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State Fair (1945 film)
State Fair (1945) is Rodgers and Hammerstein's only original film musical, a Technicolor remake of the 1933 Fox film, directed by Walter Lang, starring Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews, and winning the Best Song Oscar for "It Might as Well Be Spring."
State Fair (1962 film)
State Fair (1962) is a Twentieth Century-Fox musical comedy directed by José Ferrer, the third film version of Philip Stong's story, set in Texas with Pat Boone, Ann-Margret, Bobby Darin, and Alice Faye, and five new Richard Rodgers songs written after Oscar Hammerstein's death.
State Fair of Texas
State Fair of Texas, annual 24-day fair at Fair Park in Dallas since 1886; 501(c)(3) nonprofit; home of Big Tex, the Texas Star Ferris wheel, and the Red River Rivalry; among the largest and longest-running state fairs in the United States.
State Farm
State Farm is a group of American insurance and financial services companies, founded in 1922 in Bloomington, Illinois, and the largest US auto and property insurer.
State Farm Arena
State Farm Arena, formerly Philips Arena, is Atlanta's NBA arena, home of the Atlanta Hawks since 1999 and the Atlanta Dream from 2027, with a 16,888 basketball capacity and a $192.5 million 2017-18 renovation.
State Farm Stadium
State Farm Stadium, formerly University of Phoenix Stadium, is the Arizona Cardinals' NFL stadium in Glendale, Arizona, opened 2006, with a retractable roof and roll-out natural grass field; host of Super Bowls XLII, XLIX, LVII and NCAA Final Fours.
State film studios of Central Asia and the Caucasus
State film studios of Central Asia and the Caucasus: Uzbekfilm (1924), Tajikfilm (1926), Kazakhfilm (1936), Kyrgyzfilm (1942), Kartuli Pilmi (1921), Azerbaijanfilm. Soviet-era state production houses, wartime TsOKS hub, post-1991 privatization.
State financial office elections in the United States
State financial office elections in the United States are contests for state treasurer, auditor, comptroller, and insurance commissioner; 49 offices are up for election in 2026.
State forest
A state forest is a forest owned and managed by a state, typically for timber production, recreation, wildlife habitat, watershed protection, and education, distinct from federal national forests.
State formation
State formation: the long-term process by which centralized authority consolidates into territorial sovereign states, covering violence monopolization, taxation, bureaucracy, war-driven European state-building, colonial trajectories, and primary states.
State function
A state function, also called a function of state, is a thermodynamic property whose value depends only on a system's current state, not on how it got there.
State funeral
State funeral: government-organized public funeral honoring heads of state, former leaders, or eminent citizens, with lying-in-state, processions, and military honours; Canadian entitlement rules, US Capitol traditions, and subnational variants.
State funeral of Ali Khamenei
State funeral of Ali Khamenei, held July 3-9, 2026, after the Iranian supreme leader was killed in a US-Israeli airstrike on February 28; ceremonies in Tehran, Qom, Najaf, Karbala, burial in Mashhad.
State funeral of Horatio Nelson
State funeral of Admiral Horatio Nelson, January 1806: lying in state at Greenwich, Thames procession in Charles II's barge, Victory-shaped funeral car, burial in St Paul's Cathedral crypt.
State funeral of John F. Kennedy
State funeral of John F. Kennedy, November 23-25, 1963: East Room repose, Capitol lying in state, St. Matthew's requiem Mass, Arlington burial with eternal flame; first widely televised presidential funeral, modeled on Lincoln's.
State funerals in the United Kingdom
State funerals in the UK are parliament-authorized public funerals, generally for the Sovereign, marked by Royal Navy-drawn gun carriage, lying in state, and an Abbey or St Paul's service; rare non-royal recipients include Churchill, Wellington, Gladstone, Nelson, Palmerston, and Newton.
State funerals in the United States
State funerals in the United States are Defense Department-administered ceremonial funerals for presidents, former presidents, president-elects, or presidentially designated people, in three stages with a proclamation, 30-day half-staff flag, National Day of Mourning, Capitol lying-in-state, and Cathedral service.
State government
A state government, sometimes called a provincial government, is the government of one of the fifty US states, exercising broad powers over education, transportation, and health care.
State governments of India
State governments of India: the governments of India's constituent states in its federal system, each with a Governor, Chief Minister, Council of Ministers, and legislature; legislative powers divided by Article 246 and the Seventh Schedule's Union, State, and Concurrent Lists.
State governments of the United States
State governments of the United States: the 50 autonomous state polities, each with its own constitution, three branches, and Tenth Amendment reserved powers, operating alongside the federal government.
State Great Khural
The State Great Khural (Монгол Улсын Их Хурал) is the unicameral parliament of Mongolia and its highest organ of state power, with 126 members elected for four-year terms.
State Grid Corporation of China (国家电网公司)
State Grid Corporation of China (国家电网公司) is the state-owned enterprise that builds and operates most of China's electric power grid. Founded in 2002, it serves over 1.1 billion people across 26 provinces.
State Grid Xinyuan
State Grid Xinyuan Holdings Co. (国网新源) is a Beijing company, founded in 2005, that operates pumped-storage hydropower stations and is the world's largest pumped-storage operator.
State high school championship series
A state high school championship series is the staged postseason tournaments, run by state athletic associations, through which schools compete within their enrollment class for state titles.
State Hospitals
State hospitals are hospitals controlled by state government agencies (MeSH: Hospitals, State). In the US the term chiefly means state psychiatric hospitals, down to 36,150 beds in 2023; elsewhere it covers public acute-care hospitals compared with private providers.
State Hydraulic Works (Turkey)
State Hydraulic Works (Devlet Su İşleri, DSİ) is the Turkish state agency managing water resources, headquartered in Ankara and established in 1953, best known for building dams.
State income tax
A state income tax is a tax levied by a US state on personal income, collected alongside federal income tax; 41 states impose one and eight levy none.
State intermediate appellate courts in the United States
State intermediate appellate courts are US state courts that sit between trial courts and the state's highest court, hearing appeals as a matter of right in 42 states.
State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology
The State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology (SKLICT) is a Chinese national industrial control research laboratory at Zhejiang University, opened in 1995 and reorganized in 2022.
State Law and Order Restoration Council
The State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) was the Burmese military junta that seized power in September 1988, ruled by martial law, and became the State Peace and Development Council in 1997.