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Lawrence, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence, Laurentius | [in christianity] Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258) | |
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Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia | Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935) | |
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Lawrence | a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856 | |
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Lawrence, E. O. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrence | United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958) | |
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Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence | English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930) | |
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Lawrence, Gertrude Lawrence | English actress (1898-1952) | |
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Lawrence, Sir Thomas Lawrence | English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830) |