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On 8 March, 1910 Raymonde de Laroche became the world's first licensed female pilot
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the...
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the University of Houston, complete with a 3-minute audio version.
The week of 8 March is also International Women of Aviation Week, celebrating all the female aviators (people are getting away from using gender-specific words like aviatrix that weren't necessary in English anyway), including Jacqueline Cochran, the wartime head of Women Airforce Service Pilots in the U.S. and who would go on to be the first woman to break the sound barrier; Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first African-American and Native American woman aviator and presumably the first licensed female pilot of mixed race to participate in air races and barnstorming stunt shows across the U.S. and Europe; Leah Hing, the first Chinese-American female pilot and who started her own flight school after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931; among many other women past and present who are earning their pilot's license.
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How a stuffed animal named Billy Possum tried—and failed—to replace the teddy bear as America’s national toy
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The president and the psychoanalyst: what Sigmund Freud saw in Woodrow Wilson
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Eastern Front of WW1 animated: 1914
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Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica
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The secret of how Roald Amundsen beat Captain Robert Falcon Scott in race to south pole? A diet of raw penguin
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How did the Qing dynasty collapse? The Xinhai revolution explained
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This isn't the first time a crisis has come during election year. So how have we dealt with things like this before?
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The flu killed forty million in 1918. Every flu season since is descended from it
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The extraordinary story of Joy Whitehead - female soldier of the first world war
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Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened
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Germany's plans to win WWI
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