Word: greates
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...sophisticated architects and town planners. "While they existed," says Archaeologist Seymour Gitin, the American director of the William F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, "the Philistines served as a link between East and West. They introduced a new culture in this part of the world. Eventually they became a great trading power and a powerful industrial nation with their individual style...
...Philistines were a group of Aegean seafarers who arrived in the Levant region around 1200 B.C., settling between the Israelite tribes to the east and the Egyptian empire to the south. It was a time of great political ferment. The Hittite empire was crumbling, and Greece was entering into 500 years of decline. Says Hebrew University Philistine Expert Trude Dothan, a co-director of the Ekron dig: "Their culture was a unique product of tradition and innovation in a time of international catastrophe...
Want to see the big trees of Washington and Oregon, the great Douglas firs and red cedars? Stay in your car. Keep to the main roads. Avoid high, distant views. In the national forests here, the policy of the U.S. Forest Service has been to leave buffer zones of uncut trees along the tourist highways. It is prettier that way. It is also easier for the Forest Service, which has fewer letters of outrage to answer about the scarification that used to be a coastal rain forest...
Initially, the Navy placed great weight on the detection of a so-called Mode II IFF (identification, friend or foe) signal from the approaching aircraft that identified it as an F-14 Tomcat jet fighter. Although crew members on the Vincennes CIC claimed to have seen this military signal, tape recordings show only a Mode III code, which is used by both civilian and military aircraft...
...million Afghan refugees who poured over Pakistan's western border to escape the civil war, and enthusiastically helped ship U.S. and Chinese arms to the Afghan rebels. His reward: more than $700 million this year in U.S. aid. Secretary of State George Shultz last week called Zia a "great fighter for freedom." Shultz led the U.S. delegation to Zia's Saturday funeral in Islamabad, which was thronged by 200,000 mourners. Robert Oakley, the Near East expert for the National Security Council, has been designated the new U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan...