Linda: Saudi Arabia Osama Ahmed Mansour // Shutterstock Linda: Saudi Arabia - Name meaning: Soft, tender; beautiful. - Reason for ban: It’s foreign. The Saudi Arabian government actually takes issue with several Western girls’ names. These include other seemingly benign names such as “Alice...
Linda: Saudi Arabia Osama Ahmed Mansour // Shutterstock Linda: Saudi Arabia - Name meaning: Soft, tender; beautiful. - Reason for ban: It’s foreign. The Saudi Arabian government actually takes issue with several Western girls’ names. These include other seemingly benign names such as “Alice...
Parents looking to improve a kid’s social status by naming him or her something aristocratic better not move to Saudi Arabia. Royal terms like Sumuw (highness), Malika (queen), and Al Mamlaka (the kingdom) are all off-limits. Ashanti: Portugal Petr Pohudka // Shutterstock Ashanti: Portu...
show" with one particularly memorable line (268). A cloakroom girl exclaims, "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds." West as Maude Triplett replies, "Goodness had nothing to do with it." Zukor reflected in his autobiography years later, "It seemed to me that the incident described above portrays...
In the early 1940s, American geologists working for Standard Oil of California were searching for oil in Saudi Arabia. They discovered a geological bend in a riverbed that indicated an underlying oil field. Further exploration was put on pause during the war, but in 1948, a test drill hit ...
Amir: Saudi Arabia Hany Musallam // Shutterstock Amir: Saudi Arabia - Name meaning: Prince. - Reason for ban: Saudi Arabian citizens cannot name their children anything that relates to royalty. Parents looking to improve a kid’s social status by naming him or her something aristocratic better...
Amir: Saudi Arabia Hany Musallam // Shutterstock Amir: Saudi Arabia - Name meaning: Prince. - Reason for ban: Saudi Arabian citizens cannot name their children anything that relates to royalty. Parents looking to improve a kid’s social status by naming him or her something aristocratic better...
Amir: Saudi Arabia Hany Musallam // Shutterstock Amir: Saudi Arabia - Name meaning: Prince. - Reason for ban: Saudi Arabian citizens cannot name their children anything that relates to royalty. Parents looking to improve a kid’s social status by naming him or her something aristocratic better...
Parents looking to improve a kid’s social status by naming him or her something aristocratic better not move to Saudi Arabia. Royal terms like Sumuw (highness), Malika (queen), and Al Mamlaka (the kingdom) are all off-limits. Ashanti: Portugal ...
Parents looking to improve a kid’s social status by naming him or her something aristocratic better not move to Saudi Arabia. Royal terms like Sumuw (highness), Malika (queen), and Al Mamlaka (the kingdom) are all off-limits. Ashanti: Portugal ...