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Storyteller figure

A storyteller figure is a Pueblo pottery figurine of a seated adult with open mouth and closed eyes, surrounded by attached children, invented in 1964 by Cochiti potter Helen Cordero.

Storytelling

Storytelling, the narrative transmission of knowledge and culture through oral, written, and digital forms; includes griots, moʻolelo, seanchaí, Parry-Lord oral-formulaic theory, memory fidelity research, and modern digital revival.

Storytelling (Yellowjackets)

"Storytelling" (S2E9) is the season 2 finale of Yellowjackets, written by Ameni Rozsa, directed by Karyn Kusama, released May 26, 2023: Natalie dies at Lottie's compound, Walter closes the Adam Martin case, and Coach Ben burns the wilderness cabin.

Stotra

Stotra (स्तोत्र), also stotram, is a Sanskrit hymn of praise to a deity, from the root stu, "to praise". In the Sāmaveda it names the chants of the Soma sacrifice.

Stoudios Monastery

The Stoudios Monastery (Μονὴ τοῦ Στουδίου) was a monastery in Constantinople founded in the mid-fifth century, known for Abbot Theodore the Studite's influential monastic rule.

Stouffer Corporation

The Stouffer Corporation was a Cleveland-based restaurant, hotel, and frozen-food company founded by Abraham and Lena Stouffer in 1922, now known for Nestlé's Stouffer's frozen meals.

Stourbridge

Stourbridge is a West Midlands town in Dudley borough, England, famed for 400 years of glassmaking, the Red House Glass Cone, town centre regeneration, and the August 2026 wildfire.

Stout

Stout: dark, roasty top-fermented beer family, originally a strong porter; styles include dry Irish (Guinness), milk, oatmeal, foreign extra, and imperial stout; ABV 3.5-13%.

Stove

Stove: an enclosed device burning fuel or using electricity for cooking or heating. Covers traditional and improved biomass cookstoves, gas, electric, and induction ranges, WHO/ISO clean cooking standards, health impacts, and adoption factors.

Stove (album)

Stove is the tenth studio album by Lana Del Rey, a country- and Americana-influenced record for Interscope and Polydor, formerly titled Lasso and The Right Person Will Stay, previewed by three singles but unreleased as of October 2026.

Stove God Cooks

Stove God Cooks (Aaron Cooks, formerly Cook$), Syracuse, New York coke rapper and singer; debut Reasonable Drought (2020) fully produced by Roc Marciano; frequent Griselda collaborator via Westside Gunn; featured on Clipse's F.I.C.O. (2025).

Stow-on-the-Wold

Stow-on-the-Wold: hilltop Cotswold market town in Gloucestershire, England, about 2,000 people, the highest Cotswold town at 800 feet on the Fosse Way, known for its wool-trade square, the 1646 Battle of Stow, and St Edward's Church yew door.

Stowaway (2021 film)

Stowaway (2021) is a Joe Penna sci-fi drama on Netflix: a Mars-bound crew finds an accidental stowaway who damaged the CO2 scrubber, forcing a lifeboat-style moral choice. Stars Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson.

Stowe (Venusian crater)

Stowe is an IAU-approved impact crater on Venus at 43.2°S, 233.2°E, about 75-80 km across, named in 1994 for novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe and known for its wind-eroded radar-dark parabola.

Stowe House

Stowe House is a Grade I listed country house in Buckinghamshire, England, built for the Temple family from 1677, seat of the Temple-Grenville family for over 300 years.

Stowe School

Stowe School: co-educational independent boarding and day school for ages 13-18 at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire; founded 1923 with 99 boys under J. F. Roxburgh to save the house; fees £58,560 boarding (2026-27).

Stoya

Stoya (Jessica Stojadinović, born 1986 or 1987) is an American adult film performer (since 2006/2007), director, and writer; known for Digital Playground, the 2015 James Deen accusation, the book Philosophy, Pussycats and Porn, and Slate's 'How to Do It' column.

Stoyan Danev

Stoyan Danev (Стоян Данев, 1858–1949) was a Bulgarian lawyer and politician who served twice as prime minister and led the Bulgarian delegation at the London peace talks of 1912–1913.

Stoyan Delchev

Stoyan Delchev (Стоян Делчев), Bulgarian artistic gymnast born 1959 in Plovdiv; 1980 Olympic horizontal bar champion and all-around bronze medalist, 1979 European all-around champion, eponym of the Delchev release skill.

Stoyan Mihaylovski

Stoyan Mihaylovski (Стоян Михайловски), 1856–1927, was a Bulgarian writer, satirical poet, teacher, and political figure, author of "Varvi, narode vazrodeni," the hymn sung every 24 May.

Stoyanka Gruycheva Kurbatova

Stoyanka Gruycheva Kurbatova (Стоянка Груйчева-Курбатова), Bulgarian rower born 1955 in Starosel; Olympic gold in coxless pairs with Siyka Kelbecheva at Montreal 1976 and bronze at Moscow 1980.

STP marketing model

The STP marketing model is a three-step strategic process in which a firm segments a market, targets the segments it will serve, and positions a distinct offer for each.

STPR domain

STPR domain (score and three amino acid peptide repeats), a 23-residue tandem-repeat DNA-binding domain first found in silkworm FMBP-1; Pfam PF21107, InterPro IPR048998; also in human ZNF821.

STR (hospitality data company)

STR, originally Smith Travel Research, is a hospitality data company collecting performance data from hotels worldwide for benchmarking; founded in 1985, it has been owned by CoStar Group since 2019.

STR analysis

STR analysis, or short tandem repeat analysis, is a forensic DNA profiling method that identifies individuals from biological samples by measuring repeated DNA segments, and also serves paternity testing and mass-disaster investigations.

Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton

Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton is Eazy-E's second and final studio album, released posthumously January 30, 1996 on Ruthless/Relativity, 14 tracks completed by DJ Yella after his March 1995 AIDS death, certified Gold.

Straatsma syndrome

Straatsma syndrome: rare ophthalmologic triad of myelinated retinal nerve fibers, axial myopia, and amblyopia, usually unilateral; described by Bradley R. Straatsma et al. in 1979, with strabismus frequent and amblyopia typically refractory to treatment.

STRABAG

STRABAG SE is an Austrian construction group active in more than 50 countries, Central and Eastern Europe's largest, building transport infrastructure, buildings, and tunnelling across roughly 14,000 projects.

Strabismus

Strabismus (squint) is misalignment of the eyes, affecting 2-5% of people. Types include esotropia, exotropia, hypertropia; treated with glasses, prisms, exercises, or eye muscle surgery, sometimes with adjustable sutures.

Strabismus surgery

Strabismus surgery adjusts the position or tension of the extraocular muscles to realign eyes that point in different directions, improving binocular vision, stereoacuity, and head posture.