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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
While we wait for Paul, I thought I'd present some twisters.
...6) Who broke the news of Wilbur an Oliver Wright's manned powered flight?...
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Originally Posted by Fbone
6. The Virginian-Pilot newspaper
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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Nice guess, but no dice I'm afraid.
This one too will probably boggle your mind.
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Originally Posted by Fat Abe
6. Gleanings in Bee Culture
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Originally Posted by Fbone
To add to #6 while Mr Root printed the first accurate report describing the events at Kitty Hawk in Gleanings in Bee Culture a few months later, a very inaccurate story was printed 2 months earlier in the Virginia-Pilot. I believe the telegraph operator who transmitted the brothers message to their father notified the local paper and they printed the story. Neither person witnessed the brothers flight at KH. Their father contacted the newspaper in Dayton but they wouldn't print it as they felt it was insignificant.
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How did you come up with
The Virginian-Pilot, Fbone? As a teenager, I delivered that newspaper on my bicycle, and I still subscribe to it. That paper's been around a loooong time.