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Street-level characters of The Wire
Street-level characters of The Wire: the drug dealers, stick-up men, addicts, and corner kids of HBO's Baltimore series (2002–2008), including Avon Barksdale, Stringer Bell, Omar Little, Marlo Stanfield, and Bubbles, their organizations and real-life models.
Streetball
Streetball is informal, self-officiated basketball played on urban playgrounds, usually 3-on-3 half court with one basket and a check-ball restart. Related to FIBA 3x3, recognized 2007; famous courts include Rucker Park and the Drew League.
Streetfighter (motorcycle)
A streetfighter is a motorcycle style in which a sportbike loses its fairings and gains wider, higher handlebars, a style that grew from crashed 1980s sportbikes into a factory category.
Streetlife Serenade
Streetlife Serenade is Billy Joel's third studio album, released October 11, 1974 on Columbia Records, recorded in Los Angeles, produced by Michael Stewart, containing "The Entertainer" (#34 Hot 100) and reaching #35 in the US.
Streetlight Manifesto
Streetlight Manifesto: New Jersey ska punk band formed 2002 by ex-Catch 22 songwriter Tomas Kalnoky; albums Everything Goes Numb (2003) through The Hands That Thieve (2013), Victory Records lawsuit, 2026 tour.
Streets of Fire
Streets of Fire (1984) is Walter Hill's neo-noir "rock & roll fable" starring Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, and Willem Dafoe; a box-office failure that became a cult classic with a Jim Steinman and Ry Cooder soundtrack.
Streets of Fire (soundtrack)
Streets of Fire: Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (MCA, 1984), the album for Walter Hill's rock-and-roll fable, featuring Jim Steinman's Fire Inc. songs and Dan Hartman's hit I Can Dream About You; Springsteen's title song was dropped, and Ry Cooder's score remains unreleased.
Streets of Minneapolis
"Streets of Minneapolis" is Bruce Springsteen's protest song, released by Columbia Records on 28 January 2026, memorializing Alex Pretti and Renee Good, fatally shot by federal ICE agents during the January 2026 Minneapolis DHS operation.
Streets of Philadelphia
"Streets of Philadelphia" is Bruce Springsteen's Oscar- and four-time Grammy-winning 1993 song for Jonathan Demme's film Philadelphia, built on drum loops and synthesizers, later spawning the lost album Streets of Philadelphia Sessions.
Streets of Rage
Streets of Rage (Bare Knuckle) is Sega's side-scrolling beat 'em up trilogy launched on Genesis in 1991 with ex-cops Adam, Axel, and Blaze, revived in 2020 by Dotemu, Lizardcube, and Guard Crush as Streets of Rage 4.
Streets of Rage (ベア・ナックル 怒りの鉄拳) (video game)
Streets of Rage (Bare Knuckle, ベア・ナックル 怒りの鉄拳) is Sega's 1991 Mega Drive side-scrolling beat 'em up, its answer to Final Fight, with three ex-cops fighting a syndicate and a landmark Yuzo Koshiro house-music soundtrack.
Streets of Rage 4 (ベア・ナックルIV)
Streets of Rage 4 (ベア・ナックルIV, Bare Knuckle IV) is a 2020 side-scrolling beat 'em up by Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, and Lizardcube, the first core series entry in about 25 years, with hand-drawn art, recoverable-health specials, combo scoring, and the Mr. X Nightmare DLC (2021).
Streets of SimCity
Streets of SimCity is a 1997 Maxis vehicular combat and driving game for Windows, a SimCity 2000 spin-off that imports player cities for street-level driving, missions, and up to eight-player network deathmatch.
Streetwear
Streetwear is casual, culture-driven fashion built around hoodies, graphic T-shirts, and sneakers, which grew out of 1980s and 1990s youth subcultures including hip-hop, skateboarding, surf, punk, and graffiti.
Streetwise
Streetwise (1984) is Martin Bell's Oscar-nominated documentary on homeless Seattle teenagers, made with Mary Ellen Mark and Cheryl McCall from their 1983 Life article "Streets of the Lost," featuring Tiny, Rat, and DeWayne.
Strega Nona
Strega Nona is Tomie dePaola's 1975 Caldecott Honor picture book, an Italian retelling of the porridge-pot tale in which helper Big Anthony floods a Calabrian town with pasta from a magic pot and must eat it all.
Strega Prize
The Strega Prize (Premio Strega) is Italy's leading annual literary award for narrative fiction, decided in Rome each July since 1947 by a jury of cultural figures.
Streisand effect
The Streisand effect is when censorship attempts backfire and amplify the suppressed information. Named for Barbra Streisand's failed 2003 $50 million lawsuit over an aerial photo of her Malibu home; term coined by Mike Masnick in 2005.
Strela (crane)
Strela, Russian for "arrow," is a class of four Russian-built, manually operated cargo cranes used during spacewalks on the Mir station and the International Space Station.
Strela (rocket)
Strela, Russian for "Arrow," is a Russian space launch vehicle made by converting the UR-100NUTTKh ICBM, developed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya and flown three times from Baikonur silos.
Streletsky Prikaz
The Streletsky Prikaz (Стрелецкий приказ) was the central Muscovite chancellery administering the streltsy musketeer corps in service, pay, and court, first mentioned in 1571 and transformed into the Prikaz of Zemstvo Affairs in 1701.
Strelitzia
Strelitzia, bird-of-paradise or crane flower genus, five southern African species in Strelitziaceae; named for Queen Charlotte, bird-pollinated via feet, S. reginae most cultivated.
Strelitzia reginae
Strelitzia reginae, known as the bird-of-paradise flower or crane flower, is a South African perennial herb grown worldwide for its orange and blue flowers that resemble a bird's head.
Streltsy
The Streltsy (Стрельцы) were the permanent musketeer force of Russia, created by Tsar Ivan IV in Moscow in 1550 and disbanded by Peter I after the 1698 uprising.
Streltsy revolt of 1698 and abolition of the streltsy
The Streltsy revolt of 1698 (Расформирование стрелецкого войска) was an uprising of Moscow streltsy regiments, defeated on 18 June 1698 while Peter I was abroad.
Streltsy Uprising of 1698
The Streltsy Uprising of 1698 (Стрелецкий бунт) was a mutiny of four Moscow streltsy regiments that marched on Moscow while Peter I was abroad and was defeated on 18 June 1698.
Strength athletics
Strength athletics: competitive strength sports, chiefly Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting (squat, bench, deadlift), and strongman/World's Strongest Man; history from odd lifts, 1977 WSM, Wilks scoring.
Strength of materials
Strength of materials, also called mechanics of materials, is the branch of engineering mechanics that describes how solid objects deform and fail under applied forces such as tension, compression, and shear.
Strength reduction
Strength reduction is a compiler optimization that replaces expensive arithmetic operations, such as multiplication and division, with cheaper equivalents like addition, subtraction, and bit shifting.
Strength Through Joy
Strength Through Joy, or Kraft durch Freude, was the leisure and tourism organization of Nazi Germany. Founded in 1933 under the German Labor Front, it sold subsidized trips and cruises to workers.