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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Lawrence
Lawrence, one of the deacons of the Roman Church, was one of the victims of the persecution of Valerian in 258, like Pope Sixtus II and many other members of the Roman clergy.
Lawrence was burned to death on a grid-iron (De offic., xli).
Lawrence were composed, probably, early in the sixth century, and in these narratives a number of the martyrs of the Via Tiburtina and of the two Catacombs of St. Cyriaca in agro Verano and St. Hippolytius were connected in a romantic and wholly legendary fashion.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09089a.htm   (702 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - T.E. Lawrence
Lawrence was born in Tremadoc, Caernarvonshire, Wales, the illegitimate son of Thomas Chapman.
Lawrence was wounded several times in his campaigns - he suffered dozens of bullet and shrapnel wounds.
However, Lawrence's military victories were overshadowed by the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which promised Syria to the French and undermined the idea of an Arab homeland in Syria.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/lawrencete.htm   (1211 words)

  
 Lawrence University Home
Elizabeth Forter, who taught English at Lawrence from 1953 until her retirement in 1988, passed away at her home Wednesday, Nov. 28 at the age of 85.
The Lawrence Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, under the direction of Andrew Mast, present a joint concert Saturday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m.
Kaitlin Mahr '09 was laid to rest Saturday, Nov. 24, in Onalaska, Wis. The Lawrence junior was remembered in the La Crosse Tribune last week.
www.lawrence.edu   (613 words)

  
 Lawrence County, Tennessee, Genealogy
Lawrence County was formed mostly from Indian territory as a result of the Treaty of 1816 with the Chickasaw Indians, and Hickman County and a small portion of Giles County.
Lawrence County is bordered on the north by Maury County, on the west by Wayne County, on the east by Giles County, and on the south by Alabama.
The population of Lawrence County in 1994 census was 35,303.
www.tngennet.org /lawrence   (1092 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Lawrence, D. H.
The Lawrences' marriage was notoriously stormy, involving violent verbal battles culminating in cutlery-throwing and fist-fighting in the presence of friends.
Here Lawrence and Frieda are depicted as Rupert Birkin and Ursula Brangwen in a tale based partly on Lawrence's clamorous relationship with the writer Katherine Mansfield, her husband, the literary critic John Middleton-Murray (Gudrun and Gerald of the novel), and Lady Ottoline Morrell (Hermione Roddice).
Lawrence was a twentieth-century maverick in his open and formally adventurous discussion of all sexual issues and especially homosexuality.
www.glbtq.com /literature/lawrence_dh.html   (819 words)

  
 Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence
Dr. Lawrence received his Ph.D. in 1991 with Daniel L. Hartl at Washington University, St. Louis, performed his postdoctoral studies with John Roth at the University of Utah, and joined the Department in 1996.
Jacobs, J.G. Lawrence, and R.W. Hendrix (2006) Exploring the mycobacteriophage metaproteome: phage genomics as an educational platform.
Lawrence, J.G., and H. Hendrickson (2004) Chromosome structure and constraints on lateral gene transfer.
www.pitt.edu /~biohome/Dept/Frame/Faculty/lawrence.htm   (897 words)

  
 D.H. Lawrence - Books and Biography
Lawrence's childhood was dominated by poverty and friction between her parents.
Lawrence's frankness in describing sexual relations between men and women upset a great many people and over1000 copies of the novel were burned by the examining magistrate's order.
Through her, Lawrence formed relationships with several cultural figures, among them Aldous Huxley, E.M. Forster, and Bertrand Russell, with whom he was later to quarrel bitterly.
www.readprint.com /author-57/D-H--Lawrence   (1314 words)

  
 Lawrence, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lawrence is a river city in Douglas County, Kansas, 41 miles (66 km) west by south of Kansas City, along the banks of both the Kaw and Wakarusa Rivers.
Lawrence was founded in 1854 for the New England Emigrant Aid Company, by Charles Robinson, who later served as governor of Kansas, and named after Amos Adams Lawrence, a prominent politician and abolitionist and the son of famed philanthropist Amos Lawrence.
Lawrence also holds the distinction of having been the site of operation for the state's first railroad in 1871 and the city where the state's first telephone was installed in 1877.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence,_Kansas   (2347 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Saint Lawrence
On 10 August Lawrence was commanded to appear for his execution, and to bring along the treasure with which he had been entrusted by the pope.
Lawrence's care for the poor, the ill, the neglected have led to his patronage of them.
As you have often heard, Lawrence was a deacon of the Church at Rome.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintl02.htm   (856 words)

  
 D.H. Lawrence - Biography and Works
Lawrence's childhood was dominated by poverty and friction between his parents.
Lawrence's mother died in 1910; he helped her die by giving her an overdose of sleeping medicine.
Lawrence’s vivid observation of nature and his world around him had a sensual quality about it that is rare.
www.online-literature.com /dh_lawrence   (2386 words)

  
 Jacob Lawrence
From childhood, Lawrence had been steeped in family and community stories of the Migration, and when - encouraged by Locke - he decided to paint it, he worked hard to get the historical background right.
"Lawrence called his style "dynamic cubism," though it wasn't notably dynamic, except when he used flamelike forms and pushy oppositions of structure; generally the paintings tend to an Egyptian stillness, friezelike even when you know the subject was moving.
His debts to Cubism and to Matisse are obvious: the flat, sharp overlaps of form, the reliance on silhouette, and a high degree of abstraction in the color.
www.artchive.com /artchive/L/lawrence.html   (1025 words)

  
 NASA - STS-114 Mission Specialist Wendy Lawrence: 'Hanging 10' for Shuttle Countdown
Still, more than 35 years later, Wendy Lawrence, who grew up in Southern California, looks to a place beyond where the sand meets the sky as she prepares to soar into space aboard the next Shuttle.
Lawrence knew a solid education would help launch her dream of becoming an astronaut.
Lawrence reported to the Johnson Space Center in the summer of 1992, where she completed a year of flight training and qualified as a mission specialist.
www.nasa.gov /vision/space/preparingtravel/wendy_lawrence_profile.html   (702 words)

  
 Lawrence Arts Center
The Snow Queen The Lawrence Arts Center is thrilled to premier this remarkable story of loyalty, love and determination by Hans Christian Andersen for this 2006 holiday season.
Lawrence Art AuctionLawrence's first benefit art auction, the Lawrence Art Auction was established in 1981 to encourage artists and art lovers to support the Lawrence Arts Center.
The Lawrence Arts Center and the Lawrence Jazz Alliance present trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, performing with the KU Jazz Ensemble I, in a concert to help support the USD 497 Junior High Jazz program and other jazz education and performance events in Lawrence.
www.lawrenceartscenter.com   (1841 words)

  
 ACES: Lawrence County Extension Office   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Created in 1818, Lawrence County is named in honor of Captain James Lawrence, famous for his War of 1812 battle cry "Don't give up the ship." With more than 100,000 acres, the Bankhead National Forest makes up the southern part of this rural county and the Tennessee River forms the county's northern border.
Lawrence County is the birthplace of Olympic Gold Medal Winner Jesse Owens and the home of Gen. Joe Wheeler.
Lawrence County's population of 33,933 is 78 percent white, 17 percent fl and 5 percent hispanic and other.
www.aces.edu /counties/cnty_cookie.php?county=Lawrence   (200 words)

  
 Introduction - D H Lawrence Resources - Manuscripts & Special Collections - The University of Nottingham   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The D H Lawrence Collections at The University of Nottingham Library form one of the major international research resources for the study of D H Lawrence (1885-1930), the well-known Nottinghamshire born writer, who was briefly a student at University College Nottingham in the early 20th century.
Regular exhibitions relating to Lawrence and his work have been mounted in the Weston Gallery in the D H Lawrence Pavilion, part of the University's Lakeside Arts Centre, and versions of these exhibitions are being made available as online exhibitions on this web site.
A video/dvd is now available tracing Lawrence's student career at Nottingham and demonstrating the resources now offered by the University to support the study and enjoyment of Lawrence's work.
www.nottingham.ac.uk /mss/online/dhlawrence   (293 words)

  
 T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) | British Soldier and Author
When war broke out with Germany in 1914, Lawrence spent a brief period in the Geographical Section of the General Staff in London, and was then posted to the Military Intelligence Department in Cairo.
Lawrence was sent to Mecca on a fact-finding mission, ultimately becoming the British liaison officer to the Arabs.
An analysis of the creation of the "Lawrence of Arabia" legend including an examination of the relationship between Lawrence and Lowell Thomas, the American journalist who first publicized the story of Lawrence and the Arab Revolt through his war travelogues.
www.lucidcafe.com /library/95aug/lawrence.html   (845 words)

  
 Alabama Counties: Lawrence   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lawrence County was created by an act of the Alabama Territorial General Assembly on 6 Feb. 1818.
The county is located in the northwestern part of the state and is bounded on the north by the Tennessee River.
The county is named for Capt. James Lawrence (Vermont), a naval hero of the War of 1812.
www.archives.state.al.us /counties/lawrence.html   (97 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia: Books: Michael Asher   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lawrence's subsequent disillusionment with the shortsighted view taken of the Middle East by Britain is not as important to Asher's story as the tortured paths of the explorer's soul.
Lawrence time as an archaeologist at Carchemish is rendered at a level of detail and with insight totally absent from most previous works.
Lawrence was one of the most fascinating personalities of the 20th century.
www.amazon.com /Lawrence-Uncrowned-Arabia-Michael-Asher/dp/0879517123   (2016 words)

  
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The Lawrence County Assessment office is responsible for the valuation of real property for AD VALORUM tax purposes.
Lawrence County consists of 56,000 parcels that encompass 367 square miles.
Lawrence County has a total population of just fewer than 95,000.
www.co.lawrence.pa.us /assessor/index.html   (311 words)

  
 Lawrence, KS Police Department : Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
By clicking on subsequently smaller geographic areas you will be able to drill down to smaller sections of the county and obtain UCR and KIBRS summary statistics for each selected area.
Every criminal report written by the Lawrence Police Department has at least one Kansas Statute violation.
If there is more than one offense listed, the officer enters the most serious as the first offense on the report.
www.lawrencepolice.org /index.php?page=stats   (447 words)

  
 Your site for city services | City of Lawrence, Kansas
The Lawrence City Commission typically will not meet on the fifth Tuesday of a month.
One of the City of Lawrence's goals is better city service.
The City of Lawrence and Douglas County Senior Services have joined forces to match volunteers with those needing assistance for the "Safe Winter Walkways" program to create safer and more accessible pedestrian walkways.
www.ci.lawrence.ks.us   (182 words)

  
 lawrence
Inside is written: "Presented to James Lawrence by E. Denmead, 1892." A postcard to the Rev. Lawrence is between the pages; it shows the Brunswick waterfront in 1922.
Lawrence, William R. (Dr.) Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence.
Written inside: "Alex A. Lawrence, April, 1943" and "Robert de Treville Lawrence III, 1949, from his cousin Alex A. Lawrence." Also folded inside is a photo of downtown Marietta from the Marietta Daily Journal, December 1951.
www.kennesaw.edu /history/lawrence.htm   (7003 words)

  
 Astronaut Bio: Wendy B. Lawrence (8/2006)
Lawrence has more than 1,500 hours flight time in six different types of helicopters and has made more than 800 shipboard landings.
While stationed at Helicopter Combat Support Squadron SIX (HC-6), she was one of the first two female helicopter pilots to make a long deployment to the Indian Ocean as part of a carrier battle group.
In October 1990, Lawrence reported to the U.S. Naval Academy where she served as a physics instructor and the novice women’s crew coach.
www.jsc.nasa.gov /Bios/htmlbios/lawrence.html   (574 words)

  
 D.H. Lawrence
Lawrence saw sex and intuition as a key to undistorted perception of reality and a way to respond to the inhumanity of the industrial culture.
From Lawrence's doctrines of sexual freedom arose obscenity trials, which had a deep effect on the relationship between literature and society.
David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in central England.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /dhlawren.htm   (1658 words)

  
 Lawrence Technological University
Lawrence Tech has aimed to make accomplishment a tradition.
Lawrence Tech students are developing a zero-emission, hydrogen fuel-cell-powered racing kart to compete in the Formula Zero Championship...more
Lawrence Tech University is distinguished for its integration of leadership principles.  Find out more about our Leadership Program.
www.ltu.edu   (179 words)

  
 Lawrence County, Illinois GenWeb
Lawrence County was formed on January 16, 1821 from the counties of Crawford and Edwards.
The county was named after Captain James Lawrence, who was mortally wounded in an engagement between his ship, the Chesapeake, and the British vessel, Shannon, during the War of 1812.
His memorable last words were "Don't give up the ship!" Lawrence County was the 20th county formed in Illinois.
www.rootsweb.com /~illawren/index.htm   (160 words)

  
 Lawrence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amos Adams Lawrence (1814-1886), abolitionist and founder of the University of Kansas
Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan
William A. Lawrence, the 7th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence   (381 words)

  
 Lawrence Bragg - Biography
William Lawrence Bragg, son of William Henry Bragg, was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on March 31, 1890.
W. Lawrence Bragg, who had been elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921, was Director of the National Physical Laboratory in 1937-1938 and Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge, from 1938 to 1953.
Sir Lawrence's chief interests at the present time are the application of X-ray analysis to the structure of protein molecules, which are being investigated in the Davy Faraday Laboratory of the Royal Institution, in continuation of similar work at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1915/wl-bragg-bio.html   (528 words)

  
 lawrence.com | There can be only one
Sterilize Stereo / Another Holiday: Fans of Gogol Bordello should be spellbound by this former Lawrence band, which embodies the spirit of a late-night jam session aboard a pirate shanty or a holdover at the Moulin Rouge...
From the home studio of a tiny two-bedroom apartment at 11th and Tennessee to local stages, Ample Branches has grown into one of Lawrence’s brightest new bands during the course of a busy year.
Yes, Lawrence has yet another Mexican restaurant to choose from with this one's opening in Fall 2007.
www.lawrence.com   (441 words)

  
 USD 497
Kate is the daughter of Paula Martin and Kurt Falkenstien of Lawrence.
The Lawrence school district sees an increase in enrollment, due in large part to the growth of the Lawrence Virtual School. 
Lawrence high school students continue to perform well on the ACT and SAT exams, including a perfect ACT score earned by Lawrence High Senior Stephanie Drahozal, daughter of Chris and Kaye Drahozal of Lawrence.
www.usd497.org   (430 words)

  
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Lawrence Council gave final approval to an ordinance that would limit the size of new houses in the southern
An application to build a Wal-Mart in Lawrence is headed for a public hearing before the Planning Board on Monday.
Seventy-five soldiers assigned to the New Jersey Army National Guard armory on Eggerts Crossing Road in Lawrence are returning stateside next week.
www.zwire.com /site/news.asp?brd=1091&nav_sec=51390   (240 words)

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