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Stripped Tour de France titles and results
Stripped Tour de France titles are overall victories annulled by governing bodies, most often for doping; Garin (1904), Armstrong (1999–2005), Landis (2006), and Contador (2010) all lost theirs.
Stripped-envelope supernova
A stripped-envelope supernova is a core-collapse supernova of Type IIb, Ib, or Ic whose star lost most or all of its outer hydrogen envelope, often through binary interaction.
Stripper
Stripper (exotic dancer): a performer doing erotic, partly nude dance, aka striptease; history from 1893 Little Egypt and Minsky burlesque to Gypsy Rose Lee, plus club typology, labor organizing, and male stripping research.
Stripperella
Stripperella (Stan Lee's Stripperella) is a 2003-2004 American adult animated superhero comedy created by Stan Lee for Spike TV, voiced by Pamela Anderson as Erotica Jones, a stripper by night and crime-fighting superhero by later night, in one 13-episode season.
Stripping voltammetry
Stripping voltammetry is an electroanalytical technique that preconcentrates dissolved analytes onto a working electrode, then strips them off while measuring current, enabling trace metal detection at parts-per-billion levels.
Striptease
Striptease: an erotic dance of gradual disrobing, coined as a word in the late 1920s and born in American burlesque. Covers Gypsy Rose Lee, the Minsky-era New York scene, neo-burlesque, pole fitness mainstreaming, and UK SEV licensing effects on dancers.
Striptease (film)
Striptease is a 1996 American comedy-drama film directed by Andrew Bergman, based on Carl Hiaasen's 1993 novel, in which Demi Moore's former FBI assistant dances to fund a custody battle.
Strivadi Sahitya
Strivadi Sahitya (स्त्रीवादी साहित्य, "feminist literature") is Hindi and Indian-language writing that presents women as autonomous, thinking persons and critiques patriarchal values, beginning with Tarabai Shinde's 1882 Stri Purush Tulana.
Strive Asset Management
Strive Asset Management is an Ohio-based investment adviser co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy in 2022 that runs ETFs voting against ESG commitments to maximize owner value.
Strive Masiyiwa
Strive Masiyiwa, born 1961, is a Zimbabwean telecommunications entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Econet Wireless after winning a five-year constitutional legal battle against Zimbabwe's telecom monopoly.
Strix
Strix (earless owls, wood owls) is a genus of Strigidae owls erected by Linnaeus in 1758, including the tawny, Ural, great gray, barred, and spotted owls; molecular work shows the genus paraphyletic and has split Middle Eastern desert species.
Strix (mythology)
Strix (στρίξ, plural striges): a Greco-Roman folklore creature, an owl-like night bird or night-flying woman that drank infants' blood; ancestor of the words strigoi, shtriga, and strega, and of the owl genus Strix.
Strix occidentalis
Strix occidentalis, the spotted owl (Búho manchado, Chouette tachetée), is a brown forest owl of western North America with northern, California, and Mexican subspecies, threatened by logging, wildfire, and barred owl competition.
Strix uralensis
Strix uralensis, the Ural owl, is a large pale woodland owl breeding across Eurasian forests from Scandinavia to Japan; it is named for the Ural Mountains, where its type specimen was collected.
STROBE
STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology) is a reporting guideline for cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies, developed by an international initiative and first published in 2007.
Strobe light
A strobe light is a device that produces brief, intense flashes at a controlled, periodically repeated rate, letting fast motion be observed as if frozen or slowed.
STROBE statement
The STROBE statement (STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology) is a 22-item checklist for reporting cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies, first published in 2007.
Strobe Talbott
Strobe Talbott (born 1946) is an American diplomat and former Time journalist who served as deputy secretary of state 1994-2001, led Clinton-era Russia policy and NATO enlargement diplomacy, and was president of the Brookings Institution 2002-2017.
Strobilanthes
Strobilanthes (Blume, 1826) is a large Asian genus of Acanthaceae, about 200 to 473 species, known for periodical 6- to 12-year mass flowering, indigo-yielding S. cusia, and a broad synonymized taxonomy.
Strobilurin
Strobilurin is a naturally occurring antifungal metabolite produced by wood-decay fungi such as Strobilurus tenacellus, which became the lead for the strobilurin class of agricultural fungicides launched in 1996.
Stroboscopy
Stroboscopy is an endoscopic examination that uses light flashing in sync with a patient's voice to show the rapidly vibrating vocal folds in apparent slow motion, the standard exam for evaluating voice disorders.
Stroessner dictatorship
The Stroessner dictatorship was the authoritarian regime of General Alfredo Stroessner, who ruled Paraguay from 1954 until his overthrow in a February 1989 coup, one of Latin America's longest dictatorships.
Strøget
Strøget is Copenhagen's main pedestrian shopping street, 1.1 km from Rådhuspladsen to Kongens Nytorv, pedestrianized 17 November 1962, made up of four streets and three squares.
Stroh Brewery Company
Stroh Brewery Company: Detroit brewery founded by Bernhard Stroh in 1850, famous for fire-brewed Bohemian-style lager and its lion crest. Grew into America's third-largest brewer before debt from the Schlitz and Heileman acquisitions ended it in 1999; the Stroh's brand now belongs to Pabst.
Stroh violin
The Stroh violin, or Stroviol, is a bowed string instrument that replaces the wooden body with a metal diaphragm and horn, patented by John Stroh in London in 1899.
Stroke
A stroke, also called a brain attack, is a medical emergency in which blood flow to part of the brain is blocked or a vessel bursts, killing brain cells within minutes.
Stroke (engine)
The stroke is the distance a piston travels in an engine cylinder between top and bottom dead center, and with the bore it fixes the engine's displacement.
Stroke (journal)
Stroke, formally Stroke: a Journal of Cerebral Circulation, is a peer-reviewed medical journal published since 1970 by the American Heart Association covering cerebral circulation and its diseases.
Stroke Belt
Stroke Belt: southeastern US region (8 core states including Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi) with roughly 20% higher stroke mortality than the rest of the nation since at least 1940; includes the higher-mortality "stroke buckle".
Stroke in China
Stroke in China: the world's largest stroke burden, with 4.1 million incident and 26.3 million prevalent cases and 2.6 million deaths in 2021; ischemic stroke dominates, high blood pressure the leading risk factor.