@RickiTarr There she was. I was standing right in front of her. I literally fell to my knees and cried. I had found her! #Wilbur #History #AngelusRosedale #cemetery

@RickiTarr Some relatives ended up in the Angelus Rosedale cemetery, and the #wilbur plot was all laid out. But no record of an Ella Wilbur. I went to Curtis’s gravesite in Colma. He and Olive Doolittle, my gr grandmother were there. No one else. Meanwhile a cousin did some investigation and determined Ella had died from tuberculosis. Rereading the letters now about her going to Arizona for “the air” now made heartbreaking sense. Her’s was a tragic story, and doubly so because she had no one to remember her. I made a vow to find her and tell her story. After months of friutless searching, I went back to Angelus-Rosedale, fully armed with names: Ella, her brother, and mother had all moved to California together. Were they still? Office double checked. No records, but worth walking around the family plot. So I did that. The first person I found was Ella’s mother. If Ella was there, she’d be nearby. Then I saw a stone with Curtis’s name on it. That’s not right. He’s not here. I looked closer.

@RickiTarr As the family historian, I’ve spent a little time in cemeteries; the family is scattered around California. I want to tell you a story about an investigation I did trying to find a missing family member. Her name was Ella Chilson. The #Wilbur family nexus, as it were, was focused on two brothers, both born in Iowa and died here in California. One, my name sake, Curtis D Wilbur, distinguished himself as both Calif Supreme Court Justice and Secretary of the Navy under Coolidge. The other, Ray Lyman Wilbur, was president of Stanford and Secretary of the interior under Hoover. I came into possession of somewhere around 6000 family letters when my dad passed away in 2007, and I began archiving them, sorting them by sender. Took a while, but I discovered that Curtis married my great grandmother Olive as a widower. Some letters from the 1890s mentioned an Ella, and there were photos of another woman (with a much younger Curtis). Further study discovered her full name. But where was she?

I played Wilbur. Why did I never ask Charlotte about the bugs?
#comic of the #apes #ComicOfTheApes #Charlottes #Web #smart #pig #bugs #save #Wilbur #life is #special #childrens #musical #matinee

Others in the Trump inner circle who made their fortunes via privately held ventures include treasury secretary
#Steven T. #Mnuchin, who got a great deal during the financial crisis on IndyMac, a mortgage lending bank,
thanks to our government’s penchant for the socialization of risk and privatization of profit when entities considered “too big to fail” go into a state of distress.

Mnuchin and his fellow investors, a group that included liberal donor and hedge-fund honcho George Soros, changed the company name to #OneWest and began to aggressively foreclose on homeowners.
The bank earned Mnuchin and his partners a profit of $1.6 billion in its first year of operation,
even as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was preparing to take a hit of nearly $11 billion “on bad loans that the Pasadena institution made before it was sold last March and renamed OneWest Bank,” according to E. Scott Reckard of the Los Angeles Times.

Then there’s commerce secretary #Wilbur #Ross, worth $2.5 billion according to Forbes, who started a second career in 2000 with the creation of his eponymous investment company,
which he later sold to Invesco for a reported $375 million.

#Reed #Cordish, special assistant to the president for intragovernmental and technology initiatives, is a scion of the family that owns privately held Cordish Companies,
involved in gaming and entertainment.
He’s said to be tight with Jared Kushner.

#Sonny #Perdue, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, founded the private company Perdue Inc., a trucking outfit,
with his wife, Mary, who was reported in 2005 to be the company’s sole shareholder.
(An official at Perdue Inc. declined to confirm to The Baffler whether this is still the case.)

And, while not a rich guy himself, CIA director #Mike #Pompeo founded a private company called #Thayer #Aerospace in the late 1990s with help from Koch Venture Capital, an arm of Koch Industries.
A Pompeo aide told the Washington Post that the Koch investment amounted to only 2 percent,
but there’s no way to really know, since the transaction took place between two privately held companies.
He later became president of #Sentry #International, another private company, before his 2010 run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he won, again with an assist from the Koch brothers.
He’s also a climate-change denier—an appealing trait in a public official if you’re a fossil fuels magnate looking to buy one

Taking Wilbur Home

I'm headed to Florence, Alabama, today for a performance with poet Hank Lazer. We'll perform sections from his newest book, As We Vanish from Public View and a variety of other material with banjo and electronics.

I'll also play a few tunes on acoustic banjo using Wilbur, my Dobson-style banjo. Wilbur was my very first banjo--it was a gift from Margaret D

https://hollandhopson.com/taking-wilbur-home/

#Music #News #banjo #Florence #HankLazer #poetry #Wilbur

EL PRIMER AVIÓN VOLÓ EL 17 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1903

#vuelos #avion #wilbur #Orville #curiosidades #JMS #sabermas #curiosidades

https://descubre-curiosidades.blogspot.com/2024/09/primer-vuelo.html

i guess i've now sketched out wilbur's layout and how to structure it. Find the first design over here. View, Routing, Controller code is now attached to the view layer. So you have everything in one place for each route. But once again Wilbur is just a startingpoint to get you going. You can move stuff around.

From now on i'll start adding the promised features like real usermanagement dashboard 2fa and many more stuff stay tuned ;)

https://codeberg.org/m3tti/wilbur

#wilbur #lisp

‘She’s got the wind up!’

‘Archie’ Comics: ‘Wilbur’ (1947)

#Archie #Comics #Wilbur #pinup #cartoons #comicbooks #comicstrips #1940s

Just a tiny prehensile-tailed #porcupine called #Wilbur eating a slice of #banana 😂🍌🙌
He lived in the #OutOfAfricaWildlifePark in #Arizona and he was very loved for his kind and gentle nature and for his love of snacks. At 12 years old, he passed peacefully and will be missed dearly and he will never be forgotten.
📷-Sarah Fredrickson
#OutofAfrica #Nature #NatureLovers #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Photography #Photographer #Pet #Pets #PetsAreFamily #AdoptDontShop

Just a tiny prehensile-tailed #porcupine called #Wilbur eating a slice of #banana 😂🍌🙌
He lived in the #OutOfAfricaWildlifePark in #Arizona and he was very loved for his kind and gentle nature and for his love of snacks. At 12 years old, he passed peacefully and will be missed dearly and he will never be forgotten.
📷-Sarah Fredrickson
#OutofAfrica #Nature #NatureLovers #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Photography #Photographer #Pet #Pets #PetsAreFamily #AdoptDontShop

A couple riddles drive Wilbur's father insane while he tries to golf.

Gee, I can't imagine why Wilbur didn't become Archie Comics' next big thing. #Wilbur #comics #comicbooks #PointOfBeginning

http://www.tauycreek.com/2018/02/pob-7-riddle-riddle-whos-got-riddle.html

Eastern Washington State:
#easternwashington #colville #wenatchee #omak #yakima #pullman #spokane #cheney #ritzville #moseslake #colfax #george #pasco #richland #kennewick #wallawalla #othello #davenport #tekoa #palouse #newport #kettlefalls #grandcoulee #odessa #wilbur #okanogan #creston #dayton #cusick #usk #tiger #quincy #ephrata Did I miss anyone?

The Wright Brothers achieved the first powered sustained aircraft flight on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville, the pilot, flew for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet in the air. Wilbur ran alongside the plane during the flight; a picture of the historic moment is shown below. #TheWrightBrothers #KittyHawk #PoweredFlight #17December1903 #Orville #Wilbur #SustainedAircraftFlight

Sparky got a mean 1-2
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RT @Nick_Borgia
This might be the craziest sequence I’ve ever recorded.

Gio Sanders TD puts the Sun Devils back on top. ASU leads 21-17 with 7:08.

Who won the fight? #sparky or #wilbur? @DevilsDigest
https://twitter.com/Nick_Borgia/status/1596267760396664832

@ben It has Wilbur as a mascot, which is a plus. I'm pretty sure #Wilbur is a fellow pupperino. Time to do that!