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  1. I was paying 4/10d per gallon of petrol in England in 1967 (Say 24pence today or 13p per litre) and 2/1d in Iraq and Iran (Say 10 pence today or 2p per litre)
  2. Bolshevik means majority.
  3. Successors to Mohammed.
  4. One toman was approximately equal to one shilling.
  5. The Ismaili’s were followers of Ismail the seventh imam.
  6. Based upon a Translated by J. Atkinson.
  7. Chinar - a type of plane tree.
  8. Translated by R.M. Rehder.
  9. Translated by Reuben Levy.
  10. Genesis XI. v. 1-9.
  11. One cubit is approximately 20 inches.
  12. Calvary is Latin for skull. In Hebrew the word is Golgotha.
  13. A wadi is a river bed, butm is the terebinth or turpentine tree.
  14. From a poem by John Burgon.
  15. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. T.E. Lawrence.
  16. A greeting ‘Welcome’.
  17. The Persian word for the resin paste was mumia, from which the word ‘mummy’ is derived.
  18. Hieroglyphs is derived from tbe Greek — Hieros meaning Holy, and glyphein meaning to carve.
  19. Return fare Cairo-Luxor-Aswan-Cairo approx. £9.15.s each.
  20. Extract from ‘The Glory of Egypt’ by Samivel.
  21. The Tomb of Tutankhamen by Carter & Mace
  22. The Tomb of Tutankhamen by Carter & Mace
  23. The Egyptian word for gold is nub.
  24. The word originates from the ancient Aramaic language, it means ‘white as silk’.
  25. The ownership of Alexandretta is disputed by Syria. French Mandatory authorities gave this part of Syria to Turkey in 1936, to gain Turkish support prior to the Second World War.
  26. Secondary School.
  27. Restaurant.
  28. 10 Kurush was equal to about one penny
  29. They are prized for the weight of their tail that can weigh as much as one fifth of the total weight of the animal.
  30. Car and Driver cost 5 Turkish Lira (TL). Passenger 1.50 TL. (25 T.L. was approximately £1).
  31. The cost eventually was £17.10. — per tyre.
  32. Atreus was father of Agamemnon
  33. A centre for healing
  34. Mardonius was brother-in-law to Xerxes, the King of Persia.
  35. Sculpted by Praxiteles, the statue is now in the Olympia museum.
  36. Ruler of Epirus during Turkish Occupation.



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