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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
129: ...ar many Tico's say is "pura vida" which literally means pure life. As a friendly expression you will hea... - Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
17: ...kremastos]] or the Latin word [[pensilis]], which means not just "hanging” but "overhanging," as in... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
13: ...f a river, they called it "Rio de Janeiro", which means January River. - History of China (45919 bytes)
142: ...ng Dynasty]] (明朝) in [[1368]]. Ming means bright in Chinese, and the period was important e... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
8: ... the face of a rock, and could only be reached by means of an apparatus of ropes. Ctesias mentions furthe... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
42: ...ion therefore hews more closely to centuries as a means of avoiding long discussions over periods, but it... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
30: Knowledge of new innovation was spread by several means. Workers who were trained in the technique might ...
34: Another means for the spread of innovation was by the network o...
55: ...lide together, the production of flat surfaces by means of the hammer and chisel followed by filing, scra...
74: ... done by hauling buckets of water up the shaft by means of a horse gin, or it could be drained by an adit...
83: ...gh the exchange of ideas (although this was by no means a fast process), with the most well-known name be... - Steel (28384 bytes)
30: The name for iron in several ancient languages means "sky metal" or something similar. In distant anti...
74: ... 1600s, ironworkers in western Europe had found a means (called '''''cementation''''') to carburize wroug... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
45: ...bagpipe, the fact that the air flow is continuous means that two notes cannot be separated by simply stop...
56: ... (each note is played by lifting only one finger) means that much [[Northumberland|Northumbrian]] piping ...
91: ...s of types of bagpipe; what follows is not by any means an exhaustive list. - China (38909 bytes)
14: ...o be translated as, "Central State". It literally means "middle (or centre) land," referring to the histo...
18: ...itically controversial, especially where Zhongguo means PRC. - May (3270 bytes)
11: ...|Slovene]], it is called ''veliki traven'', which means the month of high [[grass]]. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
108: ...rs, combined with her knowledge of world leaders, means that when she does express an opinion, however ca...
143: ...her than ''of Scotland'' (although this was by no means unknown). - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...lory"; her full name, "Cleopatra Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father." - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
29: ...the Roman goddess of victory. Boudicca's own name means "victory". - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
6: ...ed after her mother and called ''Ali鮯r'', which means ''other Aenor'' in the ''langue d'oc'', but it be... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
13: ... the 1550s. For nearly 350 years, women's primary means of support was the [[corset]], with laces and sta... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
19: ...course of events compelled the indolent but by no means incapable beauty to overthrow the existing govern...
37: ...entions between Great Britain and Russia. A by no means unwarrantable fear of the king of Prussia, who wa...
45: ...e beginning of 1760, "the continuance of this war means for me utter ruin. Things may drag on perhaps til...
49: ...e can save from the avidity of my enemies", which means, if words mean anything, that he was resolved to ... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
72: ...nched that in cases involving sexual assault, "no means no." While Campbell had little time to usher in ... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
63: ...ious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
57: ...rld dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the w...
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