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Who
were the

Phoenicians?
Ivan Giovanni
Although they’re mentioned frequently
in ancient texts by both the Greeks
and the Romans as prosperous traders
and skilled sailors, we know relatively
little about the Phoenicians. We do
know that they existed approximately
between 1500 and 300 BCE as a loose
confederation of maritime city-states.
This included Tyre, Sidon, Byblos and
Arwad, which were in the Levant
coastal region, where Lebanon, Syria,
and Israel are situated now.
They didn’t actually call themselves
Phoenicians — that was a Greek name,
from the word ‘phoinix’, referring to
the valued purple dye that came from
Tyre. Historians sometimes refer to
them as Canaanites instead.
Alexander the Great conquered the
main Phoenician cities in 332 BCE, but
Carthage in North Africa preserved the
Phoenician cultural influence until the
Romans took the city in 149 BCE.
A Phoenician ship depicted on a
2nd century CE sarcophagus

When were French fries irst
paired with burgers?
Parveen Spano
The origins of both the hamburger and French
fries go back to the 18th century at least, but
the first fast food chain to serve them
together was White Castle, which
opened its first restaurant in 1921
in Wichita, Kansas. White Castle
was also the first ever fast food
chain, so burgers and fries
have been paired together
for as long as burger joints
have existed. Burgers and
fries had both been on
diner menus for 20
years before that, but
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l Operation Hydra l Pioneer 0 explodes l A new lake l Ship reaches pole
The RAF bombs the Nazi A United States Air Force A magnitude 7.5 earthquake The Soviet nuclear-powered
V2 facility at Peenemünde, mission to put a probe into hits the state of Montana in icebreaker Arktika becomes
Germany. The raid uses 596 orbit around the moon fails the US. The quake triggers the first surface ship to
aircraft and drops 1,800 tons after the launch booster an 80-million-ton landslide, reach the North Pole. It will
of bombs but only manages to explodes 73 seconds into the which blocks the Madison later become the first civilian
delay the programme by about flight. The next four Pioneer River and creates a new ship to spend a year at sea
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seven weeks. probes also fail their missions. lake, called Quake Lake. without returning to port.
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