• Robert Barkley Shaw (12 July 1839 – 15 June 1879) was a British explorer and diplomat. He was an early English traveller to Kashgar in Central Asia, and...
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    This alphabet did not represent Uyghur vowels and according to Robert Barkley Shaw, spelling was irregular and long vowel letters were frequently written...
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  • Robert Shaw may refer to: Robert Shaw (physicist) (born 1946), American physicist Robert Sidey Shaw (1871–1953), president of the Michigan State College...
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    15th/16th Indonesia Ernest Shackleton English-Irish 20th Antarctica Robert Barkley Shaw English 19th Central Asia Eric Shipton English 20th Mount Everest...
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    Siberia. Robert Dankoff wrote that the Turkic language spoken in Kashgar and used in Kara Khanid works was Karluk, not (Old) Uyghur. Robert Barkley Shaw wrote...
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    state and supplied him with thousands of guns. British diplomats Robert Barkley Shaw and Thomas Douglas Forsyth to Kashgar in 1868 and 1870 respectively...
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    Tazkiratu'l-Bughra on the Muslim war against the Khotan was translated by Robert Barkley Shaw. Contemporary poems and attitudes are recorded in the dictionary...
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    was the age of marriage for women in Khotan, Yarkand, and Kashgar. Robert Barkley Shaw wrote that * Mazlúm, lit. "oppressed one," is used in Káshghar, &c...
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  • effort to ward off Yakub Beg's own initiative to address the problem. Robert Barkley Shaw, a British merchant in Kangra, India, visited Shahidulla in 1868...
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    her roles on television. In the 1960s she played Audra Barkley, the daughter of Victoria Barkley (played by Barbara Stanwyck) in the Western television...
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