213 pp. Takes position midway between D. H. Lawrence's brutal 1930 denunciation of Franklin's religion as nothing more than a bourgeois commercialism tricked out in shallow utilitarian moralisms and Owen Aldridge's sympathetic 1967 treatment of the dynamism and protean character of Franklin's " polytheistic " religion.

Thanks to Lawrence's connection to the powerful Fairfax family, at age 17 in 1749, Washington was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, a well-paid position which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia.

Thanks also to Lawrence's involvement in the Ohio Company, a land investment company funded by Virginia investors, and Lawrence's position as commander of the Virginia militia, Washington came to the notice of the new lieutenant governor of Virginia, Robert Dinwiddie.

In Greek mythology, the River Styx separated the mortal world from Hades, and the subterranean position of the Inner Temple directly beneath St Lawrence's Church was supposed to signify Heaven and Hell.

Similarly, General Murray, though initially sceptical of the Arab Revolt's potential, thought highly of Lawrence's abilities as an intelligence officer ; indeed, it was largely through Lawrence's persuasion that Murray came to support the revolt.

Only two years earlier, the U. S. Postmaster General had banned D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover from the mails as obscene.

Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence's The Myth of the American Superhero describes Kirk as " a hard-driving leader who pushes himself and his crew beyond human limits ".

As well as representing those wrongly convicted of the IRA's Guildford and Birmingham pub bombings, Mansfield has represented: the Angry Brigade ; the Price sisters ; Brian Keenan ; the Orgreave miners ; Mahmood Hussein Mattan, Ruth Ellis and James Hanratty ( in posthumous appeals ); those involved in the Israeli Embassy bombing ; Stephen Lawrence's family ; Michael Barrymore at the Stuart Lubbock inquest ; Barry George at the inquest into the death of Jill Dando ; the gangster Kenneth Noye ; the Bloody Sunday families ; Arthur Scargill ; Angela Cannings ; Fatmir Limaj, a Kosovo-Albanian leader prosecuted in The Hague ; Mohamed al-Fayed in the inquest into the deaths of his son Dodi al-Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales ; and the family of Jean Charles de Menezes.

" Kangaroo " is the fictional nickname of one of Lawrence's characters, Benjamin Cooley, a prominent ex-soldier and lawyer, who is also the leader of a secretive, fascist paramilitary organisation, the " Diggers Club ".

The novel shares thematic and stylistic elements with D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, all of which were published within the space of six months.

William Fairfax, Lawrence's father-in-law and cousin of Virginia's largest landowner, Thomas, Lord Fairfax, was also a formative influence.

In 1751, Washington travelled to Barbados with Lawrence, who was suffering from tuberculosis, with the hope that the climate would be beneficial to Lawrence's health.

D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was privately published in 1928, while another important landmark for the history of the modern novel came with the publication of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury in 1929.

Robert Gordon Sproul was a member of the Bohemian Club, and he sponsored Lawrence's membership in 1932.

The first model of Lawrence's cyclotron was made out of brass, wire, and sealing wax and was only four inches in diameter — it could literally be held in one hand.

Sharif, who was already a major star in the Middle East, was originally cast as Lawrence's guide Tafas, but when the above actors proved unsuitable, Sharif was shifted to the part of Ali.

Though the incident was mentioned in Lawrence's autobiography Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a few historians have conjectured that this event never happened.

However, Thomas was at the time a young man who spent only a few days ( or weeks at most ) with Lawrence in the field – unlike Bentley, who is depicted as a cynical middle-aged Chicago newspaperman who is present during the whole of Lawrence's later campaigns.

Tafas and Lawrence did meet Sherif Ali at a well during Lawrence's travels to Faisal, but the encounter was not fatal for either party.

Lawrence's meeting the officer again while in British uniform was, however, an invention of Wilson or Bolt.

The theme ( in the second half of the film ) that Lawrence's Arab army deserted almost to a man as he moved farther north was completely fictional.

The first successful attack on the Hejaz railroad with a locomotive-destroying " Garland mine " was led by Major H. Garland in February 1917, a month before Lawrence's first attack on the railroad in March 1917.

Others disagree, pointing to Lawrence's own writings in Seven Pillars of Wisdom to support the argument that he was egotistical.

Lawrence's sexual orientation remains a controversial topic amongst historians ; though Bolt's primary source was ostensibly Seven Pillars, the film's portrayal seems informed by Richard Aldington's then-recent Biographical Inquiry ( 1955 ), which posited among other things that Lawrence was homosexual.

The film features Lawrence's alleged sadomasochism as a major part of his character ( for instance, his " match trick " in Cairo, his " enjoyment " of killing Gasim ); while Lawrence almost certainly engaged in flagellation and like activities after the Deraa incident, there is no biographical evidence he was a masochist prior to that incident.

The film's depiction of Lawrence as an active participant in the Tafas Massacre was disputed at the time by historians, including Lawrence's biographer Basil Liddell Hart, but most current biographers accept the film's portrayal of the massacre as reasonably accurate.

While the film is neither " the full story of Lawrence's life or a completely accurate account of the two years he spent fighting with the Arabs ," Korda argues that criticizing its inaccuracy " misses the point ": " The object was to produce, not a faithful docudrama that would educate the audience, but a hit picture.

Its themes include Lawrence's emotional struggles with the personal violence inherent in war, his personal identity, and his divided allegiance between his native Britain and its army and his newfound comrades within the Arabian desert tribes.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

D. H. Lawrence's Pansies: Poems by D. H. Lawrence was published in 1929, and Margaret Mitchell originally chose Pansy as the name of her Gone with the Wind heroine, but settled on Scarlett just before the book went into print.

In Lawrence, he succeeded where several before him had failed, at turning T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom into a cogent screenplay by turning the entire book on its head and making it a search for the identity of its author.

Lawrence's widow, Anne Fairfax, promptly remarried into the Lee family and moved out.

In 1918, her brother Gilbert was killed in action, and that March she moved into a cottage in Cornwall with the composer Cecil Gray, a friend of Lawrence's.

The caves run deep into the hillside above West Wycombe village and directly beneath St Lawrence's Church and Mausoleum ( which were also constructed by Sir Francis Dashwood around the same time the caves were excavated ).

There he uses the technology to transform into Vinnie, one of young Lawrence's closest friends.

Over the next 15 years, Lawrence's aggressive expansion into new markets-combined with ideas unorthodox for the airline industry-led Braniff to record industry financial and operating performance, expanding its earnings tenfold despite typical passenger load factors of only about 50 percent.

He was one of those who questioned the conclusion of the Macpherson report ( into Stephen Lawrence's death ) that the Metropolitan police are institutionally racist as " a grotesque over-reaction.

Lawrence's unsuccessful attempts had drawn the attention of the crowd and he was quickly wrestled into submission by those present ( including Congressman Davy Crockett ).

In 1932 he arrived at Ernest O. Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, which was at that time blossoming into the top American site for both experimental and theoretical physics due to the efforts of Lawrence and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

But Wilson ran into friction with Lawrence's harsh frugality while working on his cyclotron and was fired twice from the Rad Lab.

While it may have been just within bounds in the United States, in 1963 it was still one of 188 books prohibited from import into Australia, along with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Grace Metalious's Peyton Place, and no fewer than seven books by Henry Miller.

At a time when actors received no screen credits, Carl Laemmle of the Independent Moving Pictures Company ( IMP ) had begun promoting Lawrence's name and image, making her into America's " First Movie Star.

They were donated by a member of the Richards family, into which Lawrence's only surviving sister had married.