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Stratus Computer, Inc.
Stratus Computer, Inc. was a Massachusetts manufacturer of fault-tolerant computers founded in 1980, which grew to $688 million in revenue before its 1998 sale to Ascend.
Straubenzee family
Van Straubenzee family, Dutch-origin British family founded by Philip William Casimir van Straubenzee (c.1745); produced generals including Sir Charles Thomas van Straubenzee and politician Sir William van Straubenzee, MP for Wokingham.
Straumann Holding
Straumann Holding AG is a Swiss dental company, the world's largest dental implant maker with over 35% market share, founded in 1954 in Waldenburg, Switzerland.
Straumøya
Straumøya (also Straumoya) is a 29.7 km² island in Bodø Municipality, Nordland, Norway, in Saltfjorden south of Bodø, bounded by Sundstraumen and Saltstraumen, crossed by Fylkesvei 17; distinct from namesake islands in Frøya and Smøla.
Strauss–Howe generational theory
The Strauss–Howe generational theory, also known as Strauss and Howe, is a theory developed in the 1990s holding that American history cycles through four recurring turnings.
Strava
Strava: social fitness app and website for recording GPS runs, rides, and 50 activity types, with segment leaderboards (KOM/QOM). 200M+ athletes in 185+ countries; $80/yr subscription; known for leaderboard integrity efforts and privacy incidents like the 2018 heatmap.
Stravinsky (Mercurian crater)
Stravinsky is a 190-kilometer-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 50.5°N, imaged in high resolution by MESSENGER's Narrow Angle Camera on April 2, 2012, showing its southern wall.
Straw
Straw: dry stalks of cereal crops (wheat, barley, rice) left after grain harvest, seed-free unlike hay. Used for livestock feed and bedding, thatching, mulch, biofuel, and straw-bale construction; composition and burning rules covered.
Straw (film)
Straw is a 2025 Tyler Perry drama-thriller on Netflix starring Taraji P. Henson as Janiyah, a single mother who accidentally holds a bank hostage; also with Sherri Shepherd and Teyana Taylor, released June 6, 2025.
Straw Dogs (1971 film)
Straw Dogs (1971) is Sam Peckinpah's controversial thriller starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George, adapted from Gordon Williams' The Siege of Trencher's Farm, set in Cornwall, banned from UK video from 1988 to 2002, and remade by Rod Lurie in 2011.
Straw Dogs (2011 film)
Straw Dogs is a 2011 psychological thriller directed by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of the 1971 film and is based on the novel by Gordon Williams.
Straw Hat Goofy
Straw Hat Goofy is the TikTok and podcast alias of American film critic Juju (Julian) Green from Compton, known for @straw_hat_goofy movie breakdowns, the Get Rec'd podcast, iHeartMedia work, and One Piece-derived branding.
Straw Hats
Straw Hats (麦わらの一味, Straw Hat Pirates) are Monkey D. Luffy's ten-member crew in Eiichiro Oda's One Piece, named for the straw hat from Shanks, sailing for the One Piece treasure with a Jolly Roger of a straw-hatted skull.
Straw Hats' Jolly Roger
The Straw Hats' Jolly Roger (麦わらの一味の海賊旗) is the One Piece pirate flag: a grinning skull in Luffy's straw hat over crossed bones, drawn by Luffy and Usopp, and a Gen Z protest symbol since 2023.
Straw man
A straw man is an informal fallacy in which a speaker misrepresents an opponent's position and then refutes the distorted version instead of the real one.
Straw purchase
Straw purchase: a buy made by one person on behalf of another, chiefly in U.S. firearms law (18 U.S.C. §932, Abramski), also straw buyers in mortgage, auto loan, and campaign finance fraud.
Straw that broke the camel's back
The straw that broke the camel's back, also known as the final straw, is an English idiom describing a small addition to a burden that causes failure.
Straw-bale construction
Straw-bale construction is a building method using stacked straw bales as load-bearing walls or frame insulation, developed in Nebraska from about 1900 to 1940 and revived since the 1970s.
Strawberries and Cream Tree
The Strawberries and Cream Tree is a rare graft-chimaera cherry tree in Backwell, North Somerset, England, flowering pink and white on one trunk from two cherry species.
Strawberry
Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa), the cultivated garden strawberry, an octoploid hybrid of F. virginiana and F. chiloensis arising in 1750s France; grown as June-bearing, everbearing, and day-neutral cultivars, with day-neutrals driving California's yield doubling since the 1970s.
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Strawberry Alarm Clock, successor to Thee Sixpence, is a Southern California psychedelic rock band whose 1967 single "Incense and Peppermints" topped the Billboard Hot 100; still active with five original members and the 2026 album Where's One?.
Strawberry and Chocolate
Strawberry and Chocolate (Fresa y chocolate), 1993 Cuban-Mexican-Spanish comedy-drama by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío; friendship between communist student David and gay artist Diego in 1979 Havana; first Cuban Oscar nominee.
Strawberry Fields (festival)
Strawberry Fields is an Australian independent electronic and live music camping festival founded in 2009, held each summer on the Murray River near Tocumwal, New South Wales.
Strawberry Fields (memorial)
Strawberry Fields is the John Lennon memorial in Central Park, New York, near West 72nd Street opposite the Dakota. Named for "Strawberry Fields Forever," dedicated October 9, 1985, it centers on the Naples-donated Imagine mosaic.
Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever, Beatles psychedelic single written by John Lennon, released February 1967 as a double A-side with Penny Lane; spliced from takes 7 and 26, peaked at UK number 2 and US number 8.
Strawberry Panic! (ストロベリー・パニック!)
Strawberry Panic! (ストロベリー・パニック!) is a yuri media franchise from a 2003–2005 Dengeki G's reader project, spanning Kono Sakura's 3 light novels, a 2-volume manga, a 2006 Madhouse anime, and a 2006 PS2 game, set at an all-female Catholic school with an Etoile system; the anime, manga, and novels tell substantially different stories.
Strawberry poison-dart frog
The strawberry poison-dart frog (Oophaga pumilio) is a small toxic frog from Caribbean rainforests of Central America, famous for color morphs ranging from red to blue and green.
Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake is a media franchise owned by WildBrain, begun as a greeting-card character in the late 1970s and expanded into dolls, TV specials, and animated series.
Strawberry shortcake (dessert)
Strawberry shortcake: American dessert of sweetened strawberries, a split biscuit-style shortcake, and whipped cream; first in an American cookbook in 1847, with macerated berries forming a no-cook syrup.
Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City
Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City is WildBrain's 2021 2D-animated reboot of the 1973 Strawberry Shortcake franchise, following Strawberry and her berry besties running food trucks in Big Apple City across three seasons.