The older Wright brother

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With vivid depictions of battle and intrigue, of love and passion, with fascinating characters both good and evil, Wilbur Smith brings to life in colourful detail the world of ancient Egypt.

She took the persistent one, Wilbur Minafer, no breaker of bass viols or of hearts, no serenader at all.

But I can tell you that when you take hold of these handles you're no longer watching Wilbur Mercer.

While his brother Wilbur (1867-1912) observed, Orville Wright (1871-1948) made history's first piloted, powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air craft on December 17.

There were John Day, Smith, Hoback, Wilbur Price Hunt, Kit Carson and Robert Stuart.

My client is Commander Wilbur Jennings—and a large part of his defense rests on the post mortems of those two crewmen.

It grew fast and big from the same reason that Wilbur grew fast and big - but it beat him because it had a greater share of the outsideness in it.

But then you pose a question like why, when Aunt Betty's boy Wilbur got run over by the paving machine, did she up and stick her head in the microwave, while her sister Gloria who'd suffered a similar loss grieved, mourned, recovered, and went on to lead a long and useful life?

They struck gold when veteran clammer Wilbur Riley offered his services and showed our team the site where, during an effort to retrieve his tongs, which had caught and hung on a submerged object, he had pulled up artifacts from the Civil War era.

The Humphrey/Muskie axis had been desperately trying to put something together with aging diehards like Wilbur Mills, George Meany, and Mayor Daley -- hoping to stop McGovern just short of 1400 -- but on the weekend after the New York sweep George picked up another fifty or so from the last of the non-primary state caucuses and by Sunday, June 25th, he was only a hundred votes away from the 1509 that would zip it all up on the first ballot.