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= Amelia Earhart =  Earhart, Amelia (ârˈhärt) [ [|key] ], 1897–1937, American aviator, b. Atchison, Kans. She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane (1928) and the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic (1932). She was also the first person to fly alone from Honolulu to California and to solo nonstop from California to Mexico (both: 1935). In 1937, she attempted with a copilot, Frederick J. Noonan, to fly around the world at the equator, but her plane was lost on the flight between New Guinea and Howland Island. In 1992, a search party reported finding remnants of Earhart's plane on Nikumaroro (formerly Gardner Island), Kiribati, but their claims were disputed by people who had worked on Earhart's plane. Other artifacts that could be from Earhart's flight (but no clear evidence) have been found on Nikumaroro, and her fate remains a mystery. Geraldine Mock later became (1964) the first woman to complete Earhart's round-the-world route. Earhart was married (1931) to George Palmer [|Putnam], who wrote (1939) a laudatory biography of her. Read more: [|Earhart, Amelia | Infoplease.com] [|http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/earhart-amelia.html#ixzz2ueYnG8jX] Learn more about Amelia Earhart on these sites:
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