When Pete reached his senior year, he had already used up his four years of sports eligibility, so in the Spring of 1960, he joined the Class AA team sponsored by Frisch's Big Boy of Lebanon, Ohio in the Dayton Amateur League.

The Carmeli Brigade, which was assigned to counter attacks from Syria and Lebanon, crossed the border into Lebanon, captured 15 villages, and reached the Litani River.

An agreement was eventually reached whereby, Israel ended its attacks in Lebanon and Hezbollah agreed to stop attacks on northern Israel.

The Maronite movement reached Lebanon when Saint Maroun's first disciple Abraham of Cyrrhus who was called the Apostle of Lebanon, realised that there were many non-Christians in Lebanon, so he set out to convert them to Christianity by introducing them to the way of Saint Maroun.

Israel hopes that the understanding reached between the various sides will engender the calm and stability necessary to engage the parties concerned in peace negotiations which are the only way to promote peace and security between Israel and Lebanon.

The Taif Agreement ( Arabic: اتفاقية الطائف ) ( also " National Reconciliation Accord ," or " Document of National Accord ") was an agreement reached to provide " the basis for the ending of the civil war and the return to political normalcy in Lebanon.

The Guardians and allied Christian militias then invaded the Koura region in northern Lebanon and reached Tripoli, to support Christian residents trapped by fighting.

When he reached Kleinfeltersville, in Lebanon County, he could go no farther and there he died, May 17, 1808, at the age of 49.

The Warren County Canal was made completely navigable in 1840, it having reached Lock 2 near Lebanon on March 15, 1839.

Student enrollment reached 740 before the start of the civil disturbances in Lebanon in 1975.

Before the conquest by Arabian Muslims reached Lebanon, the Lebanese people, including those who would become Muslim and the majority who would remain Christian, spoke a dialect of Aramaic.

With the support of the local Jews, a report was made by the Department of Minorities recommending that such an agreement be reached with the 4, 700 or so Shi ' ites in the region to promote friendly relations with southern Lebanon, to take advantage of the Shi ' ites ' poor relationship with the majority Sunnis, and to enhance the prospect of a future extension of the border.

As such it reached roughly a size varying between that of Corsica ( 8, 680 km2 ), Cyprus ( 9, 251 km2 ), and Lebanon ( 10, 452 km2 ).

At its peak during the reign of Mursili II, the Hittite empire stretched from Arzawa in the west to Mitanni in the east, many of the Kaskian territories to the north including Hayasa-Azzi in the far north-east, and on south into Canaan approximately as far as the southern border of Lebanon, incorporating all of these territories within its domain.

Under the Fatimids, Egypt became the center of an empire that included at its peak North Africa, Sicily, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Red Sea coast of Africa, Hejaz, and Yemen.

Lebanon was at its peak and became a first-tier destination for tourism in the world.

The Assyrian Empire at its peak was the largest the world had yet seen, and ruled all of what is now modern day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Cyprus and Bahrain, together with large swathes of Iran, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Sudan and Arabia.

This seems plausible given the well-documented peak of musical composition and cultural activity in major cities of the empire ( now regions of southern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Israel ) at that time.

* Mount Lebanon, a spur peak of Holy Mount, located in western Massachusetts

From its peak one can see the Lebanon.

Nevertheless, when the FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifier game against Lebanon loomed, he trained with one of his former club, Young Lions to keep his fitness at peak condition in order to be eligible for a call up to the national team.

* 2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14, 000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country ( Syrian occupation of Lebanon ).

( Christianity, a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu ), and its related observances:

France wished to strengthen its position in the region, especially in the Levant ( today's Lebanon, Syria, the Palestinian territories and Israel ).

Later, however, the Sultan changed his orders and had Fakhr-al-Din and his family killed on 13 April 1635 in Istanbul, bringing an end to an era in the history of Lebanon, which would not regain its current boundaries until it was proclaimed a mandate state and republic in 1920.

In Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, the Druze have official recognition as a separate religious community with its own religious court system.

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership launched at the 1995 Barcelona Conference between the European Union and its originally 12 Mediterranean Partners: Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and the Palestinian Authority.

* Haghshenas, Seyyed Ali, " social and political structure of Lebanon and its influence on appearance of Amal Movement, " Iran, Tehran. 2009

Ghana has been extremely active in international peacekeeping activities under UN auspices in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Rwanda, and the Balkans, in addition to an eight-year sub-regional initiative with its ECOWAS partners to develop and then enforce a cease-fire in Liberia.

Hezbollah's 1985 manifesto listed its four main goals as " Israel's final departure from Lebanon as a prelude to its final obliteration ", ending " any imperialist power in Lebanon ", submission of the Phalangists to " just rule " and bringing them to trial for their crimes, and giving the people the chance to choose " with full freedom the system of government they want ", while not hiding its commitment to the rule of Islam.

Following the end of the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in 2000, its military strength grew significantly.

A 2003 decision by an American court found IJO was the name used by Hezbollah for its attacks in Lebanon, and parts of the Middle East, and Europe.

Hezbollah says that its continued hostilities against Israel are justified as reciprocal to Israeli operations against Lebanon and as retaliation for what they claim is Israel's occupation of Lebanese territory.

Structurally, Hezbollah does not distinguish between its political / social activities within Lebanon and its military / jihad activities against Israel.

One of its established institutions, Jihad Al Binna's Reconstruction Campaign, is responsible for numerous economic and infrastructure development projects in Lebanon.

In 2010, Hezbollah claimed that the Dalit and Tamar gas field, discovered by Noble Energy roughly west of Haifa in Israeli exclusive economic zone, belong to Lebanon, and warned Israel against extracting gas from them.

The Islamic Republic has also maintained its hold on power in Iran in spite of the US economic sanctions, and has created or assisted like-minded Shia Islamist groups in Iraq ( SCIRI ) and Lebanon ( Hezbollah ), ( two Muslim countries that also have large Shiite populations ).

Although Fakhr ad-Din II's aspirations toward complete independence for Lebanon ended tragically, he greatly enhanced Lebanon's military and economic development.

The Druze had grown increasingly resentful of the favoring of the Maronites by Bashir II, and were backed by the Ottoman Empire and the wali of Damascus in an attempt to gain greater control over Lebanon ; the Maronites were backed by the French, out of both economic and political expediency.

After the railroad was built through Gibsland, three miles north, Mount Lebanon began to decline in population and economic opportunity.

Partly in defiance of economic decline, and partly to counter a movement by West Lebanon to declare itself an independent town, Lebanon re-incorporated as a city in 1958.

The routing of Interstates 89 and 91 through Lebanon and nearby White River Junction, Vermont, in addition to the growth of Dartmouth College, led to the area's economic revival.

With the formation of Lebanon, Tripoli, once equal in economic and commercial importance to Beirut, was cut off from its traditional trade relations with the Syrian interior and declined in relative prosperity.

Italy was challenging France's religious and cultural predominance in Syria and the Lebanon, and Britain her economic influence in the area.

As a banker, he used his expertise during the 1970s as the director of the PLO's foreign investment branch and director-general of the PLO's economic branch, helping to make the organization one of the largest employers in Lebanon.

His period was characterized by economic and cultural prosperity, and he had fought other Lebanese families to unite the people of Lebanon and seek independence from the Ottoman Empire.

The Cardinal also urged restraint in anti-Syrian rhetoric, and for Lebanon to focus on its economic development rather than political rifts.

Moawad has sought to perpuate her slain husband's legacy by founding the René Moawad Foundation ( in 1990 ), which works for social justice and economic development in Lebanon and the Arab world.

Khoury's years in office were marked by great economic growth, but the 1948 Israeli War of Independence ( in which Lebanon fought on the Arab side ) strained the Lebanese economy with its financial cost and with the influx of some 100, 000 Palestinian refugees.

Due to wars, poverty, unstable economic and political conditions Lebanon faced in the past, and some failures within the agricultural sector, many previous inhabitants of the valley left for the coastal cities of Lebanon or emigrated from the country altogether.

In its heyday, it was an important factor in the global trade of petroleum — helping with the economic development of Lebanon — as well as American and Middle Eastern political relations.

Cutting the Fuse adds substantially to Pape's earlier work on terrorism, evaluating more than 2100 suicide attacks ( 6 times the number evaluated in Dying to Win ), developing a new social logic of transnational suicide terrorists, identifying the key factors that explain the ebb and flow within suicide terrorist campaigns, conducting detailed case studies of the 8 largest campaigns ( Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Al Qaeda, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Chechnya, and Sri Lanka ), and offering expanded policy recommendations-particularly the political and economic empowerment of local groups as a key transition step toward off-shore balancing strategies.