Amelia Earhart is famous in history as being the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. When Earhart was growing up, women were just beginning to assert their rights to enter careers generally reserved for men. She actively documented newspaper clippings that highlighted women entering occupations normally male-oriented. Earhart first became interested in flying while attending a stunt-flying exhibition around the age of 20. She said then“ I believe that little red airplane said something to me as it swished by.” When pilot Frank Hawks, in December 1920, gave her her first ride, she said she knew then that she had to fly.
Oprah Winfrey: rose from poverty to become the first African- American woman billionaire and spoke to women all over the world, through her books, television shows, movies and radio. Hilary Clinton: the first lady ever elected to national office and is a huge influence on women in politics today and encourages them to join the political process and purse their dreams. Roberta Bondar: from Sault St. Marie, she became Canada’s first female astronaut and neurologist to ever go to space. She received a star on Canada’s walk of fame and has more than 10 schools in Ontario, which are named after her. Mother Teresa: spent her time with the orphaned, sick and dying among the poorest of the poor in India and eventually worldwide.
Malik Murray Tag 04/29/2007 Ms. Alexandria Wilma Rudolph Wilma Rudolph was born in Clarksville, Tennessee, in 1940. Wilma Rudolph was crippled with polio at the age of 4. Until she was 12 she had to struggle to walk, even a few yards with a cumbersome leg brace. Yet eight years later she emerged from the 1960 Rome Olympics as the "Tennessee Tornado" the fastest woman on earth. Rudolph was the 20th child in a family of 22 children.
Randy Sparks, of the New Christy Minstrels, suggested a change in name and "I chose Denver because my heart longed to live in the mountains". Denver nearly joined the Byrds but instead became part of the popular Chad Mitchell Trio, and in 1967, they recorded his composition, "Leavin' on a Jet Plane". Denver wrote it in Washington "not so much from feeling that way for someone, but from the longing of having someone to love". He soon did have someone to love, as he met Ann Martell and followed her on a skiing trip to Aspen. They were married later that year.
Nick Duffy Mrs. Ransbottom Am. Lit. Per 4th 20 March 2011 Title Neil Armstrong was born on 5th August, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. When he was just 2 years old his parents took him to watch the Cleveland Air Races. Then at the age of 6 he took his first airplane ride in a Ford Tri- Motor Airplane.
Childhood: Born to German American Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart and Amelia "Amy" Otis Earhart on July 24, 1897 was Amelia Mary Earhart. Her only sibling Grace Muriel Earhart was born on December 29, 1899. The two affectionately nicknamed something and Pidge were adventurous from the start. The two of them collected things form the outdoors, ran around in bloomers, and used a 22 rifle to shoot animals. They also belly flopped on sleds like boys and after visiting the world fair built an at home roller-coaster.
The First Transatlantic Flight The majority of people in their mid twenties today are either still in college, in graduate school, starting a job, or starting a family. None of these things were the case for twenty five year old Captain Charles A. Lindbergh in 1927. On May 21, 1927 Lindbergh took flight in what would eventually become the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Owens (1927) writes in his New York Times article: A sluggish grey monoplane lurched its way down Roosevelt Field, slowly gathering momentum. Inside sat a tall youngster, eyes glued to an instrument board or darting ahead for swift glances at the runway, his face drawn with the intensity of his purpose.
Mrs. Kannenberg's First Physical UFO Encounter Interview with an Alien Ida Kannenberg, an elderly lady, lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, where she and her husband own and operate a successful antique shop. Although she is now nearly [eighty], she continues to travel all over the world searching out and buying antiques for their shop. She is highly energetic, well- educated, and interested in a wide variety of subjects. Mrs. Kannenberg's first physical UFO encounter took place in 1940, during a night when she was out on the desert. At first she was only able to remember a blazing red object coming toward her, but not what happened afterwards.
David Diment Block 7 October 5th 2012 Journey to America and beyond. Ann Elizabeth Harris was born May Fourth, 1932 in Essex, England. She spent the early years of her child hood there, in Essex, before moving to London around 1939, or the start of World War 2. While in London she survived the nightly bombing raids of the Nazi’s Luftwaffe that pummeled London. It was then in 1944 she moved across the ocean to American, settling in the Detroit metropolitan area with her family.
Amelia Earhart – first female to fly solo across the Atlantic iii. Automobile: improved travel 1. Creation of new industries: service station, tire sales, etc. 2. Highways were built 3.