Amelia Earhart was in the Air 78 years ago today

[BOSSHOG]

flying from New Foundland to Wales in about 21 hours.

[neoblues]

1. And she'd be about a month and a week short of 109 years old...

too (DOB: July 24, 1897, Atchison, Kansas).

[Benhurst]

2. For all we know, she still is.

:rofl:

[BOSSHOG]

3. God Bless Her!

A wonderful pioneer, maybe she's wearing her own wings now.

[1monster]

4. Amelia Earhart was the daughter of Edwin Earhart and Amy Otis.

Edwin Earhart was brother to Theresa Earhart who married Samuel Gettamy. Samuel and Theresa Gettamy were my Great-grandparents.

So, does that make her my fourth cousin, or my first cousin removed three times? :D

Whatever way you look at it, no one in the family has heard from her for seventy-eight years.

[MazeRat7]

5. Talk about exponential advancement...

I really think there is something to this "technology is advancing faster than our culture" mime....

I suspect it's because greed has become the proverbial wet blanket of cultural and civil advancement.

MZr7