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Frank Lloyd Wright – 1867-1959
Wright served an apprenticeship with the great architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler and in 1892 designed his first building, the Charnley House, in Chicago. This structure contained elements...
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Orville and Wilbur Wright – 1871–1948 and 1867–1912
On December 17, 1903, at Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright flew a 750-pound aircraft he and his brother, Wilbur— partners in a Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop—designed and built....
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Richard Wright – 1980-1960
Born and raised in Mississippi poverty, the grandson of slaves, Wright moved north during the Depression and began writing under the auspices of the Federal Writers’ Project. His two most famous books,...
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George Wythe – 1726-1806
Wythe was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1746 and became active in the independence movement. A delegate to the Continental Congress, he participated in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. As a...
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Brigham Young – 1801-1877
Young was a carpenter in Mendon, New York, near the church Joseph Smith had established. Young read the newly published Book of Mormon and, on April 14, 1832, was baptized into the Church of Jesus...
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Younger Brothers
With Frank and Jesse James, the Younger Brothers (Cole, Jim, John, and Bob) were the most celebrated and notorious bandits of the American West. The Younger-James gang was responsible for a decade of...
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Frank Zappa – 1940-1993
Zappa was a prolific contemporary composer-performer more or less in the rock idiom, creating some 60 albums in his 30- year career. His original group, the Mothers of Invention, was founded in the...
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John Peter Zenger – 1697-1746
Zenger, publisher of a colonial newspaper called the New York Weekly Journal, was arrested in October 1734 on charge of “seditious libel” for printing criticism of the colony’s royal governor, William...
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Florenz Ziegfeld – 1869-1932
Ziegfeld started in show business in 1893 as the manager of Sandow, a strong man, and went on to produce extravagant Broadway revues that became known as the Ziegfeld Follies. Sanitized versions of the...
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Vladimir Zworykin – 1889-1982
Born and educated in Russia, Zworykin immigrated to the United States in 1919 and became a citizen in 1924. While working for Westinghouse, he patented in 1923 the iconoscope—the television...
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