Letter About Palin Goes Viral Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400 This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook. Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400 Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools. Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400 Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.
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Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama. Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000 Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . . Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley. Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000 The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . . James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility? James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000 American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .
500Lawrence of Arabia, 1918 - His personal reflection of one of the most controversial episodes of his experience in the desert on September 27, 1918.
Meta Description: [ Lawrence of Arabia describes an experience during his war in the desert ]
Looking for Lawrence of Arabia in Japan - Biographical information about T. E. Lawrence.
Meta Description: [ Biographical information about T. E. Lawrence in Japanese ]
Report on Mesopotamia - An article written by Lawrence for the Sunday Times dated August 1920.
T. E. Lawrence - An encyclopedia article with resources and links.
T. E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - Combined contents page for the Lawrence of Arabia Factfile, T.E. Lawrence Studies, and T.E. Lawrence Society websites, with links to other sites.
T. E. Lawrence and his Cameras - Details of the two cameras associated with T. E. Lawrence held at the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University.
T. E. Lawrence Collection - Details of the collection of papers held at the University of Texas . Includes a biographical sketch, folders list and index of correspondents .
T.E. Lawrence and The Book - Seven Pillars of Wisdom - Article about the writing and publication of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom . Includes facsimiles of the illuminated initial letters and portraits of the Arab principles .
The Importance of T. E. Lawrence - Article on who Lawrence was and what made him so important by David Fromkin.
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The T E Lawrence Society - Offers information about the society, its journal, symposiums, membership and contacts. Includes brief biography and timeline .