Welcome to Conversation on December 17

Today is WRIGHT BROTHERS DAY

On this day in 1903 at 10:35 am, Orville Wright piloted the first sustained, powered, and controlled flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; the flight lasts 12 seconds and covered 120 feet.

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French Art Deco Table Lamp, Designed by Eugène Gaillard and Produced by Max Le Verrier, 1930

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