* Sinclair, R. K. 1988.

The keyboard included a form of Single-key keyword input, similar to that used on the Sinclair Spectrum, via the ' func ' key.

With hindsight, the machine lacked the RAM ( a typical program would need to fit in only around 20 kB once display memory is subtracted ) and processing power to take on the prevailing Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.

As a games machine the Electron shared the same failing as the Sinclair Spectrum in not having a joystick port.

This gives the effect of a simple toggle speaker similar to that seen in the 48 kB Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

Although not as well supported by the biggest software publishers as rivals like the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a good range of games were available for the Electron.

They also assembled kits for people without soldering skills, especially the " junior Computer " from Elektor ( a copy of the KIM-1 ), and the ZX80 from Sinclair.

One nibble of such a byte then controlled the foreground color, and the other nibble controlled the background color, a system very similar to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, in fact in the 256x192 mode the display mode was virtually identical to the video of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe.

Two convicts, Henry and Susannah Kable, sought to sue Duncan Sinclair, the captain of Alexander, for stealing their possessions during the voyage.

Convicts in Britain had no right to sue, and Sinclair had boasted that he could not be sued by them.

Someone in Government obviously had a quiet word in Kable's ear, as when the court met and Sinclair challenged the prosecution on the ground that the Kables were felons, the court required him to prove it.

Rolf Sinclair says that Norman Lockyer, working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, could be called the ' father of archaeoastronomy.

Before the demolition could take place, Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair ( Director of Naval Intelligence and head of MI6 ) bought the site.

He eclipsed the long-standing record of 51. 88 per cent by the South African J. H. Sinclair ( 106 out of 177 and 4 out of 35 ) against England at Cape Town in an 1898 – 1899 series.

Samuel had lost his seat in the 1935 election and the leadership of the party fell to Sir Archibald Sinclair.

Despite the party's weaknesses, Sinclair gained a high profile as he sought to recall the Midlothian Campaign and once more revitalise the Liberals as the party of a strong foreign policy.

In 1940 they joined Churchill's wartime coalition government, with Sinclair serving as Secretary of State for Air, the last British Liberal to hold Cabinet rank office for seventy years.

At the 1945 general election, Sinclair and many of his colleagues lost their seats to both Conservatives and Labour, and the party returned just 12 MPs to Westminster.

T. A. Sinclair, commenting on Works and Days argues that Hesiod shows no awareness of the mythology of such a divine " giver ".

* A. T. Sinclair ( 1996 – 1998 )

While writing, Brown spent time in Germany, and also personally interviewed General George C. Marshall, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Joseph T. McNarney, General John H. Hilldring, John Foster Dulles, James F. Byrnes, former President Herbert Hoover, R. C. Lefingwell, Otto Jeidels, and former Senator Sinclair Weeks, among many others.

After the 1930s, popular interest in Prokosch's writing declined, but he continued to write steadily and to solidify his reputation as a writer ’ s writer with an elite following that included Thomas Mann, André Gide, Sinclair Lewis, Albert Camus, Thornton Wilder, Dylan Thomas, Anthony Burgess, Raymond Queneau, Somerset Maugham, Lawrence Durrell, Gore Vidal, and T. S.

Its backlist included Sinclair Lewis, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, and Alice Walker's The Color Purple.

It was named by United States Navy explorer Charles Wilkes for George T. Sinclair, acting master of one of his ship's crews.

He released one solo album, Seven Year Itch, in 1998 with guests including Miller, Sinclair, Stewart, Dean ( saxello ), Hopper ( bass ), Jakko Jakszyk, Barbara Gaskin, John Greaves ( vocals ), François Ovide, Fred T. Baker ( bass ), Paul Rogers ( double bass ), Lydia Domancich ( piano, Sophia's sister ) and Didier Malherbe ( alto sax ).

The many novels influenced by the Ripper include: A Case to Answer ( 1947 ) by Edgar Lustgarten, The Screaming Mimi ( 1949 ) by Fredric Brown, Terror Over London ( 1957 ) by Gardner Fox, Ritual in the Dark ( 1960 ) and The Killer ( 1970 ) by Colin Wilson, Sagittarius ( 1962 ) by Ray Russell, A Feast Unknown ( 1969 ) by Philip José Farmer, A Kind of Madness ( 1972 ) by Anthony Boucher, Nine Bucks Row ( 1973 ) by T. E. Huff, The Michaelmas Girls ( 1975 ) by John Brooks Barry, Jack's Little Friend ( 1975 ) by Ramsey Campbell, By Flower and Dean Street ( 1976 ) by Patrice Chaplin, The Private Life of Jack the Ripper ( 1980 ) by Richard Gordon, White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings ( 1987 ) by Iain Sinclair, Anno Dracula ( 1992 ) by Kim Newman, A Night in the Lonesome October ( 1993 ) by Roger Zelazny, Ladykiller ( 1993 ) by Martina Cole, Savage ( 1993 ) by Richard Laymon, The Pit ( 1993 ) by Neil Penswick, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem ( 1994 ) by Peter Ackroyd, Pentecost Alley ( 1996 ) by Anne Perry, and Matrix ( 1998 ) by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry.

* 1909 – Donald Sinclair, English hotel owner and manager ( d. 1981 )

The Kilmers had five children: Kenton Sinclair Kilmer ( 1909 – 1995 ), Michael Barry Kilmer ( 1916 – 1927 ), Deborah (" Sister Michael ") Clanton Kilmer ( 1914 – 1999 ) who was a Catholic nun at the Saint Benedict ’ s Monastery, Rose Kilburn Kilmer ( 1912 – 1917 ), and Christopher Kilmer ( 1917 – 1984 ).

Samm Sinclair Baker ( born in Paterson, New Jersey, July 29, 1909 – March 5, 1997 ) was the author / coauthor of many how-to and self-help books, most notably The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet which he coauthored with Dr. Herman Tarnower.

From 1900 to 1950, Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), William Faulkner ( 1897 – 1962 ), Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961 ), John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), Richard Wright ( 1908 – 1960 ), William Saroyan ( 1908 – 1981 ), Nelson Algren ( 1909 – 1981 ), Paul Bowles ( 1910 – 1999 ), Jerome Salinger ( 1919 – 2009 ), Norman Mailer ( 1923 – 2007 ), and Gore Vidal ( 1925 – 2012 ).

In 1390s, Henry Sinclair I, Earl of Orkney, took possession of the islands ( as vassal of Norway, however ) and for some time they were part of the Sinclair principality in the North Atlantic.

* 1947 – Dave Sinclair, English musician ( Caravan, Hatfield and the North )

* According to some historians, the Scottish explorer Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney reaches North America.

* Hiette Sinclair Williams ( born 1872 ), a North Carolina legislator beginning in 1899.

Laramie's fame as the western terminal of the Union Pacific Railroad, acquired when the 268 mile section from North Platte, Nebraska was opened in May ended in early August 1868 when a 93 mile section of track was opened to Benton, six miles east of present day Sinclair, Wyoming.

On the evening of July 19, 1976, Gilmore robbed and murdered Max Jensen, a Sinclair gas station employee at 168 East and 800 North in Orem, Utah.

* William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney & Caithness ( d. 1480 ), Justiciary North of the Forth for King James II

Sinclair township, named for Donald Sinclair MPP for the North Riding of Bruce County from 1867 to 1883.

The claim that Henry Sinclair explored North America has been popularised by several other authors, notably by Frederick J. Pohl, Andrew Sinclair, Michael Bradley, William S. Crooker ( who claimed to have discovered Henry Sinclair's castle in Nova Scotia ), Steven Sora, and more recently by David Goudsward.

The letters, allegedly written by the brothers around 1400, describe a voyage of exploration that they say they underook throughout the North Atlantic ( and by some interpretations to North America ), under the command of a prince named Zichmni ( who some have identified as Henry Sinclair ).

Matching Mole disbanded in late September 1972 immediately upon completion of a European tour supporting Soft Machine, with Sinclair and Miller going on to form the more successful Hatfield and the North.

Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station has studios on the corner of Washington Avenue and Northport Drive in the North Deering section of Portland.

It is one of three Sinclair duopolies in North Carolina.

The 2011 winner was Marty Sinclair ( from North Lambton ) running off a handicap of 17. 0 metres just holding out backmarker and two times winner of the Gift, Liam Gander.

It is one of three Sinclair duopolies in North Carolina.

* Donald Sinclair ( Ontario politician ), who represented Bruce North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1883

The band played a few live shows between July and September that year, and gained their first record contract with Virgin Records with the ' Sinclair cousins '... as Steve Miller was replaced by Dave Sinclair ( from Matching Mole and Caravan ), the band soon changed their name to Hatfield and the North.

In 2007, Cuneiform Records re-released two albums by Steve Miller and Lol Coxhill with bonus material including 20 minutes of material by the proto-Hatfield and the North line-up of Delivery playing " God Song ", " Bossa Nochance / Big Jobs ", and " Betty " ( a variation on some of the Sinclair bass riffs that also produced Hatfield's " Rifferama ").

This resulted in the Milwaukee duopoly becoming one of five My Network TV / CW duopolies owned and / or controlled by Sinclair ; the other four are KVMY / KVCW in Las Vegas, Nevada, WABM / WTTO in Birmingham, Alabama, WUXP / WNAB in Nashville, Tennessee and WRDC / WLFL in Raleigh / Durham, North Carolina.