Word: transjordan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spends more time as archaeologist than as minister, has roamed the Holy Land for 30 years. During World War II he was director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem -a "perfect cover," says Glueck, for his real job: boss of the cloak-and-dagger OSS in Transjordan. After the war, he set out to explore the Negev, each year since 1950 has gone deep into the wasteland...
Churchill's Land. It was Winston Churchill, Britain's Colonial Secretary after World War I, who created the artificial desert kingdom that Hussein rules. Churchill whacked a hatchet-shaped hunk off the defunct Ottoman Empire, called it Transjordan, and handed it to Hussein's grandfather Abdullah "one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said. Churchill was repaying Abdullah's fighting services to Britain in Lawrence of Arabia's desert campaign (another hunk-Mesopotamia, now Iraq-was given to Abdullah's brother Feisal). Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped...
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