"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace
The soul that knows it not; knows no release from little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings
How can life grant us boon of living; compensate
for dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare
The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice; we pay with courage
to behold the restless day; and count it fair."


Dates

Birth - - July 24 1897
Disappearance - 2 July 1937

Records

First woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean

First woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean alone,(1932)

First woman to make a transcontinental flight without stopping

First woman to cross the Pacific Ocean from Honolulu to California

First woman to control a autogyre

First woman to fly from Mexico City City to the city of New York in the record time of 14hrs, 19 minutes.

First woman to receive the Distinguished Flying cross and golden medal from the National Geographic Society.

January 11 -Zonta International Amelia Earhart Day -

1998 - 60th anniversary of Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowships World Flight

World Flight 1997 - Linda Finch made a repetition of the of Amélia Earhart flight. This started on the 17th March 1997 and she arrived on May 28, 1997.

 

The web site d'Amelia Earhart

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