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8 unusual facts about Sinclair


Aaron Taylor-Sinclair

1 Challenge Cup appearance in 2011–12 & 2 in 2012–13 that aren't recorded on Soccerbase

Maggie Hemingway

'The Postmen's House' (1990), London (Sinclair-Stevenson), ISBN 1-85619-009-9; paperback edition: 1992, London (Sceptre), ISBN 0-340-57118-7.

Martin Hürlimann

In the 1930 English edition of his book Burma, Ceylon, Indo-China, Hürlimann wrote "My photographs were chiefly taken with a Sinclair camera, Zeiss lens, and Kodak films."

Newman-Sinclair

Stanley Kubrick used this model of camera for Clockwork Orange in a dubious way: in order to credibly film the suicide attempt of the character Alex, Kubrick literally smashed six Newman Sinclair cameras into pavement, one of which thereby produced Kubrick's desired view.

Sinclair, Wyoming

Steele was named for American Civil War Union General Frederick Steele and established June 20, 1868 to protect the Union Pacific Railway as it rapidly expanded west.

Zoned campuses include Sinclair Elementary School (grades K-5), Rawlins Middle School (grades 6-8), and Rawlins High School (grades 9-12).

The small community continued until 1939 when the Lincoln Highway was paved and rerouted to coincide with what later became Interstate 80.

William Ellsworth Fisher

In the mid-1920s, he and his brother planned the oil company town of Parco, Wyoming (now Sinclair) and designed many buildings there, in a uniform Spanish Colonial style intended to encourage community spirit.


¡Que viva México!

Through Sinclair, the Mexican Film Trust attempted to arouse interest from a major American motion picture concern to finish the film, but after months of failure to find among them anyone interested in the property, finally contracted with independent producer-distributor Sol Lesser to produce two short features and a short subject culled from the footage, Thunder Over Mexico, Eisenstein in Mexico, and Death Day all released in 1934.

And the Sky Full of Stars

This episode has great significance, as it is the first time that Jeffrey Sinclair begins to move towards understanding his missing 24 hours (mentioned in The Gathering) and realizing the role his identity means he must play, in the future and the past.

Antrim by-election, 1885

Sinclair did however return to the House of Commons at the 1886 general election as Liberal Unionist Party member for Falkirk Burghs in the central Scottish Lowlands.

Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso

Sinclair's granddaughter, Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone (daughter of the Hon. Elizabeth Sinclair), is also a Liberal Democrat politician.

Battle of Allt Camhna

However both Hugh Mackay and George Sinclair, Earl of Caithness were unwilling to attack their old allies the Clan Gunn and therefore departed from the meeting at Eglin.

Billy Sinclair

Sinclair and his wife live in Houston, Texas, and Sinclair works as a paralegal for an attorney, John T. Floyd.

Daisy Ogle

She is known to have had close links with Honor Oak Christian Fellowship Centre in London and along with her colleague Miss Sinclair, they worked closely with two of their staff in India: Alfred J. Flack and Raymond Golsworthy who were stationed at Wellington.

Fort Omaha

Sherman Barracks, also known as Camp Sherman, was established in 1868 by Captain William Sinclair of the 3rd U.S. Artillery and named in honor of Lt. General William Tecumseh Sherman.

Grierson's Raid

The movie The Horse Soldiers, directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers, and the Harold Sinclair novel of the same name on which it is based, are fictional variations of Grierson's Raid.

Harry Ford Sinclair

Harry Sinclair's high-profile image as a reputable American business leader and sportsman came under question in April 1922 when the Wall Street Journal reported that United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had granted an oil lease to Sinclair Oil without competitive bidding.

Helicon Home Colony

Following the model proposed by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sinclair sought "authors, artists, and musicians, editors and teachers and professional men" who wanted to avoid the drudgeries of domestic life.

James Westphal

He came to Caltech initially on a four-month leave of absence from Sinclair Research Labs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but never left.

Jim Westwood

Sir Clive Sinclair and Westwood shared a connection even before they met when Westwood had previously worked at an electronics store in London which was owned by Bernard Babani, Sinclair's publisher.

John Henderson Sinclair

John Henderson Sinclair (5 November 1935-8 November 2009) was Emeritus Professor of Conveyancing at the University of Strathclyde and the first Director of the Glasgow Graduate School of Law in Glasgow, Scotland.

John Sinclair

John Sinklo, sometimes known as John Sinclair, English renaissance actor

JSW

Jet Set Willy, a 1984 computer game originating on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum written by Matthew Smith

Laurence Arnold Hanna

He was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario, the son of Joseph Francis Hanna and May Robena Sinclair.

Lybster

However, during the American Revolution, following some victories in the Ohio and Illinois territories, Patrick Sinclair felt it was necessary to move Fort Michilimackinac from its exposed location on the northernmost point of the lower peninsula of Michigan to Mackinac Island.

Madge Sinclair

Later, both Sinclair and Jones would reunite as Queen and King for the roles of Sarabi, Simba’s mother, and Mufasa, Simba’s father, in the blockbuster Disney animated film The Lion King (1994), respectively.

Mark Frauenfelder

On June 21, 2003, Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair, along with their two young daughters, decided to move from Los Angeles to Rarotonga, an island in the South Pacific, where they lived for five months.

Mark Sinclair

Vin Diesel (Mark Sinclair Vincent, born 1967), an American actor

Mary P. Sinclair

When Consumers Power announced their intentions to build the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station on the shoreline of Lake Michigan in 1967, Mary Sinclair's background in nuclear fission technology prompted her to write a letter to the editor questioning the safety of several elements of their plan.

Michael Bywater

He collaborated with Douglas Adams on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Bureaucracy and the never-completed Milliways: The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe for Infocom, and with Georgina Sinclair on Jinxter for Magnetic Scrolls.

News Central

It also provides weather updates and forecasts during national morning news programs on select Sinclair stations that are void of local weather staff, including WTWC in Tallahassee, Florida, and WXLV-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Nicholas Hawksmoor

Sinclair promoted the poetic interpretation of the architect's singular style of architectural composition that Hawksmoor's churches formed a pattern consistent with the forms of Theistic Satanism though there is no documentary or historic evidence for this.

Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell

Jean Hepburn (d. before 27 July 1599) whose first husband was John Sinclair, Master of Caithness (d.1578, v.p.), with issue; her second husband was John Stewart, Lord Darnley, Prior of Coldingham, by whom she had Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell; her third husband the notorious Archibald Douglas, Parson of Douglas, a Senator of the College of Justice, and brother of William Douglas of Whittinghame.

Rakesh Aggarwal

As with successful entrepreneurs such as Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s Jack C. Taylor, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Pret A Manger’s Sinclair Beecham and Julian Metcalfe, Aggarwal insists customer service is the guiding principle of his business philosophy.

Renegadepress.com

Wendy Anderson and David Neale appear as Zoey's parents, and Lorne Cardinal appears as Jack and Crystal's father (Wayne Sinclair).

Retro-Trader

The collection has many items which exist nowhere else in the world, such as the only known surviving Sinclair C5 concept artwork, and also many pieces of original retro gaming cover art, from the likes of artists such as Roger Garland, better known for his artwork for the J. R. R. Tolkien book The Lord of the Rings.

Robert Fleming the younger

His early education was at the school of his uncle John Sinclair, minister of Ormiston, Haddingtonshire.

Sawtry Community College

St Andrews and St Judith are then split into 6 houses: Royce, Sinclair, Keynes, Darwin, Eliot and Clarkson.

Scarab Club

Since then, signing the beam has become a ceremonial honor, and the autographs of art world luminaries such as John Sloan, Diego Rivera, Pablo Davis, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, and John Sinclair grace the beams.

Sinclair Oil Corporation

Sinclair has long been a fixture on American roads with its dinosaur logo and mascot, an apatosaurus (Brontosaurus).

At the Chicago World's Fair of 1933-1934, Sinclair sponsored a dinosaur exhibit meant to point out the putative correlation between the formation of petroleum deposits and the time of dinosaurs, now a largely discredited misconception.

Sinclair Oil Company also owns and operates Grand America Hotels and Resorts, which has hotel properties in Salt Lake City, Utah; Flagstaff, Arizona; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Little America, Wyoming; and San Diego, California, in addition to the Sun Valley and Snowbasin resorts.

Sinclair X-1

The Sinclair X-1, is an electric vehicle invented by Sir Clive Sinclair and marketed by his company Sinclair Research.

The Phantom Band

The Phantom Band is a Glasgow-based band consisting of Duncan Marquiss (guitar), Gerry Hart (bass), Andy Wake (keyboards), Rick Anthony (vocals and guitar), Iain Stewart (drums) and Greg Sinclair (guitars).

Thomas Stewart, 2nd Earl of Angus

In 1353 he married Margaret Sinclair, a daughter of William de St Clair of Rosslyn.

Timex Sinclair 2048

According to an early Timex Sinclair 2000 computer flyer, it would be a cut-down TS2068 with 48 KB of RAM and advertised as a 48 KB memory machine (The TS2068 might have been called the 2072 because of the add of 24 KB ROM + 48 KB RAM = 72KB).

The "Timex Sinclair 2048" although never produced, was to be an improved version of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer.

Tom Sinclair

Tom Sinclair set the Washington state javelin record in 1975, competing for the Peninsula High School Seahawks, in a dual meet against Curtis High School.

Victor Albert Sinclair

He was born in Tillsonburg, the son of Dr. Lachlin C. Sinclair and Roxiliana Norman, and was educated in Tillsonburg, at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall.

Whitaker and Baxter

The following quote, which appeared in the L.A. Times reflecting Sinclair's opinion on marriage, was taken from a fictional character's dialogue in Sinclair's book Love's Pilgrimage.

Will Kreth

Mark Frauenfelder, Carla Sinclair, Gareth Branwyn, Will Kreth (editors) The Happy Mutant Handbook: Mischievous Fun for Higher Primates, Riverhead Books, November 1995, ISBN 1-57322-502-9

WRLH-TV

On June 24, Sinclair announced that it was intending to purchase CBS affiliate WTVR-TV from Raycom Media and sell WRLH to the previously unknown Carma Broadcasting.

WSMH

Known as Fox 66 News at 10, it was powered by Sinclair's controversial News Central operation.

WUTB

In exchange, Fox received an option to buy any combination of six Sinclair-owned CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates (two of which were standalone stations affiliated with the latter service) in three of four markets: Raleigh (WLFL and WRDC), Las Vegas (KVCW and KVMY), Cincinnati (WSTR-TV) and Norfolk (WTVZ).


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