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Stone tool
Stone tool: lithic implements made by percussion, pressure, or grinding, from the 3.3-million-year-old Kenyan finds through Oldowan and Acheulean handaxe traditions to the Middle Stone Age, until metal tools replaced stone within the last 10,000 years.
Stone Town
Stone Town (Mji Mkongwe), the historic core of Zanzibar City, Tanzania: a Swahili coastal trading town of coral-rag architecture, carved doors, and sultanate monuments, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000 facing development and conservation pressures.
Stone Yard Devotional
Stone Yard Devotional is Charlotte Wood's 2023 Allen & Unwin novel, shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, about an unnamed atheist ex-environmentalist who retreats to a convent on the Monaro plains of New South Wales during the pandemic and a mouse plague.
Stone–Čech compactification
The Stone–Čech compactification βX of a topological space X is the largest compact Hausdorff compactification, into which every bounded continuous real-valued function on X extends uniquely.
Stone–von Neumann theorem
The Stone–von Neumann theorem, or Weyl relations theorem, states that quantum canonical commutation relations have essentially one irreducible representation, proved by von Neumann in 1931.
Stone–Weierstrass theorem
The Stone–Weierstrass theorem is a result of real analysis, proved by Marshall Stone in 1937, generalizing Weierstrass's approximation theorem: any point-separating subalgebra of continuous functions on a compact space is dense.
Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras
Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras states that every Boolean algebra is isomorphic to the clopen subsets of its Stone space; Marshall Stone proved it in 1936.
Stonea
Stonea, Cambridgeshire: fen island near March holding Stonea Camp, Britain's lowest hillfort at 2 m OD, an Iron Age multivallate fort of the Iceni with a nearby Roman stone building and tower.
Stonebwoy
Stonebwoy (Livingstone Etse Satekla), Ghanaian Afro-dancehall, reggae and afrobeats artist from Ashaiman near Accra; 2015 BET Best International Act Africa winner, Def Jam signee, founder of BHIM Festival.
StoneCo
StoneCo, known as Stone, is a Brazilian payments fintech founded in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro by André Street and Eduardo Pontes, listed on Nasdaq since 2018.
Stonecreek Coal Mine
Stonecreek Coal Mine is an operating surface coal mine near New Philadelphia in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, opened in 1979 and operated by Kimble Clay & Limestone.
Stonecutters Bridge
Stonecutters Bridge is a cable-stayed road bridge in Hong Kong carrying Route 8 across the Rambler Channel between Stonecutters Island and Tsing Yi, opened in December 2009.
Stoned ape theory
The Stoned Ape theory, or Stoned Ape Hypothesis, is Terence McKenna's 1992 proposal, in Food of the Gods, that psilocybin mushrooms drove human brain evolution; mainstream science rejects it as unsupported.
Stoned Jesus
Stoned Jesus, Ukrainian stoner/doom and progressive rock band formed in Kyiv in 2009 by Igor Sydorenko. Albums First Communion, Seven Thunders Roar with I'm the Mountain, and the Songs to Sun/Moon/Earth trilogy on Season of Mist.
Stonehammer UNESCO Global Geopark
Stonehammer UNESCO Global Geopark, in southern New Brunswick, Canada, is North America's first geopark (2010), a 2,500 km² Bay of Fundy area with a 1-billion-year geological record and over 60 geosites.
Stonehearst Asylum
Stonehearst Asylum, also released as Eliza Graves, is a 2014 Brad Anderson psychological thriller starring Jim Sturgess, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Kingsley, and Michael Caine, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's story about patients taking over a Victorian asylum.
Stonehenge
Stonehenge: Neolithic stone circle on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, built from about 3100 BC and aligned on the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset; its bluestones came from Wales and its Altar Stone from Scotland, and the proposed 365.25-day "Stonehenge calendar" has been shown to be a modern construct.
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites: UNESCO World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England, inscribed 1986 under criteria (i)(ii)(iii); two chalkland landscapes of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments used circa 3700-1600 BC, including Stonehenge and Avebury's world-record stone circle.
Stoneman
Stoneman: press-given name for unidentified killer(s) of sleeping pavement dwellers in Mumbai (mid-1980s) and Kolkata (13 deaths from June 1989), heads crushed with stones or slabs; never solved, no conviction, single-killer theory unproven.
Stonemasonry
Stonemasonry, also known as stonecutting, is the craft of building structures from natural stone, shaping blocks laid with mortar or dry stacked without it, one of the oldest construction methods, first seen in ancient Egyptian temples.
Stonepeak
Stonepeak, legally Stonepeak Partners LP, is a New York-based alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, founded in 2011 and managing about $93 billion.
Stoner (novel)
Stoner is a 1965 novel by John Williams about William Stoner, a farm-born English professor at the University of Missouri who died in 1956, and his quiet professional and personal setbacks.
Stoner 63
The Stoner 63, also known as the Stoner Weapons System, is a 5.56mm modular weapon system designed by Eugene Stoner and used by Navy SEALs in Vietnam.
Stoner Cats
Stoner Cats: adult animated web series by Mila Kunis's Orchard Farm Productions, financed by 10,320 Ethereum NFTs ($8.2 million, 2021); SEC found the NFT sale an unregistered securities offering, settled for $1 million in 2023.
Stoner film
Stoner film: a film genre, mostly comedy, centered on marijuana use and its pursuit, founded by Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke (1978), with conventions of buddy pairs, single-day plots, and films like Friday and Pineapple Express.
Stoner rock
Stoner rock, also called stoner metal or desert rock, is a fusion of heavy metal, doom metal, and psychedelic rock that emerged in the early 1990s California desert scene around Kyuss, defined by downtuned fuzz riffs, slow-to-mid tempo, and groove over speed.
Stones Gambling Hall cheating scandal
Stones Gambling Hall cheating scandal, also called Postlegate: 2019 poker controversy in which Veronica Brill accused Mike Postle of cheating in RFID-equipped livestreamed cash games at Stones in Citrus Heights, California; no court established cheating.
Stoneshield Capital
Stoneshield Capital is a Luxembourg-based European real assets and private equity firm founded in 2018 by former Lone Star executives Juan Pepa and Felipe Morenés Botín.
StoneToss
StoneToss is a pseudonymous four-panel webcomic launched July 18, 2017 at stonetoss.com, presenting itself as comedy about current events and internet culture while critics, researchers, and the Counter Extremism Project describe it as promoting alt-right, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, and white nationalist ideas; the artist was identified as Hans Kristian Graebener in 2024.
Stonewall (2015 film)
Stonewall is a 2015 American historical drama film directed by Roland Emmerich, dramatizing the 1969 Stonewall riots. Criticized as whitewashing history, it was a box office failure.