Sentinel
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Guards
- Border guardBorder guardThe border guard, frontier guard, border patrol, border police, or frontier police of a country is a national security agency that performs border control, i.e., enforces the security of the country's national borders....
, a state agent who controls the security at borders - Honor guardHonor guardAn honor guard, or ceremonial guard, is a ceremonial unit, usually military in nature and composed of volunteers who are carefully screened for their physical ability and dexterity...
, a ceremonial escort
Places
- Sentinel, CaliforniaSentinel, CaliforniaSentinel is a former settlement in Fresno County, California. It was located west of Humphreys Station, at an elevation of 843 feet . It still appeared on maps as of 1924....
- Sentinel, OklahomaSentinel, OklahomaSentinel is a town in Washita County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 901 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Sentinel is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....
- Sentinel Island (disambiguation)
- Sentinel IslandsSentinel IslandsThe Sentinel Islands are part of the Andaman Islands chain.There are two of them: North Sentinel and South Sentinel. The Sentinelese people live on the North island....
, a pair of islands in the Andaman Islands - Sentinel RangeSentinel RangeThe Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km wide...
, a mountain range in Antarctica - Sentinel Peak (Alberta)Sentinel Peak (Alberta)Sentinel Peak is a mountain in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. It is located in the Livingstone Range, east of Sentinel Pass. The headwaters of the Pekisko Creek originate on the slopes of the mountain....
- Sentinel Peak (Antarctica)
- Sentinel Peak (Arizona)Sentinel Peak (Arizona)Sentinel Peak, more commonly known as "A" Mountain, is a prominent ridgein the Tucson Mountains west of Tucson, Arizona.Sentinel Peak rises 2,897 feet into the air to the west of the Santa Cruz River. The underground ridge of rock, running to the east, once forced groundwater to the surface...
- Sentinel Peak (British Columbia)Sentinel Peak (British Columbia)Sentinel Peak is a prominent limestone peak, west of the Continental Divide in British Columbia, Canada. It is located north of the town of Prince George....
- The Sentinel (Montana), a mountain peak in Glacier National Park
Buildings
- Sentinel Building (disambiguation), multiple
- Sentinel (building)Sentinel (building)The Sentinel is a luxury residential skyscraper in Takapuna, the central business area of North Shore City, New Zealand. The largest and currently only real skyscraper in the city, it has 30 levels and is 150 m tall including spire...
, an apartment tower in North Shore City, New Zealand - The SentinelsThe SentinelsThe Sentinels are two 90 metre tall residential tower blocks on Holloway Head in Birmingham, England. The two towers, called Clydesdale Tower and Cleveland Tower, are both 31 storeys tall and were part of a major regeneration scheme following World War II which consisted of the construction of...
, two residential block towers in Birmingham, UK - Sentinel Secondary SchoolSentinel Secondary SchoolSentinel Secondary School is a secondary school located in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is one of three public secondary schools in the West Vancouver district . The school has a grass field, two baseball diamonds, three street hockey courts, and three tennis courts...
, a school in West Vancouver, British Columbia
Transportation
- Sentinel (steamboat)Sentinel (steamboat)Sentinel was a small wooden propeller-driven steamship of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.-Career:Sentinel was built in 1898 for the Hunt Brothers, who ran a family steamboat business on Puget Sound. The Hunts ran the vessel to stops on Bay Island in southern Puget Sound, and also on a run to...
, a small wooden steamboat associated with the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
Local newspapers
- The Sentinel (Gauhati)The Sentinel (Gauhati)The Sentinel is an English daily newspaper launched in 1983 in the city of Gauhati, in the state of Assam, India. It has five editions published simultaneously from Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Shillong, Silchar and Itanagar. It caters to the entire North Eastern region of India....
, published in Gauhati, Assam, India - The Sentinel (Lewistown)The Sentinel (Lewistown)The Sentinel is a daily newspaper based in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, USA covering the Juniata Valley....
, published in Lewistown, Pennsylvania - The Sentinel (Pennsylvania)The Sentinel (Pennsylvania)The Sentinel is a daily newspaper based in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, serving the Harrisburg metropolitan area. The newspaper is generally considered more conservative than the Patriot-News and has a strong circulation base in central and western Cumberland County and parts of Perry County.-External...
, published in Carlisle, Pennsylvania - The Sentinel (Staffordshire), published in Stoke-on-Trent, England
- The Daily Sentinel (Colorado), based in Grand Junction, Colorado
- The Daily Sentinel (Texas)The Daily Sentinel (Texas)The Daily Sentinel is an award-winning daily newspaper based in Nacogdoches, Texas, USA. It has a daily circulation of over 9,000.The newspaper is widely read in print and online for community news, features, sports, and photos....
, based in Nacogdoches, Texas - The Daily Sentinel (Ohio), based in Pomeroy, Ohio
- Los Angeles SentinelLos Angeles SentinelThe Los Angeles Sentinel is a weekly African American-owned newspaper published in Los Angeles, California. The paper boasts of reaching 125,000 readers , making it the oldest, largest and most influential African-American newspaper in the Western United States.The Sentinel was founded and first...
, published in Los Angeles, California - Milwaukee Journal SentinelMilwaukee Journal SentinelThe Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It is the primary newspaper in Milwaukee, the largest newspaper in Wisconsin and is distributed widely throughout the state...
, published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - The News-SentinelThe News-SentinelThe News-Sentinel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning daily newspaper in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The afternoon News-Sentinel is politically independent.-Early history:...
, published in Fort Wayne, Indiana - Orlando SentinelOrlando SentinelThe Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of the Orlando, Florida region. It was founded in 1876. The Sentinel is owned by Tribune Company and is overseen by the Chicago Tribune. As of 2005, the Sentinel’s president and publisher was Kathleen Waltz; she announced her resignation in February 2008...
, published in Orlando, Florida - St. Louis SentinelSt. Louis SentinelThe St. Louis Sentinel is an African American-oriented weekly newspaper, founded in 1968 by Howard B. Woods in St. Louis, Missouri. After Woods's death in 1976, his wife Jane Woods took over as publisher.-See also:*African American newspapers...
, published in St. Louis, Missouri - Santa Cruz SentinelSanta Cruz SentinelThe Santa Cruz Sentinel is a daily newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California, covering Santa Cruz County, California, and owned by MediaNews Group Inc....
, published in Santa Cruz, California - San Francisco SentinelSan Francisco SentinelThe San Francisco Sentinel is an online newspaper serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities of the San Francisco Bay Area...
, published in San Francisco, California - Sun-SentinelSun-SentinelThe Sun Sentinel, owned by the Tribune Company, is the main daily newspaper of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S., and all of Broward County, but circulates throughout all of South Florida.-Overview:...
, published in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Broward County - Holland SentinelHolland SentinelThe Holland Sentinel is the daily newspaper in Holland, Michigan, founded in 1896.Originally an afternoon paper published six days a week, the paper moved to Saturday mornings and then added a Sunday edition in the late 1980s...
, published in Holland, Michigan - Twin City SentinelTwin City SentinelThe Twin-City Sentinel was the name of the afternoon newspaper published in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Sentinel's masthead was dropped in 1985 when operations were absorbed into its sister paper, the morning Winston-Salem Journal....
, published in Winston Salem, North Carolina - The Valley Sentinel, published in Valemount, British Columbia, Canada
Student publications
- The Sentinel (KSU)The Sentinel (KSU)The Sentinel is the official student newspaper of the Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. As of the Spring semester of 2007, the Sentinel has a weekly circulation of 5,000, distributed to over 30 locations on the Kennesaw State campus....
, published by Kennesaw State University - The Sentinel, published by Melbourne High School
Lorries and locomotives
- Sentinel Waggon WorksSentinel Waggon WorksSentinel Waggon Works Ltd was a British company based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire that made steam-powered lorries, railway locomotives, and later, diesel engined lorries and locomotives.-Alley & MacLellan, Sentinel Works, Jessie Street Glasgow:...
, a British engineering firm that produced lorries and locomotives:- LMS Sentinels 7160-3LMS Sentinels 7160-3London Midland and Scottish Railway Sentinels 7160–3, later renumbered 7180–3 and by British Railways 47180–3 was a class of small vertical boilered chain-driven shunting locomotives.- Overview :...
- LMS Sentinel 7164
- LMS Sentinel 7192LMS Sentinel 7192The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Sentinel No. 7192 was a geared steam locomotive. It was built in 1934 by the Sentinel Waggon Works of Shrewsbury, maker's number 8805 as lot 111. It had an Abner Doble boiler combined with a 4-cylinder compound arrangement, but an order for an additional...
- S&DJR SentinelsS&DJR SentinelsThe Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway Sentinel locomotives were two small vertical-boilered, chain-driven steam locomotives for shunting. They were built by Sentinel Waggon Works, who also produced similar designs for industrial customers.- Service :...
- LMS Sentinels 7160-3
Military
- Sentinel tankSentinel tankThe Sentinel tank was a cruiser tank designed in Australia in World War II in response to the war in Europe, and to the threat of Japan expanding the war to the Pacific or even a feared Japanese invasion of Australia. It was the first tank to be built with a hull cast as a single piece, and the...
, an Australian-built World War II Cruiser Tank - MPQ-64 SentinelMPQ-64 SentinelThe AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel is a three-dimensional radar used to alert and queue Short Range Air Defense weapons to the locations of hostile targets approaching their front line forces. The Sentinel radar is deployed with forward area air defense units of the U.S. Army and USMC. The radar uses an...
, a radar used by the United States military - Raytheon SentinelRaytheon Sentinel|-See also:-References:* Winchester, Jim. "Aircraft of the RAF Part 5 - Raytheon Sentinel R1". Air International, Volume 75 No.3, September 2008. pp.54-57.-External links:* * * *...
, an aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and British Army - RQ-170 Sentinel, USAF stealth drone officially acknowledged in early December 2009
Film and television
- The Sentinel (1977 film), a 1977 film based on the Jeffrey Konvitz novel
- La Sentinelle (film)The Sentinel (1992 film)The Sentinel is a 1992 French thriller film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Emmanuel Salinger - Mathias Barillet* Thibault de Montalembert - Jean-Jacques* Jean-Louis Richard - Bleicher...
, a 1992 film by the French director Arnaud Desplechin - The Sentinel (2006 film)The Sentinel (2006 film)The Sentinel is a 2006 action thriller film about a veteran United States Secret Service bodyguard who is suspected as a traitor after an attempted assassination of the president reveals that someone within the Service is providing information to the assassins...
, a thriller directed by Clark Johnson starring Michael Douglas - The Sentinel (TV series)The Sentinel (TV series)The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series that aired on UPN in the United States from 1996 to 1999. It premiered on March 20, 1996, and ran for 65 episodes . The series later reaired on Syfy.-Plot and characters:...
, a US television series that ran from 1996 to 1999 - "The Sentinel" (Stargate SG-1), a TV episode
- Sentinel (Beast Wars), a computer in the TV show Beast Wars
- A type of robotRobotA robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...
in the Matrix film series
Music
- Sentinel (band)Sentinel (band)Sentinel is an American rock band from Oakland, California. Their music style is self-described as Indie-Dream Pop. The band plays regularly in clubs and venues around the San Francisco Bay Area...
- The Sentinel (album),an album by Pallas
- Sentinel (album), an album by Nigel Mazlyn Jones
- "Sentinel" (instrumental), by Mike Oldfield
- A song by VNV Nation on their album Of Faith, Power and GloryOf Faith, Power and Glory-Charts:...
- A song by Judas Priest on their album Defenders of the FaithDefenders of the FaithDefenders of the Faith is the ninth studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was recorded at Ibiza Sound Studios, Ibiza, Spain and mixed from September to November 1983 at DB Recording Studios and Bayshore Recording Studios in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida. The LP and cassette tape...
- A song by Alice Cooper on his album DragontownDragontownDragontown is the 22nd studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 2001. Like Brutal Planet, the album displays a heavier style than many of his previous releases...
- A song by Hilltop Hoods on their album The Calling
- A song by At The Throne of Judgment on their album The Arcanum OrderThe Arcanum OrderThe Arcanum Order is At the Throne of Judgment's debut album, released on July 24, 2007 on Rise Records. It was recorded and produced by Joey Sturgis of The Foundation Studios in Connersville, Indiana. The lyrics deal with historical events that have happened in the past...
- Sentinel SoundSentinel SoundSentinel is a reggae and dancehall sound system from Stuttgart, Germany, best known for winning the 2005 World Clash in Brooklyn, New York.- Clashes :* Kill Or Be Killed 2001 - Sentinel vs Supersonic vs Wadada vs Budadub - Köln...
, a reggae and dancehall sound system from Stuttgart, Germany
Literature
- The Sentinel (anthology)The Sentinel (anthology)The Sentinel is a collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke originally published in 1983.The stories, written between 1946 and 1981 originally appeared in a number of magazines including Astounding, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Ten Story Fantasy,...
, a collection of short stories by Arthur C. Clarke - "The Sentinel" (short story)The Sentinel (short story)"The Sentinel" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, which was expanded and modified into the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clarke expressed impatience with the common description of it as "the story on which 2001 is based." He was quoted as saying, it is like comparing "an acorn to...
, a 1951 short story by Arthur C. Clarke - The Sentinel (novel)The Sentinel (novel)The Sentinel is a novel written by Jeffrey Konvitz.-Plot summary:Alison Parker, a beautiful but troubled fashion model moves into a gorgeous New York City brownstone house that has been divided into apartments...
, a 1974 novel by Jeffrey Konvitz - Sentinels novelsSentinels novelsThe Sentinels novels by Van Allen Plexico comprise a sequence of superhero fiction works in prose format with occasional interior illustrations. They are set primarily in the present-day United States...
, a series of novels by Van Allen Plexico - Gundam SentinelGundam Sentinelis a novel set in the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam universe, originally serialized in Model Graphix magazine between September 1987 and August 1988. Gundam Sentinel became a cult hit, due to its super-detailed mechanical designs and an intricate story by veteran writer Masaya Takahashi...
, a 1987 serial "photo-novel"
Comics
- Sentinel (comics)Sentinel (comics)Sentinels are a fictional variety of mutant-hunting robots, appearing in the Marvel Comics Universe. They are usually portrayed as antagonists to the X-Men. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, they first appeared in The X-Men #14 .According to Marvel canon, Sentinels are programmed to locate...
, a group of mutant-hunting robots in the Marvel universe - Sentinel (comic book)Sentinel (comic book)Sentinel is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics as part of the Tsunami imprint. It is written by Sean McKeever and illustrated by UDON.- Publication history :...
, a comic book series - Alan ScottAlan ScottAlan Scott is a fictional character, a superhero in the and the first superhero to bear the name Green Lantern.-Publication history:The original Green Lantern was created by young struggling artist Martin Nodell, who was inspired by the sight of a New York Subway employee waving a red lantern to...
, the original Green Lantern, who used the alias "Sentinel" at one point - Sentinel PrimeSentinel PrimeSentinel Prime is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers series. First mention of Sentinel Prime was in issue #65 of the US Marvel Comics Transformers series, where he was mentioned to hold the Autobot Matrix of Leadership before Optimus Prime. Sentinel Prime has since...
, a fictional character in the Transformers universe, the original autobot leader before Optimus Prime
Gaming
- The Sentinel (video game), a 1986 game created by Geoff Crammond
- The Sentinel (module)The Sentinel (module)The Sentinel is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, set in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting.-Plot summary:...
, an adventure module for Dungeons & Dragons - A 1984 computer game created by Bryan BrandenburgBryan BrandenburgBryan Brandenburg is an American author, technology entrepreneur and former game programmer.-Career:...
- A 2004 computer game published by DetalionDetalionDetalion was a Polish video game developer. It was closed down due to financial difficulties in March 2005. They developed such notable adventure games as Reah: Face the Unknown, Schizm: Mysterious Journey , Mysterious Journey II, and most recently, Sentinel: Descendants in Time Detalion was a...
- A vehicle in the Warhammer 40,000 universe
- A Forerunner Guard robot in the "Halo" Trilogy
- One of the two teams in Defense of the AncientsDefense of the AncientsDefense of the Ancients is a custom scenario for the real-time strategy game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, based on the "Aeon of Strife" map for StarCraft...
- Moonlight Sentinel and Ghost Sentinel, two occupations available in the popular MMORPG Lineage 2
- A Paradigm in Final Fantasy XIIIFinal Fantasy XIIIis a console role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. Released in 2009 in Japan and 2010 in North America and PAL regions, it is the thirteenth major installment in the Final Fantasy series...
- A highly promoted character class in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Computing
- Sentinel nodeSentinel nodeA sentinel node is a specifically designated node used with linked lists and trees as a traversal path terminator. A sentinel node does not hold or reference any data managed by the data structure...
, an object to represent the end of a data structure - Sentinel valueSentinel valueIn computer programming, a sentinel value is a special value whose presence guarantees termination of a loop that processes structured data...
, a value used to terminate a loop - The name of the nil that terminates a variable length list of parameters in Objective-CObjective-CObjective-C is a reflective, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.Today, it is used primarily on Apple's Mac OS X and iOS: two environments derived from the OpenStep standard, though not compliant with it...
- In network protocols such as Bisync, sentinel valueSentinel valueIn computer programming, a sentinel value is a special value whose presence guarantees termination of a loop that processes structured data...
s indicate where frames start and end
Other meanings
- Animal sentinelsAnimal sentinelsThere is increasing recognition that wild, domestic, and companion animals may act as "sentinels" for environmental health hazards by providing early warning of human health hazards in the environment...
, which give early indications to environmental hazards - Sentinel (satellite)Sentinel (satellite)Sentinel is a series of future space missions currently being developed by ESA under the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme...
, GMES Sentinel satellites, Series of ESA funded Earth Observation satellites - Sentinel (sculpture)Sentinel (sculpture)Sentinel is a 16m high sculpture by Tim Tolkien, installed upon a traffic island at the intersection of the Chester Road and the A47 Fort Parkway at the entrance to the Castle Vale estate in Birmingham, England....
, a sculpture by Tim Tolkien - Sentinels (Hudson)Sentinels (Hudson)Sentinels is a public artwork by American artist Jon Barlow Hudson, located at the bottom of the Brady Street pedestrian bridge over Lincoln Boulevard, which is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was commissioned as a part of the Wisconsin Percent for Art Program.-Description:Sentinels was...
, a public artwork by American artist Jon Barlow Hudson - Sentinel (publisher), a book publisher
- Sentinel lymph nodeSentinel lymph nodeThe sentinel lymph node is the hypothetical first lymph node or group of nodes reached by metastasizing cancer cells from a primary tumor.-Physiology:...
, the first lymph node affected by a metastasising cancer - Sentinel (FBI)Sentinel (FBI)Sentinel is a software project to replace the FBI's failed Virtual Case File project. http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/fbi-puts-sentinel-hold/2010-03-21...
, an FBI software project replacing the failed Virtual Case File - Sentry (disambiguation)