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Najib
Mar 02, 2013 03:41
Picture taken from CNN Christopher Columbus has long been the poster boy Renaissance explorer who found fame and fortune by sailing from the Old World to the New. But more than five centuries later, a British adventurer plans to show that the New World could have been reached by another seafaring nation 2,000 years before Columbus. Former Royal Navy officer Philip Beale hopes to sail a replica Phoenician boat 10,000 kilometers across the Atlantic in…
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Najib
Mar 02, 2013 12:09
I liked the initiative but I am surprised no one freaked out or reported them to the police. I guess we've become accustomed not only to bombings but also toxic and chemical attacks. Source
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12 years ago
That’s pretty messed up. A 38-year-old woman died Wednesday after setting herself on fire in south Lebanon, security sources told The Daily Star. The woman, the wife of a municipality policeman from the southern town ...
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12 years ago
The last of the 17 victims Mohammad Awada was freed yesterday. PS: I don’t think LBC should count Raja al-Zouhairy as he apparently kidnapped himself to draw attention. ...
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12 years ago
[Full Version] Pretty cool stats. The US-based Lebanese Information Center recently conducted an in-depth study of Lebanon’s current demographic reality, the history of emigration from the country, as well as past and recent fertility rates ...
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12 years ago
Rony had a car accident a week ago. He was a professional Lebanese Basketball player playing for Bejjeh team. He was only 25. ...
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12 years ago
“The Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders does not take direct account of the kind of political system but it is clear that democracies provide better protection for the freedom to produce and ...
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12 years ago
Source Pope Benedict XVI is almost 86 years old, had a stroke in 1991 that reportedly temporarily affected his vision. He fell in 1992 and 2009, and also had either arthritis or arthrosis, a similarly ...
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12 years ago
I read yesterday the below statement on Naharnet but don’t know the reason behind it nor if it’s official or not. Back in September 2012, rumors spread that Qatar halted visas for Lebanese Shiites due ...
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12 years ago
[YouTube] The accident caused a huge traffic that stretched from the Dora highway all the way back to Jounieh. Added to that, a police adjutant, by the name of Hashem H (May he R.I.P), was ...
