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Picture of a scholar in a blue and black robe peeking through large wooden doors at a college at Oxford University

Oxford Honors

A scholar peeks through the doors of a college at Oxford University. The January 1999 issue told the story of Lawrence of Arabia, who walked a thousand miles through Syria and Palestine in 1909 to study castles built by crusaders, as part of his honors thesis.
Photograph by Annie Griffiths, Nat Geo Image Collection