Carnegie's empire grew to include the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works, ( named for John Edgar Thomson, Carnegie's former boss and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad ), Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works, the Lucy Furnaces, the Union Iron Mills, the Union Mill ( Wilson, Walker & County ), the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company, and the Scotia ore mines.

The Capital Beltway ( I-95 / 495 ), which was opened in the early 1960s and which includes the Woodrow Wilson Bridge that connects Oxon Hill to Alexandria, Virginia, is directly south of the town.

The community is bisected by the Capital Beltway ( I-95 / 495 ) and is near the interstate Woodrow Wilson Bridge, whose gridlocked traffic ( 300, 000 vehicles daily ) backs-up daily into Oxon Hill until the wider replacement bridge is fully completed in 2008, bringing relief.

Since the clogged interstate Woodrow Wilson Bridge was widened in 2008, commuter access to Northern Virginia's booming job market has improved.

Until it was completed the bridge was known as the Jubilee Bridge in honour of King George V. It was opened on 6 July 1940 by Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, Governor of Queensland and named for John Douglas Story, a senior and influential public servant who had advocated strongly for the bridge's construction.

* Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson for Bridge on the River Kwai ( credited to Pierre Boulle who wrote the novel.

Performers who use acoustic 12-string guitars span a range of genres, from folk ( Arlo Guthrie, Keith Potger, John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, Ben Woodward, Pete Seeger and Noel Paul Stookey ), through reggae ( Bob Marley ), traditional blues ( Lead Belly, Blind Willie McTell, and Guy Davis ), folk rock ( Paul Simon, Neil Young, Tim Buckley, Gerry Beckley, John Allan Cameron ) and country ( Pinmonkey's Michael Reynolds, Taylor Swift and Mike Nesmith ), to rock bands ( Mark Tremonti of Creed and Alter Bridge, Jimi Hendrix on " Hear My Train A-Comin ", Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi, Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys, George Harrison, John Lennon of The Beatles, Robert Smith of The Cure, David Bowie for his " Space Oddity " live performances, Pete Townshend of The Who, Roger Hodgson ( ex-Supertramp ), who used acoustic 12-string on " Give a Little Bit ", " Even in the Quietest Moments ", " C ' est le Bon " and " Know Who You Are "; Melissa Etheridge, Tom Petty and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Greg Lake on " Lucky Man " and " Still ... You Turn Me On ", Brian May of Queen, Andy Partridge and Dave Gregory of XTC, and Nick Valensi of The Strokes ).

In 1995, Wilson released the song " U " by the Contract Recording Company which became a chart hit in the UK and in 1996, Wilson's song, " Turn Around ", was released on Da Bridge Records, although Wilson never had a full recording contract with either of the labels.

The CDP lies directly south of the Capital Beltway ( I-495 / I-95 ) just east of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River.

Today the community is bisected by the busy Capital Beltway ( I-95 / 495 ), and is near the interstate Woodrow Wilson Bridge.

Prior to that date, traffic backed up into Oxon Hill daily for decades as 250, 000-300, 000 vehicles crossed the Wilson Bridge.

Wilson is probably best known as the author with Mick Dodson of the Bringing Them Home report into the Stolen Generation published in 1997 which led to the creation of a " National Sorry Day " and a walk for Reconciliation across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 2000 with 400, 000 people participating

* April 5 – To protest the lack of an aerial display to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force four days earlier and to demonstrate against the government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock of the RAFs No. 1 ( F ) Squadron makes an unauthorised display flight in a Hawker Hunter during which he " beats up " ( i. e., buzzes ) several RAF airfields and flies low over London, where circles the Houses of Parliament, dips his wings to the Royal Air Force Memorial, and flies under the top span of Tower Bridge, becoming the first person to fly under the bridges upper span in a jet aircraft.

* Malcolm Wilson Bridge, a bridge in New York City, also known as the Tappan Zee Bridge

The Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge, usually referred to as Tappan Zee Bridge, is a cantilever bridge in New York State over the Hudson River at one of its widest points ; the Tappan Zee is named for an American Indian tribe from the area called " Tappan "; and zee being the Dutch word for " sea ".

Woodrow Wilson Bridge aerial, 2012.

The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge ( also known as the Wilson Bridge ) is a bascule bridge that spans the Potomac River between the independent city of Alexandria, Virginia and Oxon Hill in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.

The Wilson Bridge carries Interstate 95 and Interstate 495 ( the Capital Beltway ).

By 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.

The only notable person known to have both been born and died on February 29 was Sir James Wilson ( 1812 – 1880 ), Premier of Tasmania.

In early 1913 Victoriano Huerta, the commander of the armed forces conspired with Félix Díaz ( Porfirio Díaz's nephew ), Bernardo Reyes, and US Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson against Madero, which culminated in a ten-day siege of La Ciudadela known as La decena tragica ( the Tragic Ten Days ).

* Walter Richard Sickert and Philip Wilson Steer were well known Impressionist painters from the United Kingdom.

In 1963 he married Grace Wilson, whom he had known for more than 20 years ; the couple remained married until he died.

It is most common in the tropics, and it is known throughout the fossil record ( see Taylor and Wilson, 2003 ).

Passcard has been claimed to be the first reward scheme or discount card, created around by Gary Wilson in 1981 and later known as Passkey.

The Agar Gun, otherwise known as a " coffee-mill gun " because of its resemblance to a coffee mill, was invented by Wilson Agar at the beginning of the US Civil War.

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

A cockfight is a contest held in a ring called a cockpit between two gamecocks or cocks, with the first use of the word gamecock ( denoting use of the cock in game, sport, pastime or entertainment ) appearing in 1646. after the term “ cock of the game ” used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the secular sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting in 1607.

Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ), the first twelve-step fellowship, was founded on August 11, 1938 ( although some speculate the date as being June 10, 1935 which is the date that Dr. Bob had his last drink ) by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, known to AA members as " Bill W ." and " Dr. Bob ", in Akron, Ohio.

It is also a Fibonacci number, a happy number, and one of only 3 known Wilson primes.

Benjamin Wilson was also a well known Indian fighter who served as justice of the peace for the Mexican authorities and it was while hunting down renegade Indians that he discovered what is present day Big Bear, California which received that name because Wilson and his posse lassoed and killed over thirty grizzly bears while passing through.

The King was intimately involved in the appointment of Fisher's successor as the Fisher-Beresford feud had split the service, and the only truly qualified figure known to be outside of both camps was Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, who had retired in 1907.

of the American Fur Company, outfitted an expedition ( known as the Astor Expedition or Astorians ) under Wilson Price Hunt to find a possible overland supply route and trapping territory for fur trading posts.

In Clyde Wilson's collection of Calhoun's papers, Wilson believes his religion is only known to himself, although he loved to discuss religion.

Wilson was becoming known as a left-winger and joined Aneurin Bevan and John Freeman in resigning from the government in April 1951 in protest at the introduction of National Health Service ( NHS ) medical charges to meet the financial demands imposed by the Korean War.

Though now out of fashion, the faith in indicative planning as a pathway to growth, embodied in the DEA and Mintech, was at the time by no means confined to the Labour Party – Wilson built on foundations that had been laid by his Conservative predecessors, in the shape, for example, of the National Economic Development Council ( known as " Neddy ") and its regional counterparts ( the " little Neddies ").

Wilson made periodic attempts to mitigate inflation through wage-price controls, better known in the UK as " prices and incomes policy " ( as with indicative planning, such controls — though now generally out of favour – were widely adopted at that time by governments of different ideological complexions, including the Nixon administration in the United States ).

Wilson was known for his strong pro-Israel views.

The first use of the word gamecock, denoting use of the cock as to a “ game ”, a sport, pastime or entertainment, being in 1646. after the term “ cock of the game ” used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting in 1607.

The first documented use of the word gamecock, denoting use of the cock as to a “ game ”, a sport, pastime or entertainment, was recorded in 1646. after the term “ cock of the game ” used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting in 1607.

He performed locally for several years, most notably as a member of bebop big bands led by Gerald Wilson and Roy Porter.

Through his godmother, Matonica Wilson, a Santería priestess locally celebrated as a healer and sorceress, he was exposed to rites of the African orishas.

The couple learns of the " Arizona Quints ," sons of locally famous furniture magnate Nathan Arizona ( Trey Wilson ); Hi and Ed kidnap one of the five babies, whom they believe to be Nathan Junior.

Turning 15 as the group's first hit, " Surfin '", broke locally in Los Angeles, his father and manager, Murry Wilson ( who had sold his business to support his sons ' band ), bought him a Fender Jaguar guitar.

While the field redefinition above is faithful locally on the configuration space of the three-dimensional metric tensor, it introduces new periodicities ( the Wilson loops of all gauge fields take values in the space of complex units ) and quantization laws that cannot be derived from the metric itself.