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Lebanon
Lebanon city (1990 pop. 24,800), seat of Lebanon co., SE Pa., in the Pennsylvania Dutch farm country; founded 1753, inc. as a city 1868. Its manufactures include fabricated metal products, lumber, apparel, machinery, tools, textiles, fertilizers, and processed foods. Grain, soybeans, and apples are grown, and livestock is raised. Lebanon was a flourishing town before 1790, and early 18th-century German religious groups are still represented there. The city has a historical museum, and horse shows are a local feature. Also in the area are the Cornwall Furnace (operated 1742-1883) and the Union Canal tunnel, a civil-engineering landmark.
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LEBANON COUNTY COMMISSION ISSUES HIGHLIGHTS OF MARCH 30 MEETING
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/30/2006; 700+ words
; The Lebanon County Commission issued the following...Leigh Beamesderfer, Forester in the Lebanon County Conservation District office, presented...Resource Counseling Center (SARCC) of Lebanon County, presented a report of sexual assault...
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 "The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)")
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Lebanon's Security Council seat will offer few benefits.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon); 10/17/2009; 700+ words
; Byline: Michael Bluhm Summary: Lebanon's new seat on the UN Security Council...rotate on a two-year basis. BEIRUT: Lebanon's new seat on the UN Security Council...means more for small countries like Lebanon which otherwise carry little weight in...
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LEBANON, THE CRUCIBLE
Magazine article from: Journal of Third World Studies; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; LEBANON, THE CRUCIBLE Kaufman, Asher. Reviving Phoenicia: The Search for Identity in Lebanon. London: I. B. Tauris, 2004. 277...Attie, Caroline. Struggle in the Levant: Lebanon in the 1950s. London: I. B. Tauris...
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 "The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)")
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Lebanon 'Accepts' Hezbollah's Weapons; Congress Prepares Reply.
Newspaper article from: The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA); 11/27/2009; 700+ words
; ...village of Ghajar as well as to defend Lebanon and its territorial waters in the face...the new Government of the Republic of Lebanon, issued on 11/26/09, four days after the celebration of Lebanon's 66 years of independence from the...
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LEBANON - Oct 9 - Lebanon's Ruling Majority Protests Nasrallah Speech.
Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Recorder; 10/13/2007; 700+ words
; ...popular referendum which is against Lebanon's consociational formula for democracy...newspaper. The 1989 Taif Accord upon which Lebanon is formed is a consensus formula based on a multi-confessional Lebanon. Nasrallah has come under fire by leaders...
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LEBANON: HIZBALLAH TAKEOVER? BY MORDECHAI KEDAR.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 5/25/2009; 700+ words
; ...Hizballah is on a determined path to control Lebanon. The June 2009 parliamentary elections...regime. On June 7, 2009, the citizens of Lebanon will head to the polling booths to elect...parliamentary representatives. Elections in Lebanon are run uniquely according to the constitution...
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LEBANON LOOKING SOUTH
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 10/8/2004; 681 words
; ...calendar. That's the next time the Lebanon School Board will meet. Maybe we'll...landscape. Nothing like being wanted. Lebanon will soon be a free agent. The burgeoning...League dissolving in 2007, it forces Lebanon to go conference shopping. `That's...
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Lebanon: the Intifada's false premise.(Palestian Intifada's use of tactics of Lebanese Hizbullah to drive out Israel)
Magazine article from: Middle East Quarterly; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...a unilateral withdrawal from southern Lebanon, ending a 22-year occupation. Shi...profoundly influenced by Israel's choice in Lebanon. Palestinians believed that Hizbullah...precipitated Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon and that Palestinian violence might drive...
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LEBANON TURNS 200
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 2/17/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...From Kentucky gave Ohio enduring landmark LEBANON - Ichabod Corwin probably is not turning...The visionary who founded the town of Lebanon 200 years ago would be pleased with the...the times in which they were built. As Lebanon celebrates its 200th birthday this year...
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Lebanon's Political Clouds Were Lifting Prior to Israeli Onslaught
Magazine article from: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; 6/30/1996; ; 700+ words
; Lebanon's Political Clouds Were Lifting Prior...people and infrastructure, it seemed that Lebanon would be largely unaffected by his peculiar...general amnesty for crimes committed during Lebanon's civil war. The U.S. Embassy in...
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Lebanon
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
Lebanon Culture Name Lebanese Alternative Names The Republic of Lebanon Orientation Identification. Loubnan derives from the Phoenician for "white mountain" and denotes Lebanon's mountains, some parts of which remain snow-covered...
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South Lebanon Army
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
SOUTH LEBANON ARMY Israeli-supported militia in southern Lebanon. Renegade Lebanese army Major Sa ʿ d Haddad founded the Free Lebanon Militia (FLM) to combat the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in southern Lebanon during...
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Lebanon, U.S. Military Involvement in
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Lebanon, U.S. Military Involvement in. Leba...fighting and political disputes in the Lebanon Crisis (1958) caused three U.S. military...early 1958; the outbreak of civil war in Lebanon in May 1958; and finally, the overthrow...
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Lebanon, Mount
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
LEBANON, MOUNT a rugged mountain range that constitutes the geographical core around which modern-day lebanon was established in 1920. Mount Lebanon extends from the hinterland of Tripoli in the north to that...
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Lebanon Crisis
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Lebanon Crisis (1958).The underlying cause of the 1958 Lebanon crisis was the instability of the country's Christian...overthrew King Faisal and similar coup attempts in Jordan and Lebanon appeared likely. Invoking the Eisenhower Doctrine...
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