It was not until 1942 that Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance. One year later, in June 1943, the Supreme Court ruled that school children could not be forced to recite it.
The descendants of the Canaanites/Phoenicians are the modern day inhabitants of Lebanon (specifically the Christians). The Arabs and the Phoenicians aren't at all the same people. They just spoke two languages related to each other.
The name Canaan (KÉnÄâan ×Ö°Ö¼× Ö¸×¢Ö·×) is used commonly in the Hebrew Bible, with particular definition in references Genesis 10 and Numbers 34, where the Land of Canaan extends from Lebanon southward to the  Brook of Egypt  and eastward to the Jordan River Valley.anaan first appears as one of Noah 's grandsons during the narrative known as the Curse of Ham, in which Canaan is cursed with perpetual slavery because his father Ham had looked upon the drunk and naked Noah.