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Spriggan
Spriggan: a malicious guardian fairy of Cornish folklore, from Cornish spyrysyon (spirits), guarding barrows and treasure, swelling to giant size, stealing children, recorded by Hunt (1865) and Bottrell (1870s).
Spriggan (スプリガン) (1998 film)
Spriggan (スプリガン) is a 1998 Japanese anime film by Studio 4°C, directed by Hirotsugu Kawasaki and supervised by Katsuhiro Otomo, adapting the Takashige and Minagawa manga about ARCAM agents defending Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat.
Spriggan (スプリガン) (manga)
Spriggan (スプリガン) is a 1989–1996 Shogakukan Weekly Shonen Sunday SF action manga by Takashige Hiroshi (story) and Minagawa Ryoji (art), 11 volumes, about ARCAM agent Ominae Yu protecting ancient-civilization OOPArts; adapted as a 1998 film and 2022 Netflix anime.
Spring
Spring (hydrology): a land-surface point where groundwater discharges from an aquifer, also called a gravity, artesian, rheocrene, limnocrene, or helocrene spring; classified by hydraulic head, flow permanence, temperature, and geomorphology.
Spring (2014 film)
Spring (2014) is a horror-romance film by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, starring Lou Taylor Pucci and Nadia Hilker, about an American in Italy who falls for a woman with a monstrous secret.
Spring (device)
A spring is an elastic device that stores mechanical energy when deformed by a force and returns it as it recovers its shape, following Hooke's law and appearing in machinery from vehicle suspension to watches.
Spring (season)
Spring is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition from winter to summer when days lengthen and plants resume growth, running from March to May in the Northern Hemisphere.
Spring Airlines
Spring Airlines (春秋航空) is China's first low-cost carrier, a Shanghai-based private airline that began flying in 2005 with an all-Airbus A320 fleet on domestic and Asian routes.
Spring and All
Spring and All is a 1923 book by American poet William Carlos Williams that alternates 27 poems, including "The Red Wheelbarrow," with prose setting out his poetic theories.
Spring and Autumn Annals of Emperor Xian
The Spring and Autumn Annals of Emperor Xian (献帝春秋) is a lost Chinese chronicle of Emperor Xian's reign, surviving only in fragments quoted in later histories.
Spring and Autumn Decisions on Legal Cases
Spring and Autumn Decisions on Legal Cases (春秋决狱) was a lost Han-dynasty work in which Dong Zhongshu decided judicial cases by appeal to the Spring and Autumn Annals.
Spring and Autumn of Master Yan
The Spring and Autumn of Master Yan (Yanzi chunqiu) is a pre-imperial Chinese collection of anecdotes about Yan Ying, chief minister of the state of Qi.
Spring and Autumn period (春秋)
Spring and Autumn period (Chunqiu, 春秋), 770–481 BCE Eastern Zhou era named for the Lu annals; Zhou kings weakened, Qi and Jin hegemons dominated, society and thought transformed before the Warring States.
Spring Awakening (musical)
Spring Awakening is a rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics by Steven Sater, adapted from Frank Wedekind's 1891 German play and winner of eight Tony Awards in 2007.
Spring Awakening (play)
Spring Awakening (Frühlings Erwachen, 'A Children's Tragedy') is Frank Wedekind's 1891 German play about adolescents confronting sexuality against repressive adults; banned and censored, staged 1906 by Max Reinhardt, and adapted into the 2006 Tony-winning rock musical.
Spring Awakenings Music Festival
Spring Awakenings Music Festival, better known as Spring Awakening Music Festival, was an all-electronic dance music festival in Chicago organized by React Presents, held annually from 2012 to 2021.
Spring Boot
Spring Boot is an open-source framework from the Spring team that builds stand-alone, production-grade Spring applications with minimal configuration, using embedded servers, starter dependencies, and auto-configuration.
Spring break
Spring break, also called March break or Easter vacation, is a week-long school and college vacation in spring that draws many young tourists to warm-weather destinations.
Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers is Harmony Korine's 2012 crime film starring James Franco as Alien and Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine as college girls who rob a restaurant, hit Florida spring break, and enter crime; A24's third release, $5M budget, $30M+ gross.
Spring Byington
Spring Byington (Spring Dell Byington, 1886–1971), American character actress: Oscar-nominated as Penny Sycamore in You Can't Take It with You (1938), Marmee in Little Women (1933), and star of CBS's December Bride (1954–59).
Spring Care
Spring Care, doing business as Spring Health, is a New York mental-health company founded in 2016 by April Koh and Adam Chekroud, offering care navigation and clinicians to employers and health plans.
Spring Creek Coal Mine
The Spring Creek Coal Mine is a surface coal mine in Big Horn County, Montana, owned by the Navajo Nation's NTEC since 2019 and the largest coal mine in Montana.
Spring Dawn
Spring Dawn (春晓, Chun Xiao) is a four-line quatrain by Tang dynasty poet Meng Haoran, describing waking on a spring morning to birdsong and fallen blossoms.
Spring Drive
Spring Drive is a watch movement developed by Seiko and first released in 1999, powered by a mechanical mainspring but regulated by a quartz oscillator, giving quartz-level accuracy and a continuously gliding seconds hand.
Spring Framework
Spring Framework, also known as Java Spring, is an open source application framework for Java enterprise applications, created by Rod Johnson and released in 2003.
Spring Gully gas field
Spring Gully is a coal seam gas field in southern central Queensland, Australia, on the Bowen Basin's western edge about 90 kilometers north of Roma, operated by Origin Energy.
Spring Hill College
Spring Hill College is a private Jesuit Catholic liberal arts college in Mobile, Alabama, founded in 1830. It was the first integrated college in the Deep South.
Spring Hill, Florida
Spring Hill, Florida: unincorporated Hernando County census-designated place near Tampa, founded 1967 by the Deltona Corporation and Mackle Brothers; 113,568 residents (2020), Weeki Wachee Springs mermaid show, no city government.
Spring in a Small Town (2004 film)
Spring in a Small Town (小城之春, Springtime in a Small Town) is Tian Zhuangzhuang's 2002 color remake of Fei Mu's 1948 classic, written by Ah Cheng, shot by Mark Lee Ping-bing, premiered at Venice 2002, US release 2004, San Marco Prize winner.
Spring in a Small Town (小城之春) (1948 film)
Spring in a Small Town (小城之春) is Fei Mu's 1948 black-and-white Wenhua drama, written by Li Tianji, about a wife, her sick husband, and her visiting former lover; initially attacked and buried, it was rediscovered in the 1980s and ranked the greatest Chinese film in a 2005 Hong Kong Film Awards poll.