The Royal National Lifeboat Institution opened a lifeboat station at the Sand Quay in 1878, but it was closed in 1896.

Also important was forester and ecologist Aldo Leopold, one of the founders of the Wilderness Society in 1935, who wrote a classic of nature observation and ethical philosophy, A Sand County Almanac, published in 1949.

On November 1, 1957, a United States Coast Guard LORAN-A station was commissioned ( on Sand Island ) which switched to a LORAN-C station in 1979.

Author George Sand was portrayed as a character in several works in the 19th century ; writer Mario Praz credited the popularity of lesbianism as a theme to Sand's appearance in Paris society in the 1830s.

Yet another common name was Sand Shoal Duck, referring to its habit of feeding in shallow water.

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

Martin began construction of their Sand Lake facility in Orlando, Florida, and this was opened in late 1957.

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.

He was also upset over the broken promise of filming Blood and Sand in Spain, and the failure to shoot the next proposed film in either Spain or at least New York.

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.

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.

For several years during the dotcom boom of the late 1990s, commercial real estate on Sand Hill Road was more expensive than almost anywhere else in the world.

The annual rent in the area around Sand Hill Road peaked at around $ 144 ( USD ) per square foot ($ 1550 per m < sup > 2 </ sup >) in mid-2000 ; at the time, this was higher than rates in Manhattan and London's West End.

For many years, Sand Hill Road's northern end terminated in the middle of Stanford Shopping Center's parking lot, and the only four-lane segment was the section from Interstate 280 to Santa Cruz Avenue ( the section where all the venture capitalists are housed ).

The bottleneck near Santa Cruz Avenue was widened in 2006 and features a high faux rock wall at the junction of Sand Hill Road and Santa Cruz Avenue.

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.

The Sand Creek massacre, as it was known, resulted in the death of between 150 and 200 Cheyenne, mostly unarmed women and children.

He returned to Breslau, where Marx republished the allegation that Bakunin was an imperial agent, claiming that George Sand had proof.

The Delft Report was published in 1971 and outlined a series of works for Gold Coast Beaches including Gold Coast Seaway, works at Narrowneck that resulted in the Northern Gold Coast Beach Protection Strategy and works at the Tweed River that became the Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Project.

Sand was then poured between the two dams and as this emerged above the surface it was covered by another layer of till.

He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles ( 1966 ).

The Sound of Music was an interim film for Wise, produced to mollify the studio while he developed the difficult film The Sand Pebbles, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough and Candice Bergen.

* June 8-George Sand, French novelist ( born 1804 )

An Anishinaabe, he was born March 14, 1932 on the Sand Point Ojibway reserve near Beardmore, Ontario.

Murphy was born in Harbor Beach, Michigan, then known as " Sand Beach ", in 1890.

Pogue was born in Okemah, Oklahoma, and is the son of Mr and Mrs Alex W. Pogue who lived in Sand Springs, Oklahoma.

Lamas and Sand have three daughters: Alexandra Lynne Lamas ( born 1997 ), Victoria Lamas ( born 1999 ), and Isabella Lorenza Lamas ( born 2001 ).

John Prescott Ellis ( born February 3, 1953 ), formerly an American journalist and media consultant, and now a partner in the venture-capital firm Sand Hills Partners.

Sand ( born 1928 ), American judge

North was born at Sand Lake, Rensselaer County, New York, January 4, 1815.

Ebbe Sand ( born July 19, 1972 ) is a Danish former professional footballer who most notably played as a striker for FC Schalke 04 in Germany.

Karl Ludwig Sand was born to Godfrey Christopher Sand and Dorthea Jane Wilheltmina Schapf on October 5, 1795.

Joining them all is a string section from Aarhus, Denmark introduced to the band by Brian Lopez where coincidentally the rest of Giant Sand are from including violinists Asger Christensen and Iris Jakobsen, who, ironically, was born in Tucson.

Starting with the added words " Sein Same mußte sich so sehr wie Sand am Meer und Stern am Firmament ausbreiten, der Heiland ward geboren " ( His seed must be scattered as plentifully as sand on the shore and as stars in the firmament, the Savior was born ), the strings stress the importance of the promise kept.

Nick Sand ( born 1941 ) is a cult figure in the psychedelic community for his work as a clandestine chemist from 1966-1996 for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.

Eventually he arrived in Paris, where he met George Sand, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx.

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

* With Jimmy Buffett: Riddles in the Sand, The Last Mango In Paris

* Sand and Musset at the Theater to Paris: " Sand et Musset, les Amants du siècle "

Among Sisley's best-known works are Street in Moret and Sand Heaps, both owned by the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Bridge at Moret-sur-Loing, shown at Musée d ' Orsay, Paris.

Since getting divorced, Baroness Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, previously Baroness Dudevant, the successful and notorious writer of sensational romance novels now living under the pseudonym George Sand, in Paris, has been in the habit of dressing like a man.

Sand meets Chopin in the French countryside at the house of the Duchess d ' Antan, a foolish aspiring socialite who invites artists from Paris to her salon in order to feel cosmopolitan.

Sand and Chopin depart for Majorca, relieved to escape the competitive nature of artistic alliances and jealousies in Paris.

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.

Georges Sorel et le débat 1900, by Shlomo Sand, Paris, La Découverte, 1984.

In 1815, Sand volunteered under Major von Falkenhausen, participating in the Battle of Waterloo in June and in Paris by July.

Once in Paris he meets novelist George Sand, who has just split from her violent lover Mallefille.