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Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class of soil or soil type; i.e., a soil containing more than 85 percent sand-sized particles by mass. [2]
The East German Sandmännchen in a hot air balloon. The East German stop motion children's television programme Unser Sandmännchen (Our Little Sandman), based on Hans Christian Andersen's Ole Lukøje character and the story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, has been broadcast since 1959, along with a West German version which was discontinued after reunification.
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
Sands is an English and Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Benjamin Aymar Sands (1853–1917), American lawyer; Benjamin F. Sands (1811–1883), officer in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War
tassii/Getty Images. This name of Arabic origin has a fierce sound and a soft meaning of “beautiful and lovely.” 21. Masha. Not to be confused with Marsha, this one is a Russian diminutive of ...
This Arabic name meaning ‘the leader’ is the first of the constellation’s stars to rise. In Arab legends, the star is nicknamed ‘roaring line,’ which we think is pretty fiery. 97.
The name of a Unami group who lived along and between the banks of the Passaic Neck [6] and the name of one of the state's first townships, established in 1683. Meaning "a place in a rapid stream where fishing is done with a net," [7] alternatively, "at the lamprey stream" from the contemporary axkwaakahnung.
The name of the unlikely heroine in Dickens’s Great Expectations, Estella is a pretty choice with Latin origin, and (yep, you guessed it) the meaning is ‘star.' 28. Aster