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"There is drama in the very air of the place, and I want to be there recording it for the Geographic."
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Maynard Owen Williams became the first National Geographic foreign correspondent in 1919. Over the course of his career, he explored Asia and witnessed the Russian Revolution. He died in Antalya, Turkey, and was buried in the Feriköy Protestant Cemetery located in Istanbul.
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