The first nation to officially recognize the United States of America was not France, Poland or Spain. It was the Netherlands, by way of a small Caribbean island that supplied the rebelling colonists ...
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A Hanukkah lamp from St. Eustatius bears an inscription in Hebrew, ''Honen Dalim, year 5522.'' Honen Dalim was the synagogue on St. Eustatius built in 1739. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa.