A map showing the irrigation canals in the vicinity of Alexandria, as printed in the Bee Kingdom League magazine in the early 30's. This is superimposed over an announcement for the first department store demonstration of John Logie Baird's new mechanical TV, which includes a description of the INSTANTANEOUS transmission of pictures.     In 1915, I, Zoltan Abbassid, traveled to Basra, in Southern Mesopotamia, in search of remnants from the Tower of Babel.