Interesting - the debt we owe Lawrence of arabia

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Interesting - the debt we owe Lawrence of arabia

#1 Post by Aladinsaneuk » Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:37 pm

was browsing the web and found out that the death of TE Lawrence led to us all having crash helmets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cairns_(surgeon)

funny old world


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#2 Post by Samray » Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:04 pm

An Aussi to blame then.
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#3 Post by D-Rider » Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:21 pm

Took best part of 40 years after he died before we were forced to wear them, though.
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#4 Post by Falcopops » Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:00 am

Another piece of trivia locked away for a rainy day (not that we've had many of those recently :smt016 , had to get another dig in)

Interesting though in an anorak kinda way. :smt117
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