Is yet another cold coming my way? I've never had a job which so often made me ill.
Cathy has the day off tomorrow. I am very tempted to join her, although my co-workers implored me not to. I took JM to the fracture clinic. He has two elbows on one arm and had bruised the one created by un-aligned bones. The doc thought that realigning them would be unsuccessful and possibly fatal. What a life. His sister was raped and killed, his father shot in front of his eyes and a brother shot dead later in life. Needless to say, he is an incorrigible alcoholic, drinking up to four bottles of Listerine at a time. He is in his late forties and will not live long like this. Quite a happy day.
Gertrude Bell's great Middle Eastern legacy
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The female scholar behind Iraq's independence
The Librarians
*Gertrude Bell* (1868-1926) was the granddaughter of British nobility and
the daughter of an...
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