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unusual facts about Sinai


Volga, South Dakota

Three communities are included in the Sioux Valley school system: Bruce, Sinai, and Volga.


1904 in archaeology

Winter 1904–5 - Inscription in a form of Proto-Sinaitic script, dated to the mid-19th century BCE, discovered in Sinai by Hilda and Flinders Petrie.

American Visionary Art Museum

The founder and director of the AVAM is Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, who while working in the development department of Sinai Hospital’s (Baltimore) People Encouraging People (a program geared toward aiding psychiatric patients in their return to the community) began to develop the idea for a visionary museum, an idea that eventually blossomed into the American Visionary Art Museum, or AVAM.

Andrew Kline

He is currently a member of the Stanford Executive Circle, Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the Association of Corporate Growth, the NFLPA, the NFL Retired Players Association, the Cedars-Sinai Sports Spectacular, and the Los Angeles Sports Council, and was the Chairman of the Athletes for Rudy Giuliani Coalition.

Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission

As a result of the Suez Crisis some mining properties of the appellant Anisminic located in the Sinai peninsula were seized by the Egyptian government before November 1956.

Aubrey Abbott

He joined the New South Wales Police Force and on 1914 enlisted in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, and then transferred to the Australian Imperial Force, and served in New Guinea, Gallipoli, and Sinai.

Caleb Afendopolo

'Asarah Mamarot (Ten Discourses), containing homilies on the Passover lesson (Ex. xii.14); on the Song of Songs as read on the seventh Passover Day; on Psalm cxix, read, according to Karaite custom, on the seven Sabbaths between Passover and Pentecost; and on the Pentecost lesson dealing with the Sinaitic revelation.

Canada Camp

Following Israel’s occupation of the Sinai in 1967, some 5,000 Palestinian refugees in Rafah were forced to relocate when their shelters were destroyed by the Israeli authorities during road widening and "security measures" of the early 1970s.

Clive King

Set in the eastern Mediterranean world of the 15th century BC, the story follows the adventures of the three sons of a Phoenician master builder through three loosely linked stories in which they travel to Egypt (Sinai), to the court of King Minos (Crete) and north to Ugarit.

Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim

In 2013, Rabbi Harley Karz-Wagman became the twenty-fifth rabbi of the Temple after leaving Mt. Sinai Synagogue in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Danny Robas

Initially, he wrote songs for other artists - Arik Sinai, Ilanit, Nurit Galron, the musical band Sexta, Vardina Cohen, Harela Ber, Ofira Yosefi, Esti Katz, Pnina Rosenblum and others.

Detroit Medical Center

Two of the Detroit Medical Center hospitals ranked in the top one percent in heart failure outcomes in the U.S. DMC Harper University Hospital and DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital ranked above the national average in a survey compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Edward Henry Palmer

He was engaged in 1869 to join the survey of Sinai, undertaken by the Palestine Exploration Fund, and followed up this work in the next year by exploring the desert of El-Tih in company with Charles Drake.

El Gorah

El Gorah is the location of former Israeli Air Force Base Eitam (named after the biblical station Etham), built during the Israeli occupation of the northern Sinai from 1967 to 1979.

Force in Egypt

Shortly afterwards as a result of the Sinai frontier being crossed Lord Kitchener ordered the additional

H.B. Zachry

Zachry's firm constructed the Hilton Palacio del Rio Hotel in San Antonio, TX using modular construction in a record 202 working days, the upper decks at Kyle Field in 1979, built part of the Alaskan pipeline, laid roads in Peru and Chile, erected dams in the United States and Canada and ventured into the Sinai to construct modular housing for peacekeeping troops.

Hashem el-Tarif

Simcha Jacobovici in an episode of the The Naked Archaeologist explored several mountains as possible candidates for the biblical Mount Sinai.

Heinrich Karl Brugsch

Brugsch brought some biblical manuscripts from Sinai to Berlin (Minuscule 257, Minuscule 653 and Minuscule 654).

History of the Jews in Sardinia

There were Jewish communities in Oristano, Lula, Gallura, Nora, Sinai (possibly founded by Jews), Canahim, Sulcis, Tharros, Alghero, Colmedia, and Cagliari.

Horeb

Mount Horeb, possibly another name for the Biblical Mount Sinai

Humble Hearts School

The school is based in Sinai (Paradise), a large slum by Doonholm, a middle-class suburb of Nairobi.

Irene D. Long

In 1977, Long received her medical degree from the Saint Louis University School of Medicine followed by residencies at the Cleveland Clinic, Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, and Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where she received her Masters of Science degree in aerospace medicine.

Jebel Musa

Mount Sinai, also known as Jebel Musa, a mountain in the Sinai Desert which may be the Biblical Mount Sinai

Jewish settlement

Israeli settlement, Jewish communities currently established in the West Bank and in the Golan Heights, between 1967 and 2006 in the Gaza Strip and between 1967 and between 1967 and 1982 in the Sinai Peninsula

Khaled J. Saleh

After completing his medical training at the University of Western Ontario, Saleh completed his postgraduate training in orthopaedic surgery at University of Toronto followed by a fellowship in geriatric orthopaedics at University of Toronto at Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Lectionary 300

The manuscript was probably seen in 1761 by the Italian traveller, Vitaliano Donati, when he visited the Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.

LifeBridge Health

Sinai Hospital is located in Northwest Baltimore along Belvedere Avenue, near the intersection of Northern Parkway and Greenspring Avenue, and about a block away from Pimlico Race Course.

Mannose

The root of both "mannose" and "mannitol" is manna, which the Bible records as the food supplied to the Israelites during their journey in the region of Sinai.

Michael L. Marin

Marin joined the staff of Mount Sinai Medical Center in 1996, when he was recruited from the Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine to found a program in endovascular surgery at Mount Sinai.

Mitzvah

According to the Midrash, all divine commandments were given on Mount Sinai, and no prophet could add any new ones.

Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy

Reportedly, he was sad for the lost souls at the war when the American secretary of state Henry Kissinger announced that the president Sadat agreed to pull the main part of the Egyptian forces from the east side of the Suez Canal in exchange of the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the west side of the Suez Canal and retreat back into the depth of Sinai.

Mount Sinai, New York

Actors, writers and others who rented homes in Mount Sinai included Lionel Barrymore, Dawn Powell, Norman Rosten, and Arthur Miller.

No. 5 Squadron RAAF

In the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, the squadron contributed Iroquois to United Nations missions to Egypt, firstly to Ismailia with the United Nations Emergency Force and then later to the Sinai as part of the Multinational Force and Observers.

Operation Eagle

According to CNN, in a move to increase security in the Sinai, help Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, and reassure Israel, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is offering Egypt classified intelligence-sharing capabilities to help Egypt identify military threats in the area, which he discussed during his recent trips to Egypt and Israel.

Palestine Railways H class

It inherited a standard gauge locomotive fleet from the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Sinai Railway dominated by two classes of 19th-century 0-6-0 requisitioned from railways in Britain: the LNWR 17in Coal Engines and LSWR 395 class.

Proto-Sinaitic script

There have been two major discoveries of inscriptions that may be in the Proto-Sinaitic script, the first in the winter of 1904–1905 in Sinai by Hilda and Flinders Petrie, dated to circa 1700-1400 BCE, and more recently in 1999 in Middle Egypt by John and Deborah Darnell, dated to the 18th century BCE.

Raed al Atar

Reports claim that Atar authorized the August 2010 firing of Grad-style rockets from the Sinai Peninsula at Eilat, Israel and Aqaba, Jordan.

Religion in Vojvodina

The Fruška Gora, a mountain in Vojvodina, is considered by some as one of the three Holy Mountains of the Orthodox Christianity (The other two being Athos and Sinai).

Saleem Sinai

Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize winning novel Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

Sampson Simson

Mount Sinai Hospital was recently ranked as one of the best hospitals in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.

San Moisè

The interior is dominated by Meyring's huge and mannered sculptural set piece and altarpiece, depiction Mount Sinai with Moses receiving the Tablets, behind it is a canvas by Michelangelo Morlaiter.

Sidney Greenberg

A native New Yorker, he spent more than 50 years as Rabbi of Temple Sinai, now in Dresher, Pennsylvania.

Sippie Wallace

In March 1986, following a concert in Germany at Burghausen Jazz Festival, she suffered a severe stroke, was hospitalized, returned to the US, and died on her 88th birthday at Sinai Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

South Sinai Hospital

South Sinai Hospital, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, is a private hospital, serving both local peoples and visitors in South Sinai Governorate.

Steven J. Burakoff

Before joining Mount Sinai, he was recruited by NYU to revitalize the research and treatment mission of NYU's Cancer Institute, which during his tenure experienced a 31 percent growth and a 50 percent increase in NCI funding.

Telescopus hoogstraali

In Egypt, it is found in Santa Catarina and Gebel Maghara of northern Sinai Peninsula, while in Israel it can be found only in Negev Desert.

William George Browne

In the spring of 1793 he visited Sinai, and in May set out for Darfur, joining the great caravan which every year went by the desert route from Egypt to that country.


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