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DID YOU KNOW THAT...
- The largest and most important American educational institution of higher learning, outside the US, is the American University of Beirut (1866).
- The main developers of today's alphabet were the Phoenicians. Most of today's alphabets were derived from the Phoenician's.
- The Word "bible" came from the Lebanese city of Byblos.
- Printing came to Lebanon in 1585 (the first in the East) to the Maronite convent of Saint Anthony of Kozhaia in the North. Printing was in Syriac and later in Latin and Arabic. The second printing machine to enter the eastern world came to Egypt 200 years later with Napoleon.
- The average age of a cedar tree in the famous " The cedars of the Lord" forest is 2000 years...GOD BLESS.
- Two Lebanese writers were able to earn the absolute highest French literary "Goncours" honor(1 per year) during the last 4 years.
- TV entered the Middle East first through Lebanon (1958) and so did color broadcasting later. This year Tele-Liban will be the only TV station in the Middle East to use digital technology in Broadcasting, in collaboration with SONY of Japan.
- Lebanon is home to the only daily newspaper in French in the Middle East(L'Orient-Le-Jour). There are 7 French weeklies as well.
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