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Sybaris
Coin from Sybaris, c. 550-510 BC. Sybaris (Italian: Sibari) was a city of Magna Graecia on the Gulf of Taranto, between the rivers Crathis (Crati) and Sybaris (Coscile), which now meet about 5 km from the sea, but in ancient times had independent mouths. It was the oldest Greek colo..
Sybase
Sybase headquarters in Dublin Sybase Inc. (NYSE: [SY]) is a software company specializing in relational database management systems and database-related products. "Sybase" is also commonly used to refer to Adaptive Server Enterprise, the company's flagship relational database syste..
Sybase/iAnywhere
iAnywhere is a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. External links [iAnywhere.com][Sybase.com]..
Sybase ASA
Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere is a relational Database management system. It claims to offer high performance and reliability with rich enterprise functionality. Features include full transaction processing, a self-tuning optimizer, referential integrity, SQL and Java stored procedures, triggers,..
Sybase MobiLink
MobiLink is a database to database synchronization technology written by iAnywhere Solutions Inc. (A subsidiary of Sybase Inc.) that allows mobile devices such as laptops and PDA's to synchronize to a central consolidated database such as Adaptive Server Anywhere, Adaptive Server Enterprise, Oracle,..
Sybase Open Watcom Public License
The Sybase Open Watcom Public Licence is an open-source licence that has been approved by the Open Source Initiative. It is the licence under which the OpenWatcom C/C++ compiler is released. History The draft of version 2.0 of the Licence was published on 2004-01-20. This version incorporated cha..
Sybase SQL Server
Sybase SQL Server was the name of Sybase Corporation's primary relational database management system product from 1987 to 1995. It was originally created for UNIX platforms in 1987. In 1988, SQL Server for OS/2 was codeveloped for the PC by Sybase, Microsoft, and Ashton-Tate. Ashton-Tate divested..
Syberia
For a region of Russia, see Siberia. There is also an action computer game called Cyberia. Syberia is a 2002 computer adventure game conceived by Benoît Sokal, developed by Microïds and published through The Adventure Company. It is a third-person, mouse-driven, semi-realistic/semi-surrealistic..
Syberia II
Syberia II is a 2004 adventure game conceived by Benoît Sokal and developed by MC2-Microïds, and a continuation to Syberia. It is a third-person puzzle-solving game. Stylistically identical to the first Syberia, Syberia II improves upon the first game by introducing more realistic character anima..
Sybian
A Sybian with attachment A Sybian is a device used mostly by women for autoerotic purposes and sexual arousal. It consists of a saddle-like seat containing an electric motor connected to a rod that protrudes from a hole in the center. Various phallic objects, like dildos, butt plugs, and nub..
Sybil
In antiquity, the oracular seeresses of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean were referred to by the Greek term "sibyls". In modern times, when "Sibyl" is adopted for a woman's name, the conventional spelling is "Sybil" People Shirley Ardell Mason: the true name of Sybil Isabel Dorsett, the..
Sybilla de Normandy
Sybilla de Normandy (1092- 12 July/13 July, 1122) was queen consort of Alexander I of Scotland. Sybilla as born in circa 1092 in Domfront, Normandy, the illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England and Sybilla, daughter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall. She was married to Alexander I, ..
Sybilla Louise Ambler
Sybilla Louise Ambler (born 14 April 1965), was born at King's College Hospital, in London, England. She is the first child of Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler and John Kenneth Ambler. Sybilla married Baron Henning Cornelius von Dincklage in a religious ceremony in Schaftlarn am Starnberger See, B..
Sybilla of Lusignan
Sybilla of Lusignan (1198-c. 1230) was the daughter of Amalric II of Jerusalem and Isabella of Jerusalem. She was the second wife of King Leo II of Armenia, by whom she had one daughter, Isabella of Armenia. Sources Rudt-Collenberg, W.H. The Rupenides, Hethumides and Lusignans, 1963 ..
Sybille Bammer
Sybille Bammer is an Austrian tennis player born in 1980. She has achieved a career high ranking of No. 59 as of 2006. ..
Sybille Bedford
Sybille von Schoenebeck (16 March1911 – 17 February2006) was a British author under her married name of Sybille Bedford. Many of her works are at least partly autobiographical. She was born in Charlottenburg to Maximilian von Schoenebeck and his wife, Elizabeth Bernard. She was raised in the ..
Sybille de Selys Longchamps
Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps (born August 28 1941) is a Belgian aristocrat. She is famous for being the mother of Delphine Boël, illegitimate daughter of Albert II of Belgium, current Belgian monarch. Born in Uccle, Belgium, she is the daughter of Count Michel François de Selys Longchamps..
Sybille Schmitz
Sybille Schmitz (born December 2, 1909 - April 13, 1955) was a German actress. Sybille Schmitz was born in Düren. She committed suicide in Munich. Her tragic life after the end of World War II inspired Rainer Werner Fassbinder to his acclaimed film Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982). Exter..
Sybill Trelawney
Sybill Patricia Trelawney (Sibyll Patricia Trelawney in the United States) is a fictional character who appears in J.K. Rowling's series of Harry Potter novels. Trelawney wears many gaudy bangles, cloaks and shawls, all covered with shining sequins. She also wears thick glasses, which cause her ..
Sybil (book)
Sybil is a book written by Flora Rheta Schreiber in 1973 about a woman named Shirley Ardell Mason. Mason was born on January 25, 1923 in Dodge Center, Minnesota. Her story is the most famous case of Multiple Personality Disorder on record. A movie was also made in 1976 based on the book, starring Sa..
Sybil (Disraeli)
Sybil, or The Two Nations Published in the same year as Frederick Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil (1845) traces the plight of the working classes of England. Indeed, as the title suggests, Benjamin Disraeli is interested in showing the horrific conditions in wh..
Sybil (film)
right Sybil originally aired as a made-for-television miniseries in 1976. Sally Field starred in the title role, with Joanne Woodward playing the part of Sybil's psychiatrist, Cornelia B. Wilbur. Based on the book Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber, the movie dramatises the life of a shy young g..
Sybil (novel)
Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil traces the plight of the working classes of England. As the title suggests, Disraeli is interested in showing the horrific co..
Sybil Andrews
Sybil Andrews (1898 - 1993) was a British-born Canadian printmaker best known for her modernist linocuts. Sybil trained in England, and began producing and exhibiting linocuts in the 1920s until 1939. In 1947 following World War II she moved to Canada, making her home in Campbell River, British Col..
Sybil Brand Institute
The Sybil Brand Institute (in full, the Sybil Brand Institute For Women) was a famous county jail in Los Angeles County, California. It was located at 4500 East City Terrace Drive, in Monterey Park, California. The facility was named after Sybil Brand (May 8, 1899-February 17, 2004), a noted local..
Sybil Buck
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Sybil Danning
Sybil Danning (born May 24, 1949 in Ried, Austria) is best known for her many outstanding roles in B-movies, science fiction films, and action movies. Born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria as Sybille Johanna Danninger, she became an actress after leaving home around 1965 at the age of 16. She was a ..
Sybil Fawlty
Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the hit BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers. She is played by Prunella Scales. Personality As Basil's wife, she's the only character in the series who refers to him by his first name. She is often seen to be a more effective manager of the hotel, making sure Basil ..
Sybil Kein
Sybil Kein (a.k.a. Dr. Consuela Provost) is a New Orleans Creole Poet, Playwright, Scholar, and Musician. Dr. Provost largely created the field of Creole Studies through her early publications and presentations. A protégé of Robert Hayden, her poetry is housed in the National Archives, Library o..
Sybil Leek
Sybil Leek was an English witch, astrologer, psychic, and occult author. She wrote more than 60 books on occult and esoteric subjects. She was dubbed "Britain’s most famous witch" by the BBC. Sybil Leek 1917 – 1982 Sybil Leek was born in Staffordshire to a well to do family. The family had a..
Sybil Ludington
The statue of Sybil Ludington on Gleneida Avenue in Carmel, New York Sybil Ludington (1761–1839) was the daughter of Colonel Henry Ludington, the commander of the local militia near Fredericksburg, New York (Later renamed Ludingtonville, now part of the town of Kent) during the American R..
Sybil Lynch
Sybil Lynch (usually known as Sybil) is a female singer from New Jersey, America. Since 1986, she has released many singles, however it was when she signed with the music UK songwriters/producers Stock Aitken Waterman, that she had the biggest success, and was particularly popular in the UK. Her mos..
Sybil Marshall
Sybil Marshall (26 November 1913 - 29 August 2005) was a British writer, teacher and educationalist. As a teacher in a one-room school in Cambridgeshire during the 1940s, Marshall developed teaching methods based on integrating subjects and encouraging children's creativity. Later written up as An ..
Sybil Mary Hathaway
Dame Sibyl Mary Hathaway, 21st Dame of Sark, DBE, (13 January 1884 - 14 July 1974) from 1927 to 1940 and again from 1945 to 1974 (Dame is the title of a female holder of a Seigneurie). She inherited title when her father died on 14 June 1927, and acquired the name Hathaway upon her second marriage..
Sybil Ruscoe
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Broadcaster & journalist Sybil Ruscoe, began her career on Wyvern FM in Worcester as a news reporter. The was t..
Sybil Sanderson
Sybil Sanderson (1865-1903), born in Sacramento, California, in the United States, was a famous operatic soprano during the Parisian Belle Époque. Her father was a wealthy gold miner and died while she was a child. Using the money left to them, she and her mother moved to Paris and became trans..
Sybil Stockdale
Sybil Stockdale was the wife of Vice Admiral James Stockdale, one of the United States' most honored and storied military veterans in the post-WWII era, present at the fictional August 4 1964 Gulf of Tonkin event, who spent 7-1/2 years as a POW in North Vietnam under torture, later headed The Citade..
Sybil Thorndike
Dame Sybil Thorndike CH DBE (24 October 1882–9 June 1976) was a British actress, brother of author Russell Thorndike. She was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, trained at Ben Greet's Academy, and was on stage from 1904. In 1908 she met George Bernard Shaw, and at around the same time met L..
Sybil Weinberger
Sybil Weinberger has been a musical supervisor for Never Too Young, Dark Shadows, and Ryan's Hope. ..
Syboat Acker
Headstone of Syboat Acker in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Syboat Acker (also known as "Sybout" or "Siber"; March 8 1698 – July 26 1771) was the son of a famous Colonial American and uncle of a Patriot in the American Revolutionary War. Contents 1 Biography2 Marriage and son3&nb..
Sybok
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Sybrand Engelbrecht
redirect [[Template:Not verified]]Major-General Sybrand Engelbrecht SM (born 1913) was a South African military commander. He joined the South African Army in 1936, and served in World War II. He served as Army Chief of Staff from 1959 to 1963, when he took early retirement. He returned to acti..
Sybreed
Sybreed (which stands for "synthetic breed") is an industrial metal band hailing from Switzerland. Their music is apparently reminiscent of such bands like Fear Factory, Frontline Assembly, and Ministry, though they do have a unique sound of their own. Their sound can be identified with precise, mac..
Syburi
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Sy Barash Regatta
The Beta Sigma Beta Sy Barash Regatta was named for a Beta Sig, Sy Barash, a prominent State College businessman and civic leader who succumbed to cancer in 1974. One year later the first Regatta was staged at Stone Valley. Beta Sigma Beta is a local fraternity at Penn State University established ..
Sy Barry
Sy Barry at the drawing table. Seymour "Sy" Barry, born in 1928, was a comic strip artist. On Junior High School, a teacher advised him to give a shot at School of Art and Design in New York. Among thousands of candidates, Sy was one of the hundred who got a place on the school in 1943. When ..
Sy Bartlett
Sy Bartlett was an American author and screenwriter/producer of Hollywood films. Born Sacha Baraniev in the Ukraine, he immigrated to the United States at the age of four and adopted the name Sidney Bartlett. Sy Bartlett was born July 10, 1900 in the Black Sea seaport of Mykolaiv in the southern Uk..
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