A replica of the Wright Brothers ' wind tunnel is on display at the Virginia Air and Space Center.

Film historian Virginia Wright Wexman describes Antonioni's perspective on the world as that of a " postreligious Marxist and existentialist intellectual.

The first fatal aviation accident occurred in a Wright Model A aircraft at Fort Myer, Virginia, USA, on September 17, 1908, resulting in injury to the pilot, Orville Wright and death of the passenger, Signal Corps Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge.

The current Mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia is Kenneth I. Wright, who was elected November 2, 2010 for the remainder of the unexpired term to end December 31, 2012.

One of only three Frank Lloyd Wright houses built in Virginia once stood at 1005 Locust Street, Falls Church ( just outside current city limits, in Fairfax County ).

The first fatal aviation accident occurred in a Wright Model A aircraft at Fort Myer, Virginia, USA, on 17 September 1908, resulting in injury to the pilot, Orville Wright and death of the passenger, Signal Corps Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge.

The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews ; Robert Bartlett ; Frederick Russell Burnham ; George Kruck Cherrie ; James L. Clark ; Merian C. Cooper ; Lincoln Ellsworth ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes ; George Bird Grinnell ; Charles A. Lindbergh ; Donald Baxter MacMillan ; Clifford H. Pope ; George P. Putnam ; Kermit Roosevelt ; Carl Rungius ; Stewart Edward White ; Orville Wright. Byrd Memorial on Mount Victoria, Wellington, New ZealandAlso in 1927, the City of Richmond dedicated the Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field, now Richmond International Airport, in Henrico County, Virginia.

They added free agent Hamchétou Maïga to the lineup, and selected University of Virginia guard Monica Wright with the second pick in the 2010 Draft.

As a Virginia justice, in the case of Hudgins v. Wright ( 1806 ), he tried to end slavery in Virginia by judicial interpretation, referring to the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights as the basis that all men should be considered " presumptively free.

When the Hudgins v. Wright case was appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court, Wythe's decision for freedom for Wright was " affirmed on racial grounds " by St. George Tucker, his former student.

* Wright, Louis B, and Virginia A. LaMar, eds.

He attended Central Institute for the Deaf and Wright Oral School, and went on to Harvard, Boston College and the University of Virginia, receiving a bachelor of science in biology and a master of science in chemistry from Virginia.

He married three times, first in 1831 to Hildah Wright of Virginia, who died in 1837, and with whom he had two sons.

Jennifer Beals, Jennifer Grey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Glenn Close, Ally Sheedy, Diane Keaton, Stockard Channing, Annie Potts, Robin Wright, Nancy Allen, Joan Allen, Rosanna Arquette, Kim Basinger, Ellen Barkin, Patricia Clarkson, Geena Davis, Laura Dern, Linda Fiorentino, Bridget Fonda, Carrie Fisher, Jodie Foster, Melanie Griffith, Linda Hamilton, Daryl Hannah, Helen Hunt, Holly Hunter, Goldie Hawn, Anjelica Huston, Amy Irving, Nicole Kidman, Diane Lane, Christine Lahti, Jessica Lange, Sally Field, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Heather Locklear, Andie MacDowell, Madonna, Virginia Madsen, Demi Moore, Emma Thompson, Uma Thurman, Tatum O ' Neal, Annette O ' Toole, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Greta Scacchi, Elisabeth Shue, Mary Steenburgen, Julia Roberts, Mimi Rogers, Isabella Rossellini, Meg Ryan, Meryl Streep, Sissy Spacek, Kathleen Turner, Sigourney Weaver and Debra Winger were all offered but turned down the role of Catherine Tramell.

The new Army of the Shenandoah was composed of the Union VI Corps ( commanded by Horatio G. Wright ), XIX Corps ( William H. Emory ), and George Crook's Army of West Virginia ( VIII Corps ).

* July 16 – At Hampton Roads, Virginia, the United States Navys only balloon ship, the lighter-than-air craft tender USS Wright ( AZ-1 ), flies her balloon for the last time.

* 30 July – Orville Wright flies with passenger Lt. Benjamin Foulois at an average mph over a measured round-trip course, successfully completing flight tests in the Wright Military Flyer for the U. S. Army at Fort Myer, Virginia.

The Virginia assembly's 21st-century explanation for the laws summarizes their development:

An article in the Encyclopedia Virginia summarizes what is known about Chauco.

Joshua Garrison mimicked Chan's " political pseudo-documentary style " in his Virginia Tech Massacre, a controversial Halo 3 – based re-enactment and explanation of the eponymous real-life events.

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These experiments yielded examples of writing that appeared to represent " stream of consciousness ", a psychological theory often attributed to James, which became a term used to describe the style of modernist authors Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.

It is also noted for its long, skinny ballroom, a " hyphen " Tyler had added to the house to accommodate the style of dancing popular then-what is today called " line dancing " but was then the " Virginia reel.

Sale of the family estates in Virginia released a large sum of money that allowed extensive repair and remodelling of the castle in a more appropriate Tudor style, completed in 1823, that resulted in the appearance seen today.

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Furthermore in Madison's honor, the parish courthouse is built in the colonial Virginia style of architecture though, as with many other Louisiana communities, the structure sits in the center of the immediate downtown area.

The largest and wealthiest planter families, for instance, those with estates fronting on the James River in Virginia, constructed mansions in brick and Georgian style, e. g. Shirley Plantation.

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The oldest southern diner ( non – stainless steel style ) is believed to be the Hillsville Diner in Carroll County, Virginia.

The Triangle Diner is the oldest stainless steel style O ' Mahony diner in the State of Virginia.

Its architectural style is Second Empire ( the same style as the Bates mansion in the 1960 film Psycho ), based on the look of the Fourth Ward School House in Virginia City, Nevada.

The style and appearance of the organization has changed over time ; at some point it even performed a traditional marching band style as the University of Virginia Marching Band ( this is why both " award-winning " and " marching " appear in the band's name ).

The Piedmont blues, a style of blues music, is most closely associated with the music of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina, but also exists in Maryland, which has produced modern performers like Warner Williams and Jay Summerour.

The southwestern portion of Virginia is, along with western North Carolina, part of the Blue Ridge area, home to a distinctive style of old-time music sometimes called mountain music, which is a vibrant tradition most famously celebrated through an annual series of festivals.

The Stanley's style can best be described as a traditional " mountain soul " sound that remained close to the Primitive Baptist vocal stylings they learned from their parents and others near their southwestern Virginia home.

Michael D. C. Drout's " Tolkien's Prose Style and its Literary and Rhetorical Effects ", featured in the academic journal Tolkien Studies, published by West Virginia University Press, analyzes Tolkien's writing style and deduces influence from and parallels with King Lear.

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In 1933, Stephen Courtauld and his wife Virginia Courtauld ( née Peirano ) acquired the lease of the palace site and restored the Great Hall ( adding a minstrels ' gallery to it ) while building an elaborate home, internally in the Art Deco style.

* Elmwood ( Shepherdstown, West Virginia ), a Federal style house listed on the NRHP in Jefferson County

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