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unusual facts about Tanna



Bruriah

In another instance, Rabbi Joshua praises her intervention in a debate between Rabbi Tarfon and the sages, saying "Bruriah has spoken correctly" (Tosefta Keilim Bava Metzia 1:3).

Circus Circus Las Vegas

In the TV series Vega$, private detective Dan Tanna (Robert Urich) lived in a converted warehouse next to Circus Circus, and was often shown driving past the resort in his classic Ford Thunderbird.

Cyclone Yali

While Yali passed west of the Vanatu Islands, it came close enough to affect the isles of Tanna and Aneityum.

Johanan bar Nappaha

Rabbi Yochanan's method in deciding halakha was to establish broad rules that apply in many cases; for example, he held that the halakha always follows a s'tam mishna (an undisputed anonymous mishna), and he had rules for which tanna ("Mishnah teacher") to follow in cases of dispute.

Mattithiah

Matteya ben Heresh (Mattithiah ben Heresh), 2nd-century Roman tanna

Prince Philip Movement

The Prince Philip Movement is a religious sect followed by the kastom people around Yaohnanen village on the southern island of Tanna in Vanuatu.

Southern Islands by-election, 2009

The constituency covers four of the five islands of Tafea Province (Aniwa, Futuna, Erromango and Anatom, excluding only Tanna).

Tanna Ground Dove

The better-known was a female which was sketched by Georg Forster at Tanna during the second circumnavigation by James Cook to the South Sea in August 1774.

Tanna Tunnel

The story of the construction of the Tanna Tunnel was the subject of a stage play by Hideji Hōjō in 1942.


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