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The Rababa The rababa, a single-string instrument and the oldest in the world is the predecessor to the Western violin.
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posted on: Nov 19, 2014
Olive trees in the eastern Mediterranean are believed to be over two thousand years old and can grow to be forty feet tall and produce olives for hundreds of years.