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Lawrence

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1. Lawrence - Noun

2. Lawrence - Proper noun

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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)

a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856

English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)

United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)

English actress (1898-1952)

English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)

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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A 2-1 win over second-placed Inverness, thanks to Louis Appere and Lawrence Shankland strikes either side of a Jordan White equaliser, took the Terrors a huge 21 points clear at the top of the second tier (see video below). Source: Internet

About 7:30 p.m., the 63-year-old and another man, 45, were in the 3700 block of West Lawrence Avenue when someone opened fire, police said. Source: Internet

A bit of additional intrigue was added on Thursday evening, when star signal caller Trevor Lawrence was ruled out due to a positive COVID test result. Source: Internet

A board meeting of the Lawrence Partnership, in a conference room at Lawrence General Hospital, offered a taste of this collaboration. Source: Internet

According to a press release from the Charlotte Film Society, retired Charlotte Observer movie critic Lawrence Toppman stated that is the largest U.S. city without a theater devoted to non-mainstream movies. Source: Internet

A 1970 report from the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory detailing the growth of their "Octopus" network gave a good indication of the situation. citation citation A number of experimental and early commercial LAN technologies were developed in the 1970s. Source: Internet

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