The British Isles; used especially to avoid associations with British nationality or citizenship.

A 27.5-acre island in the states of New Jersey and New York where millions of immigrants and others were processed, up until the 1950s.

(idiomatic, slang, vulgar, derogatory) An individual with pretensions of great importance.

A collection of a building’s structural elements resting on its foundation to provide partial separation of the building from shaking ground thus upgrading the building's seismic fitness. For video demonstration, click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/vshustov#p/f/11/ZqlXp3czrrM

A group of Greek islands located in the Saronic Gulf in the south-east Ionian Sea at the opening to the Aegean Sea.

a group of Russian islands near Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, in the Bering Sea.

The young fail to appreciate what they experience.

One can never be sure of one's paternity.

A male given name from Hebrew.

(an expression of) the doctrine that all knowledge is subjective, being derived from observations made by humans, and there can be no objective truth