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by ripe
50 days ago
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Yes. Moreover: "While engaged in a survey of China, the baron was charged with dreaming up a route for a railway linking Berlin to Beijing. This he named die Seidenstrassen, the Silk Roads. It was not until 1938 that the term Silk Road appeared in English, as the title of a popular book by a Nazi-sympathising Swedish explorer, Sven Hedin." -- historian William Dalrymple https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/06/the-sil... |
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