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  2. Handala - Wikipedia

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    Handala (Arabic: حنظلة, romanized: Ḥanẓala), also Handhala, Hanzala or Hanthala, is a prominent national symbol and personification of the Palestinian people. [1] [2] The character was created in 1969 by political cartoonist Naji al-Ali, and first took its current form in 1973. Handala became the signature of Naji al-Ali's cartoons and ...

  3. Personification - Wikipedia

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    Set of porcelain figures of personifications of the four continents, Germany, c. 1775, from left: Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Of these, Africa has retained her classical attributes. Formerly James Hazen Hyde collection. Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction as a person, often as an embodiment or incarnation. [1]

  4. Category:National personifications - Wikipedia

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    National personifications in comic books (4 C, 11 P) I. Personifications of Ireland (12 P) M. Marianne (personification) (5 P) U. ... Personification of the Americas;

  5. National personification - Wikipedia

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    A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda . In the first personifications in the Western World , warrior deities or figures symbolizing wisdom were used (for example the goddess Athena in ancient Greece), to indicate the strength ...

  6. Personifications of death - Wikipedia

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    Hesitant, Joshua Ben Levi gives back the knife in exchange for the Angel of Death's name. To never forget the name, he carved Troke into his arm, the Angel of Death's chosen name. When the knife was returned to the Angel, Joshua's carving of the name faded, and he forgot. (Ket. 77b; Jellinek, l.c. ii. 48–51; Bacher, l.c. i. 192 et seq.).

  7. Ankou - Wikipedia

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    Ankou appears as a man or skeleton wearing a black robe and a large hat that conceals his face, or, on occasion, simply as a shadow.He wields a scythe and is said to sit atop a cart for collecting the dead, or to drive a large, black coach pulled by four black horses and accompanied by two ghostly figures on foot.

  8. Category:Books about refugees - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Books about refugees" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. The Book of My Lives;

  9. Noonday Demon - Wikipedia

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    This demonic personification is kept in the Catholic Douay-Rheims translation of the Old Testament of 1609 (Psalms 90:6). An exception is King James Version of 1611, where the translation follows the Hebrew: "the destruction that wasteth at noonday" (Psalm 91:6) [ 3 ] .