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Jim Wright
Jim Wright (James Claud Wright, Jr.), 1922-, U.S. congressman, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1987-89), b. Fort Worth, Tex. Following service in the U.S. army during World War II, Wright was a Texas state representative (1947-49) and mayor of Weatherford, Tex. (1950-54). He was... Read more |
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Thomas Stephen Foley
Thomas Stephen Foley 1929-, American political leader, b. Spokane, Wash. A lawyer, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1964. Foley became a prominent liberal Democratic member of Congress. He was chairman of the House agriculture committee (1975-81), Democratic whip (1981-87),... Read more |
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Jeffrey Wright
WRIGHT, Jeffrey 1965(?)–PERSONALBorn December 6, 1965 (some sources cite 1966), in Washington, DC; mother, a customs lawyer; married Carmen Ejogo (an actress), August, 2000; children: Elijah. Education: Amherst College, B.A., political science, 1987; attended New York University.Addresses: ... Read more |
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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich (Newton Leroy Gingrich) , 1943-, U.S. congressman, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1995-98), b. Harrisburg, Pa., as Newton Leroy McPherson. A history professor, he was first elected as a Republican from Georgia in 1978 and became the leader of those House conservatives... Read more |
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Henry Wright
Henry Wright 1878-1936, American landscape architect and community planner, b. Lawrence, Kans., studied architecture at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He was widely recognized as a leader in the movement for the building of better communities. He served (1918) as town planner for the Housing Division... Read more |
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
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Elizur Wright
Elizur Wright Elizur Wright (1804-1885) was an American reformer whose interests ranged from abolition to woman's suffrage and to conservation. He was also an intensely practical man as much at home in a government bureau as on the speaker's stump. Elizur Wright, born in Connecticut on... Read more |
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Sewall Wright
WRIGHT, SEWALL(b. Melrose, Massachusetts, 21 December 1889;d. Madison, Wisconsin, 3 March 1988), population genetics, evolutionary theory.Wright, along with John Burdon Sanderson Haldane and Ronald Aylmer Fisher, founded modern evolutionary theory, that is, mathematical population genetics. Wright... Read more |
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Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright 1756-93, American portrait painter, b. Bordentown, N.J., son of Patience Lovell Wright. He studied under Benjamin West in London, where he painted the prince of Wales (later George IV). Wright worked briefly in Paris, where he knew Franklin, whose letters of recommendation enabled him... Read more |
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Carroll Wright
Carroll Davidson Wright The American statistician and social economist Carroll Davidson Wright (1840-1909) organized the Bureau of Labor Statistics and did much to inspire and produce objective research on labor problems. Carroll Wright was born on July 25, 1840, in Dun-barton, N. H. His... Read more |
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HOBBS EXIT FREES WRIGHT SCHOOL TO MOVE ON NEW PRINCIPAL LIKELY BY...
...Hobbs as principal of James C. Wright Middle School leaves the Madison...registration coming next week, Wright Middle School remains more than...Baxter Richardson, a member of Wright's Core Governing Group of...building, which is in the last stages of ... |
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Wright not out of exit yet.(Medical condition overview)
STEPHEN WRIGHT'S departure from Sunderland...ahead with the transfer at this stage. The transfer window closing would not prevent Wright, who had a five-month spell...Wearside. A fortnight ago, Wright was named by boss Roy Keane... |
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WRIGHT WRITES 'EM OFF.(Sport)
...FORMER England striker Ian Wright has slammed Fabio Capello...embarrassed by their World Cup exit. Wright put his neck on the line...into the senior side. Wright said: "When you look...has not produced on that stage and questions have got... |
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Soc: Injury crisis gnaws at Barca as Liverpool face exit
...at Barca as Liverpool face exit By Chris Wright PARIS, Nov 22 AFP - It would...Leagueformat not to survive the group stages. The Catalan club impressively...uncomfortably close to the exit as they look to launch a greatescape...similar crisis in the group ... |
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HEREABOUTS; WRIGHTS PORTRAYED ON STAGE
...to the history of the Wright brothers and their invention...is by attending The Wright Stuff, a Theatre IV stage production at 3 p...portray the lives of the Wright brothers from the bicycle...reached by going west from Exit 51. After the ... |
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EXIT, STAGE RIGHT
00-00-0000 EXIT, STAGE RIGHT -- BIG OKEY, GLEN ROCK'S DRAMA...desk out of the way and created an open stage area in the classroom. That enabled...writing in the 1960s with noted novelist Wright Morris and celebrated playwright Edward... |
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EXIT INSPIRED OUR REVIVAL; CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL FERGUSON'S MEN ON THE BRINK...
...Lampard, Ballack, Kalou, Wright-Phillips, J Cole, Malouda...contemplating a humiliating exit from the group stages of a competition they expected...chance to play on the greatest stage, something he missed out on...ability play on the biggest ... |
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WRIGHT BROTHERS HISTORY TAKES CENTER STAGE AT N.C. TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM JAN. 30
...addition, a full size replica Wright Flyer. Darrell Collins, chief historian and interpreter at Wright Brothers National Memorial...top five authorities on the Wright Brothers and early aviation...just five minutes off I-85 at Exit 79 in Spencer, N.C., and... |
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EXIT STAGE LEFT; 20 years and 2,000 shows later, Star Tribune theater critic...
...seats enclosing the rectangular stage at Shevlin, and they weren...close, the actors left the stage, anticipating the applause...complicity with the characters on stage, or struck by the immense truth...artistic director Garland Wright and now his successor, ... |
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Norton awards honor Martin as he exits Huntington's stage
...theater community, went to SpeakEasy Stage Company. SpeakEasy artistic director...by the Huntington at its second stage. Max Wright took outstanding actor in a large...which collaborated with Zeitgeist Stage Company on "The Kentucky Cycle... |