Lawrence of Arabia
Thomas Edward Lawrence, called Lawrence of Arabia was born in 1888and died in a motorcycle accident in 1935. Thomas was born inTremadoc, Wales , and attended the University of Oxford. In 1910 hewent on a archaeological expedition to the ancient Hittite city of
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