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St-Jean-du-Gard
St-Jean-du-Gard, Gard, Occitanie: Cévennes commune on the Gardon at the confluence of the Borgne and Française valleys; Benedictine priory town, first mentioned 1119 as Saint-Jean-de-Gardonnenque; Barrington Atlas ancient mine site.
St-Julien
St-Julien (Saint-Julien) is a widespread French place name from dedications to Saint Julian, covering communes such as Saint-Julien-en-Genevois and Saint-Julien-le-Montagnier, the Iron Age necropolis at Pézenas, a Saskatchewan locality, and the Ypres battlefield village.
St-Julien-les-Martigues
Saint-Julien-les-Martigues, a hamlet of Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône), France, holds a Gallo-Roman villa occupied from about 25-30 AD into the 6th century and a Roman funerary bas-relief set in its chapel's north wall.
St-Just-en-Chaussée
St-Just-en-Chaussée is a commune in the Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France, on the Plateau picard. Known for its Gallic and Gallo-Roman sanctuary at Le Rossignol and its 1846 station on the Paris–Lille railway; distinct from other Saint-Just communes.
St-Léger-du-Bois
St-Léger-du-Bois, a commune in Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France (INSEE 71438), a Drée-valley coal and oil-shale mining village near Autun, home to the puits des Fourneaux masonry headframe, closed 1950.
St-Martin-Bréthencourt
Saint-Martin-de-Bréthencourt (St-Martin-Bréthencourt), Yvelines commune, Île-de-France, INSEE 78564; 690 inhabitants, Orge river source, Romanesque priory church, 11th-century castle ruins.
St-Maurice-d’Ibie
Saint-Maurice-d’Ibie is a commune in southern Ardèche, France, in the Ibie valley, first recorded in 1106 as a priory ceded to Conques abbey; its 11th–12th century Romanesque church is a listed monument and the village center a classified Site Patrimonial Remarquable (2022).
St-Michel
St-Michel (Saint-Michel) is a Gallo-Roman villa at La Garde, Var, France, east of Toulon, excavated 1969-1985 by Jean-Pierre Brun; its six-press oil mill, called the largest in Gaul, was later reassessed as also producing wine.
St-Pons
St-Pons is an ancient marble quarry recorded by Pleiades at Saint-Pons-de-Thomières in the Hérault department of southern France, where marble has been quarried since Roman times.
St-Restitut
Saint-Restitut, Drôme commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; hilltop village of white stone near Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, known for its Miocene limestone quarries, 11th-century funerary tower, and 1840-classified Romanesque church.
St-Romain-de-Jalionas
Saint-Romain-de-Jalionas, Isère commune near Lyon, home of the Vernai archaeological site: a Gallo-Roman villa from about 40 BC with baths, hydraulic mill, and 2.5-hectare palace, plus a medieval castle.
St-Romain-de-Lerps
Saint-Romain-de-Lerps, a commune in the Ardèche (07130), France, on the plateau de Vernoux above the Rhône; Le Pic belvédère (649 m), château de Durtail ruins, Gallo-Roman Trou-de-l'Argentière mine.
St-Sylvestre
St-Sylvestre (Pleiades 167906) is the gazetteer entry for the Pont Romain, an arched stone bridge over the Duzon at Saint-Sylvestre, Ardeche, France; Roman or medieval in date, 13 m arch, Barrington Atlas 17 D4.
St-Yrieix-la-Perche
Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne commune in Limousin, France, heart of a historic gold district (Gallic aurières, 1982-2001 modern mines, 28.4 t gold) and of kaolin quarries feeding Limoges porcelain.
St. Alban nuclear power plant
The St. Alban nuclear power plant (French: centrale nucléaire de Saint-Alban) is an EDF nuclear power station in Isère, France, 40 km south of Lyon, with two pressurized water reactors.
St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)
St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.) is a private Episcopal all-boys day and boarding school for grades 4-12 on Mount St. Alban at Washington National Cathedral, founded 1909 by Harriet Lane Johnston's bequest.
St. Andrew's School (Delaware)
St. Andrew's School (Delaware) is a coeducational, Episcopal boarding school founded in 1929. It is known for its 2,200-acre campus and commitment to financial aid.
St. Anger
St. Anger is Metallica's eighth studio album, released June 5, 2003 on Vertigo. Recorded amid Jason Newsted's exit and James Hetfield's rehab, with Bob Rock on bass, no guitar solos, a Grammy-winning title track, and famously divisive raw production.
St. Anthony High School (New Jersey)
St. Anthony High School was a Roman Catholic high school in Jersey City, New Jersey, founded in 1952 and known for coach Bob Hurley's basketball dynasty before closing in 2017.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine, Florida, founded by Spain in 1565, is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the United States, known for its Spanish colonial architecture and the Castillo de San Marcos.
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy): killing of Huguenot Protestants begun in Paris on 24 August 1572 during the French Wars of Religion, triggered by an attempt on Admiral Coligny after the royal wedding of Henry of Navarre and Margaret of Valois, with death estimates from 5,000 to 25,000 or higher.
St. Beuno
St. Beuno was a seventh-century Welsh abbot and missionary of royal birth who founded Clynnog Fawr and is regarded as the second saint of Wales after David.
St. Bonaventure University
St. Bonaventure University (SBU) is a private Catholic Franciscan university in St. Bonaventure, New York, founded in 1858 by Nicholas Devereux and Bishop John Timon, named after St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, a university since 1950 with over 3,000 students.
St. Catharines
St. Catharines, nicknamed the Garden City, is the largest city in Ontario's Niagara Region on Lake Ontario, an industrial city built around the Welland Canal and Harriet Tubman's 1850s home base.
St. Catherine University
St. Catherine University (St. Kate's), formerly the College of St. Catherine, is a private Catholic university in St. Paul, Minnesota founded in 1905 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Known for its College for Women, nursing and health programs, and Phi Beta Kappa first among Catholic colleges.
St. Catherine's Hill
St. Catherine's Hill, Winchester: Iron Age univallate hillfort in Hampshire with 9ha interior, 550-450 BC settlement, defences c. 250-200 BC, Norman chapel ruins, and the Mizmaze turf labyrinth; distinct from hills of the same name at Christchurch, the Isle of Wight, and Guildford.
St. Charles, Missouri
St. Charles, Missouri: historic Missouri River city founded 1769 by Louis Blanchette as Les Petites Cotes; Missouri's first state capital 1821-1826, 1804 Lewis and Clark departure point, 2020 population 70,493.
St. Clair Bayfield
St. Clair Bayfield (John St. Clair Roberts, 1875–1967), English-born Broadway character actor, common-law husband and manager of singer Florence Foster Jenkins from 1909 to 1944; namesake of the Actors' Equity Foundation's St. Clair Bayfield Award.
St. Clair Power Plant
The St. Clair Power Plant was a coal-fired power plant in East China Township, Michigan, operated by DTE Electric from 1953 until its retirement in 2022.
St. Clair's Defeat
St. Clair's Defeat, also called the Battle of the Wabash, was a 1791 victory of a Native confederacy over Arthur St. Clair's army, the worst defeat in US Army history.