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17 unusual facts about Canaan


10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 10th West Virginia was organized at Camp Pickens, Canaan, Glenville, Clarkesville, Sutton, Philippi, and Piedmont in western Virginia between March 12 and May 18, 1862.

Al-Bireh, Lebanon

The locals usually come across artifacts dating back to Phoenician, Byzantine, Roman and Canaanite eras.

Berkshire Industrial Farm

The Berkshire Industrial Farm, (previously known as the Burnham Industrial Farm) in Canaan, New York, was a rural residential facility for troubled young men from the New York area in the late 19th Century.

Canaan, Haiti

In June 2013, the BBC World Service's World Have Your Say had a radio programme on Canaan's explosive growth, interviewing a man there who described how people from other displacement camps around Haiti and even other long-term residents of other areas of Haiti were increasingly coming to Canaan despite its lack of running water (there are pump stations, around which there are often fights), lack of a permanent hospital, and lack of transportation options outside daylight hours.

Medical Teams International (MTI) has been active in providing basic medical care to the residents of Canaan since January 2011.

The same month, the BBC News website posted an article detailing many of the same concerns about Canaan in written form.

Canaan, Haiti, is a suburb of Croix-des-Bouquets in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where a large number of victims are settling after the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake that hit the country in January.

Canaan, Indiana

On July 10, 1866 Joseph Lochard opened a store after operating a similar establishment in Manville for some time.

Canaan, Tobago

It boasts amenities such as one of the largest supermarkets in Tobago (Penny Savers), one of the newest branches of the First Citizens Bank, a popular bakery, pharmacy, car dealership, and a noticeable number of other shops.

Canaanite

Canaan and Canaanite people, a historical/Biblical region and people in the area of the present-day Israel, Lebanon and Palestinian territories

Dighton Corson

On October 21, 1827, Dighton was born to Isaac and Nancy Corson in Canaan, Maine.

Henry Highland Garnet

Two years later, in 1835, he started studies at the Noyes Academy in Canaan, New Hampshire.

Jeff McCabe

In addition to his political career, McCabe works as a Maine Guide and serves as Director of Lake George Regional Park, a park located in the towns of Skowhegan and Canaan.

Patriarchal age

The most eminent of early biblical archaeologists was William F. Albright, who believed that he had identified the Patriarchal age in the period 2100–1800 BC, the Intermediate Bronze Age, the interval between two periods of highly developed urban culture in ancient Canaan.

Richard Brothers

In similarity to modern British-Israelists, Brothers asserted that the ‘hidden Israel’ had no notion of its biological lineage and that part of his role would be to teach them of their true identity and lead them to the land of Canaan.

Shalem

the Canaanite god of dusk, sunset, and the end of the day, also spelled Shalim

Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews

This monograph is divided into four sections with each comprising various chapters: Through Ancient Paganism (Sumer, Egypt, Canaan, Babylonia), Through Classical Paganism (Greece, Rome, Palestine), Through Islam and Christianity (Islam, Christianity), Inside Modern Paganism (Secularism).


1992 in archaeology

Donald B. Redford – Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times.

Amorite

From the 15th century BC onward, the term Amurru is usually applied to the region extending north of Canaan as far as Kadesh on the Orontes.

Aren Maeir

Since 1996 he has directed the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project, excavating the ancient site of Tell es-Safi, which is identified as Canaanite and Philistine Gath (one of the five cities of the Philistines mentioned in the Bible, the home of Goliath).

Book of Zephaniah

Similarities might be expected to each of these works because the Deuteronomistic history covers an overlapping period of time and because the issues which are dealt with in the book of Zephaniah go straight to the heart of the covenant which is reaffirmed in the book of Deuteronomy before Israel enters into the Promised Land of Canaan.

Bryant G. Wood

According to the well-known story in the biblical book of Joshua, Jericho was the first Canaanite city to fall to the Israelites as they began their conquest of the Promised Land - an event which the Bible's internal chronology places at around 1406 BC.

Chancellor Bay

It is possible that Bay was accorded this tomb because he was a relation of Siptah's mother, a Canaanite concubine of Seti II, or perhaps even of Amenmesse.

Charles Fox Burney

In “Israel’s settlement in Canaan”, he brought much new or newly applied material especially from Babylonian sources to explain Israel’s early residence in Canaan, and a major contribution was the theory that Yahweh (Jehovah) was at an early period an Amorite deity.

Clarksville, New Hampshire

Clarksville is bordered to the north and west by Pittsburg, and to the west by one mile of waterfront on the Connecticut River (across from the village of Beecher Falls, in Canaan, Vermont).

Cremation of Care

Jones claimed that the Cremation of Care was an "ancient Canaanite, Luciferian, Babylon mystery religion ceremony".

Diplomacy

Some of the earliest known diplomatic records are the Amarna letters written between the pharaohs of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt and the Amurru rulers of Canaan during the 14th century BC.

DU-Teššup

Aziru, and his father Abdi-Ashirta, were some of the major instigating forces-(in the north) causing conflict with the Egyptian pharaoh, as cities–('city-states'), and regions were under constant threat and destruction in the northern, and western Canaan region-(Lebanon, and southern Syria).

Gudea

Materials for his buildings and statues were brought from all parts of western Asia: cedar wood from the Amanus mountains, quarried stones from Lebanon, copper from northern Arabia, gold and precious stones from the desert between Canaan and Egypt, diorite from Magan (Oman), and timber from Dilmun (Bahrain).

Happy Goodman Family

Their first full length recording was "I’m Too Near Home", initially released in 1963 and later re-released on Canaan/Word Records in 1965.

Hyksos

Kamose, the last king of the Theban 17th Dynasty, refers to Apophis as a "Chieftain of Retjenu (i.e., Canaan)" in a stela that implies a Semitic Canaanite background for this Hyksos king: this is the strongest evidence for a Canaanite background for the Hyksos.

James B. Pritchard

James Bennett Pritchard (October 4, 1909 – January 1, 1997) was an American archeologist whose work explicated the interrelationships of the religions of ancient Israel, Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon.

John Black Lee

One of his most prominent houses at New Canaan, constructed in 1956 originally for himself and his family, was renovated in 2010 by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.

Khirbat Qumbaza

Khirbat Quttayna has been identified by some scholars as the Canaanite place Kartah.

Lebanese wine

Wine played an important part in Phoenician religion, and the Greek/Roman god Dionysus/Bacchus may have originated in the wine rituals of Canaan.

Marina Maximilian Blumin

She sang "Halomot" ("Dreams") by Ruhama Raz, "Shir Ahuvat HaSapan" ("Song of the Sailor's Lover") by Rita, "Bluz Kna'ani" ("Canaan Blues") by Ehud Banai and "Vidui" ("Confession") by Alexander Penn (sung by Yehudit Ravitz).

Matthew 4:8

This verse is often considered to be a reference to Deuteronomy 32:49, where God instructs Moses to climb Mount Nebo and shows him Jericho and Canaan and promises them to the Israelites.

Middle East

These were followed by the Hittite, Greek and Urartian civilisations of Asia Minor, Elam in pre-Iranian Persia, as well as the civilizations of the Levant (such as Ebla, Ugarit, Canaan, Aramea, Phoenicia and Israel), Persian and Median civilizations in Iran, North Africa (Carthage/Phoenicia) and the Arabian Peninsula (Magan, Sheba, Ubar).

Nils Norén

In 2008 and 2009, Norén was invited to participate in the Glass House Conversations, an annual series of salons attended by artists, designers, and other creative thought leaders at the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, CT.

Out to Canaan

Out to Canaan is a novel written by American author Jan Karon.

Perizzite

The Canaanite tribe settled in the south of Canaan between Hor and Negev, although it is not mentioned in the genealogy in Gen. x.

SandForce

The board of directors included Carl Amdahl (General Partner at DCM and son of Gene Amdahl), Ryan Floyd (General Partner at Storm Ventures), S. "Sundi" Sundaresh (former President and CEO of Adaptec), Jackie Yang (Managing Director at TransLink Capital), and Eric Young (General Partner and co-founder at Canaan Partners).

Silvermine

Silvermine, Connecticut, a neighborhood in parts of New Canaan, Wilton and Norwalk

The Settlers of Canaan

#The player owns a settlement or city on the southern border of Canaan (west of the Salt Sea), or

Settlers of Canaan is a licensed adaptation of Settlers of Catan that incorporates Hebrew Bible themes into its multiplayer board game play.

Yossi Harel

His character in the novel, Ari Ben-Canaan, was portrayed by Paul Newman.