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    Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell, CB, CIE, F.L.S., L.L.D, M.Ch., I.M.S. RAI, F.R.A.S (29 May 1854 – 19 September 1938) was a Scottish explorer...
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    location of the site was first identified in modern times in 1892 by Laurence Waddell, published as Discovery of the Exact Site of Asoka's Classic Capital...
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    devotion to duty in surveying a previously unknown area of Tibet. Laurence Waddell, who met Kinthup in 1892, described him as follows: [Kinthup] is a...
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    Fellows have included British explorers Sir Richard Francis Burton, and Laurence Waddell, Officers of the British East India Company such as Sir Henry Rawlinson...
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    Himalayan Journals. Assistant-director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Laurence Waddell 1899. Among The Himalayas. Travels in Sikkim. Book includes the exploration...
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  • Waddell's chronology or Waddell's king list is an Ancient Near Eastern chronology developed by the British Laurence Waddell in his book, Egyptian Civilization:...
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  • The British Edda is a 1930 English book written by Laurence Waddell about the adventures of El, Wodan and Loki forming an "Eden Triad" in the Garden of...
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    and 1906–1907, uncovering a wealth of Buddhist materials. In 1896, Laurence Waddell suggested that the site of the death and parinirvana of Gautama Buddha...
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  • African actress Kyle Waddell (born 1993), Scottish curler Laurence Waddell (1854–1938), British explorer and author Leila Waddell (1880–1932), American...
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    as the Swat Valley in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. Laurence Waddell, Sylvain Lévi, Giuseppe Tucci, and Prabodh Chandra Bagchi have shown...
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    entered Tibet with the British invasion of Tibet in 1903-04. Both Laurence Waddell and Perceval Landon described a weaving workshop they encountered near...
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  • modern peoples most genetically resembles the Basques and Sardinians. Laurence Waddell Rincon, Paul (28 December 2015). "Ancient DNA sheds light on Irish...
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    Gulzarbagh Station. India During the 1890s, the British explorer, Laurence Waddell, while exploring the ruins of Pataliputra, identified Agam Kuan as...
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    source of Ayurveda. Durakhi Devi Temple – Excavations in 1890s, by Laurence Waddell, revealed a detached piece of a carved stone railing of a stupa, with...
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  • differs slightly from that of Xuanzang's. In the 1890s, British explorer Laurence Waddell, while in Patna, established that Agam Kuan, which means the "unfathomable...
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    invaded the region in 642 AD.[citation needed] History of Lebanon Laurence Waddell Frederick Haberman "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-12-20...
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    in Laurence Waddell's Among the Himalayas. Waddell reported his guide's description of a large apelike creature that left the prints, which Waddell thought...
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  • Khan was recognized as the 4th Dalai Lama. In the late 19th century, Laurence Waddell, an early Western explorer, dated the tulku system to a purely Tibetan...
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  • pre-Aryans, a view proposed most notably by John S. Stuart Glennie, Laurence Waddell, and Alfred Cort Haddon. According to Haddon: "fairy tales were stories...
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    At one time the Ganden monastery could support over 5,000 monks. Laurence Waddell reports an estimate of about 3,300 in the 1890s. There were apparently...
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  • Dopendikang (5,359 meters) 1898 Sikhim and Adjoining Territories by Laurence Waddell 1903 by William O'Connor 1955 by US Army Map Service 1965 by US Central...
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    Temple (VC) Thomas Thomson (botanist) R. Marthanda Varma Philip Verdon Laurence Waddell Frank Wall (herpetologist) Herbert James Walton Harry Frederick Whitchurch...
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  • Early Christianity Through Pagan Eyes (1937) Cain - An Argument (1950) Laurence Waddell "Ethel Susan Graham Bristowe". In the Artists Footsteps. Archived from...
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  • Adamite (1864) Shinar (1867) The Builders of Babel (1874) Ethel Bristowe Laurence Waddell Alexander Winchell Livingstone, David N. (2011). Adam's Ancestors:...
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  • and folklore contain a basis of conflicting lower and higher races. Laurence Waddell and Alfred Cort Haddon were two authors who were proponents of the...
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    along this route to Nathu La. In December 1903, British travel writer Laurence Waddell passed through Chema on his way to Lhasa and described it as follows:...
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    also a route to the Dichu basin (Tendu and Sipchu). In December 1903 Laurence Waddell passed through Rinchengang on his way to Lhasa and described it as...
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  • Dresser in 1905 from a specimen collected by the British explorer Laurence Waddell in the Yarlung Tsangpo river valley in Tibet. Based on the results...
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    A photo of Paljor Dorje Shatra, Reproduced in Laurence Waddell's "Lhasa and Its Mysteries-With a Record of the British Tibetan Expedition of 1903-1904"...
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  • cyprinid fish endemic to Tibet. Named in honor of Lieut.-Col. Laurence Austine Waddell, CB (1854-1938), British army surgeon, explorer, philologist, linguist...
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