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Stanley, Falkland Islands

Stanley (Port Stanley), capital and only city of the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory on Stanley Harbour; founded 1843, occupied 74 days in 1982; 2,538 of 3,662 residents, fishing-licence-driven economy, city status 2022.

Oct 22, 2026

Stanley's trans-African expedition

Stanley's trans-African expedition, known in the archives as the Anglo-American Expedition, was the 1874 to 1877 crossing of Africa by Henry Morton Stanley, who traced the Congo River to the Atlantic, reaching Boma in August 1877.

Stanlow Refinery

Stanlow Refinery is an oil refinery at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, on the Manchester Ship Canal, owned by EET Fuels and producing about one-sixth of Britain's transport fuels.

Stanmore Resources

Stanmore Resources Limited, formerly Stanmore Coal Limited, is an Australian metallurgical coal mining company headquartered in Brisbane that operates Bowen Basin mines supplying global steelmakers.

Stannin

Stannin (Snn, SNN gene, HGNC 11149) is an 88-amino-acid human single-pass mitochondrial outer membrane protein, discovered in 1992, that mediates trimethyltin organotin toxicity and roles in endosomal maturation and cell growth.

Stanniocalcin

Stanniocalcin (STC1, STC2): glycoprotein hormones first found in fish corpuscles of Stannius regulating calcium and phosphate; in mammals, secreted homodimers inhibiting PAPP-A/PAPP-A2 and modulating IGF signaling, immunity, and cancer.

Stannis Baratheon

Stannis Baratheon, Lord of Dragonstone and claimant king in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones (played by Stephen Dillane): second Baratheon brother, dutiful commander, Melisandre ally, dies onscreen in season 5 but lives in the books.

Stannosis

Stannosis, also called tin pneumoconiosis or tin miners' lung, is a benign non-fibrotic pneumoconiosis from chronic inhalation of tin oxide (SnO, SnO2) dust or fume, causing dense 2-4 mm lung radiopacities without fibrosis; first described by Beintker in 1944.

Stannous fluoride

Stannous fluoride, or tin(II) fluoride, is a tin salt used in toothpastes to prevent cavities and gingivitis; it was the fluoride in Crest, launched in 1956.

Stannsoporfin

Stannsoporfin, also called tin mesoporphyrin (SnMP) or Stanate, is a heme oxygenase inhibitor developed by InfaCare and Mallinckrodt as a single-injection adjunct to phototherapy for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia; it lowered bilirubin in phase 2b trials but was never FDA approved and development is discontinued.

Oct 22, 2026

Stanoje Glavaš

Stanoje Glavaš (Станоје Главаш), born Stanoje Stamatović (1763–1815), was a Serbian hajduk leader and vojvoda of the First Serbian Uprising, killed by Ottoman authorities at Banjica in February 1815.

Stanozolol

Stanozolol (Winstrol) is a 17α-alkylated, DHT-derived anabolic steroid first marketed in 1962, now discontinued and Schedule III in the US, WADA-prohibited, and known for cholestatic liver injury and the 1988 Ben Johnson doping case.

Stans (film)

Stans (2025) is an Eminem-produced documentary directed by Steven Leckart about the rapper's superfans, inspired by his 2000 song "Stan." It premiered at SXSW London, ran one weekend at AMC theaters from August 7, 2025, and streams on Paramount+.

Stansfield Turner

Stansfield Turner (1923–2018), US Navy admiral and Director of Central Intelligence 1977–1981 under Jimmy Carter; led CIA overhaul, cut 820 espionage slots, later proposed a Director of National Intelligence.

Stansted Express

The Stansted Express is a dedicated train service linking London Liverpool Street with Stansted Airport, operated by Greater Anglia with a journey time of about 48 minutes.

Stantec

Stantec is a Canadian consulting firm founded in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1954 by Don Stanley, providing design, engineering, and environmental services through 34,000 employees in over 450 locations.

Stanthorpe, Queensland

Stanthorpe, Queensland: Granite Belt town in the Southern Downs, elevation 811 m, founded on 1872 tin mining (stannum + thorpe), now a wine and fruit centre of about 5,286 people with recurring drought and Storm King Dam water restrictions.

Stanton (Venusian crater)

Stanton is a large ringed impact crater on Venus, 107 km in diameter, centered at 23.3°S. It was named in 1994 for the American suffragist Elizabeth C. Stanton.

Sep 20, 2026

Stanton A. Glantz

Stanton A. Glantz, also known as Stanton Glantz, is an American researcher and retired UCSF professor of medicine known for analyzing tobacco industry documents and shaping smoke-free air policy.

Sep 21, 2026

Stanton J. Peale

Stanton J. Peale (1937–2015) was an American planetary scientist at UC Santa Barbara whose 1979 tidal-heating calculations correctly predicted volcanism on Jupiter's moon Io, confirmed by Voyager 1.

Stanton number

The Stanton number (St) is a dimensionless number in convective heat transfer, defined as the heat transfer coefficient divided by density, specific heat, and flow velocity.

Sep 20, 2026

Stanton Segal

Stanton Segal (1927 to 2007) was an American physician and clinical biochemist who spent 41 years at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia studying galactosemia, cystinuria, and other inborn errors of metabolism.

Stanwell Corporation

Stanwell Corporation is a Queensland Government Owned Corporation that generates, trades, and retails electricity. Established in 1997, it operates coal-fired power stations at Rockhampton and the South Burnett.

Stanwell power station

Stanwell power station is a coal-fired power station 22 km west of Rockhampton in Central Queensland, owned by Queensland's Stanwell Corporation and supplying around 15% of the state's electricity.

Stanwell-Fletcher

Stanwell-Fletcher Lake, Somerset Island, Nunavut, Canada: 339 km2 cold monomictic polar lake in the Boothia Arch, draining via Union River to Creswell Bay, home to Arctic char.

Stanwick

Stanwick, Northamptonshire: Iron Age and Romano-British settlement and Roman villa excavated 1984-1992 by English Heritage (Raunds Area Project) over 30 hectares; largest archaeological collection in the county, with a late 4th-century winged corridor villa and 5th-century post-Roman activity.