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Sinclair Daniel
Sinclair Daniel (born 1997, New York) is an American actress, lead as Nella Rogers in Hulu's The Other Black Girl (2023) and Chris Winslow in Insidious: The Red Door, now starring as Parker in Peacock's The Copenhagen Test.
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis (Harry Sinclair Lewis, 1885-1951), American satirical novelist from Sauk Centre, Minnesota; first American Nobel Literature laureate (1930), refused the 1926 Pulitzer for Arrowsmith; wrote Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and It Can't Happen Here.
Sinclair Oil Corporation
Sinclair Oil Corporation, also known as Sinclair Oil, was an American petroleum company founded by Harry F. Sinclair in 1916, best known for its green dinosaur mascot DINO.
Sinclair QL
The Sinclair QL, also known as the ZX83 or Quantum Leap, is a 32-bit personal computer launched by Sinclair Research in January 1984, twelve days before the Macintosh.
Sinclair Refinery
Sinclair Refinery, also called the Parco Refinery, is an oil refinery in Sinclair, Wyoming, begun in 1922, whose company town of Parco was renamed Sinclair in the 1930s or 1940s.
Sinclair Research
Sinclair Research is a British consumer electronics company founded by Sir Clive Sinclair, which produced the ZX80, ZX81, and ZX Spectrum before selling its computer business to Amstrad in 1986.
SINCOHAB
SINCOHAB (Sindicato dos Trabalhadores Nas Empresas e Cooperativas Habitacionais e Desenvolvimento Urbano No Estado de Sao Paulo) is a Brazilian trade union founded August 1991 with CUT support, representing housing and urban development workers in São Paulo state, headquartered on Rua 7 de Abril, São Paulo.
Sincor Oil and Gas Field
Sincor was a $4.2 billion extra-heavy oil project in the Zuata field of Venezuela's Orinoco Belt, begun in 2000 by TotalFinaElf and PDVSA, nationalized in 2007 as Petrocedeño.
Sincronism
Sincronism is a theory of cultural development by Romanian critic Eugen Lovinescu, holding that Romanian culture must evolve in step with Western Europe and the spirit of the age.
Sind Sulci
Sind Sulci is an IAU-approved sulcus, a set of subparallel furrows and ridges, on Saturn's moon Enceladus, 116 km across, centered at -16.4°, 107.3°, named after a city in an Arabian Nights tale, distinct from the four tiger-stripe sulci.
Sinda chiefs
The Sinda chiefs (सिंद वंश) were a feudatory lineage of medieval Karnataka whose chiefs, titled Mahamandalesvara, served larger Deccan dynasties between the fourth and fourteenth centuries.
Sindalah (سندالة)
Sindalah (سندالة) is a luxury island resort in the Red Sea, about five kilometers off the NEOM coastline in northwest Saudi Arabia, and the first NEOM destination to open.
Sindarin
Sindarin, or Grey-elven, is one of J.R.R. Tolkien's two chief invented Elvish languages for Middle-earth, alongside Quenya. Modeled on Welsh phonology and mutation grammar, it evolved through Gnomish and Noldorin stages and remains incomplete.
Sindbad in His Eighth Voyage
Sindbad in His Eighth Voyage (السندباد في رحلته الثامنة) is a long Arabic poem by Khalil Hawi, published in 1960, in which Sindbad makes an invented eighth voyage into the self.
Sindbad Land
Sindbad Land (مدينة أرض السندباد) is an amusement park in Baghdad, Iraq, opened 16 July 2015 in Zayouna on the former Al-Rusafa park site; 30 rides, a 250,000 m² lake, and the Aladdin Coaster.
Sindh (سنڌ)
Sindh (سنڌ) is a province of southeastern Pakistan on the lower Indus, home to the Indus Valley Civilization; 55.69 million people (2023), annexed by Britain in 1843, hit hardest by the 2022 floods.
Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company
The Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) is a Pakistani public-private joint venture formed in 2009 that operates an open-pit lignite mine in the Thar Coalfield, Sindh.
Sindhi Adabi Board
The Sindhi Adabi Board (سنڌي ادبي بورڊ, "Sindhi Literary Board") is a government-sponsored literary institution of Sindh, Pakistan, established in December 1951 to promote research and publication in Sindhi.
Sindhi Adabi Sangat
Sindhi Adabi Sangat (سنڌي ادبي سنگت) is a Pakistani literary organization of progressive Sindhi-language writers, founded in Karachi in 1947, with a first central body elected in 1956.
Sindhi drama
Sindhi drama (سنڌي ڊرامو) is the dramatic tradition of the Sindhi language, formalized as a modern stage art with Mirza Qaleech Baig's Laila Majnu in 1880.
Sindhi embroidery (سنڌي ٿرت)
Sindhi embroidery (سنڌي ٿرت), known in Sindhi as ڀرت, is the hand-embroidery tradition of Sindh, Pakistan, characterized by mirror work (shisha), fine interlacing and satin stitching, and vibrant colors.
Sindhi folk epic
A Sindhi folk epic is a long oral narrative of heroism or romance from Sindh, Pakistan, sung by bards; its love legends include Sassui Punnhu and Umar Marvi.
Sindhi Geet
Sindhi Geet (سنڌي گيت) is a modern lyric song form in Sindhi literature, distinct from folk song, dealing with romantic love and later social and patriotic themes.
Sindhi ghazal
Sindhi ghazal (سنڌي غزل) is the couplet-based ghazal form as composed in Sindhi, which arrived through Persian and took root in the Kalhora and Talpur periods.
Sindhi kafi
Sindhi kafi (سنڌي ڪافي) is a Sufi song genre of the Indus Valley in which kāfī poems, their strophes alternating with a refrain, are sung in Sindhi and related languages.
Sindhi language
Sindhi (سنڌي ٻولي) is an Indo-Aryan language of the lower Indus valley, official in Pakistan's Sindh and Indian Rajasthan. About 34.4 million Pakistani speakers (2023), 52-letter Perso-Arabic script, four implosives, Vicholi standard dialect.
Sindhi modernist poetry
Sindhi modernist poetry is the body of early twentieth-century Sindhi poetry that abandoned classical metrical forms and traditional themes for free verse, with Shaikh Ayaz as its central figure.
Sindhi Nazm
Sindhi Nazm (سنڌي نظم) is the poem-form of Sindhi poetry expressing one coherent, continuous thought, unlike the ghazal's independent couplets. Its modern form divides into metered paband nazm and free verse azad nazm.
Sindhi novel
The Sindhi novel is long-form prose fiction in the Sindhi language, introduced by Mirza Kalich Beg, whose Zeenat (1890) is credited as the first original Sindhi novel.
Sindhi short story
The Sindhi short story (مختصر ڪهاڻي) is the principal prose fiction genre of the Sindhi language, begun in 1914 with stories by Lal Chand Amardinomal and Mirza Qaleich Beg.