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Staffbase
Staffbase, formerly Staffbase GmbH, is a German employee-communications software company founded in Chemnitz in 2014 by Frank Wolf, Martin Böhringer, and Lutz Gerlach; it became a unicorn in 2022.
Stafford
Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire, England, founded as an Anglo-Saxon burh in 913 AD by Aethelflaed and chartered by King John in 1206; a market and former shoemaking town of about 136,900 people (2021 borough population) now undergoing major town-centre regeneration.
Stafford County, Virginia, United States
Stafford County, Virginia: county formed 1664 from Westmoreland County, named for the English county; boyhood home of George Washington at Ferry Farm; 170,803 residents estimated 2025; Washington, D.C. commuter county on I-95.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
The Stafford Act (Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, P.L. 100-707, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) is the 1988 U.S. statute authorizing presidential major disaster and emergency declarations, FEMA-administered aid, and the Disaster Relief Fund.
Staffordshire
Staffordshire, a county in the West Midlands, England, with two-tier local government of a county council and eight districts plus Stoke-on-Trent; population 898,500 (2023); two unitary councils approved 2026, then paused for review.
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
Staffordshire Bull Terrier (Staffie), a medium-sized English dog breed from Birmingham and Staffordshire, bulldog-terrier crosses, Kennel Club recognized 1935; VetCompass data show no higher aggression odds than other dogs.
Staffordshire figures
Staffordshire figures are cheap press-molded earthenware pottery figures made in the Staffordshire Potteries of England from the 18th century into the 20th, peaking in the Victorian era.
Staffordshire Hoard
The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver ever found, unearthed by a metal detectorist near Hammerwich, Staffordshire, in July 2009 and valued at £3.285 million.
Staffrider
Staffrider was a South African literary and arts magazine published by Ravan Press in Johannesburg from 1978 to 1993, named for township youth riding commuter trains, and a key platform for black anti-apartheid writers.
Staffrider poetry
Staffrider poetry is the body of poems published in Staffrider, an anti-apartheid South African literary magazine issued by Ravan Press in Johannesburg from 1978 to 1993.
STag
STag is a square fiducial marker system for camera pose estimation, proposed in 2017, that minimizes pose jitter by refining the homography with a circular border.
Stag at Sharkey's
Stag at Sharkey's is a 1909 oil painting by George Bellows showing two boxers fighting at a private New York boxing club, now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Stag beetle
Stag beetle (Lucanus cervus), Europe's largest beetle, family Lucanidae; males up to 75 mm with antler-like mandibles. Larvae feed on decaying wood for 3-7 years; IUCN Near Threatened; UK stronghold in south-east England.
Stag Dance (novel)
Stag Dance (Random House, March 11, 2025) is the title novella of Torrey Peters's collection Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories, set at an illegal Montana logging camp where lumberjacks hold a dance at which some attend as women; it was a 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Stag film
Stag film, also called blue movie or smoker: a short, silent, clandestinely produced pornographic film made for all-male audiences from about 1907 to the late 1960s, typically 16mm, about 13 minutes, shown at smokers and stag parties.
Stag hunt
The stag hunt, also called the assurance game, is a game theory model of cooperation that pays off only with trust, from Rousseau's 1755 parable of two hunters.
Stag's Leap
Stag's Leap is a 2012 poetry collection by the American poet Sharon Olds recounting the end of her roughly thirty-year marriage; it won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
STAG2
STAG2 (Stromal Antigen 2, SA2) is an Xq25 gene encoding a cohesin complex subunit; a tumor suppressor frequently mutated in myeloid malignancies, bladder cancer, and Ewing sarcoma, synthetically lethal with STAG1.
Stage (David Bowie album)
Stage (1978) is David Bowie's second live album, recorded on the Isolar II World Tour in April–May 1978, produced with Tony Visconti, peaking at UK #5 and US #44, and reissued in 2005 and 2017 with restored running order.
Stage (theatre)
Stage (theatre): the defined performance area of a theatre, arranged for sightlines, acoustics, scenery, and performer movement. Main configurations are proscenium, thrust, and theatre in the round, differing in where the audience sits.
Stage 20 of the 1989 Tour de France
The final time trial of the 1989 Tour de France, in which Greg LeMond overtook Laurent Fignon to win by 8 seconds, the closest margin in Tour history.
Stage 5 (The Sopranos)
Stage 5 (S06E14, aired April 15, 2007) is a Sopranos episode written by Terence Winter, directed by Alan Taylor: Johnny Sack's terminal cancer, the Cleaver premiere, and Gerry Torciano's murder.
Stage adaptations of video games
Stage adaptations of video games are plays, musicals, and live concerts adapting games for the stage, pioneered by Japan's 2.5D musical industry beginning in 1997.
Stage costume designer
A stage costume designer creates the clothing, accessories, wigs, and make-up worn in live theater, opera, and dance, designing garments that endure repeated performances and quick changes.
Stage Entertainment
Stage Entertainment is an Amsterdam-based musical theater producer founded in 1998 by Joop van den Ende, operating 16 European theaters, with about 2,000 staff and 7 million annual visitors, owned wholly by Advance since 2018.
Stage Fighter
Stage Fighter (스테이지 파이터, STF) is a 2024 Mnet South Korean dance survival show, fourth in the Street Woman Fighter franchise, where 64 male ballet, contemporary, and Korean dance dancers battle in class wars; hosted by Kang Daniel, aired September 24 to November 26, 2024.
Stage fright
Stage fright: performance-context anxiety driven by sympathetic-adrenal activation (adrenaline, noradrenaline, cortisol). Affects 16.5-60% of professional musicians; treated with CBT, exposure, and beta-blockers; distinct from glossophobia and generalized social anxiety.
Stage Fright (1950 film)
Stage Fright (1950) is an Alfred Hitchcock Warner Bros. thriller based on Selwyn Jepson's Man Running, starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, and Richard Todd, famous for its lying flashback and Cole Porter's "The Laziest Gal in Town."
Stage Girl (album)
Stage Girl is the 2025 debut album by American trans pop singer Eli, released via Zelig Music/RCA on October 31, 2025. A ten-track, roughly 30-minute pop/R&B concept record built around a fictional American Idol-style talent show, it was expanded in May 2026 as Stage Girl (Not a Dream Anymore).
Stage lighting
Stage lighting: the craft of controlling intensity, distribution, angle, and color of light on a performance stage for visibility, emphasis, mood, and composition. Spans theatre, concerts, and film/TV; history runs from gas (1816) and limelight (1837) through DMX512 and LED fixtures.