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Look up: Jaffa

  1. Jaffa
    [n] - a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Jaffa
    `Jaffa` is an ancient port city located south of Tel Aviv, Israel on the Mediterranean Sea. Today it is a neighborhood of the city. It is mentioned four times in the Hebrew Bible, as one of the cities given to the Tribe of Dan (Book of Joshua 19:46), as port-of-entry for the cedars of Lebanon for Solomon's Temple (2 Chronicles 2:16), as the place whence the prophet Jonah embarked for Tarshish (Book of Jonah 1:3) and as port-of-entry for the ceda...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa

  3. Jaffa
    (from the article `Tel Aviv–Yafo`) ...centre in Israel, situated on the Mediterranean coast some 40 miles (60 km) northwest of Jerusalem. Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 as a Jewish ... An old Canaanite city, Jaffa was taken by Thuti, general of Thutmose III of Egypt, in the 15th century and became a provincial capital during the ......
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/j/3

  4. Jaffa
    Jaffa is a Hebrew girl name. The meaning of the name is `Beauty` The name Jaffa doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Jaffa seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Jaf

  5. Jaffa
    Jaffa (jăf'u, yä'fä) , Heb. Yafo, part of Tel Aviv, W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Originally a Phoenician city, Jaffa has been historically important largely because of its port (which was closed in 1965, when the port of Ashdod was completed). It was captured b...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A082


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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