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41Hanukkah stamps — The United States Postal Service issued a 32 cent stamp in 1996 as a joint issue with Israel. (See [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990 1999/1996/10/Israeli American%20Hanukkah%20Stamp Israeli American Hanukkah Stamp] .) Hanukkah… …
42Classical Greece — The Parthenon, in Athens, a temple to Athena. History of Greece …
43Ninth Doctor — The Doctor The Ninth Doctor Portrayed by Christopher Eccleston Tenure 2005 First appearance Rose …
44History of primitive and non-Western trumpets — The chromatic trumpet of Western tradition is a fairly recent invention, but primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia; some of the predecessors of the modern instrument are now known to date back to the… …
45Culture of Lebanon — The Culture of Lebanon is the product of various civilizations and cultures that have passed through the country over thousands of years. Starting with the first inhabitants of Lebanon, the Phoenicians, the country was then subsequently conquered …
46Scrameustache — The Scrameustache is a fictional character in a science fiction Franco Belgian comics series of the same name. He was created by the Belgian artist Gos. Gos has written and drawn all the Scrameustache s adventures since 1972. Since the mid 1980s… …
47SYNAGOGUE — This article is arranged according to the following outline. origins and history until the first century first century c.e. middle ages modern period …
48Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
49japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …
50Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …
