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Stone cladding

Stone cladding is the application of thin, non-load-bearing panels of natural stone, such as granite, marble, and limestone, to a building's facade for appearance and weather protection.

Stone Cold Fox

Stone Cold Fox is a 2025 American action thriller, Sophie Tabet's directorial debut, starring Kiernan Shipka, Krysten Ritter, and Kiefer Sutherland. Set in the 1980s, it follows Fox, who escapes an abusive commune and must return when the queenpin Goldie kidnaps her sister; released November 7, 2025 by Vertical and streamed on Netflix from January 9, 2026.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Stone Cold Steve Austin (born 1964), WWE Hall of Famer and face of the Attitude Era; six-time WWE Champion, record three Royal Rumble wins, Austin 3:16, retired at WrestleMania XIX.

Stone column

A stone column is a vertical column of compacted gravel or crushed stone built in soft or loose ground to reinforce the soil, stiffen it under load, and speed drainage.

Stone columns

A stone column is a vertical column of compacted gravel or crushed stone installed in soft ground, one of the most common ground improvement techniques for embankments and structures.

Stone Drums of Qin

The Stone Drums of Qin (秦石鼓), also called liejie, are ten drum-shaped granite boulders carved with ancient seal-script poems, the oldest known Chinese stone inscriptions, housed in Beijing's Palace Museum.

Stone duality

Stone duality is a correspondence in mathematics identifying every Boolean algebra with the clopen subsets of a compact, totally disconnected Stone space, established by Marshall H. Stone in the 1930s.

Stone Forest

Stone Forest (石林, Shílín) is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Yunnan, China, featuring towering karst pillars formed from shallow marine carbonate deposits over 270 million years ago.

Stone Gate Inscription

The Stone Gate Inscription (石门铭) is a large cliff-face carving cut in 509 CE on the Shimen tunnel near Hanzhong, Shaanxi, and a celebrated masterpiece of Wei-style regular script.

Stone Gossard

Stone Gossard, Seattle guitarist and songwriter, rhythm guitarist of Pearl Jam; earlier in Green River and Mother Love Bone, played in Temple of the Dog and Brad, founded Loosegroove Records.

Stone Island

Stone Island: Italian luxury sportswear brand founded 1982 by Massimo Osti in Ravarino; known for Tela Stella fabric, garment dyeing, the compass sleeve badge, football casual culture, and Moncler ownership since 2021.

Stone mastic asphalt

Stone mastic asphalt (SMA), also called stone matrix asphalt, is a gap-graded asphalt mixture developed in Germany in the mid-1960s to resist studded-tire wear on pavements.

Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain, Georgia: world's largest exposed granite mass near Atlanta, site of the giant Confederate Memorial Carving (Davis, Lee, Jackson, 1915–1972), Stone Mountain Park, and the 1915 KKK rebirth.

Stone Mountain, Georgia

Stone Mountain, Georgia: a small DeKalb County city (population 6,703 in 2020) at the base of Stone Mountain, incorporated as New Gibraltar in 1839, renamed 1847, historically a granite quarrying town adjacent to Stone Mountain Park.

Stone Music Entertainment (스톤 뮤직 엔터테인먼트)

Stone Music Entertainment (스톤뮤직엔터테인먼트), descended from Mnet Media, was a South Korean CJ ENM record label that managed artists like Wanna One and Davichi until its 2021 liquidation, surviving as a distribution brand.

Stone Ocean (ストーンオーシャン)

Stone Ocean (ストーンオーシャン) is Part 6 of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: 158 chapters in 17 volumes, serialized 1999/2000-2003, set in 2011 Florida's Green Dolphin Street Prison with Jolyne Cujoh, the first female JoJo, versus Father Pucci; 38-episode Netflix anime 2021-2022.

Stone of Scone

The Stone of Scone, called the Stone of Destiny, is the sandstone coronation seat of Scottish monarchs, taken by Edward I in 1296 and used in British coronations since.

Stone of the Pregnant Woman

The Stone of the Pregnant Woman (Hajar al-Hibla) is an unfinished Roman limestone monolith of about 1,000 tonnes in an ancient quarry near Baalbek, Lebanon.

Stone of Tizoc

The Tizoc Stone (Piedra de Tízoc) is a carved cylindrical Aztec monolith from Tenochtitlan, decorated with conquest scenes commemorating the reign of the ruler Tízoc, from 1481 to 1486.

Stone Pagoda of Mireuksa

The Stone Pagoda of Mireuksa (미륵사지 석탑) is a Baekje-era stone pagoda at the Mireuksa temple site in Iksan, South Korea, built in 639 and designated National Treasure No. 11.

Stone Phillips

Stone Phillips (born 1954, Texas City, Texas) is an American broadcast journalist, founding co-anchor of Dateline NBC with Jane Pauley from 1992 to 2007, formerly ABC 20/20 correspondent, Emmy winner for the Bernhard Goetz interview.

Stone pine

Stone pine (Pinus pinea), Mediterranean umbrella pine of Section Pinea, source of pignoli pine nuts; symbol of Rome, ~6,000 t/yr world shelled production, threatened by Leptoglossus occidentalis and Diplodia blight.

Stone Reliefs of the Wu Liang Shrine

The Stone Reliefs of the Wu Liang Shrine (武梁祠画像石) are carved Eastern Han stone pictures from an ancestral shrine built before Wu Liang's tomb in Jiaxiang County, Shandong.

Stone Reliefs of the Xiaotang Mountain Shrine

The Stone Reliefs of the Xiaotang Mountain Shrine are Han dynasty incised stone carvings inside a first-century CE funerary shrine in Jinan, Shandong, itself the earliest surviving above-ground building in China.

STONE score

The STONE score is a clinical prediction rule that estimates the probability of a ureteral stone in emergency department patients with suspected renal colic, using five bedside variables.

Stone Soup

Stone Soup (ATU type 1548, The Soup-Stone) is a European folktale in which a clever traveler makes "soup" from a stone and coaxes villagers into contributing real ingredients; first printed by Madame de Noyer in 1720, with nail soup, axe soup, and pebble soup variants.

Stone Sour

Stone Sour, the Des Moines, Iowa alternative metal and post-grunge band formed in 1992 around Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Jim Root with Josh Rand; known for Come What(ever) May, Through Glass, House of Gold & Bones, and Hydrograd.

Stone space

A Stone space, also called a Boolean or profinite space, is a compact, Hausdorff, totally disconnected space dual to a Boolean algebra via Stone's 1936 theorem.

Stone spheres of Costa Rica

Stone spheres of Costa Rica (Las Bolas): over 300 pre-Columbian sculpted stone balls, up to 2.6 m and 25 tons, in the Diquís Delta; four sites became Costa Rica's first cultural World Heritage sites in 2014.

Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots, San Diego rock band formed as Mighty Joe Young, fronted by Scott Weiland; Core (1992) and Purple (1994) multi-platinum; later singers Chester Bennington and Jeff Gutt.