The famous Encyclopædia Britannica
11th Edition (1910) is a 29-volume reference work that
marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica's
transition from a British to an American publication
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1910 Fist Photos of Halley's Comet,
The most
famous of all the comets.
It appears in the sky every 75 years
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Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888
-1935) known as T. E. Lawrence, was a British military
officer renowned especially for his liaison during the
Arab Revolt of 1916–18
His vivid writings, along with the extraordinary
breadth and variety of his activities, have made him
the object of fascination throughout the world as
Lawrence of Arabia, a title popularised by the 1962
film Lawrence of Arabia based on his life.
Lawrence's public image was due in part to American
journalist Lowell Thomas' sensationalised reports of
the Revolt, as well as to Lawrence's autobiographical
account, Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Lowell
Jackson Thomas (1892 - 1981) was an American writer,
broadcaster and traveller best known as the man who
shot dramatic footage of Lawrence and, after the war,
toured the world, narrating his film, With Allenby in
Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia, making Lawrence and
himself household names
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Thomas never lost his fascination with the movies. He
narrated Twentieth Century Fox's Movietone newsreels
1952
That
year he went into business with Mike Todd & Louis B.
Mayer to exploit Cinerama, a movie format that used
three projectors and an enormous curved screen.
Because of the cost & technical issues in
synchronizing the projectors,
Cinerama never caught on, but a
quarter-century later, Thomas was still raving about
it in his memoirs and wondering why nobody would
revive it.
Thomas is also known for his 1950s TV series High
Adventure
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