Yet it was these figures who challenged Hebrewist paradigms (and in turn a nationally committed musical historiography) by syncretizing modernist importations with Palestine's non-Western (and mostly Jewish) soundscapes.

“I have never seen it,” he replied, “but I have seen them attack a dood.” “What is a dood?” “A camel; one of a troop fording the river.”

Early cars had a “packaway” hood made from ICI Everflex.

Some innumerates simply refuse to accept that this decade, this century, this millennium all began on Jan. 1, 2001.