Katharine Graham

Introduction:The Wright brothers were two boys who grew up too be men with great mindsets they built airplanes. They are the first people ever to fly and that is awesome and back then and now they are still some of the most popular innovators in the world because of them we could get places a lot faster now instead of driving or walking we can fly. The Wright brothers were innovative. Wilbur Wright was born in Millville,Indiana in the year 1867. Orville Wright was born in Dayton…

Hughes had been interested in aviation long before his father’s death. The Hughes family was known for their engineering background; and growing up Hughes Jr. would take things apart and put them back together. Before the age of twelve, Hughes built Houston’s first radio transmitter and a motorized bicycle. And by the age of fourteen, Hughes started taking flying lessons. One day Hughes Sr. and Jr. were at a Harvard-Yale boat race. Hughes Sr. promised Jr. anything he would like if Harvard won…

The Wright brothers’ inventing the airplane paved the way for air travel in America. Because of this event, America saw a new way of transportation. “It was there, on December 17, 1903, their airplane soared for 12 seconds, traveling 120 feet [...] before landing” (Nelson). The Wright brothers created a whole new business for aviation for America when they “achieved the first manned flight of a power-driven, heavier-than-air machine” (“The Airplane”). This made all of America open their eyes…

The Fathers of Modern Aviation were born in the heart of the American Midwest in 1867 and 1871. Their names were Orville and Wilbur Wright, two brothers that would go on to build and fly the first airplane. Their parents, Milton and Susan, were of English and German ancestry. Orville and Wilbur were just two of the seven children born into the Wright family. Orville was the second youngest and Wilbur was born just before him. Orville was quite mischievous in school and often got in trouble,…

Without the genius inventions brought to the surface by Lawrence Sperry, we would not have been able to advance in our knowledge of aviation–or fly once it became dark outside. Autopilot, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “a device for automatically steering ships, aircraft, and spacecraft”. Mr. Sperry is the man who brought this device–made by his father and improved by him–into the aviation world, which was an enormous leap in the process of improving airplanes. He had reduced…

Did you know that retired Ironman triathlete Peter Reid now flies seaplanes for a living? If you’re a plane enthusiast who desires to fly a real plane in the future, you might want to consider pursuing triathlon as a hobby first before you make the giant leap. Why? It’s because pilots and athletes share the same “adventure factor,” and several athletes routinely fly. For example, Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth all work the cockpit in the Nextel Cup circuit. But since triatheletes…

Lets see it was the fall of 2013 and mondauy night raw started like any other night. " hello ladies and gentleman im Jr and monday night raw is live tonight i maddison square garden in NYC" Matches were going perfect and the crowed was getting pumped for the main event that was until of course they showed up. They vaporized everything the entrance , the ramp , even the ring i mean who blows up a freaking ring. I would like to tell you these aliens were nice life forms with only friendly…

Imagine flying a thousand feet off the ground, and knowing that you are the first human being to successfully fly an airplane. That feeling belongs to the Wright brothers because they achieved the first successful heavier-than-air flight. The Wright brothers were amazed by the idea of flight ever since their father got them a model helicopter when they were children. Although the Wright brothers were amazed in aeronautics, there first job was the newspaper business. They printed their own…

The Quiet American by Graham Greene Graham Greene’s fascinating novel The Quiet American is about two men who fall in love with the same women in Vietnam during the French and Indochina War. The protagonist, Thomas Fowler, and another English journalist, Alden Pyle, both shared a love for Phuong. The author of this novel, Graham Greene, wrote many stories that dealt with American and English involvement in foreign wars. Being born in Berkhamsted Hertfordshire, England, Graham suffered from…

The Art of Healing was performed by the Ailey Ⅱ company in the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, which started at 7:30pm on October 28th, 2016. The show started at 7;30 pm and lasted for about one an hour and a half. And it included three dances and two intermissions. The dances were Circular, Sketches of Flames, and Revelations. Circular and Sketches of flames are newly choreographed dances by Jae Man Joo and Bridget L. Moore respectively. While Revelations is was originally choreographed by…