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Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell

British writer, explorer, and archaeologist, born on July 14, 1868, and died on July 12, 1926. Gertrude Bell is renowned for her explorations and archaeological work in the Middle East, particularly her studies of Palestine and Mesopotamia. more

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“... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.”