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Finn Ronne, Captain, United States Navy  It may have been his father's influence that inspired Finn Ronne to spend years of ... Finn occupied his father's bunk, as he and Byrd discovered upon their arrival that ... She was the first American woman to set foot on the Antarctic continent and she, along with the chief pilot's wife, Jennie Darlington, were the first women to...
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Breaking the Ice (page 1) - The Antarctic Sun - United States ...  Nov 13, 2009 ... First U.S. female scientists enter Antarctic history in 1969 ... The wives of both men, Edith Ronne and Jennie Darlington, were originally only...
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Edith "Jackie" Ronne - Wikipedia  Edith "Jackie" Ronne (October 13, 1919  June 14, 2009) was an American explorer of Antarctica and the first woman in the world to be a working member of an...
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Edith "Jackie" Ronne - The Ronne Family Explorers of Antarctica  At Stonington Island, Antarctica in 1947 and in 1995. ... Jackie Ronne, a fellow of the Explorer's Club, was the first American woman to set foot on the Antarctic continent and the first woman to over-winter as a working ... the first two members of an over-wintering expedition, and the first women to spend a year in the Antarctic.
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Edith 'Jackie' Ronne dies at 89; first U.S. woman on Antarctica - LA ...  Jun 23, 2009 ... Edith "Jackie" Ronne, 89, who became the first U.S. woman to set foot ... Jennie Darlington, the new wife of the expedition's chief pilot, joined ... were the first women to overwinter in Antarctica, from 1947 to 1948. ... She was on the first tourist trip to the continent in 1957, the International Geophysical Year.
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Edith "Jackie" Ronne - Wikipedia  Edith "Jackie" Ronne (October 13, 1919  June 14, 2009) was an American explorer of Antarctica and the first woman in the world to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition (1947-8). ... of 19461948 that her husband commanded, she became the first American woman to set foot on the Antarctic continent.
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In 1973 This Woman From Colorado Began Her 24 Year Tenure In ...  A DAY IN COLORADO, Denver Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia, Pikes Peak ... In 1973 This Woman From Colorado Began Her 24 Year Tenure In The House...
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The Dionne Quintuplets (born May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets ...  After four months with their family, they were made wards of the King for the next .... Marie Dionne (1934 - 1970) One of the Dionne quintuplets, born in Ontario, Canada ...... names are Emilie, Marie, Annette, Yvonne and Cecile were taken from their .... Americans Inuit, Real Americans, Native Americans, Alaska 1893, Alaska...
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Annie Moore, the first person to be processed through Ellis Island ...  (NEW YORK) Ellis Island-Annie Moore a 14 year old Irish girl was the first passenger registered at Ellis Island January 1, 1892 which was also her 15 birthday. .... Annie Moore - Irishwoman and first Immigrant to be processed through Ellis Island ..... Arrived Ellis Island specially dressed to greet their wonderful new country,...
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American Experience . Around the World in 72 Days . The Trip | PBS  "Start the man and I'll start the same day for some other newspaper and beat him. ... The decision was made to send her on a Monday, and on Thursday she sailed off ... of her doings, as told by her captivating pen, will set out as a female Phileas Fogg. ... "Around the World in 80 Days" was re-issued in over 10 new editions.
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Another of my favorite female explorers, Louise Arner Boyd is ...  Born into wealth, Louise Boyd would use her large inheritance to explore the Arctic ... be the first woman to reach the North Pole, in the relative comfort of an airplane, in 1955. ..... the first president of the Society of Woman Geographers (founded in 1925) was ...... They flew over 60 million miles in every type of military aircraft.
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Friends of D. H. Lawrence - In search of DHL  An Outline of the History of the D. H. Lawrence Ranch ... September 11, 1922--Lawrence and Frieda arrived in Taos to stay with Mabel. ... March 29, 1925--The Lawrences returned to Kiowa Ranch where Lawrence recovered from a ... The ashes were left behind at Lamy station and then in Taos at the home of Tinka Fechin...
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Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space, Dies at 61 | Space ...  Gloria Steinem on America's first female astronaut, Sally Ride .... She became the first woman to join a NASA space mission when the Challenger launched 1983. ... Ride joined NASA in 1978, after responding to a newspaper advertisement. ... She was a physicist and astrophysicist when she answered a classified ad to...
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On New Year's Day 1892 Annie Moore was the first immigrant ...  Jan 1, 2016 ... Today, January 1, 124 years ago, Ellis Island immigration station in New York Harbor ... Annie Moore, who had traveled from Queenstown, County Cork. ... It opened with great celebration on January 1, 1892 and on its first day...
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Annie Moore (immigrant) - Wikipedia  When Ellis Island officially opened on January 1, 1892, the first passenger registered through the now world-famous immigration station was a young Irish girl named Annie Moore. Annie departed from Queenstown (County Cork, Ireland) on December 20, 1891 aboard the S.S. Nevada, one of 148 steerage passengers.
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Jan. 11, 1935 | Amelia Earhart Sets Off on Historic Hawaii-to-U.S. ...  Jan 11, 2012 ... Jan. 11, 1935 | Amelia Earhart Sets Off on Hawaii-to-U.S. Mainland Flight ... Her most famous came in 1932, when she became the first woman (and ... the first woman to fly solo across the United States, and the first person to...
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Amelia Earhart's 1935 Story on Becoming First to Fly From Hawaii to ...  Jul 28, 2014 ... Amelia Earhart's first-person account on becoming the first pilot to fly from Hawaii to California. ... This article was published in May 1935, three years after she became the ... Amelia Earhart's plans to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland ... at Wheeler Field, Hawaii, for a flight across some Pacific islands.
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On New Year's Day 1892 Annie Moore was the first immigrant ...  Jan 1, 2016 ... Today, January 1, 124 years ago, Ellis Island immigration station in New York Harbor opened its doors and welcomed its first immigrant, Annie...
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Women in Aviation and Space History - Smithsonian National Air ...  On May 2021, 1932, Earhart became the first woman  and the second person after Charles Lindbergh  to fly nonstop and solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Flying a red Lockheed Vega 5B, she left Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Canada ... 2425, she made the first solo, nonstop flight by a woman across the United States,...
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History of Women in Sports Timeline - Part 2 - 1900 - 1929  1900 - The first 19 women to compete in the modern Olympics Games in Paris, ... pilots a dirigible over Paris, just months before the Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk, NC. ... 1912 - Harriet Quimby is the first woman to pilot an airplane across the .... 1921 - Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle, 14, wins an international 3-mile swim in New...
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First American Woman in Space | NASA  Jun 18, 2013 ... On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space ... guests will see firsthand the toll these events took on the shuttle hardware. .... When she rode aboard the space shuttle Challenger as it lifted off from ..... aboard the reusable spacecraft for a six-day space mission full of firsts.