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Wright, Frank Lloyd Lincoln
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Wright, Frank Lloyd Lincoln (1869–...Sullivan until 1893. While revering Sullivan, Wright was also influenced by Owen Jones , the...and terraces, suggested in the schemes Wright published in the Ladies' Home Journal...
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Wright, Willard Huntingdon
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Wright, Willard Huntingdon (1888–...brother of the painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright . He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia...recently founded by his brother. In 1915 Wright returned to New York, via London, and...
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Wright, Wilbur
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
...when their father, Milton Wright, gave them a toy helicopter...proved disappointing, the Wright brothers realized that the...their invention. In 1908, the Wrights secured a U.S. Army contract...position of president of the Wright Company (founded in 1909...
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base located in Dayton...numerous Department of Defense organizations, Wright-Patterson AFB is a major center for aviation...as McCook Field, it was joined by Wilbur Wright Field in 1924, located on land donated...
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Wright, Horatio Gouverneur
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Wright, Horatio Gouverneur (1820–...Clinton, Connecticut, Horatio Gouverneur Wright graduated from West Point in 1841 with a...the battle of Spotsylvania in May 1864, Wright became the corps commander. He led that...
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Wright, Joseph Jefferson Burr
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Wright, Joseph Jefferson Burr (1801–...techiques to use quinine to combat malaria. Wright skillfully administered hospitals for both...During the first year of the Civil War , Wright served as the medical director for the Departments...
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Wright, John Michael
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Wright, John Michael (1617–94...Magdalen Aston , Castle Mus., Nottingham). Wright's most unusual work is an allegorical...greatest master of his time’). Wright was a collector, antiquarian, and scholar...
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Wright, Joseph
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Wright, Joseph ( b Derby, 3 Sept. 1734; d Derby...in his native city and generally known as Wright of Derby. He was one of the most original...lights’. In 1768–71 Wright worked in Liverpool, and in 1773–...
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Wright, John Lloyd
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Wright, John Lloyd (1892–1973). American architect, son of Frank Lloyd Lincoln Wright . He trained in his father's studio at...children's toy, and in 1949 the first of his Wright Blocks, inspired by his father's enthusiasm...
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Macdonald-Wright, Stanton
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Macdonald-Wright, Stanton (1890–1973). American...art. In 1914–16 Macdonald-Wright lived in London, where he helped his brother, the critic Willard Huntington Wright , with his book Modern Painting: Its Tendency...
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