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Now and then 20 May

... Royal Hospital for the first time. The show started in 1827, moving to larger venues until it settled in Chelsea. 1932: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to complete a solo air crossing of the Atlantic 1939: The first regular North Atlantic airmail ...

Published: Monday 20 May 1996
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

MISSING FLIERS SAF AERODROME ANXIETY

... Island , . iiid Captain William Lancaster wcro returning from Miami in an Avro biplane presented By Lfltly Heath to Aliss Amelia Earhart . They reached Philadelphia yesterday morning , and hopped of ! for Curtis Field shortly before noon , but wei ' e forced ...

Published: Friday 11 January 1929
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Great Welcome in Paris

... Great Welcome in Paris Paei 3 , June 3 . —Amelia Earhart arrived in Paris just after two o ' clock . For a few moments she was separated from her husband by the crush on the platform . The crowd surged round her , and she stood the'ordeal of being ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1932
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 213 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Birthdays

... Lacoste, o tennis champion::: =% o Deaths: 1566 Nostradamus; astrologer; 1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher; 1937 Amelia Earhart, aviator; 1961 Ernest: Hemingway, novelist - - (suicide); 1973 Betty Grable.. - actress. - iAo 2 ...

Published: Thursday 02 July 1998
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

U.S. AIRWOMAN’S LONG NON-STOP FLIGHT

... U.S. AIRWOMAN’S LONG NON-STOP FLIGHT Miss Amelia Earh.art (Mrs George Putnam), the Atlantic flier, who jef Mexico City at nine minutes past eight yesterday morning (New York time) on a non-stop filght to New York, syccess. fully accomplished the feat, ...

Published: Thursday 09 May 1935
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

WOMAN ATLANTIC FLIER

... Her Husband in France Chebeochg , June 3 . —Though she 6 toutly dared death in her Jone flight over tho Atlantic , Miss Amelia Earhart was too shy to kiss her husband , Mr G . P . Putnam , » the publisher , in public when they met at eight this morning ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1932
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 197 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

ENDURANCE AVIATION . WOMAN'S NEW EECOED ATTEMPT

... Island , is only 17 . In her flight with the British airman she used the Avro biplane presented by'Lady-Heath to Miss Amelia Earhart , of Transatlantic flight fame . —Router . ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1929
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

NEW RECORD FOR WOMEN

... airwoman , has broken the women ' s long-distance non-stop record of 3939 kilometres ( 2447 miles ) set up by the late Miss Amelia Earhart in 1932 . She landed at Abadan , Iran ( Persia ) at 7 . 30 p . m . ( British Summer Time ) yesterday , after having flown ...

Published: Monday 16 May 1938
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Apple thinks different by exiling Dalai Lama

... different by exiling Dalai Lama APPLE Computers has replaced the Dalai Lama with historical figures such as the US aviator Amelia Earhart in its advertisements in Asia because it said the Tibetan spiritual leader was not “easily recognised”. The Dalai Lama ...

Published: Tuesday 14 April 1998
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

Colorado Stage Company

... Company ON THIS year’s Fi onefrom Colorado is a must. fo ‘anyone who wants to see a fmw of a- fastine m plays -excellently Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly the Atlantic. The play opens with Amelia meefln(,-zer ‘death -over. the Pacific - when in 1937 ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1984
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: 8 | Tags: none