Sentinel

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A sentinel usually refers to a sentry or border guard, sometimes a statue that guards a particular place, person or item, as well as an Honour guard.

Sentinel may also refer to:

Contents 1 Science 2 Places 3 Newspapers 4 Books 5 Art 6 Transportation 7 Military 8 Fiction 8.1 Literary fiction 8.2 Comic Books 8.3 Television and Film 8.4 Mythology 8.5 Computer, tabletop and video games 9 Music 10 Firms 11 See also

[edit] Science

• Sentinel lymph node is a term for the first lymph node reached by metastasizing cancer cells in oncology.
• Sentinel value in computing is a special value that signifies the end of a sequence of data.

[edit] Places

• Sentinel, Oklahoma
• Sentinel, North Dakota
• Sentinel Islands, a pair of islands in the Andaman Islands
  • North Sentinel Island
  • South Sentinel Island
• Sentinel Range, a mountain range in Antarctica
• Sentinel Secondary School, a school in West Vancouver, British Columbia
• Sentinel building, a 30-story luxury apartment tower in Takapuna, North Shore City, New Zealand

[edit] Newspapers

• The Sentinel (Britain), a local evening newspaper published in Stoke-on-Trent, England
• The Sentinel (Michigan), a local newspaper published in Holland, Michigan
• The Sentinel (New York). a bi-weekly local newspaper published in New Windsor, New York
• The Sentinel (Pennsylvania), is a daily newspaper published in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg
• The Sentinel (Gauhati) is a daily newspaper published in Gauhati, Assam, India
• The Sentinel (MHS), the magazine of Melbourne High School
• The Sentinel (NIC), the newspaper of North Idaho College
• Los Angeles Sentinel, an African-American weekly newspaper published in Los Angeles, California
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a local daily morning broadsheet newspaper published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• The News-Sentinel, a local evening newspaper published in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• Orlando Sentinel, a local newspaper published in Orlando, Florida
• St. Louis Sentinel, an African-American weekly newspaper published in St. Louis, Missouri
• Sun-Sentinel, a local daily newspaper published in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Broward County
• The Daily Sentinel, a daily newspaper of Grand Junction, Colorado and the Western Slope of Colorado.
• The Sentinel, a monthly newspaper published at The Ohio State University

[edit] Books

• Sentinel HC, a major book publisher

[edit] Art

• The Sentinel, a 73-foot sculpture by Albert Paley found at the Rochester Institute of Technology

[edit] Transportation

• Sentinel 1000, a 222ft long airship [1]
• LMS Sentinels 7160-3, small shunting locomotives made by Sentinel Waggon Works
• LMS Sentinel 7164, a small shunting locomotive made by Sentinel Waggon Works
• LMS Sentinel 7192, a steam locomotive made by Sentinel Waggon Works
• S&DJR Sentinels, small shunting locomotives made by Sentinel Waggon Works

[edit] Military

• Sentinel tank (AKA AC1 Sentinel), an Australian-built World War II Cruiser Tank
• MPQ-64 Sentinel, a three-dimensional radar used by the United States Army and United States Marine Corps
• Raytheon Sentinel, an aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and British Army

[edit] Fiction

[edit] Literary fiction

• The Sentinel (short story), a short story by Arthur C. Clarke that formed the basis for 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Sentinel (novel), a novel by Jeffrey Konvitz.

[edit] Comic Books

• Sentinel (comics), a group of mutant-hunting robots in the Marvel universe
• Sentinel (comic), a Marvel comic book series written by Sean McKeever
• Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, who uses the codename "Sentinel"
• Gundam Sentinel, a Gundam manga set towards the end of the Gryps Conflict

[edit] Television and Film

• The Sentinel (film), a 1977 film based on a novel by Jeffrey Konvitz
• The Sentinel (1992 film)) (La Sentinelle), a 1992 French thriller
• The Sentinel (TV series), a US television series that ran from 1996 to 1999
• The Sentinel (2006 film), is a film based on a novel by Gerald Petievich
• The Sentinel (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
• Robotech: The Sentinels, a cancelled series spawned from the Robotech universe
• Sentinel (Beast Wars) was the name of the Maximal denfense computer in the TV show Beast Wars.
• Sentinels (squid-shaped robots) (from film The Matrix and its sequels), that hunt down humans who escape from the Matrix.

[edit] Mythology

• Meta-humans that have extraordinary mental abilities and can fluctuate time. Certain sentinel groups have certain specialties in these fields, such as scanning, suggestion, precognition, and many other things.

• Sentinels - A secret society that existed at Tufts University in Massachusetts from the late 1880s until the mid-1930s. Although members were never known to reveal themselves publicly, it was believed that a small number of Boston and Western Massachusetts municipal officials were involved. The society was purportedly disbanded due to problems stemming from the depression and the Second World War. Although exact dates are unknown, most believe the final meeting took place several months before the Fall of Berlin.

[edit] Computer, tabletop and video games

• Sentinel (computer game), a 1984 Synapse Software computer game created by Bryan Brandenburg
• The Sentinel (computer game), a 1986 award winning computer game created by Geoff Crammond
  • Sentinel Returns, a 1998 sequel to The Sentinel for the Sony Playstation and PC
• Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic, a 1989 Electronic Arts computer role-playing game created by Karl Buiter for the Commodore 64 and DOS
• Sentinel: Descendants in Time, a 2004 graphic adventure PC game created by Detalion
• A deployable automatic upgradable turret weapon that is available as a mutator for two Unreal Tournament games: Unreal Tournament 2003 and Unreal Tournament 2004.
• a premium BMW-style car in Grand Theft Auto 3, used by the Mafia gang among others
• A ground defense turret in the 1996 RTS game Total Annihilation
• Night elf NPC guards in world of Warcraft
• In Halo (video game series), Sentinels are angular, laser-wielding, flying robots built by the Forerunners to contain the Flood and prevent any infections.
• A Sentinel is a walking, mech-like vehicle used by the Imperial Guard in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
• Two BioWare games, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect offer classes named "sentinel." In KotOR, sentinel is a balanced Jedi class, mixing lightsaber and force skills. In Mass Effect, sentinel is a mixed class of Engineer and the biotics specialist, called Adept. This class mixes dark energy biotics powers with tech abilities.

[edit] Music

• The Sentinel (album), a 1984 album by the neo-progressive band, Pallas
• The Sentinel (song), is a song in Judas Priest's 1984 album, Defenders of the Faith
• Sentinel (song), the first track in Mike Oldfield's 1992 album, Tubular Bells II
• "The Sentinel" (song), is a song by Hilltop Hoods, from the album The Calling
• The Sentinel (song), is a song in Alice Cooper's 2001 album, Dragontown

[edit] Firms

• Sentinel Waggon Works, a former British engineering firm
• Sentinel Radio Corporation, a radio manufacturer in Evanston, Illinois, USA

[edit] See also

• Sentinel Peak
• Réseau Sentinelles