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"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 a challenge to others."--Amelia Earhart
" I’ve never found my sex a hinderment; never faced a difficulty which a woman, as well as a man, could not surmount; never felt a fear of danger; never lacked courage to protect myself. I’ve been in tight places and have seen harrowing things."--Harriet Chalmers Adams
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In Memorium: 01-Feb-2003
The world lost seven explorers today, two of them female - Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian-born women to make it into space, and Laurel Clark, physician/astronaut. While we mourn with the families and friends of all who were lost, we also celebrate the lives of these courageous men and women. May there be many more such brave explorers to follow in their footsteps.
A Time For Loving: Part III
by E.B. Masloff
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| Ruth did not want to sell her Panda, it is clear in her writing that she felt manipulated by the press when she was trying to find the right place to house Su Lin. It almost seemed as if she mocked the press by asking $20,000 for Su Lin, as if she was trying to say that the bear was more precious than money. ...
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A Time For Loving: Part II
by E.B. Masloff
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| It was obvious that this was no killer animal. This was a defenseless creature that was left to the clutches of its’ wild habitat. ...
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A Time For Loving: Part I
by E.B. Masloff
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| It was 1936 when we Americans saw for the first time a living panda. It was a time for learning about a new kind of animal, one that no had ever seen alive in captivity before. It was no surprise to me that this amazing living creature was brought to us by a woman. ...
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Harriet Chalmers Adams: Part 3 - Harriet in Latin America
by D.A. Watson
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| Harriet and Frank Adams finally got their chance to travel to Latin America in 1904. Frank obtained work with the Inca Mining and Rubber Company inspecting mines in Central and South America, and the company would pay their passage!
Prior to leaving Stockton, Harriet began to research their destination – reading every book she could find that discussed the region. ...
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Gudridur: Most Traveled Woman of the Middle Ages
by D.A. Watson
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| Called “the greatest female explorer of all time” by the president of Iceland, the story of Gudridur Thorbjarnardottir is amazing. She explored the New World, gave birth there to the first child of European descent, returned to Europe, then walked to Rome to give the Vatican a first-person account of her journeys. And she accomplished all this some 500 years before Columbus made his voyage. ...
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Bibliography: Works about Margaret Bourke-White
by D.A. Watson
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| Learn more about Margaret Bourke-White - the first female photojournalist and war correspondent.
“Bourke-White’s Twenty-Five Years.” Life 38 (May 16, 1955): 16-18.
“Brave Story Retold: Bourke-White’s Ordeal Makes a TV Play.” Life 48 (Jan. 11, 1960): 78-79.
Brown, Theodore. Margaret Bourke-White, Photojournalist. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, Andrew D. White Museum of Art, 1972. ...
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Bibliography: Works by Margaret Bourke-White
by D.A. Watson
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| Learn more about Margaret Bourke-White - the first female photojournalist and war correspondent.
Eyes on Russia. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1931.
“Silk Stockings in the Five-Year Plan.” New York Times Magazine, Feb. 14, 1932, p. 4.
“Making Communists of Soviet Children.” New York Times Magazine, Mar. 6, 1932. pp. 4-5.
“Russian Audiences.” New York Times Magazine, Mar. 13, 1932, pp. ...
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Margaret Bourke-White: Amazing Photojournalist (Part 2)
by D.A. Watson
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| In 1936, spurred on the success of "picture tabloids" in Europe, Henry Luce decided to launch a picture magazine. This magazine, Life, hired Margaret Bourke-White as one of its four original photographers, and the only woman. Bourke-White's photograph of the Fort Peck Dam appeared on Life's first cover.
In 1937, Life published what was to become one of Margaret’s most famous photographs. ...
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| Woman in Antarctica on Round-World Flight |
A British pilot attempting to fly a single-engine plane across both poles and around the globe landed in Antarctica on Monday, nearly halfway through her voyage. ...
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| Earhart Expedition '100% Confident' |
One of the men behind the team searching for transatlantic pilot Amelia Earhart says her aircraft will be found soon. Ananova : Earhart expedition '100% confident' One of the men behind the team searching for transatlantic pilot Amelia Earhart says her aircraft will be found soon. ...
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| Women Booking Rooms of Their Own--and More |
This Labor Day weekend, a new kind of travel will be taking the roads and crowding the airports: solo women travelers, sometimes in pairs and groups, but definitely not with spouses and kids. ...
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| Earhart divers find only algae in search |
As a satellite photo recently hinted, there is a rusty-looking splotch in the coral reef at Nikumaroro, the South Pacific island where some believe Amelia Earhart died during her attempted around-the-world flight in 1937. Divers arrived at the search spot a few days ago and looked down. Thirty feet below, there it was: a blotch of red algae. ...
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| Alpine Trek Reveals Ordeal That Faced 19th-Century Climbers |
With their tweed jackets draped over the ends of their long alpenstocks, Les Swindin and Philip Martineau set the pace up for the group on the first day of the expedition, hiking up the steep mule trail from Mörel in the valley to Riederalp, 1,200 metres higher in altitude. ...
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| Amelia Earhart Hunt |
Early next year, the company hopes to add to that list Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed Electra, which they believe plunged into the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island, a tiny landing point in the Southwest Pacific Ocean that she and navigator Fred Noonan failed to locate during one of the final legs of their journey to circumnavigate the globe. ...
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| Oceanography Resources |
Paul Cabay has got a great source here for Oceanography related news, books and web resources! If it's about Oceanography, you'll find it here. ...
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| Panda Wishes |
For some great pictures of Ruth Harkness and her pandas, visit 'Panda Wishes!' E.B. Masloff has created this site about Ruth Harkness in honor of E.B.'s grandfather, Teen Becksted, who was Ruth's photographer. E.B. has also created a special book called 'Panda Wishes,' an educational panda and children’s story. Check it out. ...
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| Exploration Associations |
A survey of various geographical and exploration organizations put together by the editor of Femexplorers.com. ...
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| The Gertrude Bell Project |
A spectacular resource for Gertrude Bell researchers. You can view transcripts of "detailed and lively letters to her parents, of her 16 diaries, which she kept while she was travelling, and of c.40 packets of miscellaneous items. ...
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Women Who Dared II
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 A beautiful and inspirational poster with pictures and short vignettes of "women who dared."
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American Experience: Around the World in 72 Days (1997)
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 PBS Home Video. Many called her "the best reporter in America," and Nellie Bly truly achieved amazing successes. She got herself committed to an institution to expose abuses of the mentally ill and actually did travel around the world in 72 days. Discover the woman behind these and many other astonishing feats -- a serious yet spunky celebrity who mastered life through her cunning and wit.
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The Hawaiian Archipelago
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 By Isabella Bird. Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands.
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Women of Discovery
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 A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World by Milbry Polk, Mary Tiegreen. Across the centuries and from many lands, women have set forth on journeys of exploration. Visionaries, adventurers, artists, and scientists, these women challenged the limitations, both physical and social, of their times and, in the face of formidable challenges, expanded the world's body of knowledge. Yet despite their extraordinary achievements, they have remained unknown and unsung for too long.
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Amelia Earhart : A Biography
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 By Doris L. Rich. "Rich's portrait reveals a determined, independent woman, brave enough "to go where no one had gone and to do what no one had done" . . . [and] illuminates the public and private life of a legendary flier, bringing her back to earth as a courageous woman who dreamed and dared all." (Christian Science Monitor)
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