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  T. E. Lawrence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lawrence was born in Tremadog, Caernarfonshire, North Wales, of mixed English and Scottish ancestry.
Lawrence's intimate knowledge of the Arab people made him the ideal liaison between British and Arab forces and in October 1916 he was sent into the desert to report on the Arab nationalist movements.
As to the truth of his narrative, with Lawrence it is always difficult to untangle reality from mythology, and the man himself seemed to enjoy mingling fact and fiction; his complex relationship with himself results in passages which alternately belittle his accomplishments and influence and expand on his role in the revolt.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/T._E._Lawrence   (2791 words)

  
 Thomas Lawrence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Thomas Lawrence (April 13, 1769 – January 7, 1830), was a notable English painter, mostly portraits of stick figures engaged in sodomy.
His father was an innkeeper, first at Bristol and afterwards at Devizes, and at the age of six Thomas was already being shown off to the guests of the Black Boar as an infant prodigy who could sketch their likenesses and declaim speeches from Milton.
Lawrence was at once appointed painter to the Dilettanti Society, and principal painter to King George III in lieu of Reynolds.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Lawrence   (608 words)

  
 Thomas Edward Lawrence
He was called Lawrence of Arabia after cooperating with Arab forces during the World War 1, where he was strongly involved in the actions that drove the Ottomans out of the Arabian peninsula and the Levant.
Lawrence was a strong supporter and promoter for the establishment of an Arab state, but his efforts did not lead to the intended result.
Lawrence's fame is out of measure with his real importance, and has especially been triggered by the idolizing Oriental classic movie Lawrence of Arabia of 1962.
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 Lawrence of Arabia . Lowell Thomas | PBS
Lowell Thomas was a man ahead of his time: the first roving newscaster, a film maker through the 1920s, a radio presenter in the 1930s, an adventurer who wrote more than 50 books, he was heralded as the father of 'Cinerama'.
Thomas and Chase were invited to Feisal's desert camp where they shot moving and still pictures of Lawrence with the Arabs.
Thomas died in 1981 in New York at the age of 89.
www.pbs.org /lawrenceofarabia/players/thomas.html   (443 words)

  
 The Enigma of Thomas Edward Lawrence
Lawrence was born in North Wales on 15 August 1888.
Lawrence at the head of the Arab armies had captured Damascus and installed a provisional Arab government with himself as head, deputizing for King Feisal.
Lawrence moved in a wide circle of influential people, many of whom were associated with the Round Table and other quasi-political groups.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v02/v02p283_Hansen.html   (1660 words)

  
 Queen Charlotte by LAWRENCE, Sir Thomas
The youngest of five children of somewhat improvident parents, Lawrence was an infant prodigy.
Praised outside the royal family, the picture was never acquired by them, perhaps because the king was upset by the queen having posed bareheaded after Lawrence disliked the bonnet and hat she had chosen to wear.
Eventually it was the Assistant Keeper of her Wardrobe who completed the sittings for such details as the bracelets bearing a portrait miniature of the king and his cipher.
www.wga.hu /html/l/lawrence/charlott.html   (392 words)

  
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At trial, Thomas and Lawrence successfully convinced the jury that the defendant was 100% at fault for an auto accident.
Thomas and Lawrence, P.A. represents individuals and companies in claims involving people injured in accidents seeking recovery for physical and emotional injuries as well as medical bills and lost wages throughout Florda.
Thomas and Lawrence, P.A. has experience representing both individuals and insurance companies in disputes relating to the rights and obligations existing between the parties to an insurance contract.
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 The importance of T. E. Lawrence by David Fromkin
Lawrence also was converted to the views of the then-commander of Hussein’s forces—a former officer in the Ottoman army, brought in by the British to try to make soldiers out of Hussein’s tribesmen—that the bedouin of the Hejaz would be better employed in fighting a guerrilla war than in trying to fight a conventional one.
Lawrence’s obsession with guilt as a personal theme runs parallel to the political one throughout Seven Pillars, which begins in a Nietzschean spirit with the author’s observation that in the extreme circumstances of the desert war he and his companions were driven to actions that in normal circumstances would be immoral.
Lawrence claimed that, unknown to others, he had been taken prisoner for a time on the night of November 21–22, 1917, in a place called Deraa, and was homosexually assaulted, bayoneted, and beaten by command of a sadistic Turkish commander.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/10/sept91/fromkin.htm   (7182 words)

  
 LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS - LoveToKnow Article on LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697-1775), English soldier, was born at Hereford on the 6th of March 1697.
LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1760-1830), English painter was born at Bristol on the 4th of May 1769.
Lawrence, named in honor of Amos A. Lawrence, was founded by agents of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company in July 1854, and during the Territorial period was the political centre of the free-state cause and the principal point against which the assaults of the pro-slavery party were directed.
www.1911ency.org /L/LA/LAWRENCE_SIR_THOMAS.htm   (1436 words)

  
 T. E. Lawrence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Lawrence became famous after the First World War because of the remarkable role he had played while serving as a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18.
The romantic story of Lawrence's campaigns in Arabia and Allenby's in the Holy Land appealed strongly to a British public sated with horrific accounts of trench warfare on the Western Front.
Lawrence himself had little wish to be remembered as a war hero: he could hardly bear to think about his wartime role.
www.telawrence.info /life/lawrence.htm   (548 words)

  
 Sir Thomas Lawrence - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Lawrence was born in Bristol on 13 April 1769, the youngest of sixteen children of Thomas Lawrence and Lucy Reade.
A boy prodigy without formal training, Lawrence was renowned by the age of ten for his profile drawings in pencil of the visitors to his father's hostelry, an established coaching inn on the London-to-Bath road.
In 1814 Lawrence was commissioned by the prince regent to paint the allied heads of state and generals for what was to become the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle, and in 1815 he was knighted.
www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?17900   (454 words)

  
 Lawrence, Sir Thomas on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
After the fall of Napoleon, Lawrence was sent by George IV to the conference at Aix-la-Chapelle to paint the dignitaries assembled there (portraits in Waterloo Gall., Windsor Castle, England).
Export of drawing of Mary Hamilton by Sir Thomas Lawrence deferred.
SIR CLIVES CASEBOOK; WITH apologies to a famous agony aunt, DAVID THOMAS imagines a new career for an ex-England rugby coach with a penchant for football...
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 T. E. Lawrence Collection
Thomas Edward Lawrence, archaeologist, soldier, and author, popularly known as Lawrence of Arabia, was born at Tremadoc, North Wales, on August 15, 1888, the second of five sons.
The Arabs were in revolt against their Turkish rulers; in support of the Arab opposition, Lawrence organized Arab tribes using guerilla resistance to halt the Turkish advance, finally defeating the Turks and bringing the area south of Aqaba, except for Medina, under Arab-British control.
Lawrence wrote an Introduction to Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles Doughty for a 1921 reprint edition by Jonathan Cape, the first book to be published by that firm.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/lawrence.te.html   (1999 words)

  
 Dr. Thomas Lawrence, NCA and ACA Leader, Dies in Mississippi
Thomas Lawrence, 87, died Thursday, June 16, 2005, in his hometown of Meridian, Mississippi.
By 1940, the younger Dr. Lawrence had been elected to a position in the Mississippi Chiropractic Association (MCA); after service in the U.S. Army during World War II, he returned to MCA offices, serving as president of the association by at least 1951.
Lawrence was preceded in death by his wife, Betty Lawrence.
www.chiroweb.com /archives/23/19/06.html   (402 words)

  
 Thomas Lawrence
Thomas Lawrence, the son of an innkeeper, was born in Bristol in 1769.
The king was pleased with the portrait and on the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792, he appointed Lawrence as the royal painter.
Lawrence was knighted in 1815 and five years later became president of the Royal Academy.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jlawrence.htm   (189 words)

  
 Biography
He was the son of an innkeeper who owned the Black Bear at Devizes, where the young Lawrence won a reputation as a prodigy for his profile portraits in pencil of guests.
After the death of Reynolds, Lawrence was the leading English portrait painter.
By these works Lawrence was recognized as the foremost portrait painter of Europe.
www.wga.hu /bio/l/lawrence/biograph.html   (408 words)

  
 Amazon.com: With Lawrence in Arabia: Lost Treasures: Books: Lowell Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Thomas' book is worth reading because it's a nice antidote to the Lawrence revisionism that reached it's hysterical peak in the late eighties with David Fromkin.
Lawrence is back and very relevant, so Thomas' account should be read as an enthusiatic if flawed version of an extremely important development in military and middle eastern history.
Fromkin reports that Lawrence was frequently insubordinate, went over his superiors and in 1920 publicly disparaged Britain's Arab policy in the London Sunday Times as being "worse than the Turkish system." He also accused Britain of killing "a yearly average of 100 Arabs to maintain peace." This was of course untrue.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1853755001?v=glance   (2741 words)

  
 Lawrence Letter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Bob was the coordinator of the Lawrence descendants who hired an English genealogist in an effort to find the ancestors of Margaret Lawrence.
James Lawrence had other descendants in the 1800's who were doctors, lawyers, merchants, and teachers.
My great grandmother called herself Lawrence and I have been told that she emigrated from Europe in the early part of the last century to old Virginia, and was there sold to a tobacco planter owning a plantation 8 or 10 miles from home for seven years to pay her passage.
members.aol.com /philli6372/lawrence.htm   (979 words)

  
 Sir John Lawrence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Thomas Lawrence of Chelsea, Middlesex, goldsmith, and his wife Martha Cage.
Sir Thomas died and was buried at Chelsea in April 1714.
The chancel and the Lawrence Chapel were restored and rededicated a few years later and by May 1958 the new church was reconsecrated.
www.sallysfamilyplace.com /Rayner/lawrenj1.htm   (1772 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)

  
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And Thomas Edward Lawrence wasn't certain he could be of any help to his friend and comrade in his destiny.
Especially considering you thought you had said goodbye a while back." Thomas could see the aqua eyes dim slightly at the remembrance, as his mind's eye saw the form of Adam Crown cradling his father's body out of that explosion of light at Tabitha's memorial again.
No, Thomas, neither one of them can stand here and tell me that that was remotely fair to her -- or to anyone." He ran a hand through his hair a moment, choosing his thoughts carefully.
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/roboman/www/Oberon/aug96/disclosures.txt   (1665 words)

  
 Sir Thomas Lawrence --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Scottish poet Thomas Campbell is remembered chiefly for his sentimental and martial lyrics.
He was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London.
Regarded as one of the finest U.S. portrait painters of the 19th century, Thomas Sully produced some 2,000 portraits, including many of famous historical figures.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9047424?tocId=9047424   (568 words)

  
 Thomas Lawrence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He exhibited portraits (and three histories) at the Royal Academy, London 1787-1830, and was elected Associate Royal Academician, London 1791 and Royal Academician 1794.
The Prince Regent (later George IV), to whom Lawrence was introduced in 1814, richly influenced his later years, knighting him in 1815 and commissioning the series of portraits of European sovereigns and statesmen for the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor.
In fulfilling this commission Lawrence visited Aix-la-Chapelle, Vienna and Rome in 1818-20 and Paris in 1825.
www.wallacecollection.org /c/w_a/p_w_d/b/a/Lawrence.htm   (208 words)

  
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Crown gave a humorless grin as his mind raced to figure out a escape route out of the hospital Thomas and he had beamed into...to find the other man. The "other man" was how Adam was thinking of Captain James Lawrence right now.
He looked over at Thomas and shook his head, a flicker of a grin passing over his lips.
He closed his eyes momentarily, reminding James Lawrence for a split-second of Tabitha Crown's expression when ever she thought of a decision to make on the USS PULSAR.
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/roboman/www/Oberon/mar97/Escaping.txt   (1797 words)

  
 Thomas Sully Online
Studied under Sir Thomas Lawrence and Benjamin West.
Thomas Sully in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
All images and text on this Thomas Sully page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/sully_thomas.html   (390 words)

  
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HOMAS L. Lawrence, M.Div., is a skilled and experienced couples counselor.
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 Lawrence Robert
Robert Lawrence, son of John Lawrence and Mary his wife was born ca 1690 in Nansemond County Va and died in Bertie Co NC in 1744.
Thomas Yeates, the river pocoson, Luke Collins, and William Bailey, and this include 18 ac for Sarah Kerr, daughter of Manning's wife, 2.
I Lend to my beloved wife Jean Lawrence my whole Estate During her widowhood but in case she marries or removes of then for my Executors to divide the Estate as follows.
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 Sir Thomas Lawrence
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 1769–1830, English portrait painter, b.
He studied with Sir Thomas Lawrence and later in...
Thomas Sully - Sully, Thomas, 1783–1872, American painter, b.
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 Sir Thomas Lawrence Online
Lawrence's students included Thomas Sully and Samuel Lane.
Sir Thomas Lawrence in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
All images and text on this Sir Thomas Lawrence page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/lawrence_sir_thomas.html   (489 words)

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