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2 unusual facts about Wilbur


Colville Indian Reservation

Students sometimes encounter discrimination and poor perceptions also in Wilbur, Coulee Dam, and other towns neighboring the reservation.

Sonora Smart Dodd

When Sonora was seven years old, the Smart family moved from Marion, Arkansas to a farm between Creston, Washington and Wilbur, Washington near Spokane in 1889.


A Thousand Clowns

Barry Gordon as Nick Burns / Wilbur Malcome Burns / Theodore Burns / Raphael Sabatini / Dr. Morris Fishbein / Woodrow Burns / Chevrolet Burns / Big Sam Burns / Lefty Burns

Arthur L. Welsh

The funeral was attended by Orville Wright and his sister Katherine, who had traveled from Dayton, Ohio and who were still in mourning for their brother Wilbur, who had died less than two weeks earlier.

Aspley, Queensland

The 1965 Wilbur Smith and Associates Brisbane Transportation Study recommended the additional construction of a Northwest Freeway between the Brisbane CBD and Aspley via the Grange and Everton Park.

Blake Colburn Wilbur

In the 1930s, Wilbur's patients included Stanford's athletes, including runner, Ben Eastman.

Cal Pritner

He is the author and co-author of three instructional television series on Shakespeare and poetry; he co-authored Page to Stage: Julius Caesar, which won the Wilbur Schramm award as best American instructional series of 1991.

Clarence Wilbur Taber

Clarence Wilbur Taber (1870–1967) was an American businessman best known for publishing Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary with the F.A. Davis Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Cofiroute USA

The decision was then made to expand Cofiroute's North American business and, in January 2003, Cofiroute USA was formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Cofiroute, S.A. Later that year, Cofiroute USA joined a consortium consisting of Wilbur Smith Associates, Raytheon, SRF Consulting and Frank Wilson & Associates to bid on the Interstate 394 HOV Lane conversion in Minneapolis.

Cornelia B. Wilbur

Wilbur is best known for her work with Shirley Ardell Mason, who was purported to have been severely abused as a child, and who developed 16 alternate personalities as a result.

Craig Zadan

The film adaptation of Hairspray featured John Waters (writer/director) as "the flasher who lives next door;" Jerry Stiller ("Wilbur Turnblad") as "Mr. Pinky;" and Ricki Lake ("Tracy") as a reporter.

Crane Wilbur

When the company planned to make a serial, The Perils of Pauline, in 1914, Wilbur wanted the lead male role that would pair him with Pearl White.

Dave McKenna

He worked with a variety of top swing and Dixieland musicians including Gene Krupa, Joe Venuti, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Bob Wilbur, Eddie Condon, and Bobby Hackett but became primarily a soloist after 1967, especially in the Northeast United States.

David Otis Fuller

Others include John Burgon, Herman C. Hoskier, Philip Mauro, Joseph Philpot, Samuel Zwemer, and George Sayles Bishop, as well as the works of a number of contemporary writers, including Edward Hills, Terence Brown, and Wilbur Pickering.

Doom WAD

Not everybody in the id Software crew was happy with this development; some, including Jay Wilbur and Kevin Cloud, objected due to legal concerns and in the belief that it would not be of any benefit to the company's business.

Earl Morse Wilbur

Wilbur was the first dean 1904-1910; then president 1911-1931; and until 1934, professor of homiletics and practical theology at the Pacific Unitarian School for Ministry, Berkeley, California of the American Unitarian Association (AUA).

Effective schools

Larry Lezotte and Wilbur B. Brookover conducted studies at eight Michigan elementary schools in the mid-1970s, identifying characteristics of schools that were improving or declining.

Flyer II

Wright Flyer II, the second powered aircraft built by Wilbur and Orville Wright in 1904

Harris Coggeshall

According to Coggeshall, during his career he had wins over future International Tennis Hall of Fame enshrinees Ellsworth Vines, Bryan "Bitsy" Grant, Frank Parker and John Doeg, and well as such U.S. top-tenners as Berkeley Bell, Bruce Barnes and Wilbur "Junior" Coen.

Harvey Edward Fisk

In addition to his brother Pliny, Harvey E. Fisk's other brothers were Charles J. Fisk, banker and former Mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey; Wilbur C. Fisk, former president of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company; and Alexander G. Fisk, also a banker.

Indiana State Road 103

It runs through downtown New Castle and past the Wilbur Wright Fish and Wildlife Area.

It Ain't Hay

Wilbur Hoolihan (Lou Costello) accidentally kills a hack horse owned by King O'Hara (Cecil Kellaway) and his daughter, Princess (Patsy O'Connor) by feeding it candy.

Ivan Combe

He became a salesman for Hydrox Ice Cream and the Wilbur Shoe Polish company before moving to New York City to work for the Young & Rubicam advertising agency.

Kinnara Taiko

The original members of Kinnara were: Rev. Masao Kodani, George Abe, Johnny Mori, Clark Nakashita, Wilbur Takashima, George Yamashita, and May Sugano.

Kirby Wilbur

In 1999 Wilbur co-authored, with Floyd Brown, Say the Right Thing: Talk Radio's Favorite Conservative Quotes, Notes and Gloats, which was published by Merrill Press.

Lori S. Wilbur

Lori S. Wilbur is a justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court.

Mount Greylock

Timothy Dwight IV, President of Yale University, along with Williams College President Ebenezer Fitch, climbed Greylock in 1799, probably over a rough route cut by a local pioneer farmer Jeremiah Wilbur (in that time more land had been cleared on the slopes for farming than today).

Richard Wilbur

Wilbur is also a translator, specializing in the 17th century French comedies of Molière and the dramas of Jean Racine.

In 2012, Yale conferred an honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, on Wilbur.

Righteous Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Righteous Branch was organized on April 6, 1978, by Gerald Wilbur Peterson, Sr. (born October 8, 1917 in Lusk, Wyoming, died January 1981).

Rose Is Rose

The strip has also won the Religious Public Relations Council's Wilbur Award for Editorial Cartoon/Comic Strips.

Sam Costa

Sam Costa began as a pianist with Bert Firman's band and later became a popular British dance band singer in the 1930s making many records with bands such as Lew Stone, Harry Leader, Maurice Winnick and Jay Wilbur.

Shadowmation

Shadowmation is a relatively new technique, but has so far been used in several prominent kids TV shows, including Disney's The Book of Pooh, PBS' It's a Big, Big World, Bear in the Big Blue House and CBC Television and Discovery Kids' Wilbur.

Solomon Wilbur Denton

Solomon Wilbur Denton (1816-1864) was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Upolu Airport

In 1933 the airfield was named "Suiter Field" by the U.S. Army in honor of 1st Lieutenant Wilbur C. Suiter of the 135th Aero Squadron.

VFA-2

There are pictures of 27 of the unit's Aces including Roy "Butch" Voris, later to become Blue Angel 1 in the original Blue Angels flight demonstration team, Connie Hargreaves, who became an Ace in a Day, and Wilbur "Spider" Webb, another Ace in a Day.

W. W. Greener

Wilbur Jonas, the general store owner, offers to sell Matt Dillon four Greener shotguns at an attractive price, in "Renegade White", episode 4.30 of Gunsmoke.

Wib Gulley

Wilbur P. "Wib" Gulley is an attorney and former state and local elected official from Durham, North Carolina.

Wilber F. Breslin Center for Real Estate Studies

Mr. Wilbur F. Breslin (The founder of Breslin Realty and former Hofstra Board member), the man responsible for some of Long Island's big commercial projects helped launch Hofstra University's Wilbur F. Breslin Center for Real Estate Studies, where industry professionals, government officials, the public and students can convene to tackle some of Long Island's biggest problems; Like sprawl, the subprime collapse, more respect for real estate professionals, etc.

Wilbur Huckle

Wilbur's reputation — presumably developed from spring training dispatches and broadcasts, and augmented by the assonance of his name — was such that fans began appearing at Shea Stadium, during the building's inaugural season of 1964, wearing "Wilbur Huckle for President" pins.

By 1967, Wilbur was still in the team's system, becoming the first professional roommate of Tom Seaver, generally thought of as the greatest player in Mets history, during Seaver's first pro season in Jacksonville, Florida.

Wilbur P. Thirkield

James E. Thirkield, Wilbur's grandfather, had moved from Pennsylvania into the Miami River Valley in 1817.

Wilbur Schwandt

Wilbur Schwandt (June 28, 1904, Manitowoc, Wisconsin – July 23, 1998, Miami, Florida) is credited for the music to the song "Dream a Little Dream of Me" with Fabian Andre.

Wilbur Sweatman

Wilbur Coleman Sweatman was born February 7, 1882 in Brunswick, Missouri to parents Matilda and Coleman Sweatman.

Wilbur Ware

In 2012, Ware's widow produced and released a collection of previously unreleased studio tracks made with trumpeter Don Cherry, under the title Wilbur Ware: Super Bass.


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