I remember the day like it was yesterday. It was a rainy Sunday when I was fifteen and I was at Sunday School at my temple. There was a carnival at my high school that day and I was dying to go, but like every other Sunday, my mom made me go to temple. I was never really involved in going to temple and ... learning about Judaism and I went because I had to and not because I wanted to. On this particular Sunday, an older girl came to our classroom and began talking about a youth group trip to Israel. It was a trip by NFTY, The North American Federation for Temple ... the religion, including t...

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... crafts - particularly its handmade lace, hand-woven fabrics, blown glass and silver filigree. The strongest influence on Maltese cuisine is Sicilian, though the popularity of grilled chops and roast and three veg reveals a strong partiality to all things British. Local specialties include pastizzi (savoury cheese pastries), timpana (a macaroni, cheese and egg pie), and fenek (rabbit), which is usually fried or baked ... cooking is still the housewife's favourite. Lunchtime cooking aromas can be detected very early in the morning in village streets. Since ovens were so rare in the olden ...

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... to avoid persecution. Lebanon became part of the Ottoman Empire in the 1500's, but for 300 years they received relative autonomy. It was under Ottoman rule that Lebanon developed economic and religious ties with Europe. France gave support to the Christian Maronites. In 1860, the Druze ... governments. They are Beirut, Al Biqa, Jabal Lubnan, and Al Shamal. Lebanon received independence on November 1943 from the League of Nations mandate under French administration, though its constitution dates back to 1926. The legal system of Lebanon is a mixture of Ottoman law, Canon law, Napolecionic...

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... toward the Yucatan (or Cuba); The Sphinx is thought not by geologists to be more than 6,000 and maybe 10,000 years old; There are sites under the North Sea which seem to be cities with stone columns" (Internet 3). There are many reasons why people do not believe in Atlantis. To some ... , it is just a legend. Researches say they have found fake ruins of Atlantis. Under the waters of Bimini, pillars were found, but the conclusion was that they were cement barrels. "Bimini "pillars" are actually sunken cement barrels" (Internet 3). ... greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surfa...

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... size of oil tankers, waterborne traffic, and offshore petroleum refineries. With the constantly increasing amount of oil being transported annually, an estimated 24 billion barrels per year according to SITE THREE, these concerns are very well grounded. They strongly call for better planning on the prevention and control of oil spillage accidents as well as better defense measures in the event ... ...

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