Amelia Earhart

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Amelia Earhart

• First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

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Family

• Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas on
  July 24, 1897
• Her father was Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart and
  her mother was Amelia "Amy" Otis Earhart
• She had two grandmothers Amelia Josephine Harres
  and Mary Wells Patton and one maternal
  grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis
• Amelia was named, according to family custom,
  after her two grandmothers

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Early Life

• As a child, Amelia spent long hours playing with
  her dog Pidge, climbing trees, hunting rats with
  a rifle and "belly-slamming" her sled downhill.
  She kept "worms, moths, katydids, and a tree toad

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Inspiration

• When 10-year-old Amelia Mary Earhart saw her
  first plane at a state fair, she was not
  impressed. "It was a thing of rusty wire and wood
  and looked not at all interesting," she said. It
  wasn't until Earhart attended a stunt-flying
  exhibition, almost a decade later, that she
  became seriously interested in aviation. A pilot
  spotted Earhart and her friend, who were watching
  from an isolated clearing, and dove at them. As
  the plane swooped by, something inside her
  awakened. On December 28, 1920, pilot Frank Hawks
  gave her a ride that would forever change her
  life. "By the time I had got two or three hundred
  feet off the ground," she said, "I knew I had to
  fly."

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Who She Was

• Amelia Earhart was an aviator, pioneer, and a
  feminist
• She joined an organization for female pilots
  called The Ninety-Nines
• She was the vice- president of the National
  Aeronautics association

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Examples of What She Did

• In 1918, at the age of 20, she went to visit her
  sister in Toronto, Canada. This was during World
  War I and after seeing wounded servicemen on the
  streets of Toronto, she volunteered to work as a
  nurse's aide at a local military hospital. She
  also visited a local airfield and decided then
  that she wanted to learn how to fly.
• For a short time after the war, Earhart took a
  medical course at Columbia University in New
  York.

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In Her Memory

• Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937 while she was
  trying to go around the globe along the equator.
  She had gone 2/3 of the way. But her plane
  disappeared. People still remember her as a
  brave woman and a great aviator. She is still
  remembered throughout the USA.

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Accomplishments

• Amelia Earhart was the first women to fly across
  the Atlantic Ocean solo
• She also flew from Hawaii to California and
  Mexico to the east coast.

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The End

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Bibliography

• http//www.ameliaearhart.com/about/biography.html
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_earhart
• http//www.edwardsly.com/earhart.htm
• Credits
• Created by James J.
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• Special thanks to Signet.
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