After this success, director Sydney Pollack hired Cuarón to direct an episode of Fallen Angels, a series of neo-noir stories produced for the Showtime premium cable network in 1993 ; other directors who worked on the series included Steven Soderbergh, Jonathan Kaplan, Peter Bogdanovich, and Tom Hanks.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.

Phillip also had to adopt a policy towards the Eora Aboriginal people, who lived around the waters of Sydney Harbour.

* 2005 – Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese ( and many who are not ) in Cronulla Sydney.

During this period, the Bombers suffered a humiliation at the hands of Sydney who became the only team ever to kick two hundred points in three quarters.

The other two wins were against eventual runners-up Sydney ( in a match where Matthew Lloyd flaunted with the Sydney defence, kicking eight goals ( six of which came in the opening quarter ) and being awarded best-on-ground in a game Essendon rightfully deserved to win ) and against the team that denied them the 2001 Premiership, the Brisbane Lions ( who also were in a rebuilding phrase ).

The event attracts amateur swimmers from all over the Canaries and Spain, and also swimming professionals such as David Meca and Maarten Van der Weijden, the paralympist Jesús Collado Alarcón who won gold medals for 100m backstroke and butterfly in Athens 2004, and Xavi Torres Ramis, the paralympic champion in Barcelona ' 92, Sydney and Atlanta.

Bernabé Pons, arguing for the priority of the Spanish version, maintains that these are due to transcription errors perpetrated by the 18th century English scribe who created the Sydney manuscript.

* Paul Williams – Australian Rules Footballer who played 306 games for Collingwood & Sydney, current caretaker coach of the Western Bulldogs

Commemorating the landing of the First Fleet in Botany Bay, the Sydney Cove medallion was made by Josiah Wedgwood after he was given a sample of clay from Sydney Cove by Sir Joseph Banks, who had received the sample from Governor Arthur Phillip.

Although Jack Worrall claimed that he had invented the term " bodyline ", it is more likely that it was coined by Sydney journalist Hugh Buggy who worked for The Sun in 1932, and who happened to be a colleague of Jack Fingleton.

During 2007, Macquarie University faced a restructuring of its student organisation after an audit raised questions about management of hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds by student organisations At the centre of the investigation was Victor Ma, president of the Macquarie University Students ' Council, who had previously been involved in a high-profile case of student election fixing at the University of Sydney.

Most of the first five series of One Foot in the Grave were produced and directed by Susan Belbin, the exceptions being " Love and Death ," which was partly directed by veteran sitcom director Sydney Lotterby, and " Starbound ," for which Gareth Gwenlan ( who in fact had originally commissioned the series in 1989 ) stepped in to direct some sequences after Belbin was taken ill. Belbin retired due to ill health afterwards, and the final series was produced by Jonathan P. Llewellyn and directed by Christine Gernon.

Among the most successful were The Easybeats, formed in Sydney but who recorded their international hit " Friday on My Mind " ( 1966 ) in London and remained there for their forays into psychedelic-tinged pop until they disbanded in 1970.

His father Louis, a third generation Australian of French Huguenot descent, was a leg spinner who played for Penrith in Sydney Grade Cricket, in 1922-23 gaining attention for taking all twenty wickets in a match against St. Marys for 65 runs.

During the millennium celebrations in 2000, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was lit up with the word " Eternity ", as a tribute to the legacy of Arthur Stace a Sydney artist who for many years inscribed that word on pavements in chalk in beautiful copperplate writing despite the fact that he was illiterate.

The original line up of Skyhooks including Hill reformed in 2005 at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney for a one-off gig, a benefit for Hill, who had been diagnosed with liver cancer.

Although Sydney had an extra player, Darren Jolly who was supposed to come off for Jesse White, on the field who was directly involved in the play.

The name wombat comes from the now nearly extinct Darug language spoken by the Aboriginal Darug people who originally inhabited the Sydney area.

In 1991, Australian author and playwright Larry Buttrose wrote and staged a theatrical production of Kurtz ( based on Heart of Darkness ) with the Crossroads Theatre Company, Sydney.

There is a brief epilogue sequence in which the fates of the six only known survivors are shown: Sydney underwent surgery on his kneecap injuries and lives as a horticulturist with his son Seymour, Arthur received an OBE for lifelong service to the theatre and retired to the country, Sebastian wrote a book about the film's events and is currently negotiating the film rights.

Crowe wrote a letter of apology to a Sydney newspaper following the sacking of South Sydney's coach Jason Taylor and one of their players David Fa ' alogo after a drunken altercation between the two at the end of the 2009 NRL season.

Watkin Tench, of the First Fleet, wrote of an admiration for the Aborigines of Sydney as good natured and good humoured people, though he also reported violent hostility between the Eora and Cammeraygal peoples, and noted violent domestic altercations between his friend Bennelong and his wife Barangaroo.

Sydney Smith wrote, " Never was any administration so completely and so suddenly destroyed ; and, I believe, entirely by the Duke's declaration, made, I suspect, in perfect ignorance of the state of public feeling and opinion.

In 2006, Chris Taylor from the Australian comedy team The Chaser wrote a comedy musical called Dead Caesar which was shown at the Sydney Theatre Company in Sydney.

Mindful of Bradman's big scores for Bowral, the association wrote to him, requesting his attendance at a practice session in Sydney.

* Sydney Lanier-poet, lawyer in Macon, Georgia, and musician was born in Griffin ; he wrote the poem, " Corn " in Sunnyside, Georgia, several miles north of Griffin.

In 1931, Sydney Chapman and Vincenzo C. A. Ferraro wrote an article, A New Theory of Magnetic Storms, that sought to explain the phenomenon of geomagnetic storms.

In 1954, the Australian journalist and author, George Johnston, wrote a well-researched series of biographical articles on Finch, his life, and his work, which appeared in The Sun-Herald ( Sydney ), on four consecutive Sundays, which were certainly the first detailed account of Finch's life ever published.

According to The Guardian newspaper, former Fairfax chief executive Fred Hilmer wrote in his memoirs that " he struggled to cope with a left-leaning editorial culture at papers such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and was surprised that journalists saw themselves as advocates rather than simply reporters.

Hwang wrote an early draft of a screenplay based upon A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, which was originally scheduled for director Sydney Pollack.

In 2004, Margo wrote Not happy John, launched in Sydney by Tony Fitzgerald QC.

Margo Kingston also wrote Webdiary, which until 22 August 2005 was on the Sydney Morning Herald website.

An interesting sidelight on his growing reputation is the fact that before this election ( Sir ) Charles Gavan Duffy wrote to a friend in Sydney, urging the desirability of Parkes ' being elected.

In judging his international performances in the season, Sydney Pardon, the editor of Wisden, wrote:

Newsweek wrote about the new Alley Theatre, “ the most striking theatre in the U. S. … another step along the road toward ending Broadway ’ s domination of the American theatre ,” and Sydney Johnson of The Montreal Star wrote, “… it looks as though the new Alley Theatre is going to be one of the best – and probably the very best – in the U. S. at least, simply because the building has been designed to house a specified stage and auditorium instead of the other way round .”

In a Sheffield Shield cricket match at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1930, Don Bradman, a young New South Welshman of just 21 years of age, wrote his name into the record books at by smashing the previous highest batting score in first-class cricket with 452 runs not out in just 415 minutes.

She wrote a post-11 September article in The Sydney Morning Herald.

" During this period she wrote My Career Goes Bung in which Sybylla encounters the Sydney literary set.

In the popular Sydney Bulletin magazine in 1887, one author wrote: " No nigger, no chink, no lascar, no kanaka from the South Sea Islands, no purveyor of cheap labour, is an Australian.

" My Lord Southampton and Lord Rutland ," wrote Rowland Whyte to Sir Robert Sydney in 1599, " come not to the court ...