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"‘Since the War’, Wilson reported, ‘a very great and widespread spirit of Nationalism has been introduced and fostered throughout the Middle East. . . Though the Company probably incurs less of this [jealousy] than the
political services do…

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The city of Bawarda was designed by James M. Wilson in 1926 and was inspired by Lutyens’s remodelling of the Garden City and City Beautiful ideas in New Delhi (1911–1940). Bawarda was an attempt at social and ethnic mixing and also offered larger…

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The locals in Abadan Bazaar Street in front of the row houses that were occupied with workers.

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A van of Schlossbrauerei (castle brewery) transporting bottles

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A postman collects mail in a Berlin street, 1924
His car (in the foreground) is an electric "Mollmobil"

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This interactive "map" is a new Google Chrome Experiment that leads you to explore the imagined world of the Middle Earth from Lord of the Rings.
Even though the "Middle Earth" itself is a cultural product by the English novelist Tolkien, mapping of…

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