Featured News. Greens Sand has been in the silica sand industry since 1979 and has been a distributor of specialised silica sand to the Industrial as well as Leisure market for over 30 years, distributing nationally and across borders. We store a wide range of grades of silica sands.
On the aluminum cap atop the Washington Monument in Washington, DC are two words: Laus Deo. It is true that the words Laus Deo are inscribed on one face of the aluminum point which crowns the apex of the Washington Monument.ashington continues to Give Praise to God On the aluminum cap atop the Washington Monument in Washington, DC are two words: Laus Deo. No one can see these words. In fact, most visitors to the monument have no idea they are even there and...for that matter...probably couldn't care less!
1 The Liberty Bell is composed of approximately 70 percent copper, 25 percent tin and traces of lead, zinc, arsenic, gold and silver. 2  The Bell is suspended from what is believed to be its original yoke, made of American elm. This spelling was one of several acceptable spellings of the name at that time. 2  The strike note of the Bell is E-flat. 3  The federal government gave every state and its territories a replica of the Liberty Bell in the 1950s as part of a national U.S. Savings Bond campaign.