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  • Hey Barack – I'm outraged too but at you for sitting in Wrights church along with your family listening to this man rant and rave.

    Obama says he's 'outraged' with pastor's comments 2008

  • "But you of the Sov-world do not admit that the Wrights were the first to fly, do you?"

    Mercenary Mack Reynolds 1950

  • Simon even tells an untruth about Langley, claiming that this supposed money-bags, who was supposedly a rich stiff and too proud to work with others the way Simon portrays him, wouldn't call the Wrights and congratulate them on getting their flying machine working, and offer to cooperate, saying "let's build your invention."

    World of SL 2010

  • In addition to the Guggenheim museum, the postwar era also saw extraordinary projects such as Wrights plans for a new Baghdad, his only realized high-rise tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the crystal figure of the Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and an endless row of houses that reached new complexity by floor plans based on hexagons.

    Archinect.com Feed 2009

  • That's essentially what the Wrights are getting out of this.

    Thumbs Up on Chihuly at Seattle Center « PubliCola 2010

  • Don't let your enthusiasm for being a lapdog for the Wrights get you too worked up. giffy

    Thumbs Up on Chihuly at Seattle Center « PubliCola 2010

  • The total distance of the Wrights' first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1903 was half the length of a modern 747's wingspan.

    A Laboratory in the Sky Peter Pesic 2011

  • Why don't the Wrights donate money toward establishing a museum for Native art or a museum for Northwest artists or a really kick ass playground that would be (gasp!) free so maybe families who came to the center would have more money to spend at businesses like yours.

    Parks Meeting Overrun by Chihuly Cheerleaders « PubliCola 2010

  • The Wright family and their supporters (the political Establishment) can be very persuasive -- Seattle Center needs the money, tourists all love Dale Chilhuly, the Wrights have done so much for this city, etc. ad nauseum.

    Sunday Op/Ed: Don’t Put the Chihuly Museum at Seattle Center « PubliCola 2010

  • Lastly, the plans as shown by the Wrights actually MEETS many of the criteria OF THAT NEW PLAN, and does so without cost to the city or the center:

    Sunday Op/Ed: Don’t Put the Chihuly Museum at Seattle Center « PubliCola 2010

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