Time Magazine: WOMAN of the Millennium

[Jack Andrews]

> Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
>
> Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian (1868-1926), British archaeologist, writer, and
> government official, born in Durham County, England,
> and educated at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. From 1899 to 1914 she
> made several archaeological expeditions in Asia
> Minor and on the Arabian Peninsula. Her expert knowledge of those regions led her
> into service with British intelligence forces in the
> Middle East during World War I. In 1917 she went to Baghdad, Iraq, to serve in
> the British political office. She was influential in
> determining the British terms for Iraqi independence and in the election of
> Faisal I as the first king of Iraq. Her works include Poems
> from the Divan of Hafiz (1897), The Desert and the Sown (1907), Amurath to
> Amurath (1911), The Palace and the Mosque of
> Ukhaidir (1914), and Letters of Gertrude Bell (2 vol., 1927).
>
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> Our Lives With Chronic Pain
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> Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain before thyself
> hast wiped it from the sufferer's eye.
> H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)

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http://www.primenet.com/~amiga/chronicpain1.html
Our Lives With Chronic Pain
(please contribute your "thoughts" to this site)

Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain before thyself
hast wiped it from the sufferer's eye.
H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)