Amelia Earhart
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Amelia Earhart was born in 1897 in Kansas. She saw her first airplane when she was 10 years old. She did not like it and called it “a thing of rust wire and wood.” Amelia worked for the Red Cross and was a nurse’s aid after she graduated from high school. She went to college to become a doctor but changed her mind after she went on her |
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first airplane ride when she was 23 years old. The next year she started taking lessons and bought an airplane. She painted it bright yellow and called it “The Canary.”
She loved to fly and set many records. One record was being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia wrote several books about her flights. People liked to listen to her speak about her adventures. She helped many women become interested in learning to fly.
In 1937, Amelia wanted to be the first woman to fly around the world. She left Florida and flew west. She had flown 22 thousand miles in 29 days when somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, she disappeared. No one is sure whatever happened to her.
Amelia Earhart was a brave woman. She wanted to prove that women could do the same things as men.
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