Amelia Earhart 
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SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
5-11-18
Women Were Pioneers of Flight
So why aren’t any airports named for them?
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SOURCE: USA Today
7-12-17
History Channel investigating claims about Amelia Earhart photo and documentary timeline
A Japanese blogger says the key photograph was taken two years before her ill-fated trip.
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SOURCE: NYT
7-11-17
Amelia Earhart biographer doubts she was captured by the Japanese
by Susan Butler
That new picture that’s surfaced. Forget it.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
7-5-17
A newly unearthed photo shows Amelia Earhart survived her final flight, investigators say
Investigators believe they have discovered the “smoking gun” that would support a decades-old theory that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were captured by the Japanese.
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3-16-17
This St. Patrick’s Day Let’s Remember Northern Ireland, too
by Steven Knipp
Most Americans come from Northern Ireland including Ulysses Grant and Stonewall Jackson.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
6-9-15
Brief film taken before Earhart’s last flight surfaces
The film, “Amelia Earhart’s Last Photo Shoot,” is being released this month by The Paragon Agency publishing house, along with an 80-page book of the same name.
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
10-30-14
How Amelia's Plane Was Found
Two decades years after finding a piece of metal on a remote Pacific atoll, Ric Gillespie says he has proof it was used to patch the aviator’s plane—and it fits ‘like a fingerprint.’
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SOURCE: Associated Press
3-18-14
What if the missing Malaysia plane is never found?
Don't think it couldn't happen -- Amelia Earhart's plane was never found, either.
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SOURCE: UPI
6-12-13
Lawsuit: Amelia Earhart's plane found in 2010, discovery concealed
The group conducting a search for Amelia Earhart's plane strongly denied charges they had found the aircraft in 2010 and hid it from donors.Timothy Mellon, the son of philanthropist Paul Mellon and a major contributor to The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery sued the group on June 3, alleging TIGHAR found the famed airplane in a 2010 expedition, then hid the news so it could keep fundraising.Mellon donated $1 million that helped fund the 2012 expedition that may have indeed turned up the long-awaited evidence of Earhart's plane.Ric Gillespie, the executive director of TIGHAR, called the lawsuit frivolous....
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SOURCE: Discovery
5-29-13
Amelia Earhart's plane found?
A grainy sonar image captured off an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati might represent the remains of the Electra, the two-engine aircraft legendary aviator Amelia Earhart was piloting when she vanished on July 2, 1937 in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.Released by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating Earhart's last, fateful flight, the images show an "anomaly" resting at the depth of about 600 feet in the waters off Nikumaroro island, some 350 miles southeast of Earhart's target destination, Howland Island....
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