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Botany Bay
(Encyclopedia) Botany Bay, inlet, New South Wales, SE Australia, just S of Sydney. It was visited in 1770 by James Cook, who proclaimed British sovereignty over the east coast of Australia. The site…Sydney Greenstreet Biography
Sydney GreenstreetactorBorn: 12/27/1879Birthplace: Sandwich, Kent, England Tea-planter turned actor, Greenstreet's distinctive presence added weight to Warner Brothers films throughout the '40s.…Sydney Pollack Biography
Sydney Pollack producer, director, actor Born: 7/1/1934Birthplace: Lafayette, IndianaDied: 5/26/2008 A director of TV series including Ben Casey (1961) and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962),…Porter, William Sydney
(Encyclopedia) Porter, William Sydney: see O. Henry.Sydney, Algernon
(Encyclopedia) Sydney, Algernon: see Sidney, Algernon.Sydney, Sir Philip
(Encyclopedia) Sydney, Sir Philip: see Sidney, Sir Philip.Tasman Sea
(Encyclopedia) Tasman Sea, arm of the S Pacific Ocean between Australia and New Zealand; named for Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. Sydney, Australia, is the largest city on the sea.Beresford, Bruce
(Encyclopedia) Beresford, Bruce, 1940–, Australian film director, b. Sydney, grad. Sydney Univ. (1962). Beresford moved to England, worked for the British Film Institute (1966–71), and made several…Lindsay, Norman
(Encyclopedia) Lindsay, Norman, 1879–1969, Australian cartoonist. Born into an eminent family of Australian artists, Lindsay became chief cartoonist of the Sydney Bulletin in 1901. His vigorous…New Waterford
(Encyclopedia) New Waterford, town (1991 pop. 7,695), on NE Cape Breton Island, N.S., Canada, NE of Sydney. A former coal-mining center in a region that saw the last mine close in 2001, New Waterford…Trending
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