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Stark County, Ohio, United States
Stark County, Ohio: northeastern Ohio county with county seat Canton; 374,853 residents (2020 census); three-division government; cities include Alliance, Massillon, and North Canton.
Stark effect
The Stark effect, also called the Stark shift, is the splitting of atomic spectral lines by an external electric field, first observed by Johannes Stark in 1913.
Stark Flight Lab
Stark Flight Lab is an upcoming Marvel Avengers Campus attraction at Disney California Adventure, announced at D23 in 2024 with Avengers Infinity Defense, opening 2028; riders in two-person pods are grabbed by a robotic arm for high-speed flight maneuvers with Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark.
Stark Industries
Stark Industries, also known as Stark International, Stark Enterprises, Stark Resilient, and Stark Unlimited, is the fictional Marvel Comics conglomerate founded by Howard Stark and run by Tony Stark (Iron Man), first appearing in Tales of Suspense #40 and once the Marvel Universe's leading weapons maker.
Stark Law
Stark Law, formally Section 1877 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395nn), the U.S. federal physician self-referral law barring Medicare referrals for designated health services to entities with which the physician or immediate family has a financial relationship, unless an exception applies; distinct from the criminal Anti-Kickback Statute.
Stark many-body localization
Stark many-body localization is a form of many-body localization where a strong linear potential gradient localizes particles in a disorder-free quantum system, halting thermalization; it was proposed in 2019.
Stark Raving Dad
"Stark Raving Dad" (S3E1, The Simpsons, September 19, 1991, production code 7F24): Homer meets Leon Kompowsky, voiced by Michael Jackson as "John Jay Smith"; written by Al Jean and Mike Reiss; pulled from all platforms in 2019 after Leaving Neverland and absent from Disney+.
Stark Sands
Stark Sands (Stark Bunker Sands, born 1978) is an American actor, a two-time Tony nominee who originated Charlie Price in Kinky Boots and Tunny in American Idiot, and starred in Generation Kill and Minority Report.
Stark spectroscopy
Stark spectroscopy is the family of spectroscopic techniques that exploit the electric-field splitting of spectral lines, named after Johannes Stark, who first observed it in 1913.
Stark–Heegner theorem
The Stark–Heegner theorem, also called the Baker–Heegner–Stark theorem, states that exactly nine imaginary quadratic fields have class number one; Heegner proved it in 1952, and Baker and Stark independently in 1966 and 1967.
StarKid Productions
StarKid Productions (Team StarKid), Chicago comedic musical theatre company founded 2009 at University of Michigan; A Very Potter Musical went viral on YouTube; 15 musicals, 320M+ views, Billboard #1 cast albums, national tours, 2024 London Palladium debut.
Starkville, Mississippi
Starkville, Mississippi: county seat of Oktibbeha County and home of Mississippi State University. Founded 1834-1835 as renamed Boardtown, population about 25,754 (2025 estimate), college-town economy.
StarkWare Industries
StarkWare Industries is an Israeli cryptography company founded in 2018 by Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Michael Riabzev, and Uri Kolodny, building blockchain scaling with STARK proofs through Starknet and StarkEx.
Starlab (space station)
Starlab is a planned commercial space station developed by Starlab Space, a joint venture led by Voyager Technologies with Airbus, scheduled to launch in 2029.
StarLAN
StarLAN was an AT&T local area network technology that carried Ethernet-style traffic over unshielded twisted-pair telephone wiring in a star topology, standardized as IEEE 1BASE5 in 1987.
Starland Vocal Band
Starland Vocal Band: American soft-rock vocal quartet from Washington, D.C. (Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, Jon Carroll, Margot Chapman) on John Denver's Windsong label; 1976 number-one hit "Afternoon Delight", two 1977 Grammys, short-lived CBS variety show; distinct from the Starland Ballroom venue.
Starless and Bible Black
Starless and Bible Black, King Crimson's sixth album (March 1974, Island), is largely a disguised live recording from the 1973-74 Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Cross tour, peaking at UK number 28, bridging Larks' Tongues in Aspic and Red.
Starlet (film)
Starlet is a 2012 American independent drama, Sean Baker's fourth feature, co-written with Chris Bergoch. Dree Hemingway plays Jane, an adult film performer who finds money in a yard-sale thermos and befriends 85-year-old Sadie (Besedka Johnson, debut role) in the San Fernando Valley; released by Music Box Films, grossing $146,222.
StarlETH
StarlETH, short for Springy Tetrapod with Articulated Robotic Legs, was a compliant quadruped robot developed at ETH Zurich between 2011 and 2015, predecessor of the commercial robot ANYmal.
Starletta DuPois
Starletta DuPois (born 1941, Philadelphia) is an American character actress, Tony-nominated for The Mighty Gents (1978), who has played all three female roles in A Raisin in the Sun and appears in One Battle After Another (2025).
StarLight (network)
StarLight is an international optical network exchange facility in Chicago, opened in December 2001 to interconnect research and education networks, including those distributing Large Hadron Collider data.
Starlight BnB (光开门就很忙了)
Starlight BnB (光開門就很忙了) is a 2023 Taiwanese reality show, second in the Light series spun off from Light the Night, in which Ruby Lin and six entertainers run a pet-friendly Taitung guesthouse; 13 episodes premiered June 25, 2023 on TVBS and Netflix.
Starlight Boys (星光闪耀的少年)
Starlight Boys (星光闪耀的少年, 스타라이트보이즈), formerly Youth With You International, was a 2024 iQIYI-SBS Korean-Chinese survival show: 69 trainees, star-level grading, forming the nine-member group POLARIX led by Shao Ziheng.
Starlight Express
Starlight Express: 1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe musical with roller-skating performers as trains; premiered Apollo Victoria 1984, ran to 2002, Broadway 1987, Bochum since 1988, 2024 Wembley revival.
Starlight Glimmer
Starlight Glimmer is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic unicorn, introduced in the Season 5 premiere The Cutie Map as an equality cult leader, redeemed in The Cutie Re-Mark, later Twilight's student and School of Friendship guidance counselor.
Starlight Kukugumi
Starlight Kukugumi (スタァライト九九組) is a nine-member Japanese voice-actress music unit formed in 2017 for the Revue Starlight franchise, whose members play Seisho Music Academy's 99th class in the stage musicals and anime.
Starlin Castro
Starlin Castro (Starlin DeJesus Castro), Dominican MLB infielder born 1990, four-time All-Star with Cubs, Yankees, Marlins, Nationals; record six RBI in 2010 MLB debut, 1,722 career hits, .280 average.
Starling
Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), the common or European starling, a Sturnidae songbird famed for murmurations and mimicry; invasive in North America (200 million birds from an 1890 release) yet red-listed and declining in its native UK range.
Starling Bank
Starling Bank is a British digital-only bank founded in 2014 by Anne Boden and licensed in 2016, offering personal and business current accounts to about six million customers.
Starling equation
Starling equation: Jv = LpS[(Pc−Pi) − σ(πc−πi)], Ernest Starling's 1896 law of capillary fluid exchange balancing hydrostatic and oncotic pressures; revised with the glycocalyx model and lymphatic return.