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Jericho

The oasis city whose walls fell to Joshua's trumpets gave English a jokey word for a far-off place to be sent to, and an explorer reading his Bible gave its name to a corner of Tasmania.

Weakest linkCertain

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600 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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