Meanings of the Given Names (W)

Wilbur = Resolution

People often ask me about - what does my name mean. Sometimes, I also ask other peoples if his or her name means something. These are not important but it is good to know about each other in our cultures of mankind. For my friends who want to know, the meanings of (Western) given names:

Men’s Names (W)

Wallace: (Old English-Scottish) A Welshman
Walter: (Germanic) Rule, army
Ward: (Germanic) Guardian
Washington: (Old English) Homestead of Wassa’s people; manor of the Wessyngs
Wayne: (Old English) Wagon
Wendell: (Germanic) Wanderer
Wesley: (Old English) West meadow
Whitney: (Old English) White island
Wilbur: (Germanic) Resolution, bright
Willard: (Germanic) Resolution, hard
William, Willis: (Germanic) Resolution, helmet
Winston, Winstan: (Old English) Winec’s homestead; friend, stone
Woodrow: (Old English) Row of trees

Women’s Names (W)
Wanda: (Germanic) Stem; a wanderer
Wendy: (Welsh) White-browed
Wilhelmina, Wilma: (Germanic) Resolution, helmet
Winifred: (Germanic-Celtic) Friend, peace; reconciliation

Source: Smith, Elsdon C. “Vocabulary of Given Names.” The World Book Dictionary. 1968.
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Quote of the day

“We stand by the people of Afghanistan today, and we will do so tomorrow!”

Ban Ki-moon
General Secretary of the United Nations

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8329543.stm

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Today, I turn 5.

On October 26, 2004, my feet touched American soil that the greatnesses were existed; I breathed American air, which carried freedom and freshness; I drank American water, which had coldness and belief; I ate American food, which supplied power and energy; I read books in an American library those gave new light and new hopes; (in a little park), I laughed with American children who will make great contributions in the world’s community; for the first time. In other words, I was born in America on that day, and today, I have become a five year old boy in the United States. My life has meaningfully begun!

I am really happy here. There are many things I love and like in the United States. The top three things I like the most in the U.S. are:

(1) Freedom: The most valuable abstract noun to posses in a human’s life is FREEDOM. We can do everything whatever we want here as long as it is not an unlawful matter. We can create anything whatever we want. We have freedom to read; freedom to write; freedom to agree and disagree (with any person, any group, (president or government or any authority), any belief, any opinion, any mean); freedom to speech; freedom to travel; freedom to explore; and many others. (I will share with my readers later about freedom of the Buddha.)

(2) Democratic Government: From a school to a village, from a city to congress, from senate to white house, any level of it, we elect our own authority/s by ourselves, here. This means - WE OWN THEM. This is a country that the government is fully elected by the people.

(3) Sources: In the United States, what do you want to do? Just you exactly need to know what you want (to do). We have broadest sources in the world here. What language do you want to speak? Any nationality of any corner of the world is living here. This is the most colorful country in the world. What kind of religious building do you want to go or visit? There are many churches, temples, mosques and many others, here. What kind of books do you want to read? There are enormous libraries in any community of the country, with hundreds of thousands, or millions of books, tapes, videos, DVDs and many other learnable materials, here.

This is America! It is a free land! I am five year old, here now and I believe that as a human being, my life has truly, energetically and meaningfully begun!

God bless America!!!

Happy Birthday Your Honor!

Today is Mohandas K Gandhi's birthday. He was born on October 2, 1869. Died? Never. He will be alive all the time through out mankind's history.

He was one of the greatest human beings in 20th century who made his country and people independence with non-violent movements.

I will say he was also one of the luckiest persons because though he made non-violent movements in 20th century, he did not have to deal with non-violent (and some violent) games in 21st century's world history.

He will be smiling from the heaven.

Happy Birthday Your Honor!

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Chicago is not selected for 2016 Olympics Games: It does not mean we lose Everything!

We are still a Great City!

Congratulations!!

Every bid or every competition has only one of two choices: Win or Lose. We are not selected for 2016 Olympics Games but it does not mean we lost everything. Till we keep our good spirit, we can regain anything back.

As we expected too much from this as well as we are human beings, we may be disappointed from this defeat but not to give up; not to lose our whole future; not to lose our hope. Almost all the top and great winnings in the mankind’s history, based upon several lose.

We are still a beautiful and great city of a powerful country. Do not forget that we were in one of the last four cities for the bid.

Instead of we are feeling the ‘lose and shock,’ we should be satisfied for our standing as one of the biggest and greatest cities in the world; and we should take lessons from this event that Americans need to rethink all about by ourselves and our role Internationally. We cannot expect the other world is just like Americans. We need to rethink in both or inside and outside; reshape our image in the international stage and reconnect in appropriate way with the outside world.

Congratulations for Rio de Janeiro's great win and we will be back!!!

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