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"Hooked on history as a boy, 'Ned' [T.E. Lawrence] roamed the fields and riverbanks behind his home in Oxford, England, on the lookout for artifacts from Britain's age of chivalry. At about age ten, he learned the unhappy truth about his own family: He and his four brothers were illegitimate, his parents unmarried, and the family name, Lawrence, fictitious."

—From "Lawrence of Arabia," January 1999, National Geographic magazine