Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
As of September 2014, eBay has acquired over 40 companies, the most expensive of which was the purchase of Skype, a Voice over Internet Protocol company, for US$2.6 billion in cash plus up to an additional US$1.5 billion if certain performance goals were met. [2] The majority of companies acquired by eBay are based in the United States.
Meibutsu (名物, lit. ' famous thing ') is a Japanese term most often applied to regional specialties (also known as meisan (名産)). Meibutsu can also be applied to specialized areas of interest, such as chadō, where it refers to famous tea utensils, or Japanese swords, where it refers to specific named famous blades.
"eBay" is a parody song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of " I Want It That Way " by the Backstreet Boys . In the song, the narrator describes how he impulsively purchases unneeded (and bizarre ) items on eBay (among them being " Shatner 's old toupée ", "a Dukes of Hazzard ashtray ", and "a Kleenex used by Dr. Dre ").
Senna auriculata is a leguminous tree in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.It is commonly known by its local names matura tea tree, avaram or ranawara, (Kannada: ಆವರಿಕೆ āvarike, Marathi: तरवड, Malayalam: ആവര, Sinhala: රණවරා ranawarā,Telugu: తంగేడు taṃgēḍu, Tamil: ஆவாரை āvārai) or the English version avaram senna.
European merchants began purchasing tea in Canton during the 17th century.Because green tea formed the bulk of their imports, and because the Wuyi region was initially the main source of the more oxidated teas available to them, the term "Bohea" (based on the local Min Bei [which?] pronunciation of "Wuyi") became a blanket name in English for all more heavily oxidated teas; the modern ...
Gunpowder tea (Chinese: 珠 茶; pinyin: zhū chá; lit. 'pearl tea'; pronounced [ʈʂú ʈʂʰǎ]) is a form of tea in which each leaf has been individually rolled into a small pellet. Its English name comes either from some resemblance of the pellets to gunpowder , or from a phrase in Chinese that phonetically resembles the word "gunpowder".
The Pow-Wow Oak was an historic tree located in the Belvidere neighborhood of Lowell, Massachusetts. ( "Belvidere" means "beautiful to behold" in the Italian language.) This 300-year-old tree is believed to have served as a gathering place for pow wows held by the Native American Wamesit tribe.
Lay's Wow Chips were fat-free potato chips produced by Frito-Lay containing Olestra. They were first introduced in 1998, and were marketed using the Lay's , Ruffles , Doritos , and Tostitos brands.