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WRIGHT BROTHERS DAY December 17
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Posted on 12/17/2017 1:28:12 PM PST by heterosupremacist
By Presidential Proclamation, December 17 is Wright Brothers Day. The President is requested each year to issue a proclamation inviting the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
Wright Brothers Day is an annual United States national observation. It is codified in the US Code and Wright Brothers Day commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier than air, mechanically propelled airplane, made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
The Wright brothers were American brothers, inventors and aviation pioneers...
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aerospace; anniversary; aviation; kittyhawk; northcarolina; orvillewright; wilburwright; wrightbrothers; wrightbrothersday
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To: heterosupremacist
I was born & raised in Dayton, OH - not far from the Wright Bros bike shop.
Their actual first flight, albeit very short, was in an open field in the Huffman Hills area of Dayton.
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posted on
12/17/2017 1:30:50 PM PST
by
newfreep
("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
To: heterosupremacist
Old White Guys....
Who’d believe That?
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posted on
12/17/2017 1:34:23 PM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
To: heterosupremacist; EveningStar; SkyDancer
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posted on
12/17/2017 1:34:34 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(US out of the UN, UN out of the US.)
To: heterosupremacist; 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; ...
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posted on
12/17/2017 1:39:45 PM PST
by
EveningStar
(I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
To: heterosupremacist
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posted on
12/17/2017 1:41:35 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: heterosupremacist
The Orville
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posted on
12/17/2017 1:47:47 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: heterosupremacist
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posted on
12/17/2017 1:49:21 PM PST
by
EveningStar
(I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
To: heterosupremacist
Great Post!
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posted on
12/17/2017 1:50:31 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: EveningStar
You can’t fool me. You just photoshopped out the wires hanging from the skyhooks.
To: heterosupremacist
To celebrate any other day...would just not be Wright.
The First Wright Stuff!
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posted on
12/17/2017 1:52:43 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
To: heterosupremacist
I visited the Wright Bros. memorial in KDH in the summer of 2003. I was impressed with the place.
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To: All
Orville and Wilbur in France 1909.
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:03:56 PM PST
by
Liz
(One side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesnt know which bathroom to use.d)
To: heterosupremacist
Have you noticed that “progressives” instinctively oppose all innovation? Uber, Fracking, Bitcoin, etc., etc.
The Wright Brothers would’ve stayed in the bike shop today.
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:10:08 PM PST
by
Forgotten Amendments
(Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
To: EveningStar
That’s one of my favorite photographs of all time. I have it hanging up in my house.
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:26:20 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(2017 - The year the liberals' "sexual revolution" strikes back!)
To: heterosupremacist
Higher institutions of learning presently frown upon and prohibit the term “brothers” as being a negative term.
Please use “ sexually similar siblings” in its place. Thank you.
Thus let`s celebrate “Sexually Similar Wright Siblings Day” -[sarc]
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posted on
12/17/2017 3:09:49 PM PST
by
bunkerhill7
((((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))))))
To: bunkerhill7
# 16 bunkerhill7 wrote:
Higher institutions of learning presently frown upon and prohibit the term brothers as being a negative term.
Please use sexually similar siblings in its place. Thank you.
Thus let`s celebrate Sexually Similar Wright Siblings Day
Always and forever..
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posted on
12/17/2017 3:33:26 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
To: Liz
I noticed the shoes on their right feet do not seem to match the shoes on their left feet.
Primitive photography?
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posted on
12/17/2017 3:35:51 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
To: Liz
Shadows playing tricks. Same shoes.
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posted on
12/17/2017 3:44:50 PM PST
by
Liz
(One side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesnt know which bathroom to use.d)
To: wastedyears
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posted on
12/17/2017 4:35:08 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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