Bernhard Stavenhagen was a German pianist and conductor who played in the virtuoso style of Franz Liszt. Stavenhagen was one of Liszt’s last pupils (1885–86) and gave the oration at Liszt’s funeral. From 1886 to 1900 he toured most European countries and America. He was court conductor at Weimar

Vostok Island, coral atoll in the Southern Line Islands, part of Kiribati, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It lies 400 miles (640 km) northwest of Tahiti. A low formation rising to 16 feet (5 metres) above sea level and with a land area of only 0.1 square mile (0.3 square km), it has no anchorage in

Stavisky affair, French financial scandal of 1933 that, by triggering right-wing agitation, resulted in a major crisis in the history of the Third Republic (1870–1940). The scandal came to light in December 1933 when the bonds of a credit organization in Bayonne, founded by the financier Alexandre

Stavisky affair: …Bayonne, founded by the financier Alexandre Stavisky, proved worthless. When Stavisky was found dead in January 1934, police officials said that he had committed suicide. Members of the French right believed, however, that Stavisky had been killed to prevent revelation of a scandal that would involve prominent people, including ministers…

Tolyatti, city, Samara oblast (province), western Russia, on the Volga River. Founded as a fortress in 1738 and known as Stavropol, it was given city status in 1780 and again in 1946. Overshadowed by Samara, it remained unimportant until the beginning in 1950 of the huge V.I. Lenin barrage (dam)

Stavropol, kray (territory), southwestern Russia, on the northern flank of the Greater Caucasus. The territory stretches from the crestline, which reaches 13,274 feet (4,046 meters) in Mount Dombay-Ulgen, across the lower parallel ranges, which are broken by deep river gorges, and then across the

Stavropol, city and administrative centre of Stavropol kray (territory), southwestern Russia, situated on the Stavropol Upland near the source of the Grachovka River. It was founded in 1777 as a fortress. Although it was at first a major route and administrative centre, the city was later bypassed

Caucasus: Physiography: Central Ciscaucasia includes the Stavropol Upland, characterized mainly by tablelands of limestone or sandstone separated by deep valleys; the Mineralnye Vody-Pyatigorsk zone to the southeast, where Mount Beshtau rises to 4,593 feet (1,400 metres) from the surrounding plateau; and, still farther to the southeast, the Terek and the Sunzha…

Aphrodisias, ancient city of the Caria region of southwestern Asia Minor (Anatolia, or modern Turkey), situated on a plateau south of the Maeander River (modern Büyük Menderes). Remains of an Ionic temple of Aphrodite and of a stadium and portions of a bathhouse have long been evident, but,

Ídi: One of Ídi’s two peaks, Timios Stavros, at 8,058 feet (2,456 m), is Crete’s highest mountain. According to one legend Zeus was reared in the Ídiean cave on the peak’s scrub-covered slopes. The well-known Kamares wares (Minoan polychrome pottery) are named for Kameres cave, where they were discovered. The limestone…

Cyprus: Relief: …coast to the 2,260-foot (689-metre) Stavrovouni peak, about 12 miles (19 km) from the southeastern coast. The range’s summit, Mount Olympus (also called Mount Troodos), reaches an elevation of 6,401 feet (1,951 metres) and is the island’s highest point.

Stax Records: Founded in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1960 by country music fiddle player Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton, following a previous false start with Satellite Records, Stax maintained a down-home, family atmosphere during its early years. Black and white musicians and singers worked together in…

Founded in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1960 by country music fiddle player Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton, following a previous false start with Satellite Records, Stax maintained a down-home, family atmosphere during its early years. Black and white musicians and singers worked together in

Stax Records: Founded in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1960 by country music fiddle player Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton, following a previous false start with Satellite Records, Stax maintained a down-home, family atmosphere during its early years. Black and white musicians and singers worked together in…

rigging: The mast is supported by stays and shrouds that are known as the standing rigging because they are made fast; the shrouds also serve as ladders to permit the crew to climb aloft. The masts and forestays support all the sails. The ropes by which the yards, on square riggers,…

Bob Rafelson: Films of the mid-1970s to mid-1980s: Rafelson’s next directorial effort, Stay Hungry (1976), an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Charles Gaines, focused on the scion of a wealthy family in Alabama (Jeff Bridges) whose real-estate dealings involve him in the demimonde of bodybuilding at a health club. A perceptive and often…

John Boyne: …Happened to Barnaby Brocket (2012), Stay Where You Are & Then Leave (2013), and The Boy at the Top of the Mountain (2015). His other works for adult audiences include The Congress of Rough Riders (2001), The House of Special Purpose (2009), A History of Loneliness (2014), and A Ladder…

Sam Smith: Big break and In the Lonely Hour: …In the Lonely Hour, “Stay with Me,” a keening falsetto ballad that wistfully implores a one-night stand for affection, became a radio staple following its release in 2014. Smith cited the influences of singers such as Houston and Aretha Franklin, who both propelled their powerful, soaring voices to the…

coronavirus: …and numerous businesses closed, and stay-at-home guidelines were implemented, which strongly encouraged people not to leave their place of residence. Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 were made available by the end of 2020, eventually allowing many businesses and schools to reopen.

Saturday Night Fever: Soundtrack: …the Billboard Hot 100: “Stayin’ Alive,” “Night Fever,” and “How Deep Is Your Love.” Elliman’s “If I Can’t Have You” also reached number one. The soundtrack garnered four Grammy Awards, including album of the year. Up until the release of Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1982), the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack

David Wagoner: …latter year he also published Staying Alive, his most critically successful collection of poems to that point, and he became the editor of Poetry Northwest, a position he held until 2002. Staying Alive, according to the critics, showed Wagoner’s unique poetic style and featured the first of his instructional poems,…

Sylvester Stallone: He also wrote and directed Staying Alive (1983), a poorly received sequel to Saturday Night Fever (1977); both films starred John Travolta.

corset, article of clothing worn to shape or constrict the waist and support the bosom, whether as a foundation garment or as outer decoration. During the early eras of corsetry, corsets—called stays before the 19th century and made stiff with heavy boning—molded a woman’s upper body into a V-shape

Henryk Stażewski was a Polish painter and graphic artist who was a leading figure in Polish avant-garde art. Educated at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (1913–19), Stażewski was a founding member of three Polish artist groups: Blok (1924–26), Praesens (1926–29), and a.r. (1929–36). During the early

Yemen: Saudi-led intervention: …a body known as the Southern Transitional Council (STC). In June the STC took control of the island of Socotra, ousting local officials of the Hadi government. After months of negotiations between the STC and the Hadi government, members of the STC were incorporated into the cabinet of Prime Minister…

sexually transmitted disease (STD), any disease (such as syphilis, gonorrhea, AIDS, or a genital form of herpes simplex) that is usually or often transmitted from person to person by direct sexual contact. It may also be transmitted from a mother to her child before or at birth or, less frequently,

undersea exploration: Water sampling for temperature and salinity: Salinity-Temperature-Depth (STD) and the more recent Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) systems have greatly improved on-site hydrographic sampling methods. They have enabled oceanographers to learn much about small-scale temperature and salinity distributions.

Altria Group: …as Skoal and Copenhagen, and Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, a wine-making company based in Washington state. These two companies became subsidiaries of Altria Group. Another subsidiary, investment company Philip Morris Capital Corporation, was formed in 1982.

C.K. Stead is a New Zealand poet and novelist who gained an international reputation as a critic with The New Poetic: Yeats to Eliot (1964), which became a standard work on Modernist poetry. Stead studied at the University of Auckland (B.A., 1954; M.A., 1955) and the University of Bristol, England

C.K. Stead is a New Zealand poet and novelist who gained an international reputation as a critic with The New Poetic: Yeats to Eliot (1964), which became a standard work on Modernist poetry. Stead studied at the University of Auckland (B.A., 1954; M.A., 1955) and the University of Bristol, England

Christina Stead was an Australian novelist known for her political insights and firmly controlled but highly individual style. Stead was educated at New South Wales Teachers College; she traveled widely and at various times lived in the United States, Paris, and London. In the early 1940s she

Christina Stead was an Australian novelist known for her political insights and firmly controlled but highly individual style. Stead was educated at New South Wales Teachers College; she traveled widely and at various times lived in the United States, Paris, and London. In the early 1940s she

William Thomas Stead was a British journalist, editor, and publisher who founded the noted periodical Review of Reviews (1890). Stead was educated at home by his father, a clergyman, until he was 12 years old and then attended Silcoates School at Wakefield. He became an apprentice in a merchant’s

motion-picture technology: Camera supports: One such support is the Steadicam, which eliminates the tell-tale motions of the hand-held camera.

Ralph Steadman is a British artist and cartoonist known for his provocative, often grotesque, illustrations frequently featuring spatters and splotches of ink and for his collaboration with American author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson. While Steadman was serving in the Royal Air Force

Fugazi: …albums such as Repeater (1990), Steady Diet of Nothing (1991), In on the Kill Taker (1992), Red Medicine (1995), and End Hits (1998), Fugazi retained its churning rhythms and raw emotion, but its song structures became more varied and its lyrics more oblique and less overtly political (the band had…

Eddie George was a British economist and banker who, as governor (1993–2003) of the Bank of England (BOE), guided the British central bank to independence and thus full control over the country’s monetary policy. After studying economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, George served briefly in the

fluid mechanics: Bernoulli’s law: In steady flow, the fluid is in motion but the streamlines are fixed. Where the streamlines crowd together, the fluid velocity is relatively high; where they open out, the fluid becomes relatively stagnant.

Daniel Craig: Other work in theater and film: …made his Broadway debut in A Steady Rain. Two years later he appeared as an outlaw battling extraterrestrials in the action comedy Cowboys & Aliens and as a journalist investigating a decades-old murder in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher’s English-language adaptation of the Stieg Larsson novel of…

steady-state theory, in cosmology, a view that the universe is always expanding but maintaining a constant average density, with matter being continuously created to form new stars and galaxies at the same rate that old ones become unobservable as a consequence of their increasing distance and

steady-state theory, in cosmology, a view that the universe is always expanding but maintaining a constant average density, with matter being continuously created to form new stars and galaxies at the same rate that old ones become unobservable as a consequence of their increasing distance and

steady-state theory, in cosmology, a view that the universe is always expanding but maintaining a constant average density, with matter being continuously created to form new stars and galaxies at the same rate that old ones become unobservable as a consequence of their increasing distance and

steady-state theory, in cosmology, a view that the universe is always expanding but maintaining a constant average density, with matter being continuously created to form new stars and galaxies at the same rate that old ones become unobservable as a consequence of their increasing distance and

sound: Steady-state waves: Fundamental to the analysis of any musical tone is the spectral analysis, or Fourier analysis, of a steady-state wave. According to the Fourier theorem, a steady-state wave is composed of a series of

chicken-fried steak: steak dish popular in the southern United States. The meat—usually tenderized cube steak—is dipped in a milk or egg wash, dredged with seasoned flour, and fried in a skillet or deep-fried. It is served smothered in a creamy gravy traditionally made with pan drippings. The…

steak and kidney pie, a traditional British dish consisting of diced steak, onion, and kidney—typically from a lamb or pig—cooked in a brown gravy and then wrapped in a pastry and baked. Mushrooms and bacon are sometimes included, and various ales, notably stout, can be added to the gravy. Steak

steak and kidney pudding, a traditional British dish consisting of diced steak, onion, and kidney—generally from a lamb or pig—cooked in a brown gravy and then encased in a soft suet pastry and steamed for several hours. Mushrooms and bacon are sometimes added to the meat, and stout or other types

steak frites, a simple dish of beef steak alongside strips of deep-fried potato, commonly known as french fries. Its origins trace back to France and Belgium, and it is a mainstay in the cuisine of both countries. The dish can also be found in French-style bistros around the world. Steak frites has

steak tartare, dish made of chopped or minced raw beefsteak bound by raw egg yolk and seasoned with mustard, capers, and other ingredients. In French, tartare refers to the Tatar people of Central Asia, which was perceived as a place from which exotic foods came. One such food was the gherkin,

Abbie Hoffman: …the Hell of It (1968), Steal This Book (1971), and an autobiography, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (1980). His life—in particular, his underground period and his efforts to draw attention to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cointelpro operations—was dramatized in the film Steal This Movie (2000).

Michael Cera: Early life and career: …the crime drama Frequency and Steal This Movie!, a biopic about American activist Abbie Hoffman. More work followed, and Cera’s other notable credits from this period include George Clooney’s directorial debut, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002).

theft, in law, a general term covering a variety of specific types of stealing, including the crimes of larceny, robbery, and burglary. Theft is defined as the physical removal of an object that is capable of being stolen without the consent of the owner and with the intention of depriving the

Bernardo Bertolucci: Subsequent films included Stealing Beauty (1996), which centres on an American teenager’s visit to Italy, and The Dreamers (2003), an erotic thriller about an American student in Paris during the student protests of 1968.

Guy Ben-Ner: In 2007 he completed Stealing Beauty, a mischievous guerrilla video of sorts that he filmed without permission in several IKEA department stores. Using IKEA’s showrooms as if they were the setting for a sitcom, Ben-Ner and his family performed as characters. In this video he amusingly addressed such philosophical…

stealth, any military technology intended to make vehicles or missiles nearly invisible to enemy radar or other electronic detection. Research in antidetection technology began soon after radar was invented. During World War II, the Germans coated their U-boat snorkels with radar-absorbent

steam, odourless, invisible gas consisting of vaporized water. It is usually interspersed with minute droplets of water, which gives it a white, cloudy appearance. In nature, steam is produced by the heating of underground water by volcanic processes and is emitted from hot springs, geysers,

automobile: The age of steam: …runs unbroken to the 20th-century steam automobiles made as late as 1926. The grip of the steam automobile on the American imagination has been strong ever since the era of the Stanley brothers—one of whose “steamers” took the world speed record at 127.66 miles (205.45 km) per hour in 1906.…

food preservation: Blanching: …a water bath or a steam chamber. Because steam blanchers use a minimal amount of water, extra care must be taken to ensure that the product is uniformly exposed to the steam. Steam blanching leafy vegetables is especially difficult because they tend to clump together. The effectiveness of the blanching…

George Stephenson: …power and introduced the “steam blast,” by which exhaust steam was redirected up the chimney, pulling air after it and increasing the draft. The new design made the locomotive truly practical.

Sir Goldsworthy Gurney: …inventor who built technically successful steam carriages a half century before the advent of the gasoline-powered automobile.

bituminous coal: …coal is commonly called “steam coal,” and in Germany the term Steinkohle (“rock coal”) is used. In the United States and Canada bituminous coal is divided into high-volatile, medium-volatile, and low-volatile bituminous groups. High-volatile bituminous coal is classified on the basis of its calorific value on a moist, ash-free…

petroleum refining: Olefins: Ethylene manufacture via the steam cracking process is in widespread practice throughout the world. The operating facilities are similar to gas oil cracking units, operating at temperatures of 840 °C (1,550 °F) and at low pressures of 165 kilopascals (24 pounds per square inch). Steam is added to the…

heavy oil and tar sand: Steam soak: A common method involving the use of steam to recover heavy oil is known as steam soak, or steam cycling. It is essentially a well-bore stimulation technique in which steam generated in a boiler at the surface is injected into a production well…

pressure cooker, hermetically sealed pot which produces steam heat to cook food quickly. The pressure cooker first appeared in 1679 as Papin’s Digester, named for its inventor, French-born physicist Denis Papin. The cooker heats water to produce very hot steam which forces the temperature inside

distillation: Steam distillation is an alternative method of achieving distillation at temperatures lower than the normal boiling point. It is applicable when the material to be distilled is immiscible (incapable of mixing) and chemically nonreactive with water. Examples of such materials include fatty acids and soybean…

steam engine, machine using steam power to perform mechanical work through the agency of heat. (Read James Watt’s 1819 Britannica essay on the steam engine.) A brief treatment of steam engines follows. For full treatment of steam power and production and of steam engines and turbines, see Energy

heavy oil and tar sand: Steam flooding: Continuous steam injection heats a larger portion of the reservoir and achieves the most efficient heavy oil recoveries. Known as steam flooding, this technique is a displacement process similar to waterflooding. Steam is pumped into injection wells, which in some cases are artificially…

boiler, apparatus designed to convert a liquid to vapour. In a conventional steam power plant, a boiler consists of a furnace in which fuel is burned, surfaces to transmit heat from the combustion products to the water, and a space where steam can form and collect. A conventional boiler has a

James Nasmyth: …for his invention of the steam hammer.

construction: Improvements in building services: …technology in the form of steam heating. James Watt heated his own office with steam running through pipes as early as 1784. During the 19th century, systems of steam and later hot-water heating were gradually developed; these used coal-fired central boilers connected to networks of pipes that distributed the heated…

baking: Entrapped air and vapour: The vaporization of volatile fluids (e.g., ethanol) under the influence of oven heat can have a leavening effect. Water-vapour pressure, too low to be significant at normal temperatures, exerts substantial pressure on the interior walls of bubbles already formed by other means as the interior of…

steam power, the use of water in gaseous form to power mechanical devices. Steam power was first popularized in the 18th century and reached its peak importance in the late 19th century, when it became the main source of power for transportation. Steam power constitutes one of the safest forms of

heavy oil and tar sand: Steam soak: A common method involving the use of steam to recover heavy oil is known as steam soak, or steam cycling. It is essentially a well-bore stimulation technique in which steam generated in a boiler at the surface is injected into a production well…

turbine: Steam turbines: A steam turbine consists of a rotor resting on bearings and enclosed in a cylindrical casing. The rotor is turned by steam impinging against attached vanes or blades on which it exerts a force in the tangential direction. Thus a steam turbine could…

John Fowler: …who helped to develop the steam-hauled plow. He began his career in the grain trade but later trained as an engineer. In 1850 he joined Albert Fry in Bristol to found a works to produce steam-hauled implements. Later, with Jeremiah Head, he produced a steam-hauled plow, which in winning the…

steamboat, any watercraft propelled by steam, but more narrowly, a shallow-draft paddle wheel steamboat widely used on rivers in the 19th century, and particularly on the Mississippi River and its principal tributaries in the United States. Steamboat pioneering began in America in 1787 when John

Will Rogers: His last two films, Steamboat ’Round the Bend and In Old Kentucky, were released posthumously the same year.

Yellowstone National Park: Physical features: …the park and also includes Steamboat Geyser, which can throw water to heights of 300 feet (90 meters) and higher and is the world’s highest-erupting geyser. Mammoth Hot Springs consists of a broad terraced hillside of travertine (calcium carbonate) deposited there by dozens of hot springs. Among its notable formations…

Steamboat Springs, city, seat (1877) of Routt county, north-central Colorado, U.S. Located in the high Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 6,762 feet (2,061 metres), the town was supposedly named for Steamboat Spring, reported to have recalled to trappers the chugging of a steamboat. The area was

animation: Walt Disney: Steamboat Willie (1928), Mickey’s third film, took the country by storm. A missing element—sound—had been added to animation, making the illusion of life that much more complete, that much more magical. Later, Disney would add carefully synchronized music (The Skeleton Dance, 1929), three-strip Technicolor (Flowers…

clam: The soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), also known as the longneck clam, or steamer, is a common ingredient of soups and chowders. Found in all seas, it buries itself in the mud to depths from 10 to 30 cm. The shell is dirty white, oval, and 7.5…

United Kingdom: Economy and society: …the 1870s and ’80s that steamship production came to its full realization, and by then British engineers and workers had been responsible for building railways in all parts of the world. By 1890 Britain had more registered shipping tonnage than the rest of the world put together.

clam: The soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), also known as the longneck clam, or steamer, is a common ingredient of soups and chowders. Found in all seas, it buries itself in the mud to depths from 10 to 30 cm. The shell is dirty white, oval, and 7.5…

steamer duck, (genus Tachyeres), any of four species of heavily built, big-billed sea ducks of southernmost South America and the Falkland Islands. The bird is named for its habit of running across the water with wings thrashing like a paddle-wheel steamboat. Of the four species, T. pteneres, T.

boiling: Steaming comprises two related techniques, both used primarily for the cooking of vegetables. In the first, the food is placed on a rack above a shallow portion of water, heated to the boil, in a covered pan; this method is valued for its preservation of…

United Kingdom: Economy and society: …the 1870s and ’80s that steamship production came to its full realization, and by then British engineers and workers had been responsible for building railways in all parts of the world. By 1890 Britain had more registered shipping tonnage than the rest of the world put together.

Edmund Fitzgerald, American freighter that sank during a storm on November 10, 1975, in Lake Superior, killing all 29 aboard. Its mysterious demise inspired Gordon Lightfoot’s hit song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (1976), which helped make it the most famous shipwreck in the Great Lakes. In

stearic acid, one of the most common long-chain fatty acids, found in combined form in natural animal and vegetable fats. Commercial “stearic acid” is a mixture of approximately equal amounts of stearic and palmitic acids and small amounts of oleic acid. It is employed in the manufacture of

fat and oil processing: Destearinating or winterizing: Separation of high-melting glycerides, or stearine, usually requires very slow cooling in order to form crystals that are large enough to be removed by filtration or centrifuging. Thus linseed oil may be winterized to remove traces of waxes that otherwise interfere with its use in paints and varnishes. Stearine may…

fat and oil processing: Destearinating or winterizing: Separation of high-melting glycerides, or stearine, usually requires very slow cooling in order to form crystals that are large enough to be removed by filtration or centrifuging. Thus linseed oil may be winterized to remove traces of waxes that otherwise interfere with its use in paints and varnishes. Stearine may…

telegraph: Signal processing and transmission: Stearns of the United States completed refinement of the duplex transmission system originated in Germany by Wilhelm Gintl, which allowed the same line to be used simultaneously for sending and receiving, thus doubling its capacity. This system was further improved by the American inventor Thomas…

Richard E. Stearns is an American mathematician and computer scientist and cowinner, with American computer scientist Juris Hartmanis, of the 1993 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science. Stearns and Hartmanis were cited for their “seminal paper which established the foundations

Richard E. Stearns is an American mathematician and computer scientist and cowinner, with American computer scientist Juris Hartmanis, of the 1993 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science. Stearns and Hartmanis were cited for their “seminal paper which established the foundations

Baptist: Colonial period: Shubael Stearns, a New England Separate Baptist, migrated to Sandy Creek, North Carolina, in 1755 and initiated a revival that quickly penetrated the entire Piedmont region. The churches he organized were brought together in 1758 to form the Sandy Creek Association. Doctrinally these churches did…

stearyl alcohol, waxy solid alcohol formerly obtained from whale or dolphin oil and used as a lubricant and antifoam agent and to retard evaporation of water from reservoirs. It is now manufactured by chemical reduction of stearic

steatite, compact form of talc

oilbird, (Steatornis caripensis), nocturnal bird of South America that lives in caves and feeds on fruit, mainly the nuts of oil palms. The oilbird is an aberrant member of the order Caprimulgiformes; it comprises the family Steatornithidae. About 30 centimetres (12 inches) long, with fanlike tail

celiac disease: …of foul pale-coloured stools (steatorrhea), progressive malnutrition, diarrhea, decreased appetite and weight loss, multiple vitamin deficiencies, stunting of growth, abdominal pain, skin rash, and defects in tooth enamel. Advanced disease may be characterized by anemia

Battle of Grunwald: …of Grunwald and Tannenberg (Polish: Stębark) in northeastern Poland (formerly East Prussia) that marked a major Polish-Lithuanian victory over the Knights of the Teutonic Order. The battle ended of the order’s expansion along the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea, and after it the order declined significantly in power, having…

George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. was an American botanist and geneticist known for his application of the modern synthetic theory of evolution to plants. Called the father of evolutionary botany, he was the first scientist to synthesize artificially a species of plant that was capable of thriving under