Its aviation history, however, began in 1904-1905 when Wilbur and Orville Wright used an plot of land, known as the Huffman Prairie Flying Field, for their experimental test flights.

The danger of the track during this period, however, didn't stop Louis Meyer or Wilbur Shaw from becoming the first two three-time winners, with Shaw also being the first back-to-back winner in 1939 and 1940.

It seems clear, however, that his pursuits are at least remotely akin to those of Wilbur Whateley and his grandfather, albeit with a probably far larger psychopathic and / or megalomaniac component.

The only condition, however, is that Charlie must leave his family behind, because Wonka believes family is a hindrance to a chocolatier's creative freedom, a philosophy Wonka developed due to his dentist father, Dr. Wilbur Wonka, denying his son candy because of the potential risk to his teeth.

He is best known, however, for Mister Ed ( 1961-66 ), a CBS television show, in which he starred as Wilbur Post, the owner of Mr. Ed, a talking horse that would talk to no one but him, thus causing hilarious situations for Wilbur Post with his wife, neighbours and acquaintances.

Most scholars view uncial text as the most accurate ; however, a few authors ( such as New Testament scholar Maurice A. Robinson and linguist Wilbur Pickering ), Arthur Farstad and Zane C. Hodges claim that the minuscule texts ( the Byzantine text-type ) more accurately reflect the " autographs " or original texts than an eclectic text like NA27 that relies heavily on manuscripts of the Alexandrian text-type.

Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

He makes a point of maintaining an emotional distance from the orphans, so that they can more easily make the transition into an adoptive family, but when it becomes clear that Homer is going to spend his entire childhood at the orphanage, Wilbur trains the orphan as an obstetrician and then comes to love him.

Wilbur came to this work reluctantly, but he is driven by having seen the horrors of back-alley operations.

It has been studied recently by Wilbur Knorr, who suggested that the attribution to Hero is incorrect, and that the true author is Diophantus.

The main Earth religion is Mercerism, in which Empathy Boxes link simultaneous users into a collective consciousness based on the suffering of Wilbur Mercer, a man who takes an endless walk up a mountain while stones are thrown at him, the pain of which the users share.

* The Scoville Unit ( used to measure the heat of peppers ) is devised and tested by Wilbur Scoville.

The scale is named after its creator, American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville.

* Wilbur Force, sometimes misattributed as Wilberforce, is a character in The Little Shop of Horrors

Wilbur, thinking the call is just a crank, continues on with his work day.

It is actually Joan Raymond ( Jane Randolph ), who is secretly working for the insurance company that is processing McDougal's claim, and hopes Wilbur will lead her to the missing " exhibits ".

Wilbur experiences a few close calls when he is confronted by the monsters and every time he tries to show them to Chuck they have disappeared.

Chick is then also hypnotized and rendered helpless while Dracula and Sandra bring Wilbur and Joan back to the castle.

While Wilbur is being held in a pillory, Sandra finally explains to him the plan to transplant his brain into the Monster.

Wilbur who is now strapped to a slab witnesses Dracula giving the Monster electrical boosts in the lab.

Just as Talbot is about to untie Wilbur, he once again transforms into the Wolf Man.

Lon Chaney, who was not working that day and who had previously played the Monster in Ghost of Frankenstein, took over the role of the Monster for that scene as well as the scene where the monster is throwing barrels and crates at Wilbur and Chick while they are trying to escape in a rowboat at the pier.

Wilbur Smith's novel The Sunbird is set in ancient Ophir ( called Opet ) and its modern ruins.

In the 20 June 1939 episode, Fibber Has a Toothache, their dentist is Dr. Gildersleeve, although Molly calls him Wilbur, McGee calls him " Wilberforce ", and he once had a " thing " for Molly, so it might be a relative to Throckmorton ?.

The county is divided into twenty-two townships: America, Brule, Chamberlain, Cleveland, Eagle, Highland, Kimball, Lyon, Ola, Plainfield, Pleasant Grove, Plummer, Pukwana, Red Lake, Richland, Smith, Torrey Lake, Waldro, West Point, Wilbur, Willow Lake, Union ; and one area of unorganized territory: Grandview.

Wilbur H. " Will " Jennings ( born June 27, 1944, Kilgore, Texas, United States ) is an American songwriter, who is popularly known for writing the lyrics for " My Heart Will Go On ", the theme for the film Titanic.

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover sent a telegram from Dunsmuir, California, to his friend Dr. Ray L. Wilbur, asking Wilbur to meet and to personally evaluate the President.

In the early years, most residents sent their children to parochial schools in the neighborhood including St. Patrick's Catholic School on Lowell Avenue and St. John the Baptist now known as All Saints Elementary School on South Wilbur Avenue.

His parents sent him to Quaker schools and after graduating from Haverford College in 1927, he and his wife Elizabeth Wilbur, proceeded to find a way of making a living that was in line with their Quaker beliefs.

In turn, Richard Moll guest starred as his Night Court character Bull in an episode of My Two Dads, protecting Judge Wilbur from a recently released criminal that she had sent to prison years before.

Prior to the publication of Love & Fame, Berryman sent his manuscript to several peers for feedback, including the poets Adrienne Rich and Richard Wilbur, both of whom were disappointed with the poems which they considered inferior to the poems in The Dream Songs.

In 2010, the district removed the warrior logo from the high school's sign, replacing it with a black-and-red seal featuring the letter W. The warrior image has been used less frequently since 1999 ; since then, residents have suggested to the school board that the mascot be changed to something representative of Lititz, such as " Wilbur Buds ," a well-known product of the local Wilbur Chocolate Company.

After the Army and graduate school at Harvard University, Wilbur taught at Wesleyan University for two decades and at Smith College for another decade.

Across from the elementary school and the Grayson Town Hall is Grayson United Methodist Church, with pastor Chris Wilbur ( 2011 ).

The Creston School District maintains the town's sole K-12 school, though it also draws a considerable amount of students from the Davenport, Harrington, and Wilbur school districts.

Following World War I, the training school at Wilbur Wright Field was discontinued.

Wilbur received his education at the segregated Elliott School in Brunswick and helped out around the barbershop after school.

WuShock came to life when junior Wilbur Elsea won the Kappa Pi honorary society's competition to design a mascot typifying the spirit of the school.

In 2005, a school teacher in California conceived of a project for her class in which they would send out hundreds of drawings of spiders ( each representing Charlotte ’ s child Aranea going out into the world so that she can return and tell Wilbur of what she has seen ) with accompanying letters ; they ended up visiting a large number of parks, monuments and museums, and were hosted by and / or prompted responses from celebrities and politicians such as John Travolta and then-First Lady Laura Bush.

In the 1960s and 1970s, geographers of religion such as Wilbur Zelinsky and David Sopher were mostly associated with the " Berkeley school " of cultural geography and focused mostly on the cultural imprints of religion on the landscape.

Both Wilbur McCormick ' 37 and Bruce Schlageter ' 47 recalled as undergraduates visiting with Dr. Hartwell in the house to chat about school affairs.

* Katharine Wright, high school teacher ; sister of Wilbur and Orville

Leading theorists under this school included Daniel Lerner, Wilbur Schramm, and Everett Rogers.

The Keller school district serves students from Kindergarten-6 and gives students the option of attending junior and senior high school at relatively nearby Wilbur High School, Lake Roosevelt High School or Republic High School.

She attended Fort Valley State College and then became a public school teacher in Macon, where she was married to Wilbur Robinson for a short time.

Wilbur A. Carlton, a student at Emory College in 1910, described his experiences at the school at the time:

Wing Commander ' Wilbur ' Wright opened a flying school at Hooton, and later a gliding club was operated from the northern end of the airfield.

Always intellectually inclined, Wilbur was the teacher of the local Friends school for many years.