Mark Berelekhis (asker) Aug 2, 2009:

And I am a non-lurker But it IS nice to finally meet you!

Now post an answer to the question, dammit :)

Tevah_Trans Aug 2, 2009:

And besides, if you were on either of those sites, I would have extended a warm greeting to you, though I am not a frequent lurker.

Tevah_Trans Aug 2, 2009:

FINALLY!! What with all these hints, не прошло и полгода! Nice to meet you. :)

Mark Berelekhis (asker) Aug 2, 2009:

Well, Mrs. Elina, I do believe we have lift off... And it wasn't even the sites you mentioned, as without a proper name they're useless ;)

Now, if only there was someone to offer it in an answer form...

Tevah_Trans Aug 2, 2009:

Alex and Lena are both on target; those are exactly the reasons the company is named Tevah. Mark... can you venture out to Facebook or, say, odnoklassniki, or even LinkedIn, for god's sake, cause the answer lurks there from time to time...

gutbuster Aug 2, 2009:

Racking your brain for two years? Poor brain, after so many tears of torture...
While you recover, won't you look at this?A brain healer for your gray matter.
Coffee and Croissant
According to legend, coffee beans were first discovered in the town of Kaffa, Ethiopia. As the advancing Arabs had cut off access to Ethiopia (known then as Abyssinia) by the Eighth Century A.D., it first made its way into Arabic as qahwah. By the thirteenth century, the Kaffa beans were brought into southern Mediterranean Europe as cafe. It would take a failed seige of Vienna in the latter half of the Seventeenth Century by the advancing Ottoman Turks to introduce the term and the beverage into German-speaking Europe as Kaffee. Apparently, the Turks had retreated in such haste (according to Austrians--Turks, of course, describe it as a calculated withdrawal) that they left behind, among other things, sacks and sacks of coffee beans; as a result, the Austrians were introduced to coffee and, incidentally, celebrated the event by enjoying a certain puffed pastry created especially for the occasion: the "croissant" or "crescent" (to symbolize victory over the Turks whose flags bore a crescent moon)(The term croissant was

Alex Khanin Aug 2, 2009:

Tevah also means (written) word. Perhaps Word Trans(lation)?

Lena Watson Aug 2, 2009:

'Tevah' transliterated with a final 'h' actually means ark (e.g. Noah's); while 'nature' would be spelled as Teva' with an apostrophe to indicate 'ayin. So we're dealing with an ark here, perhaps a transition from one language into another?

Mark Berelekhis (asker) Aug 2, 2009:

Well, in Hebrew Tevah = Nature, so could we be looking for a flower? Rose? Lily? Violet?!

Tevah_Trans Aug 2, 2009:

A mystery wrapped in an enigma shrouded in a riddle.

Can't wait to see the answers to this one!!

Mark Berelekhis (asker) Aug 2, 2009:

This brings up another question... How far would one go for 4 Kudoz points in a coveted Proz category? :D