Transliteration

The practice of converting a text from one writing system into another in a systematic way:

Transliteration

Transliteration means to represent or spell in the characters of another alphabet.

Examples:

Greek word: Ευαγγέλιο
Transliteration: Euaggelio (that is Gospel, one of the first four New Testament books telling of the life)

Persian word: کباب
Transliteration: Kabob (that means Kebab meaning cubes of meat, as lamb or beef, marinated and cooked on a skewer)

Burqa

An enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions for the purpose of hiding a female's body when out in public:

Burqa (also written as Burkha, Burka or Burqua)

Papal Bull

A particular type of letters patent or charter issued by a pope:

Papal Bull
Papal bull is named after the bulla (a type of seal impression) that was appended to the end in order to authenticate it.

Computus

The calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar:

Computus
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Federal Subjects

Russia is a federation which, as of March 1, 2008, consists of 83:

Federal Subjects

Uralic

A language family of 37 languages, such as Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Mari and Udmurt, spoken by approximately 25 million people:

Uralic

Azadi Tower

The symbol of Tehran, the capital of Iran:

Azadi Tower (translated: Freedom Tower)

Monstrum

A sign or portent that disrupts the natural order as evidence of divine displeasure:

Monstrum

Amish

Christian religious denominations who form a very traditional sub-grouping of Mennonite churches and are known for simple living, plain dress, and reluctance to adopt modern convenience:

Amish (or Amish Mennonite)

Menno Simons

A Dutch Anabaptist religious leader from the Friesland region of the Low Countries who Simons was a contemporary of the Protestant Reformers and his followers became known as Mennonites:

Menno Simons (1496–1561)

Believer's Baptism

The Christian practice of baptism, contrasted to infant baptism, in which people believe that saving grace and church membership are gifts from God by the recipient's faith alone and cannot be imparted or transferred from one person to another, such as from parent to child:

Believer's Baptism

Anabaptist

Christians of the Radical Reformation who rejected conventional Christian practices such as wearing wedding rings, taking oaths, and participating in civil government; they adhered to a literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount and Believer's baptism:

Anabaptist

Radical Reformation

The 16th century response to what was believed to be both the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church and the expanding Magisterial Protestant movement led by Martin Luther and many others:

Radical Reformation

British Isles

A group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and over six thousand smaller islands:

British Isles

Necromancy

A form of magic in which the practitioner seeks to summon the spirit of a deceased person, either as an apparition or ghost, or to raise them bodily, for the purpose of divination:

Necromancy

Mississippi River

The longest river and also the largest river system in North America:

Mississippi River

Kamloops

A city in south central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River and near a lake with the same name; it is known as Canada's Tournament Capital:

Kamloops

Fraser River

The longest river within British Columbia, Canada:

Fraser River
This river is named for Simon Fraser (explorer).

Simon Fraser

A fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia:

Simon Fraser (1776–1862)

British Columbia

It is known as the most beautiful province of Canada:

British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty; in 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada (more info ...).

Flag of British Columbia

Western Cordillera

An area that covers an extensive area of mountain ranges, basins, and plateaus in western North America - it covers much of western North America, west of the Western Great Plains - extending from the U.S. state of Alaska and south to Mexico:

Western Cordillera (also called North American Cordillera, Western Cordillera of North America, Pacific Cordillera, and in Canada, in reference to the Canadian portion, the Canadian Cordillera)

Great Plains

The broad expanse of prairie, steppe and grassland which lie west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada:

Great Plains
This area covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan (more info ...).

Rocky Mountains

A major mountain range in western North America which stretches more than 3,000 miles (4,830 km) from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States:

Rocky Mountains (or Rockies)

Crustaceans

A very large group of arthropods which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles:

Crustaceans (or Crustacea)

Eukaryote

An organism whose cells contain complex structures enclosed within membranes:

Eukaryote

With Soul

The word "animal" comes from the Latin word animal meaning:

With Soul

Microsoft Dynamics AX

The comprehensive business management solution produced by Microsoft:

Microsoft Dynamics AX

Microsoft Dynamics

A line of ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management) applications developed by the Microsoft Business Solutions group within Microsoft:

Microsoft Dynamics
For more info see: http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/en/us/default.aspx

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

A term used to refer to the standard framework of guidelines for financial accounting used in any given jurisdiction which are generally known as Accounting Standards:

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

ERP

The most complex and expensive business accounting software is frequently part of an extensive suite of software often known as:

ERP software (Enterprise Resource Planning)

Milo of Croton

A 6th century BC wrestler from the Magna Graecian city of Croton in southern Italy who enjoyed a brilliant wrestling career and won many victories in the most important athletic festivals of ancient Greece:

Milo of Croton

Robonaut

A humanoid robotic development project, run from the Dextrous Robotics Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, to have a humanoid machine to work along-side astronauts:

Robonaut

Humanoid Robot

A robot with its overall appearance, based on that of the human body, allowing interaction with made-for-human tools or environments:

Humanoid Robot

Influenza A/H1N1 Virus

The 2009 flu pandemic in the United States, began in the spring of 2009, was a pandemic experienced in the United States of a novel strain of:

Influenza A/H1N1 Virus (commonly referred to as Swine Flu)
This virus had spread to the US from an outbreak in Mexico.

Grimoire

A textbook of magic which typically includes instructions on how to create magical objects, how to perform magical spells, charms and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, and demons:

Grimoire

Fulvous

A color, sometimes described as dull reddish-yellow, brownish-yellow or tawny, it can also be likened to a variation of buff, beige or butterscotch; as an adjective it is used in the names of many species of birds, and occasionally other animals, to describe their appearance:

Fulvous

RYB Color Model

A historical set of colors used in subtractive color mixing, and was once thought to be the set of primary colors; it is primarily used in art and design education, particularly painting:

RYB Color Model (RYB: an abbreviation of red-yellow-blue)

The Mistral

A strong, cold and usually dry regional wind in France, coming from the north or northwest, which accelerates when it passes through the valleys of the Rhone and the Durance Rivers to the coast of the Mediterranean around the Camargue region:

The Mistral

Glossophobia

The fear of public speaking:

Glossophobia (or Speech Anxiety)

Asperger Syndrome

An autism spectrum disorder that differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development:

Asperger Syndrome

Autism

A spectrum of psychological conditions characterized by widespread abnormalities of social interactions and communication, as well as severely restricted interests and highly repetitive behavior:

Autism Spectrum

Spectrum

In psychiatry, a range of linked conditions is called a:

Spectrum

Mystery

In the Victorian-era language of flowers, a blue rose means:

Mystery
Rem: A red rose means true love and a white rose means innocence or purity.

Canada Day

A federal statutory holiday in Canada celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867:

Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day)

Echidna

A small, egg-laying mammal covered with coarse hair and spines:

Echidna (also known as Spiny Anteater)

Theogony

A poem that describs the origins and genealogies of the gods of the ancient Greeks:

Theogony
The Theogony is a poem by Hesiod (8th-7th century BC) that is composed circa 700 BC.

Gerolamo Cardano

Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler who wrote a book about games of chance, Liber de ludo aleae [Book on Games of Chance] in 1526 (but not published until 1663) which contains the first systematic treatment of probability, as well as a section on effective cheating methods:

Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576)

Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci)

Italian mathematician, considered by some as the most talented western mathematician of the Middle Ages, who spread the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in Europe:

Leonardo of Pisa (also, most commonly, known as Fibonacci)

A#

A port of the Ada programming language to the Microsoft .NET platform:

A# (A Sharp)
A#.NET is distributed by the Department of Computer Science at the United States Air Force Academy for the Ada community under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

M (programming language)

The Microsoft programming language for modeling domains (any collections of related concepts or objects) using text:

M (Microsoft code name "M" Modeling Language)