The per capita income of the CAR is often listed as being around $ 300 a year, said to be one of the lowest in the world, but this figure is based mostly on reported sales of exports and largely ignores the more important but unregistered sale of foods, locally-produced alcohol, diamonds, ivory, bushmeat, and traditional medicines, for example.

Some observers describe the figure as sitting in a traditional cross-legged yoga pose with its hands resting on its knees.

The traditional spirit level produces these practically most useful heights above sea level directly ; the more economical use of GPS instruments for height determination requires precise knowledge of the figure of the geoid, as GPS only gives heights above the GRS80 reference ellipsoid.

Far east traditional painting is characterized by water based techniques, less realism, " elegant " and stylized subjects, graphical approach to depiction, the importance of white space ( or negative space ) and a preference for landscape ( instead of human figure ) as a subject.

James Crossley, however, has argued that the film makes the distinction between Jesus and the character of Brian to make a contrast between the traditional Christ of both faith and cinema and the historical figure of Jesus in critical scholarship and how critical scholars have argued that ideas later got attributed to Jesus by his followers.

However, materialists have historically held that everything is made of matter, but physics has shown that gravity, for example, is not made of matter in the traditional sense of "' an inert, senseless substance, in which extension, figure, and motion do actually subsist '… So it is tempting to use ' physicalism ' to distance oneself from what seems a historically important but no longer scientifically relevant thesis of materialism, and related to this, to emphasize a connection to physics and the physical sciences.

Some cultures regarded the mediator as a sacred figure, worthy of particular respect ; and the role partly overlapped with that of traditional wise men or tribal chief.

But then the barbarian figure of Commodore Perry leaps out to perform a traditional Kabuki " Lion Dance ", which ends as a strutting, triumphalist, all-American cakewalk.

In Scottish country dancing, the reel is one of the four traditional dances, the others being the jig, the strathspey and the waltz, and is also the name of a dance figure ( see below ).

His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.

The traditional, comical costume for this jolly figure, as well as regional names, leaves little doubt that he is descended from the presenter of the medieval Feast of Fools.

Some recent historians disagree with the traditional view that Harold II is the figure struck in the eye with an arrow.

The captain of a pirate ship was often a fierce fighter in whom the men could place their trust, rather than a more traditional authority figure sanctioned by an elite.

Joseph LyonsAlthough the new party was basically the Nationalist Party under a new name, Lyons was chosen as leader of the party ( and thus became Leader of the Opposition ) rather than the old Nationalist leader John Latham, as it was recognised that ( as an affable family man with the common touch ) he was a far more electorally appealing figure than the aloof Latham, and his Labor background and his Catholicism would allow him to win traditional Labor support groups ( working-class voters and Irish Catholics ) over to the new party.

This poem featured the first painting by Jenny Nyström of this traditional Swedish mythical character which she turned into the white-bearded, red-capped friendly figure associated with Christmas ever since.

Though Stoker's Count Dracula remained an iconic figure, especially in the new medium of cinema, as in the film Nosferatu, 20th century vampire fiction went beyond traditional Gothic horror and explored new genres such as science fiction.

In some cases, it is the anirniq of a human or animal who became a figure of respect or influence over animals things through some action, recounted in a traditional tale.

In both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Nótt is listed as the daughter of a figure by the name of Nörvi ( with variant spellings ) and is associated with the horse Hrímfaxi, while the Prose Edda features information about Nótt's ancestry, including her three marriages.

Modern ventriloquists utilise a variety of different types of puppets in their presentations, ranging from soft cloth or foam puppets, flexible latex puppets, and the traditional and familiar hard-headed knee figure.

Still, Gwalchmei was clearly a traditional figure ; other early references to him include the Welsh Triads ; the Englynion y Beddau ( Stanzas of the Graves ), which lists the site of his grave ; the Trioedd y Meirch ( Triads of the Horses ), which praises his horse Keincaled ( known as Gringolet to later French authors ); and Cynddelw's elegy for Owain Gwynedd, which compares Owain's boldness to that of Gwalchmei.

He began his career as a pivotal figure, extending the fusion of traditional folk music and experimental classical music practices begun by composer Mikhail Glinka.

While Ruach Hakodesh, and any possible interpretation of the Holocaust involving reincarnation, may be concealed from every saintly figure today, nonetheless, the general belief in such processes can leave room to reconcile the suffering of the Holocaust with traditional Jewish belief.

Vyāsa, a major figure in Hinduism and one of the traditional authors of the Mahābharata, says in his commentary on verse 1. 1 of the Yoga Sūtras that " yoga is samādhi.

These views are disputed by traditional and conservative biblical scholars who consider Samson to be a literal historical figure and thus refute any connections to mythological heroes.

With traditional nationalistic spirit, some Englishmen claim that English Catholicism is Catholicism at its best.

Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.

The design of the house is a synthesis of numerous stylistic influences, from traditional Finnish vernacular to purist modernism, as well as influences from English and Japanese architecture.

The national, pastoral and traditional elements of his style resonated with similar trends in English music.

Translated to English by John Bester, the book was a biography of one of the last traditional Yakuza bosses in Japan.

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

Early photographs show Englishmen adding a net to the traditional English game of battledore and shuttlecock.

Bubble and squeak is a traditional English dish made with the shallow-fried leftover vegetables from a roast dinner.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

" In modern times the masculine translation in English is also traditional and is still frequently used.

In Old English the sequence of derivation started as " cirice " ( Ki-ri-keh ), then " churche " ( kerke ), and eventually " church " in its traditional pronunciation.

Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good.

The traditional English name for Vaccinium oxycoccos, fenberry, originated from plants found growing in fen ( marsh ) lands.

Calling the red berries Sassamanash, natives may have introduced cranberries to starving English settlers in Massachusetts who incorporated the berries into traditional Thanksgiving feasts.

There is also a traditional convention in English that surnames beginning Mc and M are listed as if those prefixes were written Mac.

In public statements, Young claimed the alphabet was intended to replace the traditional Latin alphabet with an alternative, more phonetically accurate alphabet for the English language.

Today English speakers generally attempt something close to the modern Spanish pronunciation when saying Quixote ( Quijote ), as, although the traditional English spelling pronunciation pronouncing the name with the value of the letter x in modern English is still sometimes used, resulting in or.

The traditional English rendering is preserved in the pronunciation of the adjectival form quixotic, i. e., or, the foolishly impractical pursuit of ideals, typically marked with rash and lofty romantic ideals.

Whereas several figures common to English Country Dance, e. g. arming and the straight hey, are found in the traditional dances and display dances such as morris, ECD's origins rest among the gentry, first at court, then spreading to bourgeois-London, finally moving into country manors around England.

There is also English Ceilidh style ; a very energetic form that uses simple country dances, newly composed dances and traditional dances that were collected in the twentieth century.