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Sinch (company)

Sinch AB is a Swedish communications platform as a service company, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Stockholm, that lets businesses message customers via SMS, WhatsApp, voice, and email through APIs.

Sinchesi

Sinchesi (신체시, "new-style poetry"), also called sinsi, was a Korean enlightenment-period verse form transitional between traditional song poetry and modern free verse, conventionally starting with Choi Nam-seon's 1908 poem.

Sinchi

Sinchi, Quechua for strong or valiant, was an Andean title for a temporary war leader, best known from Sinchi Roca, the second traditional Inca ruler.

Sinchi Roca

Sinchi Roca, also known as Sinchi Roq'a, was the semi-legendary second Sapa Inca of Cuzco, son and successor of Manco Capac and father of Lloque Yupanqui.

Sinchunmunye

Sinchunmunye (신춘문예, "New Year literary arts") is an annual literary contest held each winter by South Korean newspapers, the traditional gateway for unpublished writers to make their debut.

Sinclair (brand)

Sinclair is an American petroleum brand, identified by its green dinosaur logo DINO, founded by Harry F. Sinclair in 1916 and now owned by HF Sinclair Corporation.

Sinclair Beecham

Sinclair Beecham, born in 1958, is a British businessman who co-founded the sandwich chain Pret A Manger, opening its first shop on Victoria Street in London in 1986.

Sinclair Broadcast Group

Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG), broadcast subsidiary of Sinclair, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) of Hunt Valley, Maryland: 179 stations in 81 markets, 656 channels, over 2,300 weekly news hours, Tennis Channel and multicast networks, after the 2023 holding-company reorganization.

Sinclair C5

The Sinclair C5 is a one-person battery-electric tricycle launched in the UK in 1985 by Sir Clive Sinclair, which failed commercially and became a cult classic.

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.