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Wilbur Wright was an RAF pilot in World War II. He served with the RAF as a fighter pilot during World War 2, and subsequently as a flying instructor. He later worked as a technical author for a hovercraft company. He claimed to have encountered the ghost of a downed gunner in 1941. He self-published an account of this in 1993. [2]
Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets, along with his friend Anthony Hecht , of the World War II generation , Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance.
The Wright Brothers is a 2015 non-fiction book written by the popular historian David McCullough and published by Simon & Schuster. It is a history of the American inventors and aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright. [1] The book was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list for seven weeks in 2015. [2]
"South of My Days" (1945) is a poem by Australian poet Judith Wright. [1] It was originally published in The Bulletin on 8 August 1945, [2] and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. [1] The poem depicts a landscape of desolation and isolation, both physical and emotional.
Those in Peril is a book by the author Wilbur Smith.The book focuses on the lives of billionaire Hazel Bannock, who is the owner of the Bannock Oil Corp, and Major Hector Cross, an ex-SAS operative and the owner of a security company, Cross Bow Security.
River God is a novel by author Wilbur Smith.It tells the story of the talented eunuch slave named Taita, his life in Egypt, the flight of Taita along with the Egyptian populace from the Hyksos invasion, and their eventual return.
Berg was born in Franklin Street above Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, on 23 March 1865 to Joseph and Louisa Berg, native-born Pennsylvanians of German Jewish descent. [1] His father was a garment manufacturer and his mother was a sister of Alfred, William and George Ostheimer, principals of an extensive import-export business with offices in Paris, Vienna, Berlin and London.
The line is one of the most highly regarded and widely debated lines in contemporary poetry, [2] [1] and has often been seen as having had cemented Wright's poetic legacy. [3] The line has been widely interpreted. In 2010, Dan Piepenbring , writer for The Paris Review, summarized a large amount of the attention directed towards the poem: