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St. Cloud, Minnesota

St. Cloud, Minnesota: central Minnesota city on the Mississippi River, united from three towns in 1856. Population 68,881 (2020), rising to an estimated 72,647 in 2025; third-largest Minnesota metro area, home of St. Cloud State University and a granite-industry heritage.

St. Cloud, MN Metro Area

The St. Cloud, MN Metro Area is a metropolitan statistical area in central Minnesota comprising Benton and Stearns counties, with St. Cloud as its principal city.

St. Denis Medical

St. Denis Medical is an NBC mockumentary workplace sitcom (premiered November 12, 2024) by Eric Ledgin and Justin Spitzer, set in an underfunded Oregon hospital, starring McLendon-Covey, Grier, Tolman, Lawson, Kim, Leeper, and Kauahi; renewed through season 3.

St. Elizabeth's Medical Center

St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston (Brighton), founded 1868/69 as St. Elizabeth's Hospital for Women; teaching hospital under Steward Health Care, seized by eminent domain in 2024, now Boston Medical Center – Brighton.

St. Elmo's fire

St. Elmo's fire, also called corposant, is a persistent blue or violet glow caused by electrical discharge on sharp conductors such as masts and aircraft during thunderstorms.

St. Elmo's Fire (film)

St. Elmo's Fire is a 1985 Joel Schumacher ensemble drama, also called a Brat Pack film, about seven Georgetown graduates; released June 28, 1985 by Columbia, it grossed $37.8 million on a $10 million budget with a David Foster and John Parr soundtrack.

St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)

St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion) is a 1985 rock song by John Parr, co-written and produced by David Foster for the St. Elmo's Fire soundtrack. Inspired by Rick Hansen's Man in Motion World Tour, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks and reached #6 in the UK.

St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere: American NBC medical drama (1982–1988, 137 episodes) by MTM Enterprises, set at Boston's St. Eligius teaching hospital; 13 Emmys, Peabody Award, famous snow-globe finale, influence on ER.

St. Fiacc

St. Fiacc was a 5th-century Irish poet and bishop of Sletty in County Carlow, traditionally consecrated by St. Patrick as the first bishop in Leinster.

St. Finan

St. Finan (Fínán, died 661) was an Irish monk of Iona who became the second bishop of Lindisfarne, succeeding St Aidan and leading the Northumbrian church for about ten years.

St. Francis Dam

The St. Francis Dam was a concrete dam near Los Angeles that collapsed in 1928, killing more than 450 people in the second deadliest US dam failure.

St. Gallen

St. Gallen (St.Gallen), capital of the Swiss canton of St. Gallen in northeastern Switzerland, eighth-largest Swiss city with 83,843 residents in 2025, built around the UNESCO-listed Abbey of St. Gall and home to the University of St. Gallen (HSG).

St. Galler Kantonalbank

St. Galler Kantonalbank (SGKB; Banque Cantonale de St-Gall SA) is a Swiss universal bank, majority owned by the Canton of St. Gallen, whose liabilities carry a state guarantee.

St. George Dragons

St. George Dragons, Sydney rugby league club (1921-1998), predecessor of the St George Illawarra Dragons; won 15 NSWRL premierships including a record 11 straight from 1956 to 1966.

St. George Illawarra Dragons

St George Illawarra Dragons, NRL rugby league club formed September 23, 1998 as the first joint venture of the St George Dragons (est. 1921, 15 premierships, 11 straight 1956-66) and Illawarra Steelers (est. 1982); 2010 premiers, red and white, Kogarah and Wollongong.

St. George Island (Florida)

St. George Island is a roughly 20-mile barrier island in Franklin County on Florida's Panhandle, fronting Apalachicola Bay, reached by the 1965 Bryant G. Patton Bridge, with Dr. Julian G. Bruce St. George Island State Park on its eastern nine miles.

St. George, Utah

St. George, Utah: county seat of Washington County, founded fall 1861 as the main settlement of the LDS Cotton Mission and named for apostle George A. Smith; nicknamed Utah's Dixie; now a fast-growing metro of about 213,670.

St. George's, Bermuda

St. George's, Bermuda (originally New London), founded 1612, oldest English town in the New World, Bermuda's capital until 1815, and core of the 2000 UNESCO World Heritage site with 21 related fortifications.

St. George's, Grenada

St. George's is the capital, largest town, and main port of Grenada, founded by the French in 1649 as Fort Royal around the horseshoe Carenage harbour, renamed by Britain in 1763, with Georgian architecture, forts, and about 44,777 parish residents.

St. Gildas

St. Gildas, called "the Wise" and Gildas Badonicus, was a sixth-century British monk whose moral epistle De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae is the key surviving source for post-Roman Britain.

St. Imier Congress

St. Imier Congress (15–16 September 1872), also called the Congress of the Anti-authoritarian International: delegates of the Spanish, Italian, Jura, French, and American IWMA federations met at Saint-Imier, Switzerland, rejected the Hague Congress resolutions and General Council, and founded the Anti-authoritarian International.

St. James (crude oil hub)

St. James, Louisiana, is a major crude oil trading, storage, and distribution hub on the Mississippi River where the Light Louisiana Sweet and Mars grades are priced.

St. James Davis

St. James Davis (St. James Harley Davis, 1943-2018), American stock car driver from West Covina, California; NASCAR Winston West Series veteran from 1978 with 136 starts, 3 top-10s; hospitalized critically in 2005.

St. James Infirmary Blues

St. James Infirmary Blues, also known as The Gambler's Blues, is a traditional American blues and jazz standard in which a narrator visits a dying woman and gives instructions for his own funeral.

St. James Theatre

St. James Theatre (originally Erlanger's Theatre), a 1,709-seat Broadway musical house at 246 W 44th St, New York, built 1927 by Warren & Wetmore; home of Oklahoma!, The Producers, Frozen; now owned by ATG Entertainment.

St. James's Place

St. James's Place plc is a British advice-led wealth management company founded in 1991 by Mark Weinberg and Mike Wilson, with over a million clients and nearly 5,000 advisers.

St. John Bosco High School

St. John Bosco High School (SJB, the Braves) is a private all-boys Salesian Catholic college preparatory school in Bellflower, Los Angeles County, California, founded 1940, grades 9-12, boarding at De Sales Hall, Trinity League athletics, 36-acre campus.

St. John Cemetery (Queens)

St. John Cemetery (Queens) is a 190-acre Roman Catholic cemetery in Middle Village, Queens, founded by Bishop John Loughlin in 1879 and run by Saint John's Cemetery Corporation; known for Mafia burials (Luciano, Gambino, Gotti) and Ferraro and Cuomo.

St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church

The St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church is a San Francisco parish of the African Orthodox Church that canonized jazz saxophonist John Coltrane as a saint in 1982.

St. John Fisher University

St. John Fisher University, formerly St. John Fisher College until July 2022, is an independent Catholic (Basilian) university in Pittsford, New York, near Rochester; five schools including Wegmans Nursing and Pharmacy; about 3,700 students, NCAA Division III.