Type Meaning and origin of names Examples People Bending arts Locations Organizations More about the World of Avatar In the world of Avatar, names are drawn from a wide variety of languages and sources. Although many names are transliterated into Chinese characters, the form of writing used in...
In the book Childhood Disrupted the author writes that even “well-meaning and loving parents can unintentionally do harm to a child if they are not well informed about human development” (pg.24). I strongly believe that every parent should be knowledgeable about factual child-development scienc...
bones and muscles. In Peru, the indigenous Quechua people have a wordShungo, which roughly translates to "one’s center—the heart and belly of your being." I’ve found this word’s meaning and concept to be central to my work with the belly and to the spirits, or souls, of my ...
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: The best of you is the one who learns the Qur'aan himself and teaches it to others. (Al-Bukhari) Makhraj should be the first step to learning the Quran. Without proper pronunciation, the meaning of Arabic words can change....
C, third letter of the alphabet. In position and form, but not in meaning, it corresponds to Greek gamma (see G). In English it is pronounced variously, e.g., in can, cent, church, and loch. In musical notation it symbolizes a note in the scale. In chemistry it is the symbol of...
Also, the reading makes me admire the effort of the inventors of writing systems because it must be a complicated process to transform the spoken words to the systems which represent the meaning of those spoken words. Without the writing system, the world would have been very messy and ...
“Teeda” is a Japanese word meaning “sunshine”, which is a nice name considering that the distillery in Japan that makes it is called “Helios”. We have looked at several of Helios’s rums before this – theunaged Kiyomi white, theblended gold rum, the5YO rum, and of course the pr...
The meaning of “1893” relates to the year that the first of the Botran brothers, Venancio Botran, was born. This edition is paying homage to him. Posted by backdoor at 4:43 am Aged Rums - Unknown Age, Blended Rums, Botran, Guatemala, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker...
My name is Keziah Keren and I like my name, I'm looking for the biblical meaning of it and now I found it and my older sister's name is Jemimah, and my nickname is kez or iah, and the funny thing is for those for the first time hearing my name, they cannot pronounce it ...
Full of excitement, I mentioned the yak sack race to some friends who were traveling with me on the plane and I got a lot of feedback. One well-meaning friend responded, “That’s crazy, how are you going to find a sack big enough for a yak?” I had to patiently explain that I...