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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Mortimer Wheeler
Born: September 10, 1890
Died: July 22, 1976 (aged 85)
Bio: Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH, CIE, MC, TD, FSA, FRS, FBA was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army.
Known for:
- Roman Art and Architecture (1964)
- The British Academy, 1949-1968 (1970)
- The Indus Civilization (1953)
- Archaeology from the Earth (1954)
- Still Digging (1955)
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