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The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean 

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The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean 

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Amelia Earhart ,known as Lady Lindy, was the first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She mysteriously disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.Earhart was legally declared dead in 1939.On July 2,1937,the plane that Amelia was flying with her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared somewhere near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean.
In a letter to her husband shortly before the final fatal flight, she wrote:
“Please know I am quite aware of the hazards, I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
The most widely accepted theory is that they ran out of fuel and had to ditch the plane in the sea. Others claim they may have made it to Phoenix Island.
When the Itasca realized that they  had lost contact, they began an immediate search. The  searches had a cost of $4 million and they were authorized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Amelia Earhart was born on July 24,1987 in Atchison in America’s heartland.
She spent much of her early childhood in the upper-middle class household
of her maternal grandparents. From an early age, Amelia displayed a great
sense of adventure and was often referred to as a ‘tomboy’. She enjoyed
pursuits not common for girls of her age – such as shooting rats with a rifle,
climbing trees and keeping wildlife such as worms and a tree toad. his spirit
of relative freedom and adventure was a common trait throughout her life.
Even after the family was reunited when Amelia was  10 ,Edwin constantly
struggled to find and maintain gainful employment. This caused the family to
move around , and Amelia attended several different schools. She showed
early attitude in school for science and sports
After seeing wounded soldiers returning from World War I ,she volunteered
as a nurse’s aide for the Red Cross. Earhart  came to know many wounded
pilots. She developed a strong admiration for aviators, spending much of her
free time watching the Royal Flying Corps.
Around 1919, she had her first major flying experience watching a display by
a World War 1 ace. She commented that something captivated her about
flying and she developed a deep-seated desire to fly.
“I did not understand it at the time, but I believe that little red airplane said
something to me as it swished by.”

On December 28, 1920, she had her first flight with pilot Frank Hawks. She
said.
“By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had
to fly.”
Working in a variety of jobs, Amelia saved up money to be able to pay for
flying lessons. In 1921, with help from her parents, she was able to receive
flying lessons from Anita Snook, a pioneer female pilot. By 1923, Amelia was
the 16th women to be issued a pilot’s license.

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Born in 1820 to a wealthy family, Florence was educated at home by her
father. She aspired to serve others, in particular, she wanted to become a
nurse. Her parents were opposed to her aspirations.
Despite her parents’ disapproval, Florence went ahead and trained to be a
nurse. Florence later wrote that she felt suffocated by the vanities and social
expectations of her upbringing. On one occasion, sitting in her parent’s
garden, she felt a call from God to serve others. She resolved to try and
follow God’s will in being of service to others.
In 1853, the Crimea war broke out. This was a bloody conflict .
Later in 1855, Florence Nightingale was asked to travel to the Crimea and
organise a group of nurses.
Florence was very glad to be able to take up the post and put in to use her
training as a nurse. They were based at the staff hospital at Scutari. She was
overwhelmed by the primitive and chaotic conditions. There were insufficient
beds for the men and conditions were terrible; the place smelt, was dirty, and
even had rats running around spreading disease. Speaking of Scutari
Hospital, Florence Nightingale said:
“The British high command had succeeded in creating the nearest thing to
hell on earth.”
In the beginning, the nurses were not even allowed to treat the dying men;
they were only instructed to clean the hospital. But, eventually, the number of
casualties became so overwhelming the doctors asked Florence and her
team of nurses to help.
The efforts of Florence and her team of nurses were greatly appreciated by
the wounded soldiers and gradually positive news reports filtered back home.

During her time in the Crimea, she developed a persona as being “The Lady
with the Lamp.”, after her habit of making rounds at night.

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By the time she returned home, she had become a national heroine and was
decorated with numerous awards including one from Queen Victoria.
With the help of donations to the Nightingale Fund, she was able to found a
training school for nurses at St Thomas’s Hospital, London. In (1859) she
wrote Notes on Nursing. This became a standard reference book for those
entering the nursing profession and also the general public who wished to
learn basic techniques.

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Nightingale also wrote about the role of women in society – she called for
women to be less passive and take a greater role in society.

“Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a
place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?”
– Cassandra (1860)

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Helen Keller was born on 27th June, 1880 in
Tuscumbia , Alabama in USA. When she
was only 19 months old, she had a fever and
became deaf and blind. As a little child, she
wanted to communicate with other people.
For the first few years of her life, she was
only able to communicate with her family
through a rudimentary number of signs; she
had a little more success communicating

with the six-year-old daughter of the family cook.
Keller visited the Perkins Institute for the Blind, and this led to a long
relationship with Anne Sullivan – who was a former student herself and
became her tutor. Sullivan was visually impaired and, aged only 20, and with
no prior experience, she set about teaching Helen how to communicate. The
two maintained a long relationship of 49 years.
In the beginning, Keller was frustrated by her inability to pick up the hand
signals that Sullivan was giving. However, after a frustrating month, Keller
picked up on Sullivan’s system of hand signals through understanding the
word water. Sullivan poured water over Keller’s left hand and wrote out on her
right hand the word ‘water’. This helped Helen to fully understand the system,
and she was soon able to identify a variety of household objects.
She discovered how words related to things. This changed her life and
inspired her to begin to write.

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During her education, she also learned to speak and practise lip-reading. Her sense of touch became extremely subtle. She also found that deafness and
blindness encouraged her to develop wisdom and understanding from
beyond the senses.

“We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the
use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek
wisdom beyond the senses.”
― Helen Keller, The Five-sensed World (1910)

She became the first deaf-blind person to attain a bachelor’s degree and
became an influential campaigner for social, political and disability issues.
Her public profile helped de-stigmatise blindness and deafness, and she was
seen as a powerful example of someone overcoming difficult circumstances.

“Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of
all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I knew only darkness
and stillness. Now I know hope and joy.”
– Helen Keller, On Optimism (1903).
In 1903, she published “The story of my life”.
It recounted her struggles to overcome her disabilities and the way it forced
her to look at life from a different perspective.

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so
long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened
for us.”
― Helen Keller

In her book “Midstream” she wrote about how frustrating it was to study
braille. In fact, she was very impatient and hungry for words.

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Hellen Keller’s greatest achievement was after her teacher died in 1936: she
proved to the world that the disabled can be independent. She hated the word
“handicapped”. She passed away on 15 June ,1968 in West port, USA.

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Beatrix Potter was born on 28th July 1866 in London.

Beatrix was born in Kensington, London to middle-class, Unitarian parents. Her father, Robert was a distinguished lawyer, and her mother the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Her parents were also artistic and this artistic talent was passed on to Beatrix.

She spent much of her early life in her own company; she rarely saw her brother Ewan, who was sent to boarding school. Having little social contact with children of her own age, Beatrix began to be drawn into her own world of creating her own stories, based on animals. Beatrix was a naturally gifted artist, and with some art lessons, she also learnt the technical side of drawing. She later wrote:

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

Her parents took her to lake district, watching squirrels in the woods or seeing rabbits. She began to make many sketches of the landscape and of wild animals. She made greeting cards of the pictures of the pictures of the animals.

In 1902 she published “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”. Each drawing of Peter Rabbit would be in colour. Beatrix insisted that the book remain small, so that it would be easy for children to hold. By the end of the year, 28,000 copies were in print.

In 1905 she bought a little farm in Sawrey, she continued to write and buy farms.

She lived here for the remainder of her life. Due to failing eyesight, Beatrix later stopped writing her children books; instead, she devoted her time to the breading of sheep and helping the conservation of Lakeland farms. She was particularly interested in the breeding and raising of local Herdwick sheep, and she became one of the major Herdwick sheep farmers of the area. She felt very much as home in the local agricultural shows:

I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows. [1939 interview]

When she died on 22nd December 1943, Beatrix Potter left fourteen farms and 4000 acres. She gave this gift to her nation. In Beatrix Potter we recognize the love for nature and nature. Beatrix Potter can be considered one of the most significant British women and writers

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Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois.
Her father was a local miller and political leader.
Shortly after Jane`s second birthday, her mother died.
In 1877, Addams entered the Rockford Female Seminary. She excelled in her
studies.
Addams wanted to continue her studies in the field of medicine, just as her
brothers had. But her father had a different idea for her future. He believed
that if she continued at school, she would never marry and create a family of
her own. He quickly swept her and the rest of the family off to Europe for a
year or two.
The thought of marrying and raising a family caused a great deal of stress for
Addams and she began to slip into a depression.
After 21 months in Europe, Addams and her family returned home. Following
their return, her father died. Addams blamed herself for her father`s death,
and that pushed her into an even deeper depression.
After her recovery, Addams left once again for Europe, this time with friends.
It was during that tour that she discovered Toynbee Hall. Located in one of
London`s slum areas, Toynbee Hall served as a settlement house for the less
fortunate. It was then that she and Ellen Starr decided to establish a
settlement house in Chicago.

With the help of local benefactors, Addams and Starr founded Hull House in
1889. Hull House offered schooling, medical care, legal aid, child care, music,
art, and drama to the underprivileged.
After starting Hull House, Addams and other Hull House residents and
supporters launched several new projects, including the Immigrants`
Protective League and the Juvenile Protective Association. About this time
she also was appointed to Chicago`s Board of Education and became the
first woman president of the National Conference of Charities and
Corrections. In 1894 Addams founded the Chicago Federation of
Settlements. She served as chairwoman of the Labor Committee of the
General Federation of Women`s Clubs.
After being attacked for her support of workers during the Haymarket riots,
donor support for Hull-House dropped drastically. Addams supplemented
the funding with lecturing tours and articles she had written. In 1909, she
helped found the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People). In 1910, she published the first of many books, including
her autobiography, Twenty Years at Hull House, which became her greatest
work and made her a wealthy woman.

Morally opposed to war, whiche she trid to stop,
Addams organized the Women`s Peace Party
and the International Congress of Women.
In 1917, the U.S. entered the war. Addams`
efforts to stop it caused her to come under
huge amounts of criticism.
Those problems did not stop her efforts, and in
1919 she was elected the first president of the
Women`s International League for Peace and
Freedom.

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She held that position until her death.

In 1926, Addams suffered a heart attack from
which she would never fully recover. Her health
continued to decline and on December 10, 1931,
she was admitted to a Baltimore hospital. That was
the same day she was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize.
Addams died on May 21, 1935, just three days
after an operation revealed she had cancer.
Funeral services were held in the courtyard of Hull House and she was
buried in her hometown of Cedarville.