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Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Kansas to Amy and Samuel Earhart.
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Amelia saw her first airplane visiting the state fair.
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When Amelia was 12, she went to a private school for seventh grade.
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Amelia went to college at Columbia University.
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Amelia had her first flying lessons with Neta Snook.
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Amelia bought her first plane named "The Canary."
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Amelia broke the women's record of altitude, when she rose to 14,000 feet.
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Amelia was the first women to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She flew for 20 hours and 40 minutes.
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Amelia married George P. Putnam
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Amelia died in the pacific ocean on a flight around the world with her navigator Fred Noonan. She drowned and disappeared.But there is a theory that she survived in the island for longer than that.