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.

Land of Nod — This was an amusement park located just north of today's River Park, from 1917-1940.

Genesis 4: 17 relates that after arriving in the Land of Nod, Cain's wife bore him a son, Enoch, in whose name he built the first city.

Land of Nod is the name of a small hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

The Land of Nod also refers to the mythical land of sleep, a pun on Land of Nod ( Gen. 4: 16 ).

A later instance of this usage appears in the poem The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson from the A Child's Garden of Verses and Underwoods ( 1885 ) collection.

In The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes book, The Land of Nod is a pun on the mythical land of sleep, or The Dreaming, Cain's destination after murdering his brother.

The Land of Nod Trilogy is a series of books by author Gary Hoover.

The first book in the trilogy ( Land of Nod, The Artifact ) was published by Fantasy Island Book Publishing in 2011.

Canadian indie band Stars mentions the Land of Nod in the title track to their album " The Comeback EP ": " Just got back from the land of Nod ..."

Bob Dylan's song " Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum " from the 2001 album Love and Theft refers to those " Livin ' in the Land of Nod, Trustin ' their fate to the hands of God ".

The gothic rock band To / Die / For sings about the Land of Nod in the song " Vale of Tears ", in the verse " Sleep well my darling, and leave this vale of tears behind.

Land of Nod is a better place ".

In it is a reference to the Land of Nod otherwise called East of Eden: " Brother John, have you seen the homeless daughters standing here with broken wings.

British Rap group Rhyme Asylum briefly make a reference to this land, " Vanish you to the Land of Nod, close friends turn into snakes like Aaron's rod ".

There is a Psychedelic Folk Rock band from Providence, RI called " Allysen Callery & the Land of Nod ",

Natalie Merchant sings " The Land of Nod ", based on the Robert Louis Stevenson poem, on her album " Leave Your Sleep.

American rock band Sabertooth Zombie recorded the song " Old Fools " which lyrically references the Land of Nod: " One nation, under God, in the Land of Nod.

Tierra del Fuego (, ; Spanish for " Fireland " or " Land of Fire ") is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.

Zionism (, Tsiyonut ) is a form of nationalism of Jews and Jewish culture that supports a Jewish nation state in territory defined as the Land of Israel.

The Israelites (, Standard: ; Tiberian: ; ISO 259-3: ) were a Semitic Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of the Land of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods ( 15th to 6th centuries BCE ), later evolving into Jews and Samaritans of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, inhabiting the territories of Judea and Galilee, and Samaria respectively, though a Jewish diaspora had already developed outside of Judea and Galilee.

Its Japanese name,, supposedly comes from Ainu kamuy kar put ya mosir (, shortened to Karput ), which means " Land / Island / Country at the Shore of the God-Made ( River ) Mouth / Confluence.

Khalistan movement refers to a global political secessionist movement which seeks to create a separate Sikh state, called Khālistān (, " The Land of the Pure ") in the Punjab region of South Asia.

The use of the word for " rising " to refer to the east ( where the sun rises ) has analogs from many languages: compare the terms " Levant " (< French levant " rising "), " Vostok " (< Russian voskhod " sunrise "), " Anatolia " (< Greek anatole ), " mizrahi " in Hebrew (" zriha " meaning sunrise ), " sharq " (< Arabic " rise ", " rising "), " shygys " (< Kazakh shygu " come out "), (, a pictograph of the sun rising behind a tree ) and " The Land of the Rising Sun " to refer to Japan.

The Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (, sometimes translated as the Order of the Cross of St. Mary ’ s Land ) was instituted in 1995 to honour the independence of the Estonian state.

Galloway (, or Gallobha, Lowland Scots Gallowa, meaning " Land of the Foreign Gaels ") is an area in southwestern Scotland.

It was also called Lay Kyun Aung Myei (, ; Victorious Land over the Four Islands ) and the royal palace, Mya Nan San Kyaw (, ; Famed Royal Emerald Palace ).

The Székelys or Székely (), sometimes also referred to as Szeklers (,,, ), are a subgroup of the Hungarian people living mostly in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania, Romania.

Franz Josef Land, Franz Joseph Land, or Francis Joseph's Land (, Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa ) is an archipelago located in the far north of Russia.

Severnaya Zemlya (, Northern Land ) is an archipelago in the Russian high Arctic.

Sanok Land (, lat.

The Jerusalem Talmud, talmud meaning " instruction ", " learning ", (, Talmud Yerushalmi, often Yerushalmi for short ), is a collection of Rabbinic notes on the 2nd-century Mishnah ( Jewish oral tradition ) which was compiled in the Land of Israel during the 4th-5th centuries, then divided between the Byzantine provinces of Palaestina Prima and Palaestina Secunda.

Kiriath-Jearim (,, Latin: Cariathiarim ) " city of woods "-was a city in the Land of Israel mentioned 18 times in the Hebrew Bible.

Greater Israel occasionally refers to the Promised Land ( defined in ) or to the Land of Israel, and is also called Complete Land of Israel or " Entire Land of Israel " (, Eretz Yisrael Hashlemah ).

Land was purchased from the Taps estate (, ) to build a railroad station and a depot for repairing and maintaining locomotives.

Tehiya (, Revival ), originally known as Banai ( Hebrew: בנא " י, an acronym for Land of Israel Loyalists ' Alliance ( Hebrew: ברית נאמני ארץ ישראל )), then Tehiya-Bnai ( Hebrew: תחייה-בנא " י ), was a small right-wing political party in Israel that existed from 1979 until 1992.

Nowadays they refer to themselves — and are referred to by the Israeli media as — Ne ' emanei Eretz Yisrael נאמני ארץ ישראל ( Hebrew: " Those who are loyal / faithful to the Land of Israel ").

The region is also known as the Land of Israel ( Hebrew: ארץ ־ ישראל Eretz-Yisra ' el ), the Holy Land and the Southern Levant, and historically has been known by other names including Canaan, Zion, Syria Palaestina, Southern Syria, Jund Filastin and Outremer.

This name is often explained as an acronym of " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning " ( Psalms, 137: 5 )- " אם אשכחך ירושלים, תשכח ימיני " (" Im Eshkakhekh Yerushalaiym Tishkakh Yemini ") or " Land of Israel, Torah of Israel "- " ארץ ישראל, תורת ישראל " (" Eretz YIsrael, Torat YIsrael ").

The use of the Hebrew word " Yored " ( which means " descending ") is a modern renewal of a term taken from the Torah: " אנכי ארד עמך מצרימה ואנכי אעלך גם עלו ", and from the Mishnah: " הכל מעלין לארץ ישראל ואין הכל מוציאין ", and from the Talmud " ארץ ישראל גבוה מכל הארצות " ( The Land of Israel is higher than all the countries ).

The system is composed of three credit services, Federal Land Banks and National Farm Loan Associations, Federal Intermediate ( short-term ) Credit Banks, and Banks for Cooperatives.

Land reform is likely to be a pressing issue in many of these countries.

Land within commuting distance of a growing city is usually high in price, higher if it has subdivision possibilities.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

Land which is unsuitable for arable farming usually has at least one of the following deficiencies: no source of fresh water ; too hot ( desert ); too cold ( Arctic ); too rocky ; too mountainous ; too salty ; too rainy ; too snowy ; too polluted ; or too nutrient poor.

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

Between the Cotton Belt and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the Old Land area — a region of resistant rocks — whose soils, also derived from weathering in silu, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.

At some point, he was alleged to have accompanied Swein on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but proof is lacking.

The earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century Booke of Margery Kempe, describing among other things her pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome.

Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis (" Southern Land ") date back to antiquity, the first confirmed sighting of the continent of Antarctica is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

If a party has gained more direct mandates in a Land than it is entitled to according to the results of the second vote, it does not forfeit these mandates because all directly elected candidates are guaranteed a seat in the Bundestag.

( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).

Land is the central topic of Joshua.

He prays to God, recalling the sins of Israel and God's promise of restoration to the Land, and asks Artaxerxes for leave to return to Jerusalem and rebuild its walls ; the king is receptive and extends his aid to this mission.

The task before them is to take possession of the Promised Land.

:" Furthermore we have been told that there are many more islands in that sea, one of which is called the Great Estland ( Aestland ) -- And this island is told to be quite close to the Woman Land ( terrae feminarum ), which is not far ( non longe ) away from Birka of the Swedes.

Ben Nevis in Svalbard is a 922 metre-high mountain south of the head of Raudfjorden, Albert I Land, which was named after the Scottish hill.

Banda is the Blessed Land: sacred practice and identity in the Banda Islands, Maluku.

Land elevations average, though Clipperton Rock, a barren volcanic outcrop located in the atoll's southeast, is considerably higher and forms the island's tallest point.

Land is built up in a finger pattern that provides a suburban street layout of waterfront housing blocks.

: Sixth, Israel is not only the Holy Land where our faith was born and developed, but it plays an essential role in our present and future.