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Stonewall Brigade
Stonewall Brigade: Confederate Civil War unit of five Virginia regiments and a battery, formed April 27, 1861 under Thomas J. Jackson; named for his 'stone wall' stand at First Manassas; 210 of over 6,000 men remained at Appomattox.
Stonewall Inn
The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar at 51-53 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, was the site of the June 28, 1969 police raid and uprising that catalyzed the modern gay rights movement; now a National Historic Landmark within Stonewall National Monument.
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Jackson (1824–1863), Confederate lieutenant general commanding the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Nicknamed at First Manassas, famed for the 1862 Valley Campaign and Harpers Ferry, mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville.
Stonewall riots
Stonewall riots, also the Stonewall uprising or rebellion: June 28 to July 3, 1969 Greenwich Village protests after a police raid on the mafia-run, unlicensed Stonewall Inn gay bar; catalyst of the modern LGBTQ rights movement and the first Pride marches in 1970.
Stoneware
Stoneware is a category of pottery fired at 1200 to 1300 °C until the clay body partially vitrifies, becoming dense, non-porous, and impervious to liquids even unglazed.
StoneWise (望石智慧)
StoneWise (望石智慧) is a Beijing-based AI drug discovery company founded in 2018 by Zhou Jielong, selling small-molecule design software and developing its own drug candidates.
StoneX Group
StoneX Group Inc. is a global financial services firm connecting clients to derivatives, securities, foreign exchange, and commodity markets; it is the largest non-bank futures commission merchant in the United States.
Stoney (album)
Stoney is Post Malone's debut studio album (Austin Richard Post), released December 9, 2016 on Republic Records; hip-hop/R&B with pop and country influences, featuring Bieber, Quavo, Kehlani, and Pharrell; five times RIAA platinum with a record 51-week climb to No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Stoney (Martian crater)
Stoney, Martian crater, IAU-approved 1973, named for physicist George Johnstone Stoney; 161.37 km diameter at 69.61°S, 221.49°E in Mars's cratered southern highlands.
Stoney units
Stoney units, also called the Stoney scale, are natural units built from the speed of light, gravity, and electron charge, proposed by George Johnstone Stoney in 1874.
Stoneyford
Stoneyford (Stonyford) names several places: a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland, on the N10 with a reported first-century Roman burial; an electoral ward in Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland; a Grade II Worcestershire house; and a Derbyshire canal wharf.
Stonham Aspal
Stonham Aspal, Suffolk (formerly Stonham Antegan, Estuna in Domesday): Mid Suffolk village and parish of 589 people on a Roman road, with a Roman bath house, Grade I St Mary and St Lambert church, and 46 listed buildings.
Stonin
Stonins (stonin 1, stonin 2; Drosophila stoned B, C. elegans UNC-41) are monomeric endocytic adaptor proteins with mu-homology and stonin homology domains; stonin 2 sorts synaptotagmin 1 for synaptic vesicle recycling, stonin 1 mediates NG2 endocytosis.
Stoning
Stoning (lapidation, rajm) is execution by group stone-throwing. Known from Biblical law, developed as a zina punishment in Islamic law, authorized by nine countries but rarely used judicially; UN bodies deem it torture.
Stoning of the Devil (رمي الجمرات)
The Stoning of the Devil (رمي الجمرات, ramy al-jamarat) is a Hajj pilgrimage rite in which pilgrims throw pebbles at three walls in Mina near Mecca, re-enacting Abraham pelting Satan.
Stono Rebellion
The Stono Rebellion, also known as Cato's Conspiracy, was a 1739 slave uprising near Charleston, South Carolina, in which about one hundred enslaved Africans marched toward Spanish Florida.
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University (SUNY at Stony Brook), New York's flagship public research university on Long Island, founded 1957; R1, AAU member, 27,700+ students, #1 public university in New York, seventh president Andrea Goldsmith since 2025.
Stony Brook University Hospital
Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH), also called Stony Brook Medicine's flagship, is a 628-bed academic medical center in Stony Brook, NY, opened February 18, 1980; Long Island's only tertiary care center and Level 1 Trauma Center, ranked No. 10 in New York State.
Stony Brook, New York
Stony Brook, New York: a Suffolk County hamlet and CDP on Long Island's North Shore, home of Stony Brook University and its 628-bed hospital; 13,467 residents (2020), founded as part of the 1655 Setauket land purchase.
Stony coral tissue loss disease
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is a lethal coral disease first seen off Miami in 2014 that has killed over 22 Caribbean stony coral species; cause unidentified, treated with amoxicillin paste and probiotics.
Stony desert
Stony desert, also called reg, serir, gobi, or gibber terrain, is a gravel-armored desert plain formed by deflation and dust accretion; sand covers only about 20 percent of Earth's deserts, while stony and rocky surfaces dominate.
Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania: a township incorporated in 1792 from Quemahoning Township, one of Somerset County's six original townships, containing Shanksville, the Flight 93 crash site; population 2,162 over 61.1 square miles.
Stonyhurst College
Stonyhurst College: Jesuit Catholic co-educational boarding and day school (ages 11-18) at Clitheroe, Lancashire, descendant of the 1593 College of St Omers; oldest continuously active Jesuit school, moved to England in 1794.
Stool culture
Stool culture is a microbiological test that grows bacteria from fecal specimens to identify the pathogens causing bacterial gastroenteritis, including Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, and E. coli O157:H7.
Stool DNA test
A stool DNA test is an at-home colorectal cancer screening test that detects DNA shed from tumors into stool, marketed as Cologuard and FDA approved in 2014.
Stop & Shop
Stop & Shop is a Northeastern US supermarket chain founded from the 1914 Economy Grocery Company of the Rabb (Rabinovitz) family of Boston, pioneer of self-service supermarkets, owned by Ahold Delhaize since 1996.
Stop AI
Stop AI is a Bay Area activist group founded in 2024 that uses nonviolent civil disobedience to demand a permanent global ban on frontier artificial intelligence development, including AGI.
Stop and identify statutes
Stop and identify statutes: US state laws requiring a person lawfully detained on reasonable suspicion to state a name, also called Hiibel laws. Upheld name-only in Hiibel v. Nevada (2004); limited by Brown v. Texas and Kolender v. Lawson.
Stop codon
Stop codon: UAA, UAG, UGA trinucleotides ending translation; recognized by release factors eRF1/eRF3 (eukaryotes) or RF1/RF2 (bacteria), not tRNA; basis of nonsense-suppression therapies.
Stop it. Get some help.
"Stop it. Get some help." is a line from a 1987 McDonald's-sponsored Michael Jordan anti-drug PSA aired on ABC after 'Cracked Up', later a Vine and YouTube reaction meme mocking cringeworthy behavior.