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Pretty sure it's even in the movie. So zero people who know who TE Lawrence was should be surprised by this.

He was a man of honor, actions, and his word, it’s how he won favor, friends & literal armies to fight alongside him. To have his honor stolen from him from behind his back by politicians is of no real surprise either. Fascinating man.

Or and example like me, you find something that isn’t worth that much, you give it to the museum and they have you in their database, so if I ever were to find something by chance without metal detector, I still wouldn’t get anything

This will sound like a joke, but if you find something and want some money from it, they will make a commission that can call cops to investigate your home and if they find anything resembling metal detector or other historical finds, you might end up paying them and go to a court

What team does he play for?

I'm spending too much time in the fantasy football sub. I couldn't think of a Tight End with a last name Lawrence.

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IIRC they also tried to drown him in the river and he survived that too? Dude was on infinite health mode.

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Absolutely it's worth reading, I in no way meant to imply otherwise!

Lidar and photogrammetry is pretty remarkable at showing manmade structures despite vegetation. When you see the non-colored points the lines become very apparent. On my ranch I had phone line run and they took a dozer and created a path the trench along. After 10 years of the brush and grass growing up it was pretty much indistinguishable to the naked eye. A drone flight and review of the point cloud made the dozer path stand out like a sore thumb although it was still impossible to see in the pictures.

Anyone remember the Ralph Fiennes version, TV movie I think (90s?). His Lawrence was quite outspoken about it.

I didn't find it tedious at all. Fascinating look at the period, the war, the overlapping of cultures, and Lawrence's own flawed and lacerated self. Just IMO, but wanted to make the point that it's worth reading.

If you read about what happened post war, you will.know that he joined the military again, the RAF as a normal aircraftsman under an assumed name. He missed the order of the military life. He was assisted in this by Churchill who was a personal friend.

Teaching a unit on Maya now, this is a well-timed find!

He suffered from mental health issues. I suspect it’s related to that, but I’m no expert on him or on mental health, so take that with a massive grain of salt.

Its Sunday, its ok to have football on the brain

Correct. Dialectical materialism is a good theory imo

Yeah this has been known a long time, if you read virtually any account of the events Lawrence was involved in, it comes up

Wow! I read he left it in a cab but either way... That is dedication. If I found a huge manuscript like that I would definitely try to find the owner. Someone probably just binned it. It's a huge book, and dry as toast so I'm not surprised it wasn't a best seller but what an adventure. I wonder why he burned his notes? Any ideas?

Why did he hide the chapter. It's not as if he wasn't fairly vocal about the issue after the war.

Seems the guardian could not find any "news" to "bash Britain" so had to go back several decades.

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Can you elaborate?

I’m pretty sure the princely states outside of the nizams had higher GDP per capita than the Raj. Mysore (or maybe it was travancore) for example had electricity while the rest of the Raj was basically in poverty

Not to mention that nearly all industry in india collapsed when the British took over and there was a huge efflux of people from cities into rural areas. So rural poverty became a huge problem