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...Story of the Weeping Camel...
...highlights A clan of Mongolian nomads uses a musical ritual to get a mother camel to nurse the newborn she had previously rejected, a rare white calf. The DVD extras are skimpy, but you'll learn lots about the life nomadic...
...Wales, my great-uncle Dai used to get drunk at Christmas and drop his trousers to show my scandalized aunts the scar on his buttock. A Turkish bullet struck him as he and his brother secured the road north of Jerusalem in 1917 with the Imperial Camel Corps...
...years ago, I found myself on the same stretch of road where Dai got his wound, with gunfire all around. Thankfully my backside was saved the fate of my great-uncle?s rear-end, but it was a reminder that the bullets haven?t stopped flying since the Camel Corps rode through the Holy Land...
...Those two brothers, who came from a Welsh mining valley, thought they were liberating the holy city. At the same time, their political leaders issued the Balfour Declaration, supporting a home for the Jews in Palestine. In England, when the news came of the Camel Corps?s success, church bells rang for the peace of Jerusalem...