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She was born in Atchison (Kansas)
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Amelia completed her high school education at Hyde Park High School in Chicago, and prepared to start in Bryn Mawr University.
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She changed her plans when she saw the returning wounded soldiers. She took a nursing course and spend the rest of the World War I as an assistant at Toronto’s Spadina Military Hospital.
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Amelia started at Columbia University to study medicine but left a year later to reunite with his parents in Los Angeles.
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She went to an airfield where Frank Hawks gave her a ride that would forever change Earhart's life.
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After her parents divorced, Amelia moved to Boston with her mother and sister.
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She receives a proposal from Captain Hilton H. Railey to attempt to cross the Atlantic, as a passenger, along with two other experienced pilots.
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They took off for Burry Port (Wales), arriving in 20 hours and 40 minutes.
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She got married with the American publisher, author and explorer, George P. Putnam
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She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from Hawaii to California, and then to Washington. Ten pilots had tried and died.
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In June 1, Amelia and Noonan took off from Oakland, California, on a flight around the world. They reached Lae, New Guinea, on June 29. It was the last time Earhart was seen alive. She and Noonan lost radio contact with the U.S. Coast Guard.
