When Pretorius conducted the negotiations which led to the signing of the Sand River Convention he did so without consulting the volksraad, and Potgieter's party accused him of usurping power and aiming at domination over the whole country.

The U. S. forces conducted regular " freedom of movement " maneuvers and operations, such as Operation Sand Flea and Operation Purple Storm.

About 1830 Franklin Averill conducted a store at Sliter's Corners, and about the same time William Stevens established one at South Sand Lake, which in its early days was known as Stevens Corners.

The Sand Springs Range was the site of Project Shoal, an underground nuclear test conducted as part of the Vela Uniform program.

Sand dunes of varying texture that are tinged red with iron oxide lie to the north and east of Al Ain.

The ship's captain, Joseph Pierpont, published his experience in several American newspapers the following year giving an accurate position of Johnston and Sand Island along with part of the reef.

Southern Saskatchewan contains another area with sand dunes known as the " Great Sand Hills " covering over.

On 17 January 1852, the United Kingdom signed the Sand River Convention treaty with 5, 000 or so of the Boer families ( about 40, 000 white people ), recognising their independence in the region to the north of the Vaal River, or the Transvaal.

It was recreated for the video games Spy Hunter ( 2001 ), King's Quest V, Lego Indiana Jones, Sonic Unleashed and Civilization V and appeared in the novels Left Behind, Appointment with Death, The Eagle in the Sand and The Red Sea Sharks, the nineteenth book in The Adventures of Tintin series.

On Berlioz's return to Paris, a concert including Symphonie fantastique ( which had been extensively revised in Italy ) and Le retour à la vie was performed, with among others in attendance: Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Heinrich Heine, Niccolò Paganini, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Alfred de Vigny, Théophile Gautier, Jules Janin and Harriet Smithson.

Famous writers with a pen name include Voltaire, Molière, George Sand, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Dr. Seuss, and Lemony Snicket.

Following this acclaimed performance, she returned to French screens with Children of the Century ( 1999 ), a big budget romantic epic, in which she played 19th-century French proto-feminist author George Sand.

Algeria has fought only one brief war after independence ( the Sand War, a border conflict with Morocco in 1963 ), but the country is also, like most Arab nations, formally at war with the Israel since 1948.

She met and had an affair with Franz Liszt, who introduced her to the circle of George Sand.

In the book Elena has an affair with Franz Liszt, becomes friends with George Sand and has a friendship with the king of a small Germanic country obviously based on Ludwig I of Bavaria, then moves to California, all documented as having happened in Montez's life.

The dredger MV Sand Kite operating in thick fog, collided with one of the Thames Barrier's piers.

The Apostle Islands are a small group of islands in Lake Superior, off the Bayfield Peninsula with the majority of the islands located in Ashland County — only Sand, York and Raspberry Islands are in Bayfield County.

Lost Forest Research Natural Area is a protected relic forest closely associated with the Christmas Valley Sand Dunes in northeastern Lake County.

* A World in a Grain of Sand: Twenty-Two Interviews with Northrop Frye

Sand Beach ( now Harbor Beach ) was then county seat, until 1865, when the court house burned with nearly all the records.

Among his other collaborations were two albums written with Jimmy Buffett and Michael Utley, Riddles in the Sand and The Last Mango in Paris.

Green anarchist Tre Arrow was sought by the FBI in connection with an ELF arson on April 15, 2001 at Ross Island Sand and Gravel in Portland, torching three trucks amounting of $ 200, 000 in damage.

In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 51st Grammy Awards.

Much of the Wash itself is very shallow, with several large sandbanks — such as Breast Sand, Bulldog Sand, Roger Sand and Old South Sand — exposed at low tide, especially along its south coast.

Jules Verne describes in his novel Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen ( 1878 ) that when a fictional African " King of Kazounde " tasted a punch set aflame, " An act of spontaneous combustion had just taken place.

* Jules Verne-Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen

He spent many nights dining at the homes of friends, including novelist Eugène Sue and his mistress Olympe Pélissier, as well as the feminist writer George Sand and her lover Jules Sandeau.

He was also reading George Sand, Jules Verne and " every cheap paperback I could afford ".

The " realist " tendency is not necessarily anti-romantic ; romanticism in France often affirmed the common man and the natural setting, as in the peasant stories of George Sand, and concerned itself with historical forces and periods, as in the work of historian Jules Michelet.

The Sand Lake Baptist church was founded in 1831, the members coming from the Baptist churches of Schodack and the Second Baptist church of Nassau.

He met George Sand, then Madame Dudevant, at Le Coudray in the house of a friend, and when she came to Paris in 1831 they had a relationship.

* Sand Rock ( Little Rock City Park ), Alabama

They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

Andries Pretorius also negotiated the Sand River Convention ( 1852 ), in which Britain acknowledged the independence of the Transvaal.

The city became a commercial centre and expanded to Wyspa Piaskowa ( Sand Island, German: Sandinsel ), and then to the left bank of the River Oder.

Other common fauna include the Cape Hare ( Lepus capensis ), Egyptian Jackal ( Canis aureus hupstar ), Sand Fox ( Vulpes rueppelli ) and more rarely the Fennec Fox ( Vulpes zerda ).

* Chief Niwot ( c. 1825 – 1864 ), led a band in Northern Colorado and died from wounds sustained during the Sand Creek Massacre ).

Amantine ( also " Amandine ") Lucile Aurore Dupin (), later Baroness () Dudevant ( 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876 ), best known by her pseudonym George Sand (), was a French novelist and memoirist.

In 1822, at the age of eighteen, Sand married Baron Casimir Dudevant ( 1795 – 1871 ), illegitimate son of Baron Jean-François Dudevant.

Salmon and pacific cod processing occur at Peter Pan Seafoods ( Port Moller and King Cove ), Trident Seafoods ( Sand Point and Akutan ), and Bering Pacific ( False Pass ).

* 1933: A local trade directory lists for Heathrow these: Mrs. Waddell ( Cain's Farm house ); < u > farmers or market gardeners </ u >: Harry Curtis ( Heathrow Farm ), George Dance ( a small house on Heathrow Road nearly opposite the Plough and Harrow pub ), William Howell ( Bathurst ), Frederick Philp ( Heathrow Hall ), Sidney Whittington ( Perry Oaks ), David and John Wild ( Croft House ); < u > other </ u >: Heathrow Sand & Gravel Co ( Colnbrook ) Ltd., Edgar Charles Basham ( The gazette misprinted his surname as Sasham ) ( publican at the Plough and Harrow pub ), Fairey Aviation.