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Amelia Earhart, first women to fly across the Atlantic ocean alone.

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Amelia Earhart in her bomber jacket.

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..with her second plane, a Lockheed Vega, which she got in 1930 and called it her "Little Red Bus."

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Wow.. probably not meaning to be but that's a fashionable shot, Amelia Earhart circa 1928.

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Amelia Earhart’s Plane Found in Papua New Guinea?

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Child Earhart.. photogenic even then.

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Amelia Earhart's airplane is lifted over the side of the Lurline, December 27, 1934.

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Where Earhart’s solo Hawaii flight is earmarked. Photo by Jeanne Cooper

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Amelia Earhart, 1930.

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Amelia Earhart arrived in Honolulu on the Lurline, sailing past Aloha Tower on December 27, 1934.

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Amelia Earhart is sworn in as an honorary commander (Major rank) of a reconnaisance squadron at a field near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, 1933.

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Did you know?.. that she had her own clothing line that was sold all over the United States in the 1930s.

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Amelia Earhart lecture poster at Glenville State College on January 11, 1936

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Amelia Earhart Helps Test a Commercial Parachute.

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Circa 1933: A young Cary Grant, born Archibald Leach, with American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (1898 – 1937)

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Specification for the Twin Engine Aircraft, Lockheed Electra (the plane she disappeared in) = Crew: 2- Capacity: 10 passengers- Length: 38 ft 7 in- Wingspan: 55 ft 0 in- Height: 10 ft 1 in- Wing area: 458 ft²- Empty weight: 6,454 lb- Loaded weight: 10,500 lb- Powerplant: 2× Pratt & Whitney- R-985-13, 450 hp each

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Poster for "Amelia," a vast, fascinating account of legendary aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (two time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank)

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Amelia Earharts Record Making Twin Engine Aircraft, Lockheed Electra over San Francisco bay bridge

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Amelia Earhart stamps.

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Amelia examines the loop of the Radio Direction finder unit. Properly installed and properly used, it could have saved her life.

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Photographer Giuliano Bekor visually interprets the speculation that Amelia Earhart had mysteriously landed in Tibet for Marie Claire Romania.

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Amelia Earhart and husband George Putnam.

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Amelia Earhart speaking

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Amelia Earhart and George Putnam, publicity shot.

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Article about Amelia Earhart: My Wife, by George Palmer Putnam, Redbook, 1932.

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Amelia Earhart's hand print taken by palmist Nellie Simmons Meier.

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Amelia Earhart...awesome wide leg pants

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Letter from George Putnam to Amelia Earhart during her World Flight.

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"Amelia Earhart, Given by her Mother 1940." National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

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A great candid of Amelia.

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Amelia Earhart by Giuliano Bekor - Photographer: Giuliano Bekor Model: Angelika Kocheva Marie Claire Romania October 2009

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A talented, brave woman.

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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear." Amelia Earhart

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All geared up, and ready to go.

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The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery on Nikumaroro Island in the hopes of uncovering DNA evidence that may show Amelia Earhart survived there for a short period of time. That was in 2009 and I don't believe they were successful.

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She was a force to be reckoned with.

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Do you think there is a resemblance with Earhart and Charles Lindbergh? In her day many people thought so.

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On May 20 in 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from New York on his way to becoming the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and on the same day in 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to accomplish the same feat.

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With Harpo.

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With Harpo.

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After receiving training as a nurse's aide from the Red Cross, Earhart began work with the Volunteer Aid Detachment at Spadina Military Hospital. (1917)

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Earhart wore stylish suits and dresses that always garnered her attention in the pages of Vogue and Cosmo.

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