Subjects in the Labels List (Labels Which Begin with the Letter A, with a range of am to ar)

This blog is ακωλυτως, unhindered. (Acts 28:31) Any subject is fair game. Below is a listing of the LABELS which begin with the letters am to ar. All can be searched from the list which follows the last posted article on this page or by using the SEARCH button at the top of the page. Most will call up multiple postings in which they appear.

            Amaziah, Amazing Grace, amazon, ambition, AME Church, Amelie, America, American Civil War, American football, American Idol, American Indian, American Sign language, Amharic, amillennialism, Amin al-Rihani, Amish, Amos, Amoz, Amsterdam, Amy Grant, Anabaptists, Ananias, anarchism, anathema, anatomy, ancestors, Andrew, Andy Kauffman, angel, angelology, angels, anger, Anglican, Anglo-Saxon, Angola, animal cruelty, animal intelligence, animal rescue, animals, animation, Ann Coulter, Annabel Chong, Annas, Anne Frank, Anne Rice, Ant Man, Antarctica, anthropic principle, anti-christian, Anti-Defamation League, anti-intellectualism, anti-rejection drugs, antibodies, Antichrist, Antigua and Barbuda, antihero, Antikythera Mechanism, antinomianism, Antioch, Antiochus Epiphanes, antipope, antiquity, Anton LaVey, Anto Szandor LaVey, apathy, aphorisms, apocalypse, apocrypha, Apollos, apologetics, apostasy, apostle, Apostles, apple, April Fools joke, Aquaman, Arabia, Arabic, Arabs, Aramaic, archangel, Archbishop of Canterbury, archeology, archery, archetypes, Archimedes, architecture, Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?, Argentina, argument, Argument from Design, arguments for God, Arianism, Aristarchus, Aristobulus, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Arius, Ark of the Covenant, Armenia, Armenian, Arminianism, Armstrongism, arrogance, art, Art Linkletter, Artaxerxes, Arthur Balfour, artificial intelligence, Aruba.

Render Unto Caesar What Belongs to Caesar: Christian Citizen Involvement

 

Most of us read Jesus’ comment, “Render unto Caesar…” as a negative but it clearly is not. Jesus turned the Pharisees’ hostile trap question back on them and they walked away humiliated. The point of what Jesus said is that the commandments of God supersede or override those of any government whenever there is a conflict between the two. His comment acknowledges that the government can make legitimate claims on us. Remember that all governments are in place only with his consent.

Our compliance with and assistance to government can take many forms, including jury duty, military service, running for a place on the local school board, and paying required taxes. I know, I hate them too, but Jesus himself paid taxes.

There are many avenues for Christians to faithfully serve their government. For Americans with an interest in history, there is one very intriguing option. (I am not sure if this is restricted only to American citizens, but other countries may also have programs such as this for their own documents.)

The vast majority of the millions of original documents from the 17^th to 19^th centuries and many from the early 20th still exist only in handwritten form. These include military records, land transaction and dispute records, supply requisitions, court records, official correspondence, census books, tax records, government pension applications, and various miscellaneous documents. The United States National Archives is seeking unpaid volunteers who are able to read cursive handwriting and especially the handwriting of the 17^th to 19^th centuries. The needed skill is called paleography: the science or skill of transcribing ancient or historical documents.

The Archives need this because people have shifted through the years from handwriting, to type-setting, to typewriters, then word processors, then texting, and many now almost exclusively use talk-to-text technology. Some even tell an artificial intelligence program what they want to be in a document and then allow the AI to compose it. These people will look at the English-language handwriting of the 18^th and 19^th centuries and may be as confused as if it were written in Chinese or Arabic.

The handwriting of prior centuries is very different from what is now considered to be standard. The forms of letters are different, the language can sound stilted, flowery, or obscure, the letters may be written very close together to get more writing on one page (paper was expensive), unfamiliar or archaic words may be used, and the spelling is often very fluid, even in the same document.

The difficulties are compounded by the fact that in some modern school systems, cursive handwriting is no longer even taught. My granddaughter went to one such school and had to ask me to teach her how to read and write cursive.

Volunteers for the National Archives program may sign up online and pick any one of the over 300,000,000 currently digitized but still un-transcribed documents. There is no specified number or type of documents which the volunteer must process and no time limitations. Those who are uncomfortable reading older forms of cursive can still volunteer their efforts since the documents transcribed by others also need to “tagged” by mentioned subjects and names to make them easier to search. Information about this program can be viewed here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/01/15/national-archives-is-seeking-citizen-archivists-who-can-read-cursive/77717797007/ and the government website is here: https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions/revolutionary-war-pension-files

Matthew 17: 24-27, 22:15-22; Mark 12:13-17: Luke 20:20-26; Romans 13:1-7.

مرحبا عمان!مرحبا عمان/Hello, Oman

        Oman has just been added to the list of 142 countries from which this blog has been viewed. The total number of blog views as of today, 23 January 2025, is 504,647. The Church is is for everyone in every culture! Thank you for your interest! Μαράνα θά.

מרנאתא

لقد تم إضافة عمان للتو إلى قائمة 142 دولة التي تم عرض هذه المدونة منها. إجمالي عدد مشاهدات المدونة حتى اليوم، 23 يناير 2025، هو 504,647. الكنيسة للجميع في كل ثقافة! شكرا لاهتمامك!

Jesus Primarily Spoke Aramaic

Jesus is believed to have primarily spoken a Galilean accented dialect of Aramaic since Aramaic was the most commonly spoken language of Judea in the first century AD. He also seems to have understood some Greek since he talked with Romans who would have primarily spoken that language.  Also, it was a point of pride and honor for a Jewish man to stand up in the synagogue and read from the Hebrew scriptures,

Biblical Hebrew,and most modern representations of the language, has an abjad writing system rather than an alphabet as in English. Abjabs are writing systems in which there are only consonants with no written vowels. The word is a technical term named for the fist four letters of the Arabic abjad in their original order of sequence: alif, ba, jem, dal. The first four letters in the Hebrew abjad retain the original Semitic sequence: aleph, bet, gimel, dalet.

The first widely used abjad was ancient Phoenician. It was much easier to learn and to write than the Egyptian hieroglyphics (a pictographic writing system). The Phoenician sea merchants quickly adopted the writing system for their business records.

The modern "alphabets" of Greek, English, Spanish, Russian, and other similar languages represent both consonantal and vowel sounds using their glyphs (aka letters). Each glyph represents a different sound.

The English word "alphabet"is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta.

Place Names of Religious or Mythological Origin

Trollhattan, Sweden: The name of this city in Swedish means “troll’s bonnet” or “troll’s hat.”  The city is named for the nearby Trollhattan Falls. In Norse mythology, trolls were ugly, even grotesque, humanoids who lived under bridges and in caves and some hills. The Old Norse word means “witch,” “monster,” or “ogre.”

Anah, Iraq: The origin of the name of this town is possibly from Anat, a violent virgin Ugaritic war goddess. Anat was the sister of the deity Ba'al.

Setubal Portugal: This city name is possibly of Biblical origin. Tubal was a tribe descended from Japheth, one of Noah’s sons. 

Nebi Samwil, West Bank: The Arabic word “nebi” translates as “prophet’ so this town is “Prophet Samuel.” This is the traditional site of the tomb of the prophet Samuel.

Mauii (Island), Hawaii, USA: Mauii the Trickster was one of the demigods in the Polynesian pantheon.

Theophoric Names

Often, we fail to recognize that many personal and family names also have religious origins. Many are easy to see when we actually look. Others require a little effort.

Surnames originating in Western culture are of several types: occupational (example: Baker), relating to a place (example: Lincoln), relating to a particular family trait (example : Jolly), named for historical people (example: Kennedy), sarcastic or silly names (examples: Naaktgeboren (“born naked”), family relationships (example: Harrison), animal names (example: Bird), emotions: (example: Love), vulgar names (example: Mist, translate this name from German to English), and other types of name origins. This post will present a few names of theophoric origin.   

Surnames and personal names in the Far East appear to be based primarily on nature or philosophical concepts.

Chinese surnames http://www.yutopian.net/names/, Japanese surnames http://surnames.behindthename.com/names/usage/japanese, and Korean surnames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_name appear to be primarily based on philosophy or nature.

θεόφορος (theophoros) is a Greek word meaning “God bearing.” The word “theophoric” in English is used of pronames, surnames, and place names which have religious origins. This blog has a recurrent segment profiling religious place names. 

The religious meanings of most of the ancient biblical personal names are known, including those of the foes of the Israelites and early Christians. An example is Tiglath-pileser III, King of Assyria (745 - 727BC).  He is mentioned in 2 Kings 15:19 and 2 Kings 15:29. His Assyrian name is Tukulti-apil-esharra, which translates as "my trust is in the son of Esharra." Esharra is Ashur, the main god of the Assyrian pantheon.

Following is a listing of several theophoric surnames occurring in English language usage. The religious origins of some of the surnames is readily obvious, some are more indirect:  Benjamin, Aaron, Abraham, Isaacson, Bishop, Abbot, Church, Grace, Eglise, Bartolo, Sofer (Hebrew  = "scribe"), Dayyan (Hebrew = "Jewish civil judge"), Abdullah (Arabic = "slave of Allah"), di Moise, di Angelo, Kohen/Cohen (Hebrew = "priest"), Simon, Stephens, Dennis (Latin = "of Dionysus") Godwin/Godwynn, Goodwin, Goodwyn (Old English = "God's friend"), Gotfried/Gottfried, Holiness, Nunmaker, Faith, Kirk (Scottish = "church"), Angel, Theodore (Greek = "gift of God"), Oden  (Swedish form of Odin, the main Norse god), Johnson ("son of John". John is derived from the Hebrew personal name Yohannan, which means "Yahweh is gracious"), Christian, Soul, Monk, St. James, Zacharias, and many others.  

The World's Slowest Selling Bible

The world's slowest selling Bible and possibly the world's slowest selling legitimately published book is the Coptic translation of the Bible published in 1791 by David Wilkins (1685 - 1745). The book has never sold more than two copies a year.

Wilkins was a Prussian orientalist born as David Wilke (or David Wilkius) in what is now Lithuania. As an adult he lived and worked in England as an Anglican priest, librarian, translator, and university professor. He was a specialist in Arabic, Coptic, Hebrew, Armenian, Chaldaic, and Anglo-Saxon.

A Linguistic Curiosity

There are at least 136 different language groups which are grouped by noticeable and provable similarities in grammar, sound, vocabulary, word order, and the ways in which they express ideas.  The number of known languages exceeds 7000.  All the languages within a particular language group are believed to have been derived from a common ancestor language.

Arabic and Hebrew are sister Semitic languages.  The modern Semitic languages are spoken by at least 470 million worldwide and include Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Aramaic, Tigrinya, Syriac, Ge’ez, Maltese, South Arabian. Mahri, Soqriti, Tigre, Inor, Soddo, Harari, Sebat bet Gurage.  Ancient Semitic languages include Akkadian, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Himyaritic, Amorite, and Canaanite.

It is unreasonable to read more into what I am about to show you than that it is merely a linguistic curiosity of dissimilar vocabulary within a language group.  It is though, very odd.

This (חֲמַ֤ס) is the Old Testament word “hamas” which means “violence.”  An example of its use is in Habbakuk 2:17.

The name of the Islamic fundamentalist activist organization, Hamas, is an acronym derived from the Arabic name of the organization, حركة المقاومة الاسلامية (Harakat al-Muqāwama al-Islāmiyya).  The name is "Islamic Resistance Movement". Hamas was founded in 1987 with the aim of liberating Palestine from Israeli occupation and establishing an Islamic state which would include what is now Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.  They now say they would accept a Palestinian state based on the 1967 pre-war Israeli borders, provided that Palestinian refugees would have the right to return to Israel if they wished and that East Jerusalem would be the new nation's capital.

The actual Arabic word “hamas” means devotion, enthusiasm, fire, or zeal. 

Predictive Text Technology Threatens Chinese Ideography

An recent article in the USA Today newspaper talks about how the use of cell phones and computers with predictive text technology is causing a degradation in the ability of Chinese users to write the traditional Chinese language ideographic symbols. Many say that the technology causes the user to become fast but inaccurate.

Modern cell phones and word processors use predictive text technology in which one key or button represents many letters or characters. When the user enters a key or button, the program chooses the most likely next letter or character (a “prediction”). The next entry results in a smaller set of possible letters or characters based on the first two entries. As more keys or buttons are entered, the predicted text becomes increasingly likely. (Google and other search engines use predictive algorithms of words instead of letters to hone in on your desired search subject as you type in your request).

Predictive text technology as applied to the Chinese language makes use of the pinyin writing system. Written Chinese is an ideographic system rather than an alphabetic system. Alphabetic writing systems  represent sounds by using a set of distinct letter symbols. Ideographic writing systems use symbols to represent ideas or concepts. Alphabetic writing systems are much more compact and flexible than ideographic systems and are able to incorporate foreign or “loan” words much more easily.

Alphabetic writing systems (and the number of letters used by each) include English (26), German (26), French (26), Italian (21), Arabic (28), Urdu (38), Korean (24), Spanish (29), Russian (33), Greek (24), Vietnamese (30), and Hindi (46). In contrast, knowledge of 4000 characters is necessary to achieve functional literacy in written Chinese.

Chinese predictive text programs used in cell phones and word processors make use of the pinyin system which they “translate” into Chinese characters. Pinyin is the official phonetic system for transcribing the sound of Chinese characters into Latin script in China, Taiwan, and Singapore. An example: 北京 is represented in pinyin as Běijīng, which, in English is rendered as Beijing. In the older Wade-Giles system this was presented as Peking.

Some Chinese have become concerned that as the digital predictive text technology proliferates, traditional Chinese calligraphic script will fade away. That process has probably already begun with pinyin eventually being the victor. This is a sad phenomenon because written Chinese is visually beautiful, but it is probably inevitable at some time in the future

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/november/chinese-typewriter-historian-112812.html

http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2013/01/04/5218/

To demonstrate the beauty and the complexity of the written Chinese, see the following quotation from Acts 28:31, the verse from which this blog takes its theme.

“Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.”

In the Greek, the final word of this verse is ἀκωλύτως, “unhindered,” hence, “Saints On the Loose!”

Acts 28:31 in the Simplified Chinese characters:

宣布神的国度，并教导有关主耶稣基督 - 所有的他勇气和！不受阻碍

Acts 28:31 in the Traditional Chinese characters:

他宣布神的國度，並教導有關主耶穌基督 - 所有的勇氣和不受阻礙

Acts 28:31 in Pinyin transliteration:

fang4dan3 chuan2/zhuan4 jiang3 shen2 guo2 de* dao4 , jiang1/4/qiang1 ye1su1 ji1du1 de* shi4 jiao4dao3 ren2 , bing1/4 mei2you3 ren2 jin4zhi3

Religious Place Names

Ibadan, Nigeria: From the Arabic word “ibada,” meaning “divine service.”

Menehune Ditch, Hawaii, USA: The menehune are little fairy-like supernatural people from Hawaiian mythology.

Islamabad, Pakistan: Islam is the Arabic word for “submission (to God).”

Saint-Isidore, Quebec, Canada: From “Isis,” the Greek form of the name of the ancient Egyptian goddess (probably “Aset” in ancient Egyptian), plus the Greek word “doron,” meaning “gift.”

Guwahati, India:  This city has had several names over its history, including Durjaya (Sanskrit = “impregnable”), and Pragyostishpur, from “pragyotish,” the Sanskrit word for “astrology.” The modern name of Guwahati is more mundane.  It comes from two Assamese words; “guwa” (“azeca nut”) and “haat” (“marketplace”).

Religious Place Names

Frascati, Italy: This resort town is named for the Church of St. Mary and Sebastian “in the bushes (frascati) ”

Omdurman, Sudan: Named for Um-Marium (1646-1730),  a Muslim saint.

Lima, Peru:  This city was founded in 1535 by Francisco Pixarro as Ciudad de los Reyes (City of the Kings).  The modern name is derived from the name of an ancient deity, Rimac, and means “he who speaks.”

Munich, Germany: Munich was built on the site of a Benedictine monastery and the name derives from the Old High Germany word “munih,”  meaning “monk.”

Concepcion, Chile:  With a Spanish name meaning “conception,” this city was founded in 1550 on the day of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

The Lord's Prayer in Arabic

أبانا

أَبَانَا الذِي فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ، لِيُقَدَّسَ اسْمُكَ. لِيَأْتِ مَلَكُوتُكَ، لِتَكُنْ مَشِيئَتُكَ فِي الأَرْضِ كَمَا السَّمَاءِ. ارْزُقْنَا خُبْزَنَا كَفَافَ يَوْمِنَا، وَ اعْفُ عَنْ خَطَايَانَا، فَإِنَّنَا نَعْفُو عَمَّنْ يُخْطِئُونَ بِحَقِّنَا. لاَ تُعَرِّضْنَا لِلغِوَايَةِ، بَلْ نَجِّنَا مِنَ الشِّرِيرِ. فَ

Religious Place Names

Many place names have religious origins.  Here are a few of them.

Madras, India: from Arabic word “madrasa,” an Islamic religious school

Peshkopi, Albania: from the Greek word “episkope,”  “the eat of a bjshop”

Kilimanjaro (volcano), Tanzania: from the Swahili word “njaro,” meaning “god of gold.”

Omkareshwar, India: “om” is the Sanskrit word for the “holy sound.”

Saytan Sofrasi, Turkey:  This rock formation is named for Satan. 

Arabic Christian Song: Jesus is My Joy

This Arabic Christian song translates as "Jesus is My Joy."

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Hello, Qatar!

مرحبا، قطر! مرحبا بكم في مجموعة من القراء من مئة وخمس دول أخرى الذين يزورون أيضا هذا بلوق.وآمل أن تجد بعض من وظائف مفيدة أو ذات مغزى.
 "ترجم هذه الصفحة" أداة مباشرة فوق "عرض صفحة مجموع" عداد لديها القدرة على ترجمة النص الإنكليزي من هذا بلوق مباشرة إلى لغات أخرى عديدة، بما فيها اللغة العربية.
 
 مائة وستة بلدان هي: ألبانيا، الأرجنتين، أروبا، أستراليا، النمسا، البحرين، روسيا البيضاء، بلجيكا، بليز،البرازيل، بلغاريا، كندا، جزر كايمان، تشيلي، الصين، الجمهورية التشيكية، كولومبيا، الكونغو، كوستاريكا،كرواتيا، قبرص ، الجمهورية التشيكية، الدنمارك، جمهورية الدومينيكان، إكوادور، مصر، السلفادور،استونيا، إثيوبيا، فنلندا، فرنسا، جورجيا، المانيا، اليونان، هونغ كونغ، هنغاريا، أيسلندا، الهند، اندونيسيا،ايران، العراق، أيرلندا، إسرائيل، إيطاليا وساحل العاج واليابان والأردن وكمبوديا، كينيا، الكويت، لاوس،لاتفيا، لبنان، ليسوتو، ليتوانيا، لوكسمبورغ، مقدونيا، ماليزيا، مالي، مالطا، المكسيك، مولدوفا، المغرب، ميانمار، هولندا، كاليدونيا الجديدة، ونيوزيلندا، نيجيريا، النرويج، باكستان، بنما، باراغواي، بيرو، الفلبين،بولندا، البرتغال، قطر، رومانيا، روسيا، وسانت كيتس ونيفيس، والمملكة العربية السعودية، السنغال، صربيا،سنغافورة، سلوفاكيا، سلوفينيا، جنوب أفريقيا، كوريا الجنوبية، اسبانيا، سري لانكا، السودان، السويد،سويسرا، تايوان، تنزانيا، تايلند، ترينيداد وتوباغو، تونس، تركيا، أوغندا، أوكرانيا، الإمارات العربية المتحدة والمملكة المتحدة والولايات المتحدة، فنزويلا، فيتنام، اليمن، زيمبابوي.

  

What Does It Say?

Copy this Arabic phrase and take it to Google Translate .

هكذا أحب الله العالم حتى انه بذل ابنه الوحيد ، أن كل من يؤمن به لا يهلك بل تكون له الحياة الأبدية. لأنه لم يرسل الله ابنه الى العالم ليدين العالم بل ليخلص به العالم. كل من يؤمن به لا يدان، ولكن كل من لا

 يؤمن تقف أدان بالفعل لأنه لم يؤمن باسم إله واحد، والابن الوحيد.

Hello,Sudan!

مرحبا ، السودان! مرحبا بكم في مجموعة من القراء 90-1 الدول الأخرى الذين يزورون أيضا هذا بلوق. وآمل أن تجد بعض من وظائف مفيدة أو ذات مغزى.

"ترجم هذه الصفحة" أداة مباشرة فوق "توتال مشاهدة الصفحة" كاونتر لديها القدرة على ترجمة النص الانكليزي من هذا بلوقمباشرة إلى اللغة العربية.


اثنين وتسعين بلدا : الأرجنتين ، أروبا ، استراليا ، النمسا، البحرين ، روسيا البيضاء ، بلجيكا، بليز ، البرازيل، بلغاريا ، كندا، جزر كايمان ، الصين ، جمهورية التشيك، كولومبيا ، الكونغو ، كوستاريكا ، كرواتيا، الجمهورية التشيكية ، الدانمرك، الجمهورية الدومينيكية الجمهورية، اكوادور ، مصر، السلفادور ، استونيا، اثيوبيا ، فنلندا، فرنسا ، جورجيا ، المانيا، اليونان ، هونغ كونغ، هنغاريا ، الهند، اندونيسيا ، ايران، العراق ، إسرائيل ، إيطاليا ، ساحل العاج، اليابان ، الأردن وكمبوديا والكويت ، لاتفيا ،ليتوانيا، لوكسمبورغ ، مقدونيا، ماليزيا ، مالطا، المكسيك ، مولدوفا، المغرب ، ميانمار ، هولندا، نيوزيلندا ، نيجيريا ، النرويج ، باكستان ، بنما، باراغواي ، بيرو، الفلبين ، بولندا، رومانيا ، روسيا، السعودية ، السنغال ، السنغال ، سنغافورة ، سلوفاكيا، سلوفينيا ، جنوب أفريقيا، كوريا الجنوبية ، اسبانيا، سري لانكا ، السودان، السويد ، سويسرا ، تايوان ، تنزانيا، تايلاند ،ترينيداد وتوباغو ، تركيا ، أوغندا ، أوكرانيا ، الإمارات العربية المتحدة ، المملكة المتحدة، الولايات المتحدة الدول ، فنزويلا ، فيتنام، اليمن ، زمبابوي.

Hello, Yemen!

مرحبا، اليمن! مرحبا بكم في مجموعة من القراء من البلدان أربعة وثمانين آخرين أيضا زيارة هذا بلوق. وآمل أن تجد بعضمن وظائف مفيدة أو ذات مغزى.

"ترجم هذه الصفحة" أداة مباشرة فوق "عرض صفحة المجموع" كاونتر لديها القدرة على ترجمة النص الانكليزي من هذابلوق مباشرة إلى اللغة العربية.


والثمانين خمس دول هي : الأرجنتين، أروبا، واستراليا ، النمسا، البحرين، روسيا البيضاء، بلجيكا، بليز ، البرازيل ، بلغاريا،كندا، جزر كايمان، الصين ، كولومبيا، الكونغو، كوستاريكا، كرواتيا، الجمهورية التشيكية ، الدانمرك، إكوادور، مصر،السلفادور، استونيا، اثيوبيا، فنلندا، فرنسا، جورجيا، المانيا، اليونان، هونغ كونغ ، هنغاريا والهند ، واندونيسيا، ايران،العراق، إسرائيل، إيطاليا، ساحل العاج، اليابان، الأردن، الكويت، لاتفيا، ليتوانيا، لوكسمبورغ ، المقدونية ، ماليزيا، مالطا،المكسيك، مولدافيا، المغرب، هولندا، نيوزيلندا ، نيجيريا، النرويج ، باكستان، بنما، باراغواي، الفلبين، بولندا، رومانيا، روسيا، المملكة العربية السعودية، السنغال، سنغافورة، سلوفاكيا، سلوفينيا، جنوب افريقيا، كوريا الجنوبية واسبانيا وسري لانكا ،السويد، سويسرا، تايوان ، تنزانيا، تايلاند، ترينيداد وتوباغو، تركيا ، أوكرانيا، الإمارات العربية المتحدة، المملكة المتحدة، الولايات المتحدة ، فنزويلا، فيتنام، اليمن، زمبابوي.