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*[[Daniel Webster]] (1782-1852), prominent U.S. Senator and Secretary of State recognized as one of the greatest orators in history and also the father of the English language in America.  He attended [[Phillips-Exeter]] for only a few months before being pulled out to be tutored by the Rev. Samuel Wood.<ref>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/1801/</ref>
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*[[Daniel Webster]] (1782-1852), prominent U.S. Senator and Secretary of State recognized as one of the greatest orators in history and also the father of the English language in America.  He attended [[Phillips-Exeter]] for only a few months before being pulled out to be tutored by the Rev. Samuel Wood before attending [[Dartmouth]].<ref>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/1801/</ref>
    
*[[The Wright Brothers|Orville and Wilbur Wright]], inventors of the airplane.  They did attend some school, but also learned at home from their father, who was a conservative minister, and their mother, who was the top mathematician in her college class.<ref>http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Just%20the%20Facts/family.htm</ref>  Neither Wright Brother earned a high school diploma, let alone college, and Orville Wright left high school after his junior year.<ref>http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Just%20the%20Facts/trivia.htm</ref>
 
*[[The Wright Brothers|Orville and Wilbur Wright]], inventors of the airplane.  They did attend some school, but also learned at home from their father, who was a conservative minister, and their mother, who was the top mathematician in her college class.<ref>http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Just%20the%20Facts/family.htm</ref>  Neither Wright Brother earned a high school diploma, let alone college, and Orville Wright left high school after his junior year.<ref>http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Just%20the%20Facts/trivia.htm</ref>
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