Some articles on thousand, thousands:
... became' incumbent the income of the office was twenty-eight thousand dollars annually. 1, 1914, the income had increased to one hundred and twenty thousand, showing something of the growth of the city ... building, erected at a cost of one hundred and seventy thousand dollars ...
... Thousand Cranes (千羽鶴, Senbazuru?) is a 1952 novel by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata ... The novel is divided into five episodes "Thousand Cranes", "A Grove in the Evening Sun", "Figured Shino", "Her Mother's Lipstick" and "Double Star" ...
... In the 2011 Polish census, Silesian nationality was declared by 809 thousand responders out of 5 million in the region, including 362 thousand who declared ...
... these numbers to include only twenty thousand monastics five thousand students, twelve thousand bodhisattva monastics, and three thousand elders ... Of the twelve thousand bodhisattva monastics, five thousand should be spreading the Dharma through public preaching and teaching, three thousand serving as ... into a pure land by the dedication and sacrificial hard work of thousands of average bodhisattvas who were mindful of what their concerted witness could mean ...
... A temple, called the Thousand Buddha Temple (Qianfosi) was founded at the foot of the hill ... Eventually, the hill was renamed after the temple into "Thousand Buddha Mountain" ... Shan), survives in the name of Lishan Road, the major avenue which runs through Jinan towards the Thousand Buddha Mountain in north-south direction ...
More definitions of "thousand":
- (adj): Denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units.
Synonyms: a thousand, one thousand, 1000, m, k
Famous quotes containing the word thousand:
“This war no longer bears the characteristics of former inter-European conflicts. It is one of those elemental conflicts which usher in a new millennium and which shake the world once in a thousand years.”
—Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
“Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“If a thousand fingers accuse, even a healthy person can die.”
—Chinese proverb.