Posts tagged amelia earhart
TWiDN: Cats Make us Healthier, Dogs Too!
Cats (and dogs) are good for humans! Seriously! They help build immunity and help sustain our mental health.
Plus, Trace explains how Amelia Earhart’s plane might be just out of reach on the bottom of the Pacific, and how Earth and Mars both quake with plate tectonics.
Happy Birthday, Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart, the aviation pioneer who vanished over the Pacific 75 years ago, would have been 115 today. Meanwhile, researchers are scouring over data gathered during a deep-water search for her plane in the Pacific.
Google marked the aviator’s birthday with a Doodle on Google’s front page today. It shows Earhart climbing a Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane as her yellow scarf flutters in the wind.
Born in Kansas on July 24, 1897, Earhart became the first woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress. The award was granted after she flew her Lockheed Vega from Newfoundland in Canada to Culmore in Northern Ireland in 1932 — the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
plus: Full DiscoveryNews Amelia Earhart coverage here
What Amelia Earhart Left Behind
“It’s well documented Amelia had freckles and disliked having them,” Joe Cerniglia, the TIGHAR researcher who spotted the freckle ointment as a possible match, told Discovery News.
Cerniglia also identified two other bottles as containers of skin products. One green bottle was possibly St. Joseph’s Liniment, which had applications in first aid and as a mosquito repellent.
“This broken bottle was found partially melted in the remains of a cooking fire,” Thomas King, TIGHAR’s senior archaeologist and author of the summary article, told Discovery News.
“It may have been used in an effort to boil or distill drinking water — there is no fresh surface water on Nikumaroro except what can be caught during sporadic rain squalls,” King said.
Spectrographic analysis on another bottle revealed it likely contained Campana Italian Balm, a popular American hand lotion in the 1930s.
Inside the Search for Amelia Earhart
A new investigation focuses on finding pieces of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra aircraft.
Lost Footage of Amelia Earhart’s Plane
more on the investigation into where Earhart landed.
Search for Amelia Earhart’s Plane Begins
On the 75th anniversary of her disappearance, an expedition heads out to prove once and for all that Earhart landed and perished on a remote island.
This bottom image may hold the key to the investigation.
more images here
Full story of investigation here
Amelia Earhart Distress Call Details Emerge
Dozens of radio signals heard after her plane crashed add to evidence that the legendary aviator didn’t just vanish.
Amelia Earhart’s Anti-Freckle Cream Jar Possibly Found
A small cosmetic jar offers more circumstantial evidence that the legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart, died on an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.
also, we posted this gallery that looks at the jars that were found on the island.
Jars Hint at Amelia Earhart as Castaway
On the southeast end of Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific Ocean, archaeologists are finding artifacts that suggest Amelia Earhart may have survived for a time there as a castaway.
A partial skeleton of a castaway was discovered at the so-called Seven Site in 1940 and this is where several shards of glass have been recovered.
Some of the items contained products used only by women.
more here
Search for Amelia Earhart Starts Again
The search for Amelia Earhart will resume this summer in the waters off Nikumaroro, an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati where the legendary pilot might have died as a castaway.
