When Papa Smurf and the Smurflings travel to the Land of Nod in order to obtain some sand in order to make Brainy Smurf's new glasses ( after he lost them to the Darkness Monster when gathering chocolate from its cave with Clumsy Smurf ), they end up meeting a grouchy Sandman after the previous one retired.

On August 3, 1946, retired industrialist Louis J. Koch opened Santa Claus Land, which is claimed to be the world's first theme park.

As a result of his disillusionment from taking a life, Captain America retired from the Avengers, only to further spiral into depression after the Avengers were killed in Washington, D. C. Schmidt was later seen in the Land of the Dead, and then as one of those in Mar-Vell's Paradise waiting to live in his own personal version of Heaven.

On September 22, 1886, the land was transferred to the Loring Land and Improvement Company, composed of General Dunn, then a retired Army Brigadier General and former Judge Advocate General ; George B. Loring, a former Congressman and Commissioner of Agriculture ; and George H. LeFetra, a Washington temperance hotel proprietor.

" At that time ( prior to the Holy Land trial ), the Times called efforts to link the organization to Hamas and Hezbollah " unsuccessful ," citing a retired FBI official who was active through 2005 and who suggested that while " of all the groups, there is probably more suspicion about CAIR ", you don't get " cold hard facts " although the article goes on to cite the suspicious background of some of CAIR's donors as a source of contention within members of the organization itself.

Though Polaroid continued producing instant cameras after 1983, the name ' Land ' was dropped from the camera name since Edwin Land retired in 1982.

In 2006, a wooden twister coaster called El Toro was added in the spot formerly occupied by Viper, along with a new themed area, and another kiddie ride area to replace Bugs Bunny Land which was retired at the end of 2004.

Chairman Thompson Lantion of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, a retired two-star police general, has fishponds in La Torre, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.

Chairman Thompson Lantion of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, a retired two-star police general, has fishponds in La Torre, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.

Gordon was more sympathetic to the Māori and had already been dismissed as a " gospel-grinding nigger lover " by retired Native Land Court judge Frederick Maning and a man of " wild democratic theories " by Premier Hall.

Madame Emmy Land Wolff died in 1955 and Dr. Wolff retired from opera five years later and returned to Ruschlikon, Switzerland, where he died in 1961.

In 1878 he was appointed as a judge of the Native Land Court but retired two years later due to ill health.

With the encouragement of retired publishers Ian and Betty Ballantine, he discontinued his freelance work and committed two years ’ time to writing and illustrating Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, which was published in 1992.

Land Rover retired its utility vehicles at the end of 1997 to focus on its more upmarket Discovery and Range Rover models, as well as the then newly launched Freelander.

He was Chief of the Division of Land and Water, CSIRO ( Australia's premier government research organisation ), in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, when he retired in 2004.

Originally Douglas wanted to stretch the road across the continental divide into Rupert's Land ( modern day Alberta ) but this plan was abandoned when Douglas retired in 1864.

Chairman Thompson Lantion of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, a retired two-star police general, has fishponds in La Torre, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.

Plans for what would become Santa Claus Land, and later Holiday World & Splashin ' Safari, were first conceived as a retirement project by Louis J. Koch, a retired industrialist from Evansville, Indiana.

He is a man of African American descent who was chosen to succeed long-time Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon, who retired shortly after the end of the " No Man's Land " story arc.

He was settlement officer, Bihar ( 1899 ); collector of Midnapore ( 1904 ); Director of Land Records, Bengal ( 1905 ); Deputy Secretary to the Government of India ( 1907 ); Revenue Secretary to the Government of India ( 1911 ); Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal ( 1915 ); ( Finance ) member of Lord Zetland's Bengal Executive Council ( 1921-1922 ); Governor of Assam ( 1922-1927 ); acting Governor of Bengal ( 1925 ); Deputy Chairman of the Indian Franchise Committee ( 1932 ); retired ( 193 -); " in retirement continued be an esteemed counsellor on Indian Affairs "; publications: Settlement Reports of Saran, and Darbanga ; joint-editor, " Rampini's Bengal Tenancy Act ".

Lieutenant-General Andrew Brooke Leslie, CMM, MSC, MSM, CD ( born December 1957 ) is a retired Canadian Forces general officer who most notably served as Chief of Transformation and earlier as Chief of the Land Staff.

Because of President Roosevelt's creation of the Siskiyou National Forest, and the reversion of Oregon and California Railroad lands to federal government control, by 1937 the U. S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management were in charge of 70 % of the land in Josephine county, and a large part of the Illinois Valley.

Polaroid Corporation is an American-based international consumer electronics and eyewear company, originally founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land.

In April 1937, Land agents representing the Toronto Harbour Commission approached the farmers of Malton who owned Lots 6-10 on Concession 5 and 6 to acquire land for Malton Airport.

From 1 October 1932 until 1 April 1937, Land was Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair.

The British Graham Land Expedition between 1934 and 1937 carried out aerial surveys and concluded that Graham Land was not an archipelago but was a peninsula.

* An Eight-Page Indenture / Instrument # 33043 between The London and Western Trusts Company Limited, The Corporation of The City of London and John Labatt, Limited, dated December 31, 1936, and registered on title in the Land Registry Office for the City of London on January 2, 1937, conveying Tecumseh Park to the City of London along with $ 10, 000 on the provisos that the athletic field be preserved, maintained and operated in perpetuity " for the use of the citizens of the City of London as an athletic field and recreation ground " and that it be renamed " The John Labatt Memorial Athletic Park.

After 1927 he bought a store in Lesotho ; in 1937 he acquired a farm in South Africa but was evicted under the Bantu Land Act.

Created by Jean de Brunhoff between 1931 and 1937, Babar's Kingdom, also known in French as Le pays des Éléphants ( Elephant Land ), is a fictional country supposedly in Africa consisting of intelligent elephants, which are usually bipedal and civilized.

* J. P. Kinney, A Continent Lost: A Civilization Won: Indian Land Tenure in America ( Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1937 )

She was a prolific author, publishing a book of poems Verse in Prosa in the early 1920s, a novel, Orplid, mein Land in 1937, which appeared in English as Eternal Flight in 1937, and a book of memoirs, Anfang und Aufstieg ( 1937 ), which later appeared as On Wings of Song in the U. K. in 1938 and as Midway in My Song in the U. S. in 1938.

From 1934 to 1937 he captained the schooner Penola during the British Graham Land Expedition in Antarctica.

* Lawless Land, 1937

During 1937 his book about syphilis, Shadow on the Land, was published and very well received.

In 1937, Sahlenburg became part of the Land of Hadeln and in 1970 became part of the city of Cuxhaven.

* William H. McDonald, Texas Land Commissioner, 1937 – 1939

* Black Land, White Land ( 1937 ; Fortune )

In 1944, the State of California filed a petition to declare an escheat of the eight acres ( 32, 000 m² ) of land on the ground that the purchases made in 1934 and 1937 had been made with intent to violate and evade the Alien Land Law.

The court ruled in favor of the state, stating that pursuant to the Alien Land Law, the parcels had vested in the state as of the date of illicit transfers in 1934 and 1937.

* An Eight-Page Indenture / Instrument # 33043 between The London and Western Trusts Company Limited, The Corporation of The City of London and John Labatt, Limited, dated December 31, 1936, and registered on title in the Land Registry Office for the City of London on January 2, 1937, conveying Tecumseh Park to the City of London along with $ 10, 000 on the provisos that the athletic field be preserved, maintained and operated in perpetuity " for the use of the citizens of the City of London as an athletic field and recreation ground " and that it be renamed " The John Labatt Memorial Athletic Park.

The British Graham Land Expedition ( or BGLE ) was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937.