* The short story " There Are More Things " by Jorge Luis Borges from The Book of Sand refers to an amphisbaena and concerns a similar, though mostly undescribed, monster.

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.

Sand carried by high winds has caused erosion on all islands, especially the windward ones.

Johnston and Sand islands are both enlarged natural features, while North ( Akau ) and East ( Hikina ) are two artificial islands formed by coral dredging.

* George Sand ( 1980 ) ( text by Mia Meyer ) Music theatre work for 8 mixed voices, 4 pianos

* 1864 – American Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.

Northern Saskatchewan is mostly covered by boreal forest except for the Lake Athabasca Sand Dunes, the largest active sand dunes in the world north of 58 °, and adjacent to the southern shore of Lake Athabasca.

The main campus is adjacent to Palo Alto, bounded by El Camino Real, Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Boulevard, and Sand Hill Road.

Sand-coated puppet animation was used in the Oscar-winning 1977 film The Sand Castle, produced by Dutch-Canadian animator Co Hoedeman.

* November 29 – American Indian Wars – Sand Creek Massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado ( where they had been given permission to camp ).

Sand is least active, followed by silt ; clay is the most active.

Sand has its greatest benefit to soil by resisting compaction and increasing porosity.

* " Amelia ", a song by The Mission, from the album Carved in Sand

Harlequin, by Maurice Sand

Columbine, in 1683 by Maurice Sand

At Ft. Garland, Colorado south of the Great Sand Dunes on U. S. Highway 160 the Fort Garland Museum is recommended and further south on Colorado State Highway 159 at San Luis, Colorado, the oldest town in Colorado, the bronze sculptures by Huberto Maestas, depicting the Stations of the Cross.

Coastal Hangklip Sand Fynbos grows on low-lying alkaline sands and, right by the sea, small patches of Cape Flats Dune Strandveld can be found.

Pantalone, year 1550, by Maurice Sand

Sand sculpture by Sudarshan Pattnaik at Bandrabhan near Hoshangabad

* 2003: Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon

* The Fraudsters-How Con Artists Steal Your Money Chapter 9, Pyramids of Sand ( ISBN 978-1-903582-82-4 ) by Eamon Dillon, published September 2008 by Merlin Publishing, Ireland

The theme, " Man and His World ", was based on the 1939 book entitled Terre des Hommes ( translated as Wind, Sand and Stars ) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

* The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White, promotion website for a book ( ISBN 0972182225 ) published in 2005 by Sand Hill Publishing

The Great Sand Sea lies within the desert's plain and extends from the Siwa Oasis to Jilf al Kabir.

Areas within the Namib include the Skeleton Coast and the Kaokoveld in the north and the extensive Namib Sand Sea along the central coast.

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.

To the south the depression slopes gently up to the Great Sand Sea.

* The Sand, the Sea and the Sun ; Gibson, 1970

Sjøsanden ( The Sea Sand ) is the most famous beach, as it stretches for almost a kilometre just outside the town centre.

North of the Gilf Kebir plateau, among the shallow peripheral dunes of the southern Great Sand Sea, is a field of Libyan desert glass.

* Great Sand Sea

* Calanshio Sand Sea

* Rebiana Sand Sea

The Egyptian Sand Sea is the Egyptian part of the Great Sand Sea of Africa's Libyan Desert.

Together with the Calanshio Sand Sea and Ribiana Sand Sea of Libya, the dunes of the Great Sand Sea cover about 25 % of the Libyan Desert.

Although well-known to the Tuareg and Muslim traders who caravaned across the Sahara, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs was the first European to document the Great Sand Sea.

Though the original text has been lost, a reference in Archimedes ' book The Sand Reckoner describes Aristarchus ' heliocentric theory.

Sand casting is one of the most popular and simplest types of casting that has been used for centuries.

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.

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.

Though the original text has been lost, a reference in Archimedes ' book The Sand Reckoner ( Archimedis Syracusani Arenarius & Dimensio Circuli ) describes another work by Aristarchus in which he advanced the heliocentric model as an alternative hypothesis.

It has historically been read as stating that the angle subtended by the Sun's diameter is 2 degrees, but Archimedes states in The Sand Reckoner that Aristarchus had a value of ½ degree, which is much closer to the actual average value of 32 ' or 0. 53 degrees.

St. Louis County has over 500 lakes, including Rainy Lake, Kabetogama Lake, Namakan Lake, Sand Point Lake, and Crane Lake.

The suggestion that Valdés was unsound on the Trinity was first made in 1567 by the Transylvanian bishop, Ferenc Dávid ; it has been adopted by Sand ( 1684 ), Wallace ( 1850 ) and other nontrinitarian writers, and is countenanced by Bayle.

Citronelle Oil Field, located on the crest of the dome, has produced more than 169 MMbbl ( million barrels ) of 42-46 ° American Petroleum Institute ( API ) gravity oil from the Lower Cretaceous Donovan Sand.

Like all of Southwest Alaska, Sand Point has a subpolar oceanic climate ( Köppen Cfc ), though compared to most parts of the region it is a little less rainy and has fewer wet days-145 as against over 220 throughout the Aleutian Islands and in most of Southeast Alaska.

PenAir has cargo flights to Sand Point six mornings a week.

The Sand City post office opened in 1961, but has now been combined with the Seaside Post Office and shares Seaside's zip code ( 93955 ) as well.

In 1899, the village of Sand Beach changed its name to Harbor Beach, because of the impression that the area has nothing but sand.

The Sand Dunes State Forest also has camping, fishing, and swimming.

It was taken down in 1816 and removed to West Sand Lake, where it has since been known as the First Lutheran church of West Sand Lake.

The Methodist Episcopal church at Sand Lake has been established many years, but just when the first society was formed is not known, as the early records are indefinite on this point.

West Sand Lake has a growing population of minorities in 2010.

Wynantskill has a major grocery store, several banks, restaurants, convenience stores, a post office, and a bowling alley, with almost all houses located on side streets off Main Ave. Other major roads are Whiteview Road, a primarily residential road that leads to Route 4 ; and West Sand Lake Road.

Sand Springs has one newspaper, the Sand Springs Leader.