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Stadium Arcadium
Stadium Arcadium, Red Hot Chili Peppers' ninth studio album (2006), a 28-song double album on Jupiter and Mars discs, produced by Rick Rubin at The Mansion; first RHCP Billboard 200 number one and four-time Grammy winner.
Stadium at Anazarbos
Stadium at Anazarbos, Roman spectacle building at Anazarbos/Anavarza, Cilicia (Adana, Türkiye), 410 x 64 m, single sphendone hippodrome/circus type, south of the city walls near theatre and amphitheatre, venue of imperial festivals.
Stadium at Nemea
Stadium at Nemea: Early Hellenistic Greek stadium (c. 330 BC) of the Sanctuary of Nemean Zeus, 600-foot track of about 178 m, vaulted entrance tunnel, revived Nemean Games venue.
Stadium Australia
Stadium Australia (Accor Stadium, formerly Telstra and ANZ Stadium) is Sydney's 83,600-seat Olympic stadium at Sydney Olympic Park, opened March 1999 for the 2000 Games, record crowd 114,714, with a planned $810m rectangular reconfiguration.
Stadium High School
Stadium High School, Tacoma, WA public high school in a former 1891 Northern Pacific Railroad hotel (Brown Castle); opened 1906 as Tacoma High School, renamed 1913, on Tacoma and National Registers; mascot Stadium Tiger.
Stadium of Delphi
Stadium of Delphi (pythikon stadion), best-preserved ancient Greek stadium, built late 4th century BC, 178.35 m track, ~6,500 capacity, hosted Pythian Games athletics.
Stadium of Light
Stadium of Light, Sunderland AFC's home ground since 1997, also called Stadium of Light (singular). Built on the former Monkwearmouth Colliery site, capacity 48,707, replacing Roker Park; named for miners' lamps.
Stadium of Philippopolis
Stadium of Philippopolis: 2nd-century AD Roman stadium in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, under the main pedestrian street; about 240 m track, 30,000 capacity, Hadrianic date, Pythian Games, exposed sphendone and 2021 eastern sector.
Stadiumx
Stadiumx is a Hungarian DJ and producer duo from Budapest, best known for festival-sized progressive and future house and their 2014 Beatport #1 debut single "Howl At The Moon".
Stadl paura
ATSV Stadl-Paura is an Austrian football club founded in 1952 in Stadl-Paura, Upper Austria; once in the Regionalliga Mitte, it now plays in the eighth tier.
Stadler FLIRT
The Stadler FLIRT, short for Fast Light Innovative Regional Train, is a family of low-floor regional trains built by Stadler Rail since 2004, with about 2,700 sold.
Stadler METRO
The Stadler METRO is a family of lightweight electric metro trains built by Swiss manufacturer Stadler Rail, ordered for the Tyne and Wear Metro, Glasgow Subway, and Merseyrail.
Stadler Rail
Stadler Rail is a Swiss rolling stock manufacturer headquartered in Bussnang, founded in 1942, building locomotives, high-speed, regional, and underground trains, tram-trains, trams, and rack railways.
Stadler SMILE
The Stadler SMILE, also known as the Giruno, is a high-speed electric multiple unit built by Stadler Rail for Swiss Federal Railways, reaching 250 km/h and in service since 2019.
Stadtbahn
Stadtbahn (German for "city railway") is urban rail transit in German-speaking countries, developed from tramways, with vehicles running in tunnels downtown and on street or regional tracks outside it.
Stadtholder
Stadtholder (stadhouder, "place-holder" of the sovereign) was the chief magistrate and commander of the Dutch Republic's provinces; held by the House of Orange-Nassau, suspended in 1650-1672 and 1702-1747, made hereditary in 1747, and abolished in 1795.
Stadtwaldsee
Stadtwaldsee, also called Unisee, is a 29-hectare quarry pond in Bremen's Horn-Lehe district, created in the 1970s during A27 motorway and university construction; a groundwater-fed bathing lake with beaches, water sports, and the adjacent Uni-Wildnis nature reserve.
Stadtwerke München
Stadtwerke München (SWM) is the municipal utilities company of Munich, Germany, supplying electricity, gas, water, heating, transport, and telecommunications; it was formally constituted on 1 April 1939.
Staff (military)
Military staff: officers who plan, gather intelligence, draft orders, and advise a commander without command authority. Originated in the Prussian general staff of 1808 under Scharnhorst; spread via staff colleges; appears as the US Joint Staff and NATO's International Military Staff.
Staff (music)
Staff (music), also called stave: the set of five horizontal lines and spaces on which Western musical notes are written to show pitch, used with clefs; developed from 9th-century lines and Guido of Arezzo's four-line staff around 1030 AD.
Staff Benda Bilili
Staff Benda Bilili are a band of street musicians from Kinshasa, Congo, most of them polio survivors in wheelchairs, who rose to fame through the 2010 documentary Benda Bilili!.
Staff God
Staff God: frontal staff-bearing deity of ancient Andean art, also called Front-Face Deity, from Chavín through Tiwanaku and Wari, often identified with Inca Viracocha; distinct from the Polynesian Cook Islands staff god (atua rakau).
Staff of Moses
The Staff of Moses, also called Moses' rod or the Staff of God, is the staff the Book of Exodus ties to the serpent sign, the plagues, and the splitting of the sea.
Staff Selection Commission (कर्मचारी चयन आयोग)
Staff Selection Commission (कर्मचारी चयन आयोग, SSC), Indian central recruitment body set up 4 November 1975, renamed 26 September 1977; recruits Group B and C posts via CGL, CHSL, MTS and other exams; about 3.61 lakh candidates recommended 2022-23 to 2025-26.
Staff sergeant
Staff sergeant is an NCO rank: U.S. Army and Marine Corps E-6, U.S. Air Force E-5, British Army OR-7. Covers duties, promotion policy, and cross-service grade differences.
Staffan Helgesson
Staffan Helgesson is a Swedish venture capitalist who founded the Stockholm early-stage firm Creandum in 2003, known for SaaS and climate investing and early bets on Spotify and iZettle.
Staffan I. Lindberg
Staffan I. Lindberg (Staffan Ingemar Lindberg), Swedish political scientist, professor at the University of Gothenburg, founding director of the V-Dem Institute 2012-2025 and principal investigator of the Varieties of Democracy democracy-measurement project; PhD 2005 Lund, Juan Linz Award.
Staffan Normark
Staffan Normark is a Swedish medical microbiologist known for work on bacterial pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance, and winner of the 2018 Robert Koch Gold Medal.
Staffan Persson
Staffan Persson is a Swedish plant cell biologist, professor at the University of Copenhagen since 2020, who studies how plants build cell walls and make cellulose.
Staffan Westerberg
Staffan Westerberg (1934–2026) was a Swedish director, playwright, actor, and puppeteer best known for the surrealistic children's television program Vilse i pannkakan, broadcast by Sveriges Television in 1975.