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Strangers in the Night
Strangers in the Night: 1966 Frank Sinatra hit, originally instrumental "Beddy Bye" by Bert Kaempfert with lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder; number one in the US and UK, four Grammys including Record of the Year.
Strangers on a Train (film)
Strangers on a Train is Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 Warner Bros. thriller based on Patricia Highsmith's novel, in which Robert Walker's Bruno murders Farley Granger's tennis-star wife after a criss-cross murder-swap pact; a National Film Registry selection noted for its suspense set pieces.
Strangers with Candy
Strangers with Candy is an American dark-comedy series created by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert, and Mitch Rouse. It aired on Comedy Central from 1999 to 2000.
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, Belle Burden's 2026 Dial Press debut, expands her 2023 Modern Love essay about her husband James leaving after 20 years during the 2020 pandemic; a No. 1 bestseller whose financial narrative was later challenged by the New Yorker.
Strangeways, Here We Come
Strangeways, Here We Come is the fourth and final studio album by the Smiths, released 28 September 1987 on Rough Trade after the band split; it peaked at number 2 in the UK, went gold in the UK and US, and is the band's most elaborately produced record.
Strangford Loch
Strangford Lough (Loch Cuan) is Northern Ireland's largest sea lough, about 150 km2 in County Down, a drowned drumlin landscape with 120 islands, rich marine life, and Ramsar, SAC, SPA, and MCZ protections.
Strangler fig
绞杀榕 (strangler figs) are hemiepiphytic Ficus trees, such as Ficus tinctoria and F. benjamina, that germinate on host trees, root into the soil, and may kill their hosts; urbanization boosts their colonization but blocks later establishment.
Strangler fig pattern
The strangler fig pattern is a software architecture pattern, coined by Martin Fowler, for incrementally replacing a legacy system until the old one is retired.
Strangling
Strangling is compression of the neck or restriction of breathing, causing loss of consciousness or death; non-fatal strangulation is a domestic abuse risk indicator now a specific offence in England and Wales (2022), New York (2010), and New Zealand.
Strangulation in domestic violence
Strangulation in domestic violence is neck compression by an intimate partner or family member; it can kill within minutes and often leaves no visible injury.
Stranraer F.C.
Stranraer F.C., The Blues, Scottish club founded 1870, third oldest league club in Scotland, playing at Stair Park since 1907; Challenge Cup winners 1996, currently top of Scottish League Two under Chris Aitken.
Strap It On
Strap It On (also Strap It On by Helmet) is the 1990 debut studio album by the American alternative metal band Helmet, released on Amphetamine Reptile Records; its nine tracks and roughly 40,000 sales on a small indie label triggered the Interscope bidding war that produced Meantime.
Strap-on booster
A strap-on booster is a rocket motor attached to the side of a launch vehicle's core stage, burning in parallel to increase liftoff thrust and payload capacity.
Strap-on dildo
A strap-on dildo, also called a strapon, is a dildo held in place by a harness worn at the pelvis, letting the wearer penetrate a partner without using their genitals.
Strappado
Strappado (Spanish garrucha, Italian strappata) is a pulley torture: hands tied behind the back, victim hoisted and dropped with a jerk, dislocating shoulders. Used by medieval and Spanish Inquisitions, Templar and witch trials, and secular courts across Europe.
Strapping Young Lad
Strapping Young Lad: Canadian industrial/extreme metal band formed 1994 in Vancouver by Devin Townsend, with Gene Hoglan, Byron Stroud, Jed Simon; five Century Media albums, landmark City (1997), ended 2007.
Strasbourg
Strasbourg, capital of Alsace and the Grand Est region in eastern France, seat of the European Parliament and Council of Europe; founded as Roman Argentoratum in 12 BC, annexed by France in 1681, German 1871–1918, UNESCO-listed Grande-Île and Neustadt.
Strasbourg astronomical clock
The Strasbourg astronomical clock (horloge astronomique de Strasbourg) is a monumental astronomical clock in Strasbourg Cathedral, France, built by Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué between 1838 and 1842.
Strasbourg Cathedral
Strasbourg Cathedral, also known as Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, is the Catholic cathedral of Strasbourg, France, built of pink Vosges sandstone from 1015 to 1439 with a single 142-meter spire.
Strasbourg, Grande-Île and Neustadt
Strasbourg, Grande-Île, and Neustadt: UNESCO World Heritage property in Strasbourg, France. Grande-Île medieval centre inscribed 1988, Neustadt German imperial district added 2017, criteria (ii) and (iv), 183 ha.
Strashilidae
Strashilidae (type genus Strashila, species S. daohugouensis) are extinct Middle Jurassic flies from Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, once thought to be feather-grasping dinosaur ectoparasites but reinterpreted in 2013 as amphibious, paedomorphic dipterans related to Nymphomyiidae.
Strassen algorithm
The Strassen algorithm, or Strassen's method, is a recursive matrix multiplication algorithm Volker Strassen published in 1969 that uses seven multiplications of half-sized submatrices instead of eight, the first with sub-cubic complexity.
Strassen Roman Milestone
Strassen Roman Milestone: uninscribed cylindrical Roman sandstone milestone found 1969 between Strassen-Dorf and Tassenbach in East Tyrol, Austria; marked 20 Roman miles from Aguntum; now east of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche, a protected Austrian monument.
Straßenverkehrsordnung
The Straßenverkehrsordnung (StVO) is the German federal road traffic ordinance governing how road users must behave, traffic flow, and traffic signs; the current version took effect on 1 April 2013.
Strasserism
Strasserism is the anti-capitalist strand of Nazism associated with Gregor and Otto Strasser in the NSDAP before 1933, combining nationalization proposals and worker rhetoric with antisemitism and anti-Weimar politics; it ended with Gregor's 1934 murder and Otto's exile.
Strat-O-Matic
Strat-O-Matic, also called Strat-O-Matic Baseball, is a dice-and-card sports simulation game series created by Hal Richman, first issued 1961, with Basic/Advanced/Super Advanced levels and the online Baseball 365 162-game league format.
Strata title
Strata title: Australian property ownership dividing land into individually titled lots plus jointly owned common property, managed by an owners corporation (body corporate, strata company) under a registered strata plan with unit entitlements.
Stratasys
Stratasys is an Israeli-incorporated 3D printing company headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota and Rehovot, Israel, best known as the origin and commercializer of Fused Deposition Modeling.
Strategic Air Command
Strategic Air Command (SAC), US Air Force Major Command and DoD specified command, 1946-1992, controlling land-based nuclear bombers, ICBMs, tankers, and reconnaissance aircraft; headquartered at Offutt AFB, inactivated 1992 into ACC and AMC.
Strategic Air Command (film)
Strategic Air Command (1955) is a Paramount VistaVision drama directed by Anthony Mann, starring James Stewart as recalled baseball player Dutch Holland, with June Allyson; made with Air Force cooperation, featuring B-36 and B-47 footage.