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Spies Like Us
Spies Like Us is a 1985 John Landis Cold War comedy starring Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd as fake CIA decoys in Soviet Central Asia; Warner Bros. release grossed $60 million domestically with poor reviews.
Spiez
Spiez is a municipality on Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland, canton of Bern, Switzerland, with five Baeuerten, about 13,400 residents, Spiez Castle, and Bern's second-largest vineyards.
Spigelian hernia
Spigelian hernia (lateral ventral hernia): protrusion through the spigelian fascia along the semilunar line. Rare (0.12-2% of abdominal wall hernias), high incarceration risk, repaired surgically with mesh.
Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Spike is a fictional vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, portrayed by James Marsters. Also known as William the Bloody, he developed from an antagonist intended for a short role into a.
Spike (missile)
Spike, also known as Euro-Spike or Tamuz, is an Israeli family of electro-optically guided anti-tank missiles developed by Rafael after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, used by more than 40 countries.
Spike (My Little Pony)
Spike is the baby dragon assistant of Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2010–2019), voiced by Cathy Weseluck, present in every generation since G1, and absent from the announced 2027 Forever Friendship leads.
Spike Chunsoft
Spike Chunsoft (株式会社スパイク・チュンソフト), Japanese developer-publisher formed April 2012 from the Spike and Chunsoft merger; KADOKAWA/DWANGO group company in Tokyo known for Danganronpa, Mystery Dungeon, and Zero Escape.
Spike Cohen
Spike Cohen (Jeremy Cohen, born 1982, Baltimore) is an American libertarian activist and podcaster, the Libertarian Party's 2020 vice-presidential nominee with Jo Jorgensen, and founder of the nonprofit You Are the Power.
Spike Dudley
Spike Dudley (Matthew Jonathan Hyson, b. 1970), also Little Spike Dudley and Brother Runt, retired American wrestler of ECW, WWE, and TNA, known as a 140-pound giant killer who took extreme bumps, later a MassMutual financial planner.
Spike Fearn
Spike Fearn (born 2000, Coalville, Leicestershire) is a British actor known for Alien: Romulus (Bjorn), The Batman, Aftersun, Tell Me Everything, and his first lead in Finding Emily (2026); Screen International 2024 Star of Tomorrow.
Spike Firefly
The Spike Firefly is a man-portable miniature loitering munition developed by Rafael and Israel's Ministry of Defense for urban combat; the IDF ordered it in 2020 as the Maoz.
Spike Island (film)
Spike Island (2012) is a British coming-of-age comedy-drama directed by Mat Whitecross, written by Chris Coghill, about five Manchester teens in band Shadowcaster trying to reach the Stone Roses' 1990 Spike Island gig.
Spike Jones
Spike Jones (Lindley Armstrong Jones, 1911–1965) was an American bandleader and drummer whose comedy band, Spike Jones and His City Slickers, scored 1940s hits such as “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” “Cocktails for Two,” and a parodic Nutcracker Suite.
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze, the professional name of Adam Spiegel, is an American director of music videos and films including Being John Malkovich and Her, which won him an Academy Award.
Spike Lee
Spike Lee (Shelton Jackson Lee), American filmmaker and NYU tenured professor behind She's Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, BlacKkKlansman, and Highest 2 Lowest, via 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks.
Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan (Terence Alan Milligan, 1918–2002) was a comedian, writer and poet, born in British India, who co-created the BBC radio comedy The Goon Show.
Spike of Bensonhurst
Spike of Bensonhurst (1988) is Paul Morrissey's last narrative feature, a Brooklyn mob comedy starring Sasha Mitchell as boxer Spike Fumo and Ernest Borgnine as don Baldo Cacetti; released by FilmDallas, it grossed $623,112 and was restored on 4K UHD by Fun City Editions.
Spike sorting
Spike sorting is the computational process of extracting single neurons' firing times from extracellular electrical recordings by grouping spikes into waveform clusters, with each cluster taken as a putative neuron.
Spike Spiegel (スパイク・スピーゲル)
Spike Spiegel (スパイク・スピーゲル) is the fictional bounty-hunter protagonist of Sunrise's 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop: 27 years old, born on Mars, ex-Red Dragon Syndicate hitman, Jeet Kune Do practitioner, voiced by Kōichi Yamadera and played by John Cho in Netflix's 2021 live-action series.
Spike Video Game Awards
Spike Video Game Awards (VGAs, final year VGX), annual Spike TV game award show 2003-2013 produced by Geoff Keighley; first GOTY Madden NFL 2004, last Grand Theft Auto V; succeeded by The Game Awards in 2014.
Spike Willcocks
James (Spike) Willcocks is a British life-science executive who co-founded Oxford Nanopore Technologies in 2005 and was its Chief Strategy Officer until leaving in 2025.
Spike-timing-dependent plasticity
Spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), a Hebbian synaptic learning rule: pre-before-post spiking within roughly 10–100 ms windows drives LTP, reverse order drives LTD; found at over 20 synapse types from insects to humans.
Spikenard
Spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi, jatamansi, Sumbul-ut-Tib) is a critically endangered Himalayan aromatic herb, CITES Appendix II listed, used in Ayurveda and Unani medicine, with Nepal supplying most global rhizome trade.
Spiking neural network
A spiking neural network (SNN) is a neural network in which neurons communicate by discrete all-or-nothing pulses called spikes, often called a third generation of neural networks.
Spillover (economics)
A spillover in economics, or externality, is a cost or benefit of one agent's activity that falls on others and is not reflected in market prices.
Spillover in flexible structure control
Spillover in flexible structure control is when a controller designed for a few vibration modes of a flexible structure excites neglected higher modes, possibly causing instability.
Spillover of the Myanmar civil war (2021–present)
The spillover of the Myanmar civil war is the spread of the conflict's effects across Myanmar's borders since the 2021 military coup, chiefly refugees into Bangladesh.
Spillover of the Soviet–Afghan War in Pakistan
Spillover of the Soviet–Afghan War in Pakistan: 1979–1992 refugee influx (up to 4.5 million Afghans fled, 336 refugee villages), ISI arms channeling, Kalashnikov culture, narcotics economy, and costs to Pakistan.
Spillover of the Syrian civil war
Spillover of the Syrian civil war: the spread of Syria's 2011 conflict beyond its borders through refugee flows, economic losses, and militancy affecting Lebanon, Jordan, Türkiye, Iraq, and Europe, shifting to returns and border disputes after Assad's December 2024 fall.
Spillway
A spillway, or overflow channel, is a structure at or beside a dam that releases excess reservoir water so the dam is never overtopped and eroded.