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Wilber was born in 1949 in Oklahoma City. In 1967 he enrolled as a pre-med student at Duke University. [3] He became interested in psychology and Eastern spirituality. He left Duke and enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln studying biochemistry, but after a few years dropped out of university and began studying his own curriculum and writing.
Wilbur Fisk Storey (December 19, 1819 – October 27, 1884) was an American journalist and newspaper publisher who was instrumental in the growth of the Detroit Free Press and the Chicago Times. During the American Civil War, Storey pursued a "Copperhead" political line of vehement opposition to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort.
Cross died on October 5, 1948, in New Haven at the age of 86. He is interred at Evergreen Cemetery. [8]Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Wilbur Cross School in Bridgeport, and Connecticut's Wilbur Cross Parkway and Wilbur Cross Highway were named in his honor, as was Yale's Wilbur L. Cross Medal, awarded for outstanding achievement in professional life.
Ray Lyman Wilbur (April 13, 1875 – June 26, 1949) was an American politician, physician, and eugenicist. [1] He was a medical doctor who served as the third president of Stanford University and as the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior under President Herbert Hoover, also a Stanford alum.
Donald Newton Wilber (November 14, 1907, Wisconsin [1] – February 2, 1997, Princeton, New Jersey [2]), American writer and spy.. Wilber, along with MI6 agent Norman Darbyshire was one of the two principal architects of the MI6-CIA project "Operation Ajax" (or "Operation Boot" as it was called by the British), a successful plot to overthrow the government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad ...
The Cheney Free Press has been the dominant newspaper of Cheney in the U.S. state of Washington since its inception in 1896. [2] [3] It was not the first newspapers there; the North-West Tribune was published in Cheney from June 1880 to about 1886, and was the second in Spokane County.
Wilbur Eugene Young, Jr. (April 20, 1949 – July 5, 2014) was an American professional football player who was a defensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Kansas City Chiefs, San Diego Chargers, and Washington Redskins.
Wilber is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,855 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Saline County. [3] Wilber is the official "Czech Capital of the USA" and hosts an annual Czech festival in August. Wilber's school is the Wilber-Clatonia High School.