The "Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Khaki," tartan was designed for the man known as "Lawrence of Arabia." His extraordinary life and skill as a superb tactician and a highly influential theoretician of guerrilla warfare served to create the mythos of "Lawrence of Arabia" and has been much chronicled.□ 7️⃣□ However, that original work was abandoned, and although there are no direct references to the metaphorical pillars in this work, it is believed that the decision to repurpose the title may have been influenced by John Ruskin’s treatise Seven Lamps of Architecture, a biblical allusion from Proverbs, and a reference from the book's dedication poem, possibly co-edited in literary collaboration with author and war poet Robert Graves. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is his autobiographical account of his experiences and takes its title from a manuscript that Lawrence had intended to publish before the war - a scholarly work about the seven greatest cities of the Middle East: Cairo, Smyrna, Constantinople, Beirut, Aleppo, Damascus, and Medina. He died May 19, 1935, as a retired Royal Air Force mechanic living under an assumed name following a motorcycle accident six days prior. Lawrence, a British/Welsh archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer, became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
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