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Stoke Newington
Stoke Newington, a historic district of the London Borough of Hackney, north-east London; Domesday 'Neutone' (1086), parish founded 1314, metropolitan borough 1899-1965, now a conservation area with Clissold Park and Abney Park.
Stoke Space
Stoke Space is an American aerospace company founded in 2019 in Kent, Washington by former Blue Origin engineers Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman, developing the fully reusable Nova rocket.
Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent, the Potteries, is a West Midlands unitary city federated from six pottery towns in 1910 (city status 1925), with about 258,400 residents, a declining ceramics industry, and contested regeneration.
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael, later Kwame Ture (1941–1998), Trinidadian-born American civil rights activist, SNCC chairman from 1966, popularizer of the slogan "Black Power," Lowndes County Freedom Organization organizer, later Pan-Africanist in Guinea.
Stoker (film)
Stoker (2013) is Park Chan-wook's English-language debut, a gothic psychological thriller written by Wentworth Miller, starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, and Matthew Goode; released by Fox Searchlight, it grossed $12 million worldwide.
Stokes drift
Stokes drift is the net mean velocity a fluid parcel acquires in the direction of wave propagation, first described by George Gabriel Stokes in his 1847 paper on water waves.
Stokes flow
Stokes flow, or creeping flow, is the flow of a viscous fluid at very low Reynolds number, described by the linear Stokes equations solved by George Stokes in 1851.
Stokes parameters
The Stokes parameters are four quantities, I, Q, U, and V, introduced by George Gabriel Stokes in 1852 that describe the intensity and polarization of light.
Stokes solver
A Stokes solver is a numerical method for computing velocity and pressure fields in slow, viscous, incompressible flow, used in biological, suspension, and mantle convection simulations.
Stokes–Darcy model
The Stokes–Darcy model couples free-fluid flow, governed by the Stokes equations, with flow through a porous medium, governed by Darcy's law, linked by interface conditions on mass, forces, and tangential velocity.
Stokes' law
Stokes' law, or Stokes' drag, gives the drag force on a sphere in a viscous fluid, F = 6πμaU, derived by George Stokes in 1851.
Stokes' theorem
Stokes' theorem, also called the Kelvin–Stokes theorem, is a vector calculus result relating a line integral around a closed curve to the surface integral of the curl.
Stokke
Stokke, former municipality in Vestfold, Norway (no. 0720), merged with Andebu and Sandefjord into new Sandefjord (0710) on 1 January 2017; now a village of 4,287 people (2025) on the Vestfold Line.
Stokoe notation
Stokoe notation, created by William C. Stokoe in 1960, is the first notation system for writing American Sign Language signs as location (tab), handshape (dez), and movement (sig) components; it founded ASL linguistics and inspired HamNoSys and later systems.
STOL
STOL, or short takeoff and landing, describes fixed-wing aircraft that take off and land on runways far shorter than conventional airplanes of comparable size require.
Stolberg gas field
The Stolberg gas field is a natural gas and gas-condensate field in the Alberta foothills near Stolberg and Nordegg, producing from Rundle, Mannville, and Cardium reservoirs since at least 1974.
Stolen (2012 film)
Stolen is a 2012 American action thriller directed by Simon West and starring Nicolas Cage as a bank robber whose daughter is kidnapped in New Orleans.
Stolen (2023 film)
Stolen (2023) is Karan Tejpal's Hindi thriller debut, produced by Gaurav Dhingra's Jungle Book Studio, about two brothers caught in a baby-kidnapping case inspired by the 2018 Karbi Anglong lynching; it premiered at Venice and streamed on Prime Video India from 4 June 2025.
Stolen base
Stolen base: a baseball statistic credited when a runner advances to an unentitled base during a steal attempt. Key facts: 1898 modern rule, 75% break-even success rate, Rickey Henderson's record 130 in 1982, and the 2023 rule-change revival.
Stolen Focus
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention (2022) is Johann Hari's nonfiction book arguing attention loss stems from twelve external causes, from app design to pollution, not personal willpower; a NYT bestseller and 2022 Porchlight Business Book of the Year.
Stolen Generations
The Stolen Generations are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families under government assimilation policies from the late 1800s until 1969.
Stolen Girl (2025 film)
Stolen Girl (2025 film), not the Disney+ series The Stolen Girl, is a James Kent action thriller starring Kate Beckinsale as Maureen Dabbagh, based on her real search for a daughter abducted by her ex-husband; released by Vertical in September 2025.
Stolen Happiness
Stolen Happiness (Ukrainian: Украдене щастя) is a five-act social and psychological drama by Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko, first staged in Lviv in 1893 and regarded as his most important work for the theater.
Stolen Kingdom
Stolen Kingdom is a 2025 documentary by Joshua Bailey about urban explorers and theft at Walt Disney World, centered on the unsolved 2018 theft of the Buzzy animatronic from Epcot's Cranium Command.
Stolen Kisses
Stolen Kisses (Baisers volés) is François Truffaut's 1968 French romantic comedy, the third Antoine Doinel film, following Jean-Pierre Léaud's discharged soldier through Paris jobs and love affairs with Delphine Seyrig and Claude Jade.
Stolen Valor Act of 2013
Stolen Valor Act of 2013, Public Law 113-12, a US federal law amending 18 U.S.C. 704 to criminalize fraudulent claims of military decorations made for tangible gain, enacted after the Supreme Court struck down the 2005 Act in United States v. Alvarez.
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence is a three-part 2023 Hulu docuseries directed by Zach Heinzerling about Larry Ray's cult of Sarah Lawrence College students, told through survivor interviews, tapes, and video recordings.
STOLI
STOLI (StoLi) was a Cold Spring Harbor inbred mouse strain, pink-eyed dilute brown, H-2q haplotype, famous for complete resistance to inoculated leukemia; maintained in Bombay until 1970, then discarded.
Stolichna Obshtina
Stolichna Obshtina (Столична община), Sofia Municipality, is Bulgaria's capital municipality, also a region, with 24 districts, 38 localities, and 1,303,813 residents (2025), the country's largest municipality.
Stolichnaya (Столичная)
Stolichnaya (Столичная), or Stoli, a wheat-and-rye vodka brand of Soviet origin, produced in Riga, Latvia, owned by Luxembourg's SPI Group, rebranded Stoli in 2022 amid trademark disputes with Russia.