* In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first female to make a solo flight across the Atlantic

It is perhaps best known as the island Amelia Earhart never reached.

In keeping with its intended aviation role, Howland Island became a scheduled refueling stop for American pilot Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan on their round-the-world flight in 1937.

Earhart Light, pictured here showing damage it sustained during World War II, was named for Amelia Earhart during the late 1930s.

" Colonists ", sent to the island to establish possession claims by the United States, built the Earhart Light — named after Amelia Earhart — as a day beacon or navigational landmark.

East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart.

Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved.

* 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean ( she is a passenger ; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic ).

* 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.

* 1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

* 1897 – Amelia Earhart is born.

* 1897 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author ( d. 1937 )

There is speculation that Amelia Earhart might have crash-landed her plane at Nikumaroro in the Phoenix Islands group during her 1937 attempt to fly around the world.

Other guests included George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Elinor Glyn, Helen Keller, H. G. Wells, Lord Mountbatten, Fritz Kreisler, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Noël Coward, Max Reinhardt, Baron Nishi, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Austen Chamberlain, Sir Harry Lauder, and the Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba.

* 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.

* 1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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* January 5 – Amelia Earhart is officially declared dead after her disappearance.

** Irene Craigmile Bolam, American Amelia Earhart look-alike / believed alias ( d. 1982 )

* June 17 – Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean ( she succeeds the next day ).

** Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off from New Guinea during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.

* July 24 – Amelia Earhart, American aviator ( d. 1937 – presumed )

At the novel's beginning, Becky Sharp is a bright girl with an eye to improving her lot through marrying up the social scale ; though she is thoroughly unsentimental, she is nonetheless portrayed as being a good friend to Amelia.

Amelia Bloomer arrived late and took a seat in the upstairs gallery, there being none left in the main seating area.

Amelia is encouraged to stay on her chosen path by Grace, her cleaning woman — who is also her niece ( without either of the women being aware of this ), and by Tom Viner, a young doctor who becomes their lodger.

In the operas, his motivation is changed to jealousy over his wife Amelia, with whom Gustav is portrayed as being in love.

Another feature of the novels is the egalitarian theme, with Amelia and her family being very close to the family of their original Egyptian reis ( foreman ) Abdullah, to the extent that there is a marriage between Amelia's niece and Abdullah's grandson.

On the strength of this substantial donation other people began to donate Egyptian material to the museum, and by the later years of the 19th century the museum had a substantial collection that Amelia Edwards described as being the most important collection of Egyptian antiquities in England next to the contents of the British Museum.

The Lady Amelia Windsor ( Amelia Sophia Theodora Mary Margaret Windsor ; born 24 August 1995 ) is the younger daughter of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews and Sylvana Windsor, Countess of St Andrews, and is thus a granddaughter of the Duke of Kent, in addition to being a great-great granddaughter of George V. She was born at the Rosie Hospital, Cambridge.

Hawkins was crowned by outgoing titleholder Amelia Vega from the Dominican Republic, after famously being announced by host Billy Bush as the " thunder from down under ".

He also remembered being forced to shoot either Christina or Amelia by a soldier.

: This article is about the American publisher, the author and explorer who lived from 1887 to 1950 and was famous for being married to ( and the widower of ) Amelia Earhart.

Known for his marriage to ( and being the widower of ) Amelia Earhart, he had also achieved fame as one of the most successful promoters in the United States during the 1930s.

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The Acolytes, finally joined by Amelia Voght, were last seen in X-Men: Legacy, where Exodus attempts to revive Professor X after being shot by Bishop.

" Coyote ", " Amelia " and " Hejira " became concert staples shortly after Hejiras release, especially after being featured on the live album Shadows and Light, alongside " Furry Sings the Blues " and " Black Crow ".

Mitchell has commented on the origins of the song: " I was thinking of Amelia Earhart and addressing it from one solo pilot to another ... sort of reflecting on the cost of being a woman and having something you must do.

** Amelia is finally in 6th grade, but she is suffering from a cruel teacher named Mr. Lambaste and her friends not being in her class.

He appears as a character throughout most of the Amelia Peabody series of books by Elizabeth Peters ( a pseudonym of Egyptologist Dr Barbara Mertz ); and in much of Arthur Phillips's The Egyptologist.

In 1851, on a street in Seneca Falls, Anthony was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton by a mutual acquaintance, as well as fellow feminist Amelia Bloomer.

It was restored in 1914 by Amelia Fowler, and again in 1998 as part of an ongoing conservation program.

* Amelia ( opera ), music by Daron Hagen ; libretto by Gardner McFall ; story by Stephen Wadsworth

* Amelia ( song ), a song by Joni Mitchell on her 1976 album Hejira

* " Amelia ", a song by The Mission, from the album Carved in Sand

* " Amelia ", a song by the Cocteau Twins on their 1984 album Treasure

* " Amelia ", a 1972 song by Wayne Cochran and The C. C.

* Amelia ( novel ), a 1751 sentimental novel by Henry Fielding

The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo ( 14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello ); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo ); The Teatro Costanzi ( 17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello ); La Scala ( 15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello ); La Fenice ( 26 December 1897, with Emilia Merolla as Mimì, Maria Martelli as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu and Franco Mannucci as Rodolfo, and Ferruccio Corradetti as Marcello ); Teatro Regio di Parma ( 29 January 1898, with Solomiya Krushelnytska as Mimì, Lina Cassandro as Musetta, Pietro Ferrari as Rodolfo, and Pietro Giacomello as Marcello ); And the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ( 21 August 1898, with Emilia Corsi as Mimì, Annita Barone as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu as Rodolfo, and Giovanni Roussel as Marcello ).

George ultimately decides to marry Amelia against his father's will, pressured by his friend Dobbin, and George is consequently disinherited.

He regrets this shortly afterwards and reconciles with Amelia, who has been deeply hurt by his attentions towards her former friend.

She tries to console Amelia, but Amelia responds angrily, disgusted by Becky's flirtatious behaviour with George and her lack of concern about Captain Crawley.

Meanwhile, since the death of George, Dobbin, who is young George's godfather, gradually begins to express his love for the widowed Amelia by small kindnesses toward her and her son.

Amelia mistakenly assumes this was done by her late husband.

Amelia begins as a warm-hearted and friendly girl, though sentimental and naive, but by story's end she is portrayed as vacuous and shallow.

Dobbin appears first as loyal and magnanimous, if unaware of his own worth ; by the end of the story he is presented as a tragic fool, a prisoner of his own sense of duty who knows he is wasting his gifts on Amelia but is unable to live without her.

BBC Radio broadcast an adaptation of the novel by Stephen Wyatt in 2004 starring Emma Fielding as Becky, Stephen Fry as the Narrator, Katy Cavanaugh as Amelia, David Calder, Philip Fox, Jon Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead as Mr. Osbourne, Ian Marsters as Mr. Sedley, Alice Hart as Maria Osbourne and Margaret Tyzack as Miss Crawley ( subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7, renamed BBC Radio 4 Extra, in twenty fifteen-minute episodes ).

In 1984, Close starred in the critically acclaimed drama Something about Amelia, a Golden Globe-winning television movie about a family destroyed by sexual abuse.

The first successful construction that was built in any number ( 141 aircraft ) was the Vega, best known for its use to several first-and record setting flights by, among others, Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post and George Hubert Wilkins.