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By Peace | December 20, 2010
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Bones found on island may belong to Amelia Earhart Friday, 17 December 2010
WELLINGTON (AFP) – – US aircraft history buffs are hopeful that tiny bones along with artefacts from the 1930s found on a remote Pacific island may reveal the fate of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart.
In one of aviation’s most enduring mysteries, Earhart took off from Lae, in what is now Papua New Guinea, while attempting to circumnavigate the globe via the equator in 1937 and was never seen again.
A massive search at the time failed to find the flyer and her navigator Fred Noonan, who were assumed to have died after ditching their Lockheed Electra aircraft in the ocean, according to the Amelia Earhart Museum….
After I had read this news, I did a search on this woman at Wikipedia.
Amelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, 1897; missing July 2, 1937; declared legally dead January 5, 1939) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the US Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart joined the faculty of the world-famous Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman’s Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.
The whole night I did not have any dream. But this morning, I continued to read what was written on wikipedia. I dozed off. I had a mysterious dream in a foreign land. Richard left us. Ricsson drove the car. I was sitting beside Ricsson, so worried that he would hit oncoming cars. I was so surprised that he could drive the car so well! He could steer well and throughout the journey, it was a safe one. Sitting in the car, I helped to lookout for oncoming cars and the rear cars as well, and telling him to slow down or to help him to steer a bit of the steering wheel at times. At certain point, I asked him to step on the brakes to slow down. I asked him if he knew which was the brake and I was surprise that he knew it all. It was very challenging, heart-throbbing dream. The scary part was at the T-junction. It was a very steep slope. Ricsson could not manage it. I quickly asked him to step on the brakes. I helped to pull up the hand brakes as well. He car seemed to slide down a bit, and I was so scared that it might rolled back (and might hit other cars). I was carrying Isaac and had to ask Clara to take over. I don’t know what happened… it was so fast (or that I cannot remember everything). All I know was I was standing in front of Clara, who was sitting at the rear seat. The car door was opened. I had passed Isaac over to her. But what was in front of me now was a small little kid, with a even small little ‘doll’ (baby)… I called out,”Where is Clara?” The next thing I knew in my heart was: they had changed identity .
Later, we came to another foreign place that has no trees at all and looked white (creamy-white): clays, something like Grand Canyons. Water covered the clays and inside were words. I did not go near to see the words. We arrived at the place. Richard was driving the car. I was sitting in the car and I realized that Riccson was not in the car. I was so worried for Ricsson. I asked Richard for a solution… After we alighted, Richard cycled back (Thailand) to the place to look for Ricsson. Meanwhile at this place, a woman was with me. It looked like an ex-tenant of mine, a China woman. She wanted to buy something from the store. I was with her. She bought a drink and saw some food on display. The food looked like white noodle (Hor Fan), but it was coated black and did not look appetizing to me. But I helped her and the storekeeper asked me to take myself. During payment time, this China woman saw something else. She asked some questions about the white dumplings. The storekeeper was so impatient and not happy with all her questions and bargaining.
I was so worried about the safety of the two guys. I called Richard’s handphone, which I do not know if it would work in a foreign land. Nevertheless, I tried. I dialled the numbers, pressing each numbers and calling each numbers in the dream. It got through and a man’s voice was heard. It spoke English. The voice sounded like Richard, but it was definitely not Richard’s voice. His English was quite good. Later, he told me his name, YY (intials, cannot remember the full name). He was from Penang! I said I got the wrong number. Perhaps instead of 9, I had pressed 7. So in the dream, I had to be more careful this time. I pressed slowly and carefully, using my heart and also saying the numbers of Richard’s handphone…. when I woke up, I was still recalling the handphone numbers… (just two days ago, in one of the dream, I saw my Chinese name on one shop. I was so surprised to find my name on the shop…)
Records and achievements
Amelia Earhart received the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor from the French Government in June 1932
Woman’s world altitude record: 14,000 ft (1922)
First woman to fly the Atlantic (1928)
Speed records for 100 km (and with 500 lb (230 kg) cargo) (1931)
First woman to fly an autogyro (1931)
Altitude record for autogyros: 15,000 ft (1931)
First person to cross the U.S. in an autogyro (1932)
First woman to fly the Atlantic solo (1932)
First person to fly the Atlantic twice (1932)
First woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross (1932)
First woman to fly non-stop, coast-to-coast across the U.S. (1933)
Woman’s speed transcontinental record (1933)
First person to fly solo between Honolulu, Hawaii and Oakland, California (1935)
First person to fly solo from Los Angeles, California to Mexico City, Mexico (1935)
First person to fly solo nonstop from Mexico City, Mexico to Newark, New Jersey (1935)
Speed record for east-to-west flight from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii (1937)
Assuming another identity
In November 2006, the National Geographic Channel aired episode two of the Undiscovered History series about a claim that Earhart survived the world flight, moved to New Jersey, changed her name, remarried and became Irene Craigmile Bolam (October 1, 1904 – July 7, 1982; was a New York banker and resident of Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey). This claim had originally been raised in the book Amelia Earhart Lives (1970) by author Joe Klaas, based on the research of Major Joseph Gervais. Irene Bolam, who had been a banker in New York during the 1940s, denied being Earhart, filed a lawsuit requesting $1.5 million in damages and submitted a lengthy affidavit in which she refuted the claims. The book’s publisher, McGraw-Hill, withdrew the book from the market shortly after it was released and court records indicate that they made an out of court settlement with her. Subsequently, Bolam’s personal life history was thoroughly documented by researchers, eliminating any possibility she was Earhart. Kevin Richlin, a professional criminal forensic expert hired by National Geographic, studied photographs of both women and cited many measurable facial differences between Earhart and Bolam…
Last night, I had another ‘revelations’…
1. John Barth: John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work….
2. Liza Wang, Elizabeth Wang Ming-chun, August 28, 1947 (age 63), Shanghai, Republic of China married Law Kar-ying (traditional Chinese: 羅家英; born August 27, 1946 in Shunde, Guangdong, Republic of China) on 2 May 2009…
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