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Amelia Mary Earhart: A Brief Biography
Her name was Amelia Mary Earhart she was born July 24,1897 in Atchison Kansas. Her nickname growing up was “AE”. Growing up she was a tomboy she was always doing things that normal boys did like climb trees. (Glines, 1997) As Amelia was learning to fly in California in 1922 she took odd jobs in order to help pay for flying lessons. With the financial help from her sister and her mother, she bought her first airplane. It was a Kinner Airster. When her parents became divorce she moved back where she was employed as a social worker in the Denison House in Boston Massachusetts. (Biography of Amelia Earhart, n.d.)
Amelia Earhart was credited with the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean however she was only a passenger on this flight Wilmer
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