Sands, stone dust and gravels can survive prolonged flood conditions, but most require special bracing during construction as well as some form of structural skin.

Sands and gravels that possess a wide range of particle sizes with a smooth distribution of particle sizes are called well graded soils.

Sands and gravels have been quarried at Homersfield since the 1940s.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.

A little further west, a narrow road closely lined with high walls, Shore Road, leads down to the West Sands and the Harbour.

The Black Sands, as the contrasting name would suggest, have a rockier and darker sand, and are also popular with visitors exploring the rock caves and fascinating sea life.

Silver Sands is becoming more popular with open water swimmers, who swim daily in the sea, both as a leisure pursuit, and as training for open water competition.

Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 ( finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding !, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim ), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy.

The terrain in these regions is bare, eroded, broken uplands, with sand dunes in the Qizilqum (' The Red Sands '; in the Russian form, Kyzylkum ) and Moyunqum ( in the Russian form, Muyunkum ( Муюнкум )) deserts, which occupy south-central Kazakhstan.

Bonny Sands ( 1998 ) concluded that the family is not demonstrable with current evidence.

* 1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

Since the University of Illinois was unhappy with the company's use of the Mosaic name, the company changed its name to Netscape Communications ( thought up by Product Manager Greg Sands ) and named its flagship web browser Netscape Navigator.

Starting with the Once Upon a Time in Mexico DVD, Rodríguez began creating a series called, " Ten Minute Cooking School " where he revealed his recipe for " Puerco Pibil " ( based on Cochinita pibil, an old dish from Yucatán ), the same food Johnny Depp's character, " Agent Sands " ate in the film.

In 1963, Sutch and his manager, Reginald Calvert, took over Shivering Sands Army Fort, a Maunsell Fort off Southend and in 1964 started Radio Sutch, intending to compete with other pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline.

He has recorded duets with noted Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser as well as recently releasing an album with bassist Alain Genty, entitled Singing Sands.

Whilst a laser on a weather-control satellite is able to supply heat, it is imperative to provide them with filter masks against the increasing carbon dioxide and also with food, air, and medical supplies ( a theme earlier explored in Clarke's novel The Sands of Mars ).

At the end of the song, which coincided with the third ( i. e. last ) English warning shot, Tromp fired a full broadside thereby beginning the Battle of Goodwin Sands and the First Anglo-Dutch War.

Even after the election of Bobby Sands as MP for Fermanagh / South Tyrone, a part of the mass mobilization associated with the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by republican prisoners in the H blocks of the Maze prison ( known as Long Kesh by Republicans ), Adams was cautious about the level of political involvement by Sinn Féin.

This, along with the election of Bobby Sands, was a precursor to a big electoral breakthrough in elections in 1982 to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The process of coastal change is still continuing, with the soft cliffs on some parts of the Solent, such as Fort Victoria, constantly eroding, whilst other parts, such as Ryde Sands, accreting.

The first sounding rocket flights for X-ray research were accomplished at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with a V-2 rocket on January 28, 1949.

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Mary makes friends with Adam Sands, a yet unpublished author who keeps his homosexuality a secret from almost everyone including his own mother.

The former base is located in the southeast corner of Sands Township, with small portions in West Branch Township and Forsyth Township.

Richardson made his London début in July 1926 as the stranger in Oedipus at Colonus at a small theatre, followed by his West End début as Arthur Varwell in Yellow Sands which ran for 610 performances and from then to 1929 played in supporting roles in London productions.

Consisting of the towns of Torquay, Paignton with its pier and Brixham, the bay has 20 beaches and coves along its coastline, ranging from small secluded coves to the larger promenade style seafronts of Torquay's Torre Abbey Sands and Paignton Sands.

Woburn Sands is a small town and civil parish that is located in the Borough of Milton Keynes, England, and to the south-east of Milton Keynes itself, near Wavendon.

Northeast of White Lake is a small area of white gypsum dunes, similar to those found at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, though these are much less expansive.

While the township is small having a population of 318 in 2006, its relative isolation makes Keppel Sands a significant community centre for people living in the surrounding rural areas of Joskeleigh, Coowonga, Tungamull, and Cawarral.

With only a single narrow gap to allow small craft to pass through, this barrier ( and a much shorter one running south from No Man's Land Fort towards Ryde Sands ) remains as the cost of demolition is deemed too high.

The castle sits on a rocky promontory overlooking a small beach called Castle Sands and the adjoining North Sea.

Par Harbour and the beach at Par Sands are south of the town with another small beach is at Spit Point west of the harbour.

The parish is small ( covering only the area around the Market Place, Claypath and The Sands ) and is bounded by the parishes of Durham's three other ancient city churches-St Giles ', St Oswald's and St Margaret's.

In the 1960s Great Canadian Oil Sands, Ltd., a small, indigenous Canadian firm, relied on new technology and heavy capital investment to pioneer oil sand extraction in the Athabascan region.

Tannum Sands hosts a small variety of schools including one public high school, two public primary schools and one private primary school which accommodate for students from areas nearby such as Miriam Vale, Benaraby, and Calliope.

The scenic route Varna-Golden Sands, ruptured by a small landslide caused by overdevelopment in the Lipov Kladenets villa district in 2004, remained closed and all traffic redirected to inland roads.

She also worked with Argento again shortly afterwords in a minor role in Opera ( 1987 ) playing the seamstress Giulia, as well as another small role in the Argento re-telling of Fantasma dell ' opera, Il ( 1998 ) ( The Phantom of the Opera ), which starred Julian Sands and Asia Argento.

As the story goes Sands, who often played in the cave, happened upon a small opening and crawled through.

* Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time-The player is given the " Dagger of Time ", allowing them to continuously relive the previous ten seconds of game-play for a set amount of times, or until the player is satisfied with the way he or she played those ten seconds.

During the battle the Prince seeks to win honour and glory in his first battle and heads straight to the Maharajah's treasure vaults, where he discovers the mythical Sands of Time safely contained within their Hourglass and the Dagger of Time, which he quickly learns can turn back time a short amount.