The captain of the Quedagh Merchant was an Englishman named Wright, who had purchased passes from the French East India Company promising him the protection of the French Crown.

On 1 July 1832, Jardine, Matheson and Company, a partnership, between William Jardine, James Matheson as senior partners, and Hollingworth Magniac, Alexander Matheson, Jardine's nephew Andrew Johnstone, Matheson's nephew Hugh Matheson, John Abel Smith, and Henry Wright, as the first partners, was formed in China, taking the Chinese name ' Ewo ' ( 怡和 ) pronounced " Yee-Wo " and meaning ' Happy Harmony '.

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After Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, the designer and builder of Italy's first aircraft, came to the United States in 1911, he began to design aircraft for a number of firms including Maryland Pressed Steel Company, Wright Aeronautical Corporation and Columbia Aircraft Company.

Wright continued to farm the land with Colonel Henry Hubbard from 1887 until 1910, when it was sold for subdivision to the Valley Farms Company.

After consulting with Superintendent Hanson and superiors Colonel Richard Cloyd Drum and General George Wright, Captain Starr was ordered by General Wright in Post Order No. 6 to lead 23 soldiers of Company F 2nd Regiment California Volunteer Cavalry and move the now imprisoned people the 110 miles from Camp Bidwell back to Round Valley on what became a 20-day death march now remembered as the KonKow Trail of Tears.

Perhaps first known for the Alma Springs Sanitarium, built and promoted in the 1880s by millionaire lumberman and capitalist Ammi Willard Wright, it achieved its greatest prominence nationally in the 1910s and 1920s as home of the Republic Motor Truck Company, briefly the largest exclusive truck manufacturer in the world. In 1953 Alma became the first place that high-octane gas, 96 octane, was produced.

Vern Wright would also be one of the two people who established the Otter Tail Power Company in 1907.

In 1969 the Weyerhaeuser Company of Tacoma, Washington, purchased the Dierks's holdings, including the Wright City production complex and continued the operations, which remained the primary economic base of the community until March 2009 when all operations of the mill ceased due to low demand for lumber and the worsening economy.

They returned to the Huffman Prairie Flying Field in 1910 to operate a pilot training school-The Wright Company School of Aviation-and a flight exhibition company.

Martin started out building military trainers in Santa Ana, California, and then in 1916, Martin accepted a merger offer from the Wright Company, creating the Wright-Martin Aircraft Company in September.

Major Wright, commanding officer of the 1st Rifle Brigade, called a conference to be held on Point 213 and attended by all officers and senior NCOs of A Company.

Curtiss-Wright came into existence on July 5, 1929, the result of a merger of 12 companies associated with Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company of Buffalo, New York, and Wright Aeronautical of Dayton, Ohio, and was headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

The designer ( Vernon Wright who was also the president of the dam's owner-the Otter Tail Power Company ) based the design of the powerhouse on this mausoleum.

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The Great International Aviation Carnival was held the same year and brought aviation pioneers representing Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company and a team representing the Wright Brothers to Salt Lake City.

The bicycle business of the Wright brothers, the Wright Cycle Company ( originally the Wright Cycle Exchange ) occupied five different locations in Dayton, Ohio.

The Wrights used the profits from the Wright Cycle Company to finance their aviation experiments.

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Gurdjieff concentrated on his still unstaged ballet, The Struggle of the Magicians ; Thomas de Hartmann ( who had made his debut years ago before as the Czar of All Russia ) worked on the music for the ballet ; and Olga Iovonovna Lazovich Milanoff Hinzenberg ( who years later wed the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright ) practiced the ballet dances.

The ship was a Waco biplane, one of the first two of its type to be fitted with the air cooled, 225/hp Wright radial engine known as the Whirlwind.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

In an 1842 English case, Winterbottom v. Wright, the postal service had contracted with Wright to maintain its coaches.

Dayton is also known for its many patents, inventions, and inventors that have come from the area, most notable being the Wright Brothers ' invention of powered flight.

The first map to delineate the island under its present name, Diego Garcia, is the World Map of Edward Wright ( London 1599 ), possibly as a result of misreading Dio ( or simply " D .") as Diego, and Gratia as Garcia.

Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.

David P. Wright argues that the Jewish law used Hammurabi's collection as a model, imitating both its structure and content.

Regarding the CIA's refusal to inform the FBI about Mihdhar and Hazmi, author Lawrence Wright suggests the CIA wanted to protect its turf and was concerned about giving sensitive intelligence to FBI Agent John P. O ' Neill, who Alec Station chief Michael Scheuer described as duplicitous.

Like other architects who viewed the Wasmuth Portfolio and its associated exhibit, Mies was enthralled with the free-flowing spaces of inter-connected rooms which encompass their outdoor surroundings as demonstrated by the open floor plans of the American Prairie Style work of Frank Lloyd Wright.

They were also featured in Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer, which was published in 2003 and illustrated by Brett Helquist, as well as its sequels, The Wright 3 and The Calder Game.

Worley discounted concerns that Wright was pursuing his own interests and wrote of it: "' Twelve Years ' is convincingly Northup's tale and no one else's because of its amazing attention to empirical detail and unwillingness to reduce the complexity of Northup's experience to a stark moral allegory.

The officer's report includes what Wright had learned from Nkrumah advisor George Padmore about Nkrumah's plans for the Gold Coast after its independence ( as Ghana ).

On learning that Vivekananda lacked credential to speak at the Chicago Parliament, Wright is quoted as having said, " To ask for your credentials is like asking the sun to state its right to shine in the heavens.

In September 2005, several hundred surfers gathered in Newnham on Severn to celebrate 50 years since the first recorded attempt at surfing the Severn bore and to view the première of Longwave by Donny Wright, a historical film documenting the evolution of the sport since its inception in 1955.

China scholars Daniel Wright and Joseph Fewsmith assert that for several months after Falun Gong was outlawed, China Central Television's evening news contained little but anti-Falun Gong rhetoric charging that it cheats its followers, separates families, damages health, and hurts social stability.

Whilst most people looked for a suitable alternative bird to chase, a metal-charmer called Bowman Wright from Godric's Hollow invented a fake Snidget which he called the Golden Snitch: a golden ball with silver wings, the same size and weight as a real Snidget, enchanted to accurately follow its flight patterns.

Some sources claim Godard didn't trust Hollywood and refused ; Richard Benton claimed that Godard wanted to shoot the film in New Jersey in January and took offense when would-be producer Norah Wright objected that was unreasonable considering the story took place in Texas with its year round warm environment while her partner, Elinor Jones, claimed they did not believe Godard was right for the project in the first place.

Wright attracted considerable media attention at the Drumcree standoff where he supported the Orange Order's right to march its traditional route through Irish nationalist areas in Portadown.

The sanguineous religious / political conflict known as " The Troubles " had been raging across Northern Ireland for over five years by this stage, and many young men such as Wright would be swept up in the maelstrom of violence as the Provisional IRA ramped up its bombing campaign and sectarian killings continued to escalate.

By this time Wright ’ s Ferry had ceased its operations, having been supplanted by rail and bridge traffic.

Two Civil War forts were built near the settlement because of its strategical location on top of the second Chickasaw Bluff of the Mississippi River, Fort Randolph and Fort Wright.

Wright County lost part of its land in 1845 to Texas County, in 1849 to Laclede, and in 1855 a big chunk to Webster.

However, recent scholarship by Chris Wright and others has suggested that such activity is promoted by the entire Bible, or at least the wider term ' mission ', although the meaning of the word ' mission ' and its relationship to ' evangelism ' is disputed amongst Christians.