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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 at her grandparents' home
in Atchison, Kansas. It was not till 1908 that the girls moved to Des Moines to be
with their parents, Amelia was 10 years old when she saw her first airplane at the
Iowa State Fair. It would be more than a decade ....
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.... during this period, some could be attributed to
unreliable engines and slowness of the planes. By October 1922, Amelia began
participating in record breaking attempts and set a women's altitude record of
14,000 feet, broken a few weeks later by Ruth Nichols.
In 1925, Amelia took a position at Denison House in Boston as a "novice"
social worker and was later employed as a staff member. She joined the Boston
Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association, and invested what little money she
had in a company that would build a ....
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