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	Robert Wright (historian) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Robert Wright is an historian and biographer of Hugh Dowding, the RAF's commanding officer in the Battle of Britain.
		In his book Dowding and the Battle of Britain (1969) Wright was one of the early proponents of the Big Wing conspiracy theory that blamed Trafford Leigh-Mallory and the British Air Ministry for Dowding's removal from command at the end of the battle.
		Many of Wright's claims, some based on Dowding's faulty recollections, have been repudiated by witnesses and documentary evidence, but his allegations have proven popular and persistent over the years.
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	Robert Wright (historian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Wright is an historian and biographer of Hugh Dowding, the RAF's commanding officer in the Battle of Britain.
		In his book Dowding and the Battle of Britain (1969) Wright was one of the early proponents of the Big Wing conspiracy theory that blamed Trafford Leigh-Mallory and the British Air Ministry for Dowding's removal from command at the end of the battle.
		Many of Wright's claims, some based on Dowding's faulty recollections, have been repudiated by witnesses and documentary evidence, but his allegations have proven popular and persistent over the years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Wright_(historian) (167 words)

	Quotes About History
		To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.
		Historians are to be read with moderation and kindness, and it is to be remembered that they can not be in all circumstances like Lynceus.
		The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.
	www.hnn.us /articles/1328.html (5352 words)

	Personal Historian
		In this volume, anthropologists, philosophers, and historians examine the notion of the person in different cultures, past and present.
		Robert Wright (historian) - Robert Wright is an historian and biographer of Hugh Dowding, the RAF's commanding officer in the Battle of Britain.
		Marcin Kromer - Marcin Kromer, (German Martin Kromer or Cromer) (1512-1589) was a 16th century bishop of Warmia, cartographer, diplomat, and historian in Poland and later in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
	de59.macblo.com /personalhistorian.html (1320 words)

	Wright Brothers Collection
		WILBUR AND ORVILLE WRIGHT Wilbur Wright was born April 16, 1867, on a farm not far from New Castle, Indiana, Orville was born in Dayton, Ohio, on Aug. 19, 1871.
		Founded in 1964, Wright State University was built on land deeded in part by Wright Patterson Air Force Base and lies within a mile of Huffman Prairie, the site of Simms Station, where Orville and Wilbur Wright perfected their flying machines in 1904 and 1905 [see Box 16, files 5-7].
		Wright State University's collection includes over 200 technical books, journals, and pamphlets accumulated by the Wright Brothers, over 500 items related to their research, business, and legal endeavors, more than 1,000 genealogical items gathered by Bishop Milton Wright and Orville Wright, nearly 3,600 photographs, and over 700 items representing awards and other memorabilia-approximately 6,000 items.
	www.libraries.wright.edu /staff/dunbar/arch/ms1.old.htm (16070 words)

	Quincy Wright and the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace
		Wright is recognized as the author of one of the most important pieces of work ever written on the subject of international relations.
		Historian Arnold Toynbee was one of the more vocal members of this group and Eichelberger noted afterword that their ideas were very similar.
		Wright and his colleagues were, with a few notable exceptions, center-left and socialist in nature and their world view was one of extreme internationalism.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/4476/wright-paper/wright01.html (5861 words)

	Amazon.com: Nonzero : The Logic of Human Destiny: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wright also dismisses gloomy talk of the stagnation of Ming and Qing China, the fall of the Mughal Empire, and the technological and organizational stasis of the Ottoman Empire by arguing that the key unit is not Europe vs. Asia but is instead Eurasia.
		Wright does a good job of theorizing on the driving forces of cultural and biological evolution, claiming that both are driven by intrinsic cost-benefit analyses that are basically enforced by that brute of the biological world: survival.
		Wright acknowledges the forces of irrationality in the decisions of heads of state and the possession of peoples of weapons capable of wiping out an entire city or state in one fell swoop, he fails to tie these two critical pieces of information together.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679442529?v=glance (4930 words)

	Utah State University
		His co-author, William Robert Wright, is a retired attorney with a law degree from the University of Utah.
		Wright practiced law in Washington, D.C., and Salt Lake City.
		The $1,000 Handcart Award, established in 1996, is given each year to a biography of merit, often by an author who is not an academic historian, who contributes to an understanding of the Mormon-settled West.
	www.usu.edu /ust/index.cfm?article=10306 (633 words)

	Welcome to HarperCollins.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wright describes how, long before he was prime minister, Trudeau had attempted to canoe to Cuba, and how Castro visited Montreal as a young revolutionary, later welcoming FLQ terrorists to his tiny island.
		Wright draws on extensive insight from political commentators and historians as many interviewees talk candidly for the first time.
		Nevertheless, Robert Wright reveals that Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro developed an unusually intense personal and intellectual intimacy that literally lasted till death did them part and the Cuban leader came to bid farewell at his Canadian friend's funeral.
	www.harpercollins.ca /global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=000200626X (712 words)

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		Robert Bourassa's speech on the end of the Meech Lake Accord
		Robert Bruce Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne
		Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/r/ro (93 words)

	Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic
		In six substantive, loosely-connected chapters, Wright provides finance-based interpretations of important events, from the underlying causes of the American Revolution to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, from economic growth to the role of banks and urban finance in the election of 1800, from dueling to the subjugation of women.
		Wright offers a number of insightful, interesting, and potentially testable hypotheses at several turns, but relies on anecdotes, commentaries and reflections from contemporary observers instead of marshaling much in the way of quantitative data to support his hypotheses.
		I would characterize Wright's book as an ambitious attempt to apply the techniques of modern finance to a number of topics not generally thought to be amenable to such an approach.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0667.shtml (1480 words)

	The Chronicle: 4/12/2002: A Market Solution to the Oversupply of Historians
		If the pile is still too big, it is easy enough to dismiss the applications from historians who specialize in diplomatic, economic, military, political, religious, or anything other than cultural, gender, labor, or social history.
		A significant number of historians became so enraged with the situation a few years ago that they created their own professional organization, the Historical Society.
		Robert E. Wright is a lecturer in economics at the University of Virginia.
	chronicle.com /free/v48/i31/31b02001.htm (1409 words)

	Review of Robert Wright, Non-Zero
		Wright dismisses gloomy talk of barbarian invasions and the fall of empires by asserting that one goes from furs-and-swords to linen-and-pens in three generations: "The Romans weren't exactly hailed by the Greeks as cultural equals when they happened on the scene....
		Wright also dismisses gloomy talk of the stagnation of Ming and Qing China, the fall of the Mughal Empire, and the technological and organizational stasis of the Ottoman Empire by arguing that the key unit is not Europe vs. Asia but is instead Eurasia.
		Wright is of the school that holds that China almost broke through to modernity, writing of how paper and woodblock printing were used to distribute useful texts--Pictures and Poems on Husbandry and Weaving, Mathematics for Daily Use, and the Treatise on Citrus Fruit.
	www.j-bradford-delong.net /Econ_Articles/Reviews/nonzero.html (4214 words)

	Personal Favorites: Nevada Yesterdays - A Stephens Press Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wright and Ritenour became allies in efforts to preserve the vanishing historical buildings and sites of Las Vegas, a contribution recognized posthumously in 2004, when the city of Las Vegas gave his name to a pavilion in a downtown mini-park near a historic post office building.
		Wright made a last-ditch effort to expedite his project, editing and polishing a number of the vignettes before the advancing illness forced him to hand off the final tasks to his wife.
		Wright died April 25, 2003, survived by Dorothy; a stepson, Christopher Ritenour; a brother, Robert Wright; four grandchildren; and a large body of carefully researched historical lore, much of which, without him, would have vanished forever.
	www.nevadayesterdays.com /author.html (717 words)

	Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Per Weslager "Elwood Wright was a river Indian in every sense of the term, and from his boyhood he had hauled nets...he was adept at making eel-pots....had fish hawks nest on his property and considered it a natural lightening rod for his frame house and barn.
		In 1775 after the death of John WRIGHT a parcel of land in Broadkill Hundred was conveyed by a deed of sale from Samuel Pettyjohn and his wife Ann, Executrix of John Wrights will, to James Pettyjohn.
		In 1795 Nathaniel WRIGHT died and letters of administration were granted to his widow, Rachel and in 1796 Ezekiel WRIGHT made his will mentioning a son William.
	members.aol.com /jacklyn001/wright.htm (908 words)

	A Country House: Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Wright came to the site he appreciated the powerful sound of the falls, the vitality of the young forest, the dramatic rock ledges and boulders; these were elements to be interwoven with the serenely soaring spaces of his structure.
		In its careful yet startling integration of stone walls anchored to the bedrock and modern reinforced concrete terraces hovering in space, Connors states that Fallingwater may be understood as 'one of the great critiques of the modern movement in architecture, and simultaneously one of its masterpieces'.
		Kaufmann is the distinguished architectural historian who trained with Wright and is the son of the clients for Fallingwater, the most famous modern house in America.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~stwright/FLWr/fallingwater.html (1192 words)

	The Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750-1800
		Wright focuses throughout on the perpetual demand for improved liquidity.
		In her research, Lamoreaux found that commercial banks were typically closely held; the major investors dominated the board of directors and made numerous insider loans to themselves.
		By revising the analytical model for all subsequent historians who embark on an examination of the origins of U.S. commercial banking, Robert Wright has made a major scholarly contribution.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0414.shtml (1505 words)

	The Coast Guard's Role in the Wright Brothers Flight on 17 December 1903.
		Wilbur Wright, running along the right side of the aircraft, held onto the wing to balance the machine until it left the monorail.
		This picture was taken for the Wright Brothers, and posterity, by Surfman J. Daniels, a member of the crew of the Kill Devil Hills Lifesaving Station.
		The mental attitude of the natives toward the Wrights was that they were a simple pair of harmless cranks that were wasting their time at a fool attempt to do something that was impossible.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/faqs/Wright_Brothers.html (1820 words)

	Hip and Trivial, Book Publishing and the Greying of Canadian Nationalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hip and Trivial, historian Robert Wright challenges the pervasive stereotype of young Canadians as addicts of televisual media who are fundamentally alienated from print culture.
		Arguing that the stigmatization of youth as illiterate and culturally benighted is an element in a more generalized assault upon youth culture under neo-conservatism, Wright assesses what it means to be young, powerless and downwardly mobile in contemporary Canada, and to occupy such condescending cultural spaces.
		Youth today do not read less, or less voraciously, than their elders, Wright argues, but the historic linkages between youth, reading and citizenship - so characteristic of the literary nationalism of the baby boomers - no longer obtains.
	www.cspi.org /books/h/hip.htm (256 words)

	Aviation Collections at WSU Special Collections & Archives
		The Wright Memorial Commission was organized in 1912 to build a monument near Huffman Prairie in honor of the Wright Brothers' contribution to aviation.
		Subjects discussed in the correspondence include the Wright's flying experiments and travels to Europe, personalities of the Wright children and grandchildren, miscellaneous family matters, and a description of Wilbur's death and funeral in 1912.
		Robert Cavanagh was a well-known aviation historian and authority on aircrafts of the First World War and the 1920s.
	www.libraries.wright.edu /special/manuscripts/avia.html (3720 words)

	The Continental Army
		Robert K. Wright, Jr., received a B.A. degree in history from the College of the Holy Cross in 1968 and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in early American history from the College of William and Mary in 1971 and 1980, respectively.
		Wright is also the author of many articles related to the War of American Independence and to unit history.
		I also expect it to be useful as a reference for professional and amateur historians and for genealogists interested in a specific unit's services.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/revwar/contarmy/ca-fm.htm (1639 words)

	bookideas.com: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
		Robert Wright has written a fascinating, well-reasoned argument about how human society has evolved, and where it might be going.
		The subject matter can be tricky, but Wright approaches it with a breezy style that's often funny, but always interesting and thoughtful, as in this explanation of how genes and memes might have worked together to drive human evolution...
		Wright's arguments can easily be adapted to argue for the existence of God, or the evolution of humans to some (perhaps pre-ordained?) higher form, analogous to the infamous woolly "Omega Point".
	www.bookideas.com /reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=429 (1194 words)

	Mills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		George Kubler, the art historian, has suggested--the idea converges nicely with Mills's--that an artist's (substitute thinker or social scientist) reputation and professional fate are a function of when in the development of an institutionalized sequence of thought and work that person appears.
		The problems it addressed included integrating the immigrants who were then flooding the country, teaching them to be "good Americans"; the racial problems which began with slavery and took a new turn with Emancipation; and the massive dislocations and reorganizations created by urbanization.
		Indeed, Robert E. Park, one of the architects of the new discipline, defined the major problem of the modern world in terms he had learned by observing the quintessentially American city of Chicago: "All the world now either lives in the city or is on its way there."
	home.earthlink.net /~hsbecker/mills.html (4186 words)

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		Membership is open to all that is related by blood or marriage to a MacIntyre or a Wright, where the latter is of Scottish origin.
		Maybe you'll see the Clan as it travels across the wild Atlantic from their original home on the Isle of Skye then marching up the rugged Argylshire coast to their mainland home in Glenoe
		President (2007) Robert C McIntyre 959 LM 102
	www.macintyreclan.org /aboutus.htm (189 words)

	Karen Armstrong is ignorant and she is a poor historian if any. - Reader comments at DanielPipes.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Karen Armstrong is ignorant and she is a poor historian if any.
		↔ Response to Robert Fink from a moderate muslim
		Mark my comment as a response to Karen Armstrong is ignorant and she is a poor historian if any.
	www.danielpipes.org /comments/35539 (724 words)

	Co-Masonry: Freemasonry for Women
		After a considerable discussion and yielding to the entreaties of her brother it was decided to admit her into the Order and she was duly initiated, and, in course of time, became the Master of the lodge.
		It is, however, on record that she was a subscriber to the Irish Book of Constitutions, which appeared in 1744 and that she frequently attended, wearing her Masonic regalia, entertainments that were given under Masonic auspices for the benefit of the poor and distressed.
		This picture of Elizabeth Aldworth dressed in her Masonic regalia was published in Robert Freke Gould's "Concise History of Freemasonry." The original from which the engraving was made is said to be a portrait painting in the possession of her descendents.
	www.luckymojo.com /comasonry.html (2327 words)

	Amazon.com: Nonzero : The Logic of Human Destiny (Vintage): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At its most basic level Wright's point is that interactions are positive-sum: there are gains from cooperation.
		Robert Wright's NonZero is quite a well-written book.
		Wright, on page 393, claims that Dr. Gould's arguments are based on biases and not on reasoned facts seems short-sighted.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679758941?v=glance (4986 words)

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