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    Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger KBE, DSO, FRAS, FRSL, FRGS, HonFBA (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003), also known as Mubarak bin Landan (Arabic: مُبَارَك بِن...
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    Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger DSO (25 March 1871 – 31 January 1920) was a British officer and diplomat, who was British Minister in Ethiopia from 1909 to 1919...
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    General Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, GCB, GCVO (31 May 1827 – 9 April 1905) was a British Army officer who rose to prominence during...
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    removed of the explorer and author Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003), and the nephew of the 2nd Lord Chelmsford. Thesiger attended Marlborough College and the...
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  • Arabian Sands is a 1959 book by explorer and travel writer Wilfred Thesiger. The book focuses on the author's travels across the Empty Quarter of the Arabian...
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    between 1927 and 1929 while his third son Ernest Thesiger was an actor. The Hon. Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger (1871–1920), third son of the second Baron, was...
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    Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, PC (12 August 1868 – 1 April 1933), styled the Lord Chelmsford until 1921...
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  • very treacherous when broken through. There is little vegetation. Sir Wilfred Thesiger was the first European to see the area in the late 1940s after his...
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  • Wales Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger (1871–1920), British officer and diplomat Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003), British explorer and travel writer Thesiger Bay,...
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  • related to Wilfred, with the same roots (Will and Frieden in German). Wilfred the Hairy (died 897), a count in what is now Spain Wilfred Baddeley (1872–1929)...
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  • Wilfrid Thesiger, Penguin 1967, pp84-85 Maitland, Alexander. Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer, pg 310, HarperPress, 2006 Thesiger, Wilfred. The...
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  • Anglo-Irish stock. The explorer Wilfred Thesiger was a cousin; his father, Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, son of Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, married...
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    Books. pp. 43–45. ISBN 9780151012350. Wilfred Thesiger, The Marsh Arabs, Penguin, 1967, p.92 Thesiger, p.174 Thesiger, p.92 USAID Iraq Marshlands Restoration...
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    towards modernization and Westernization. Ogab bin Mohaia House of Saud Wilfred Thesiger Also written as Akhwan and Akhwan min ta'a Allah (Najdi Arabic: اخوان...
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    Thomas and St. John Philby in the early 1930s. Between 1946 and 1950, Wilfred Thesiger crossed the area several times and mapped large parts of the Empty...
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    garden originally endowed by the 13th-century Egyptian sultan Baibars. Wilfred Thesiger, in his book The Marsh Arabs, notes that cats were allowed free entry...
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  • 1956, Maxwell toured the reed marshes of southern Iraq with explorer Wilfred Thesiger, Maxwell's wife's first cousin once removed. Maxwell's account of their...
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    Thesiger's Journeys in Arabia - Second Empty Quarter Crossing 1947-8". web.prm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-01-15. "Agosto Foundation :: Wilfred Thesiger...
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    at the Wayback Machine retrieved 19 January 2011 'Arabian Sands' by Wilfred Thesiger, 1991 Schulze, Reinhard, A Modern History of the Islamic World (New...
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    March 1929. Retrieved 29 October 2013. Dickson Wilfred Thesiger. (1991). 'Arabian Sands' by Wilfred Thesiger, pp. 248-249 King Abdul Aziz Information Resource...
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  • Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who crossed the Rub' al Khali desert twice between 1945 and 1950. Salim bin Ghabaisha was mentioned multiple times by Wilfred Thesiger...
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  • Thomas Fielden Taylor, New Zealand Anglican priest and city missioner Wilfred Thesiger (Tite Street) Gordon Thorne (first-class cricketer and British Army...
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  • Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights by Anonymous Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger The Aran Islands by J. M. Synge The Archbishop's Ceiling by Arthur...
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    to trace the course of the Awash to its end in the Aussa oasis was Wilfred Thesiger in 1933/1934, who started at the city of Awash, followed the river's...
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    needed] (after whom the Murchison crater on the Moon is named) and Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Novelist Anthony Powell was a member, and the club is featured in...
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  • "Manwatching" was the subject of an episode in 1977. An episode narrated by Wilfred Thesiger about his journey through, and his love for, the "Empty Quarter" desert...
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  • Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behaviour (1994) Heart of a Nomad Wilfred Thesiger in Conversation With David Attenborough Paperback – 1994 The Life of...
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  • explorer Wilfred Thesiger as a "hilarious segment". It quotes "We started to blow up our air-beds. 'God, you must be a couple of pansies,' said Thesiger." The...
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    artist Wendela Boreel, artist Shelley Court, No.56. Flat No.15: Sir Wilfred Thesiger, explorer and travel writer Shelley Court, No.56. Flat No.17: Radclyffe...
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  • 1918) Kathy Wilkes, philosopher and academic (born 1946) 24 August Sir Wilfred Thesiger, soldier and explorer (born 1910) Zena Walker, actress (born 1934)...
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