Sir Thomas More (/ m ÉËr /; 7 February 1478 â 6 July 1535), venerated in Catholicism as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532.
The name Yugadi or Ugadi is derived from the Sanskrit words yuga (age) and Ädi (beginning): the beginning of a new age.It falls on a different day every year because the Hindu calendar is a lunisolar calendar.n some parts of India it is known as Vikram Samvat or Bhartiya Nav Varsh. While the people of Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana use the term à°à°à°¾à°¦à°¿/Ugadi and Karnataka use the term Yugadi/Ugadi for this festival, the people of Maharashtra term the same festival, observed on the same day, Gudi Padwa (Marathi: à¤à¥à¤¢à¥ à¤ªà¤¾à¤¡à¤µà¤¾).
The term Kikuyu is the Swahili form of the native pronunciation GÄ©kÅ©yÅ©. Group members refer to themselves as the AgÄ©kÅ©yÅ©. GÄ©kÅ©yÅ© literally means a huge sycamore tree and AgÄ©kÅ©yÅ© thus literally refers to the children of the huge sycamore.he GÄ©kÅ©yÅ© were â and still are â monotheists believing in an omnipotent God whom they refer to as Ngai. Both the GÄ©kÅ©yÅ©, Embu, and Kamba use this name. Ngai was also known as MÅ©rungu by the Meru and Embu tribes, or MÅ©lungu (a variant of a word meaning God which is found as far south as the Zambezi of Zambia).