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  2. Jafa - Wikipedia

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    Jafa is a slang term (sometimes pejorative) for a resident of Auckland, New Zealand. [1] It is an acronym, standing for Just Another Fucking Aucklander.This prejudice against Aucklanders started to appear around the 1900s, when Premier Richard John Seddon referred to Aucklanders as "Rangitoto Yanks," and is considered to be representative of the boorishness of Aucklanders, or the envy of the ...

  3. Talk:Jafa - Wikipedia

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    The following was printed on the 27th of January in The New Zealand Herald's Sideswipe section: . From a free online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, a Jaffa (insult) : "Jaffa is an acronym used to describe the inhabitants of greater Auckland, New Zealand, by Kiwis who do not live in the Auckland area (and by observant tourists who quickly pick up the local idiom).

  4. Jaffa - Wikipedia

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    Jaffa Hill is a center for archaeological finds, including restored Egyptian gates, about 3,500 years old. Jaffa Lighthouse is an inactive lighthouse located in the old port. The Jaffa Museum of Antiquities is located in an 18th-century Ottoman building constructed on the remains of a Crusader fortress. In 1811, Abu Nabout turned it into his ...

  5. Jaffa (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Jaffa (or sometimes Jafa and other transliterations from Hebrew or Arabic) may also refer to:

  6. List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 ...

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    An overwhelming number of the Arab residents who had lived in the cities that became a part of Israel and were renamed (Acre, Haifa, Safad, Tiberias, Ashkelon, Beersheba, Jaffa and Beisan) fled or were expelled.

  7. Levantine Arabic phonology - Wikipedia

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    Levantine Arabic is commonly understood to be this urban sub-variety. Teaching manuals for foreigners provide a systematic introduction to this sub-variety, as it would sound very strange for a foreigner to speak a marked rural dialect, immediately raising questions on unexpected family links, for instance.

  8. Play Pinochle Online for Free - AOL.com

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    Aces around, dix or double pinochles. Score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of cards into melds.

  9. Walls of Jaffa - Wikipedia

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    In the 10th century, Al-Muqaddasi described Jaffa as a small town, protected by a strong wall with iron gates. Constantin de Volney, the French politician and orientalist, who visited Jaffa on his journey to the east, reported it had walls twelve to fourteen feet high and three to five feet wide. [3] These walls were breached by Napoleon in ...