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Kuwait before oil: the city, the people, the trades and the houses.
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A port, a school, a factory and houses: what Kuwait’s first dinar notes showed
It replaced the Indian rupee in April 1961, and the ten carried a sailing boom.
17 OctoberRead →
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Water on a donkey cart: how Kuwait’s fire service grew into its own directorate
16 OctoberRead →
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Kaifan, 1962: residents pooled 4,260 dinars so they would not have to shop in town
15 OctoberRead →
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Ahmadi, 1946: a town laid out on a ridge so oil could run downhill to the sea
14 OctoberRead →
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The ruler drank the first drop: Shuwaikh’s 1953 plant made a million gallons a day
13 OctoberRead →
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A tin-roofed shed by Dasman Palace: how Kuwait Television began in 1961
12 OctoberRead →
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Bayt Al-Badr: five courtyards and a door within a door on the Qibla seafront since 1837
11 OctoberRead →
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Water boats on the Shatt al-Arab: when customs left Kuwait thirsty
7 OctoberRead →
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The Elephant and Two Rupees: How the Car Reached Kuwait
6 OctoberRead →
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