: draw white, black, or red balls at random and stack them into a 30-ball pyramid.
Spam (food)
Spam (SPAM brand) is Hormel Foods' canned pork luncheon meat, introduced July 5, 1937 in Austin, Minnesota; six ingredients, over 9 billion cans sold, spread worldwide by WWII military rations and staples like Hawaiian Spam musubi.
Spam (Monty Python sketch)
Spam (Monty Python sketch) is a 1970 sketch by Terry Jones and Michael Palin. It is the source of the English word "spam" for unsolicited bulk messages.
Spam musubi
Spam musubi, also called SPAM musubi (スパムむすび), is a Hawaiian snack of grilled Spam on a pressed block of plain rice wrapped in nori, adapted from Japanese onigiri and popularized in Hawaii in the 1980s.
Spamalot
Spamalot is a Tony-winning 2005 Broadway musical comedy by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, adapted from Monty Python and the Holy Grail; it ran 1,575 performances, won Best Musical, and was revived on Broadway in 2023.
Spamming
Spamming, also called electronic spamming, is the practice of sending unsolicited bulk email to many recipients without their permission, usually through spambots running on botnets.
Span (unit)
The span, or hand span, is a historical unit of length equal to the distance between the outstretched thumb and little finger, about 9 inches.
Span of control
Span of control is the number of employees reporting directly to a single manager, perhaps the most discussed concept in management theory, with average spans rising since 2013.
Span.IO, Inc.
Span.IO, Inc. is a San Francisco technology company founded in 2018 by former Tesla Energy executive Arch Rao that makes smart electrical panels and electric vehicle chargers for homes.
Spanair
Spanair was a Spanish airline founded by SAS in 1986, based in Barcelona; once Spain's second largest airline, it ceased operations in January 2012 after bankruptcy.
Spanair Flight 5022
Spanair Flight 5022 was a scheduled domestic flight from Madrid to Gran Canaria that crashed on takeoff at Madrid-Barajas on 20 August 2008, killing 154 of the 172 people aboard.
Spandan Chaturvedi
Spandan Chaturvedi (स्पंदन चतुर्वेदी), Indian child actress born 2007 in Ulhasnagar; played young Chakor in Udaan (2014–2016), young Sita in RRR, and young Shakuntala Devi; stepped back from acting at 17.
Spandana Sphoorty
Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited is an India-based rural microfinance lender founded by Padmaja Reddy, incorporated at Hyderabad in 2003, once among India's largest, and listed in 2019.
Spandarmat Mons
Spandarmat Mons is a mountain feature on Venus, centered in the planet's southern hemisphere and measuring about 400 km across; its name honors an Iranian mother goddess.
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet: English pop band formed in Islington in 1976 (earlier names The Makers, The Gentry), leading New Romantic act from London's Blitz club; lineup Hadley, Kemp brothers, Norman, Keeble; 1983 hit "True".
Spandau Prison
Spandau Prison, the Allied war-crimes prison in West Berlin, held the seven Nuremberg convicts from 1947 under four-power administration; Rudolf Hess, its last inmate, died there in 1987 and the prison was demolished.
Spandex
Spandex, also called elastane or Lycra, is a synthetic elastic fiber invented by DuPont chemist Joseph Shivers in 1958 that stretches up to 500% and recovers its shape.