That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute ; ;

that is, it is known empirically that names beginning with R are more common than those beginning with Z ; ;

To be Katharine Ross, and work in a nicer shop somewhere, at a little more money so she could have prettier clothes, and learn ladies' manners and all like that, and get to know different people than up to now, not just the ones like her here, with foreign-sounding names, the ones went to the same church and -- Different place, different job, different people, she'd be all different too.

We have aligned ourselves with that `` liberal '' tradition in Protestant Christianity that counts among the great names in its history those of Schleiermacher, Ritschl, Herrmann, Harnack, and Troeltsch, and more recently, Schweitzer and the early Barth and, in part at least, Bultmann.

It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek ( or Indo-European more generally ) names expressing " battle-prowess ", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line.

It does not, of course, forbid the use of other names, for example the more archaic term " Unction of the Sick " or the term " Extreme Unction ".

In mid-2009 there were more than 22, 300 Belarusian Web sites, of which roughly 13, 500 domain names were registered with the top-level domain name ‘‘. by ’’.

In the spirit of ecumenism more recent Catholic translations ( e. g. the New American Bible, Jerusalem Bible, and ecumenical translations used by Catholics, such as the RSV-CE ) use the same " standardized " ( King James Version ) spellings and names as Protestant Bibles ( e. g. 1 Chronicles as opposed to the Douaic 1 Paralipomenon, 1-2 Samuel and 1-2 Kings instead of 1-4 Kings ) in those books which are universally considered canonical, the protocanonicals.

His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored on coinage and money ; warships ; the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, namesakes, and companies ; and more than two centuries after his death, countless cultural references.

The " warrior " derivation was adopted by the linguist, Julius Pokorny, who presented it as being from Indo-European * bhei ( ə )-, * bhī -, " hit ;" however, not finding any Celtic names close to it ( except for the Boii ), he adduces examples somewhat more widely from originals further back in time: phohiio-s -, a Venetic personal name ; Boioi, an Illyrian tribe ; Boiōtoi, a Greek tribal name (" the Boeotians ") and a few others.

Not only are the names " Agur " and " Lemuel " linked to other sections of the book, there are elements of disunity within the book that suggest more than one author.

Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.

This practice also spread to street names, names of parks and buildings and some more trivial features.

Some of the more recognized names in cognitive science are usually either the most controversial or the most cited.

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 this context, it is more readily construed as meaning " school of thought ", since it is also used to construct the names of philosophical schools contemporary with Confucianism: for example, the Chinese names for Legalism and Mohism end in jiā.

The Analects records 22 names that are most likely Confucius ' disciples, while the Mencius records 24 names, although it is quite certain that there have been many more disciples whose name were not recorded.

Non-English names include Treno suburbano in Italian, Cercanías in Spanish, Rodalies in Catalan, Nahverkehrszug in German ( and in most larger cities S-Bahns though these trains also often include city centre metro-like sections where lines have merged and services become more frequent, and stations are closer together to better distribute passengers into the city core ), Train de banlieue in French, Příměstský vlak in Czech and Elektrichka in Russian.

The known Cimbri chiefs have names that look Celtic, including Boiorix ( which may mean " King of the Boii " or, more literally, " King of Strikers "), Gaesorix ( which means " Spear King "), and Lugius ( which may be named after the Celtic god Lugus ), although this may not mean that they are Celtic as the elements could work in Germanic ( compare the name of the Vandalic king Gaiseric, which is likely identical to Gaesorix ).

You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.

As the total number of incepting bachelors in 1629 was, according to Masson ( Life, 1:218 ) and n, two hundred fifty-nine, the twenty-four names listed in the ordo senioritatis for that year constitute slightly less than one tenth of the total number of bachelors who then incepted.

This can be mitigated somewhat by insistence on using CNAME records indicating service rather than actual machine names to refer to the service, but there is no way of guaranteeing that users will follow such a convention.

As far back as the Qin Dynasty ( 221 BC – 206 BC ), the government required blacksmiths and weapon-makers to engrave their names onto weapons in order to trace the weapons back to them, lest their weapons should prove to be of a lower quality than the standard required by the government.

* Loanwords that have a low central vowel in their language of origin, such as llama, pasta, and pyjamas, as well as place names like Gaza, tend to have rather than ( which is the same as due to the father – bother merger, see below ); this also applies to older loans like drama or Apache.

* Character names in the stories often derive from words in languages other than English.

In certain personal names such as Renée and Zoë, the diacritical marks are included more often than omitted.

Federal immigration inspectors were under strict supervision and were more interested in preventing inadmissible aliens from entering the country ( for which they were held accountable ) than in assisting them in trivial personal matters such as altering their names.

The names of Pestalozzi, Froebel and Spencer shine with no less brilliance than the names of the greatest inventors of the twentieth century.

In English speaking countries, " Xavier " is one of the few names starting with X, and until recently was likely to follow " Francis "; in the last decade, however, " Xavier " by itself has become more popular than " Francis ", and is now one of the hundred most common male baby names in the US.

These preprocesors would typically support structured programming, variable names longer than six characters, additional data types, conditional compilation, and even macro capabilities.

Together, Gibraltarians of Spanish origin are one of the bigger groups ( more than 24 % according to last names, even more taking into account the fact that a larger share of Spanish women married native Gibraltarians ).

Having said that, the literary sources of Priscus and Jordanes preserve only a few names, and three words, of the language of the Huns, which have been studied for more than a century and a half.

The 2012 HDI Practices and Salary Report reported that for the first time in the 20 years of the report, that Service Desk ( at 32. 3 %) is used more than Help Desk ( at 26. 6 %) or other names ( sum of which total 40. 1 %).

In this, the murdered king has two sons — Hroar and Helgi — who spend most of the story in disguise, under false names, rather than feigning madness, in a sequence of events that differs from Shakespeare's.

He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

We couldn't be seen together, for the tongue of Scandal was ever ready to link our names, and the tongue of Scandal finds but one thing to say of the association of a man with a girl, no matter how innocent.

An alphabetical list of chemical and mineralogical names with reference numbers enables one to find a particular crystal description.

Again, by spreading one's purchases over several wine dealers, one becomes familiar with the names and specialties of reputable wine dealers and shippers abroad.

G. David Thompson is one of those names known to the stewards of transatlantic jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town of Pittsburgh.

But to operate in American politics one must go a step further -- one must build a bridge to such names, establish a warmth, a personal connection ''.

No human being can write fast enough, or long enough, or small enough † ( †" smaller and smaller without limit ... you'd be trying to write on molecules, on atoms, on electrons ") to list all members of an enumerably infinite set by writing out their names, one after another, in some notation.

The completeness theorem and the incompleteness theorem, despite their names, do not contradict one another.

Agrippina is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor.

For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name " amaryllis " is mainly used for cultivars of the genus Hippeastrum, widely sold in the winter months for their ability to bloom indoors.

Geoffrey also names him as one of three sons of Constantine III, along with Constans II and Uther Pendragon.

Panel S-74 of the National September 11 Memorial's South Pool, one of six on which the names of Pentagon victims are inscribed.

The Achaeans (, Akhaioí ) is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad ( used 598 times ) and Odyssey.

If several alkaloids are extracted from one plant then their names often contain suffixes " idine ", " anine ", " aline ", " inine ", etc.

Adelaide is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor.

Agent Orange is the combination of the code names for Herbicide Orange ( HO ) and Agent LNX, one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U. S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.

It is one of the Biblical names taken up after the advent of Zionism and which are not attested in earlier Jewish society.

It also names ahimsa as one of five essential virtues ( CU 3. 17. 4 ).

Since 1997, Autumn has been one of the top 100 names for girls in the United States.

" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.

The president is involved in the promotions to general and chooses one candidate from a list of three names presented to him by the High Command.

Cruciferae, an older name, meaning " cross-bearing ", describes the four petals of mustard flowers, which are reminiscent of a cross ; it is one of eight plant family names without the suffix-aceae that are authorized alternative names ( according to ICBN Art.