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"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."--Amelia Earhart "I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others."--Amelia Earhart |
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| 2003-12-02 | Woman in Antarctica on Round-World Flight A British pilot attempting to fly a single-engine plane across both poles and around the globe landed in Antarctica on Monday, nearly halfway through her voyage. --Yahoo News
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| 2002-01-11 | Earhart Expedition '100% Confident' One of the men behind the team searching for transatlantic pilot Amelia Earhart says her aircraft will be found soon. Ananova : Earhart expedition '100% confident' One of the men behind the team searching for transatlantic pilot Amelia Earhart says her aircraft will be found soon. Magazine mogul Jeff Leach says a robot submarine will be used locate the plane which went missing in 1937 --Ananova
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| 2001-11-11 | From coal mines to elephant rides, Marmaduke loved life From fighting coal mine bosses in Bloody Williamson to riding atop elephants in Chicago to promoting SIU and her beloved Pinckneyville, Virginia Marmaduke lived life to the fullest. --Duquoin.com
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| 2001-09-09 | Women Booking Rooms of Their Own--and More This Labor Day weekend, a new kind of travel will be taking the roads and crowding the airports: solo women travelers, sometimes in pairs and groups, but definitely not with spouses and kids. --Women's E-News 09-Sep-2001
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| 2001-09-08 | Team disappointed by search for pilot Earhart's remains Researchers have discovered that a rusty splotch visible on a satellite photo of the South Pacific is red algae, not part of Amelia Earhart's missing plane, The Kansas City Star reported Friday. --Lawrence Journal-World 08-Sep-2001
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| 2001-09-08 | Earhart divers find only algae in search As a satellite photo recently hinted, there is a rusty-looking splotch in the coral reef at Nikumaroro, the South Pacific island where some believe Amelia Earhart died during her attempted around-the-world flight in 1937. Divers arrived at the search spot a few days ago and looked down. Thirty feet below, there it was: a blotch of red algae. Read more! --Charlotte Observer 08-Sep-2001
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| 2001-08-30 | Alpine Trek Reveals Ordeal That Faced 19th-Century Climbers With their tweed jackets draped over the ends of their long alpenstocks, Les Swindin and Philip Martineau set the pace up for the group on the first day of the expedition, hiking up the steep mule trail from Mörel in the valley to Riederalp, 1,200 metres higher in altitude. --SwissInfo.Org 28-Aug-2001
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| 2001-08-19 | Amelia Earhart Hunt Early next year, the company hopes to add to that list Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed Electra, which they believe plunged into the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island, a tiny landing point in the Southwest Pacific Ocean that she and navigator Fred Noonan failed to locate during one of the final legs of their journey to circumnavigate the globe. --Newspress 19-Aug-2001
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| 2001-08-15 | Astronaut Helms shares mixed emotions about leaving space The first woman to live on the international space station said Wednesday she has mixed emotions about returning to Earth next week after 5½ months in orbit. --KATU 15-Aug-2001
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| 2001-08-04 | Earhart Inspires 2 Missions It has all the makings of a summer blockbuster. A group of experienced but underfunded volunteers up against a multimillion-dollar corporate expedition in a race to solve one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history: the disappearance of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart. But this drama isn't playing out on the silver screen. Instead, it will unfold at remote islands scattered across a swath of the South Pacific. And if the competition ends up solving the mystery, camera crews, reporters and screenwriters won't be far behind. --Delaware NewsJournal 04-Aug-2001
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| 2001-07-25 | Mariner Charting a Life of Sea Adventures With a steady hand on the wheel and her three sons beside her, Gale Browning steered her 47-foot sailboat on a course tracking the New England coast and a dream. --Washington Post 25-Jul-2001
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| 2001-07-24 | Earhart Statue Effort Begins Today, on what would have been Earhart's 101st birthday, a group of civic leaders and aviation enthusiasts is expected to announce a campaign to raise more than $100,000 to create a real bronze statue of the local heroine. --Daily News 24-Jul-2001
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| 2001-07-23 | Teacher Leaves on JASON Project Joan Stiles, a second grade teacher at B.L. Bell Accelerated Year Round School, left Saturday for an adventure in Alaska with the JASON XIII project. --Bolivar Commercial 23-Jul-2001
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| 2001-07-20 | 'Extreme scientists' plumb earth's unexplored frontiers The film, narrated by Liam Neeson and featuring songs from The Moody Blues, follows the quest of two women, part of a burgeoning breed of "extreme scientists," to penetrate some of the Earth's last unexplored frontiers, from the caves of Greenland's massive polar icecap to forbidding underwater caves deep in the jungles of Mexico. --Christian Science Monitor 20-Jul-01
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| 2001-07-15 | Satellite Points to Air Heroine's Fate It was the twentieth century's most baffling aviation mystery. On 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Pacific while trying to fly round the world. US warships were dispatched to find her but she was never seen again. --The Observer 15-Jul-2001
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| 2001-07-11 | Scientists seeking secrets of 'Lost City' The Lost City Field, named partly because it sits on the seafloor mountain Atlantis Massif, was discovered Dec. 4. The expedition was funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Donna Blackman, UW's Kelley and Duke University's Jeffrey Karson. Blackman and Karson are among the paper's co-authors. --University of Washington 11-Jul-2001
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| 2001-07-02 | Teacher will explore deep ocean vents Ivey is preparing to go to the Azores, the island chain off Portugal’s coast, to study the vents on a research ship equipped with the famous submersible Alvin and a team of scientists and researchers. --Express-Times 02-Jul-01
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| 2001-05-07 | First Women to Walk Both Poles! Catharine Hartley, Fiona Thornewill, and her husband, Mike, hauled their own supplies through temperatures of minus 55C during the 600-mile expedition to the top of the world. The achievement marks Miss Hartley and Mrs Thornewill as the first women to walk to both poles, while the Thornewills are the first man-and-wife team to reach both. --The Herald 07-May-2001
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| 2001-04-16 | DiscoverHers: Book charts new territory by celebrating female adventurers They've lived with cannibals, served as guides for Arctic explorers and searched for Martian meteorites in the Antarctic. One apprenticed to a witch doctor, another piloted her own plane to Alaska when she was in her 90s. And they're still out there: studying the social structures of African elephants, mapping an underwater cave system in the Bahamas, discovering sulfur-eating microbes in Mexican caves... --Salt Lake Tribune 16-Apr-01
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| Women Who Dared II |
 A beautiful and inspirational poster with pictures and short vignettes of "women who dared." |
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| American Experience: Around the World in 72 Days (1997) |
 PBS Home Video. Many called her "the best reporter in America," and Nellie Bly truly achieved amazing successes. She got herself committed to an institution to expose abuses of the mentally ill and actually did travel around the world in 72 days. Discover the woman behind these and many other astonishing feats -- a serious yet spunky celebrity who mastered life through her cunning and wit. |
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| The Hawaiian Archipelago |
 By Isabella Bird. Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. |
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| Women of Discovery |
 A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World by Milbry Polk, Mary Tiegreen. Across the centuries and from many lands, women have set forth on journeys of exploration. Visionaries, adventurers, artists, and scientists, these women challenged the limitations, both physical and social, of their times and, in the face of formidable challenges, expanded the world's body of knowledge. Yet despite their extraordinary achievements, they have remained unknown and unsung for too long. |
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| Amelia Earhart : A Biography |
 By Doris L. Rich. "Rich's portrait reveals a determined, independent woman, brave enough "to go where no one had gone and to do what no one had done" . . . [and] illuminates the public and private life of a legendary flier, bringing her back to earth as a courageous woman who dreamed and dared all." (Christian Science Monitor) |