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unusual facts about Wright-Patterson Field



Albert Wright

Chalky Wright (1912-1957), born Albert Wright, Mexican-American featherweight boxer and world champion

Arizona Thunder

Many of the players grew up and played youth soccer in AZ including Randy Soderman, Rick Soderman, Jason Vanacour, Milo Iniguez, Mark Kerlin, Derick Brownell, Kenneth Wright (Thea), Sasha Hunter, Dave Cameron, along with many implants like Milos Tomic, Chris Scotti, and the Dunn Brothers.

Bach Air Yacht

Different models were powered by varying combinations of Wright, Ryan-Siemens, Kinner, Comet, and Pratt & Whitney engines, a large engine in the nose of the aircraft and two smaller "helpers" under the wings in nacelles supported by struts.

Baird House

Theodore Baird Residence, Amherst, Massachusetts, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and also known as Baird House (and listed as Baird House on National Register of Historic Places)

Bessica Medlar Raiche

She and her husband built a Wright type biplane in their living room and then assembled it in their yard.

Beswick Pottery

James Wright Beswick died in 1921, but the company continued to expand under his grandson, John Ewart Beswick.

Beverley Sisters

Joy married Billy Wright on 28 July 1958 at Poole Register Office; Wright was the first footballer to play for England 100 times.

Canary rockfish

On October 29, 2007, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) received a petition from Sam Wright of Olympia, Washington to list a distinct population segment (DPS) of canary rockfish, and four other rockfishes, in Puget Sound, as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act).

Cassandra's Ears

The core members of the band were Jan Hellriegel (ex-Working With Walt; lyrics, vocals, guitar and keyboards), Flick Rhind (bass), Zan Wright (backing vocals), Venessa Anich (drums) and Leanne Ibell (guitar).

Cesare Wright

In 2007, Wright directed "Goals", a film exploring issues of immigration and assimilation vicariously through sports, which premiered on The Documentary Channel and NYC TV.

Charles E. Roberts Stable

Charles E. Roberts was an engineer, inventor and an important early client of Frank Lloyd Wright.

The building was eventually converted into a residence by architect Charles E. White, Jr., Roberts' son-in-law and an employee in Wright's studio in the years 1903-1905.

Charles Roy Henderson

He invented three methods for the estimation of variance components in unbalanced settings of mixed models, and invented a method for constructing the inverse of Wright's numerator relationship matrix based on a simple list of pedigree information.

Deborah Wright

Previously, Wright was a member of the New York City Housing Authority Board, appointed by mayor David Dinkins, who also named her to the City Planning Commission.

Deeping Rangers F.C.

Their most notable alumni include Malcolm Christie (who moved to Derby County and then Middlesbrough) and Ben Wright (who later played for Viking Stavanger in the UEFA Cup and was also on the books of football league clubs Lincoln City).

Discography of the Ace Attorney series

Gyakuten Saiban 3 Original Soundtrack is a soundtrack album featuring music from the Game Boy Advance version of the video game Gyakuten Saiban 3 (known internationally as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations), composed and arranged by Noriyuki Iwadare.

Erryn Arkin

He made a guest appearance as the character of 'Ledo Wright' in Season 13 of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Franz Metzner

In 1910 Metzner met the vacationing Frank Lloyd Wright and, according to the scholarship of Anthony Alofsin, Metzer had an impact on Wright's "conventionalization" of the human figure and its incorporation into buildings like the Larkin Building and Midway Gardens.

Garrya

Garrya wrightii – Wright's Silktassel; Arizona, New Mexico, Texas.

Golf Punk

Golf Punk magazine was launched by Tim Southwell and John Dean through their Keep Yourself Nice Ltd company in 2004, after securing investment from initially Premier League footballers Michael Gray, Thomas Sørensen, Phil Babb, Jason McAteer and Steven Wright, and then Genesis Investments (part of Chris Ingram's investment portfolio).

Harry Toulmin

Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr. (1858–1942), Ohio lawyer who drafted the Wright Brothers' patent application for their "flying machine"

Hollyhock House

An interesting feature is the glass corners, an early Wright idea later used at Fallingwater.

Joseph Robert Wright, Jr.

Wright held various positions with W. R. Grace and Company, Grace Energy Company, and Grace Environmental Company from 1989 to 1994 (Director, EVP, President, Vice Chairman, Chairman).

King Kamehameha Golf Course Clubhouse

Wright designed the house for Arthur Miller's wife, Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), but Miller and Monroe divorced soon after and the project was abandoned.

Kirby Wright

Kirby Wright won first place in a recital competition for his reading of "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer and also won awards for his original poems.

Larry Bud Wright

The Sheridan Blackhawks last played for the 2008 IHSAA Class A championship on Friday, November 28 in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana losing to Cardinal Ritter High School denying Wright from a 4th consecutive championship

LeRoy Homer, Jr.

Homer continued his military career as a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve, initially as a C-141 instructor pilot with the 356th Airlift Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, then subsequently as an Academy Liaison Officer, recruiting potential candidates for both the Air Force Academy and the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps.

Loving Frank

Taylor Woolley: architect who worked with Wright in Europe.

Margie Wright

Wright has become a popular figure in the Fresno community and was inducted into the Fresno Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.

Marshall Strong

His father was Hezekiah Wright Strong, a lawyer and the son of Simeon Strong (a Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts).

Mary Ann Wright

Ann Bilansky, born Mary Ann Wright, American housewife convicted of poisoning

Missouri Route 5

Shortly after entering Wright County, Route 5 forms a one-mile east-west concurrency with U.S. 60 (as a limited-access highway) in Mansfield.

Point State Park

He brought in Wright, by that time a preeminent architect, who had done numerous other projects for Kaufmann in the past, including Kaufmann's landmark home at Fallingwater and an unbuilt design for a parking garage.

Potting and stamping

The process was improved by John Wright and Joseph Jesson of West Bromwich, who also obtained a patent.

Rob Wright

In addition to Nomeansno and The Hanson Brothers, both of which feature his brother John and guitarist Tom Holliston, Wright has composed and recorded an occasional solo act called Mr. Wrong where he sings and plays bass while performing in an authoritarian priest outfit.

Ruby Wright

A CD of Wright's recordings, which contained a total of 27 songs, is entitled Ruby Wright Regular Girl (The King Recordings 1949-1959).

Rufus Wright

He is the younger brother of Lance Gerrard-Wright, second husband of the television presenter, Ulrika Jonsson, whom he met on the reality television show, Mr.

St. Michael, Minnesota

It also borders Monticello Township, Buffalo Township, Rockford Township, and the cities of Otsego and Albertville, all in Wright County, as well as the city of Hanover, which is located within both Wright and Hennepin counties.

Stuart Wright

Along with James "Jim" Leytham, Stanley "Stan" Moorhouse, Peter Norburn, Keith Fielding, Martin Offiah, and Sam Tomkins, having scored four tries, Stuart Wright jointly holds the record for the most tries scored in an England match, scoring four tries against Wales at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on 28 May 1978.

The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus

It is Burdett who says where to place the figure in the painting and Burdett had already referred Wright to Matthew Turner so that Wright might fully understand the underlying science in the painting.

The Female Marine

A unidentified newspaper reference (found in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society) at the time suggests that Coverly “kept a poet, or ready writer, who manufactured for him all prose and verse articles which were called for by the occasions of the time.” This author, Mr. Nathaniel Hill Wright, was described as “a comical genius, who could do the grave or the gay, as necessity demanded, and with equal facility.”

The Metropolitan

The Metropolitan Hotel, an album released by American country music artist Chely Wright

Travel Air

Additional types that had been close to production number from 8 to 16 were built while under Curtiss-Wright management such as the Curtiss-Wright CW-12.

Uncle Tom's Children

The Harper Perennial edition of Wright's novel Black Boy, under the heading 'Books by Richard Wright', misprints "Uncle Tom's Children" as "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

Vienna State Ballet

There were also revivals of The Sleeping Beauty in the version by Peter Wright; Anna Karenina by Boris Eifman; Don Quixote by Rudolf Nureyev; choreography by Balanchine, Robbins, Neumeier, Tharp, and Forsythe; a Nureyev Gala; and the repertoire pieces Le Concours by Maurice Béjart and Marie Antoinette by Patrick de Bana.

Wallace E. Cunningham

He commenced his formal architectural instruction at Hutchinson Central Technical High School in Buffalo, New York, and then the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where he was influenced by Marya Lilien, one of the first female apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Wilhelmina Wright

Wright was appointed to the court in August 2012 by Governor Mark Dayton.

William Upcott

While at Wright's shop he attracted the attention of John Ireland, William Gifford, and the writers of the Anti-Jacobin who met there, and he witnessed the scuffle there between Gifford and John Wolcot, helping to eject Wolcot.

Wright v. Warner Books

Wright v. Warner Books (1991) was a case in which the widow of the author Richard Wright (1908-1960) claimed that his biographer, the poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915-1998), had infringed copyright by using content from some of Wright's unpublished letters and journals.

Xtra AM

During Xtra AM's nine years on air, these included Les Ross (as mentioned above), Annie Othen, Ted Elliott, Tony Butler, Adrian Stewart, Dave Hickman, Mick Wright, Guy Jogoo and Noddy Holder (who hosted a popular Sunday afternoon show playing music from the 1970s).


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