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The women listed below are or were explorers or world travelers. They include naturalists, sailors, mountain climbers, dog sledders, swimmers, pilots, and underwater explorers. Astronauts are not included here but in the list of women astronauts.
[2]: 166, 205 When she decided to take on the Atlantic crossing, no pilot had yet flown non-stop from Europe to New York. On 4 September 1936, she took off from Abingdon , southern England. After a 20-hour flight, her Percival Vega Gull , VP-KCC named "The Messenger", suffered fuel starvation due to icing of the fuel tank vents, and she crash ...
During her life, Earhart embraced celebrity culture and women's rights, and since her disappearance has become a global cultural figure. She was the first female pilot to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean and set many other records. [2]
Judith Rodin was the first permanent female president of an Ivy League University (specifically, the University of Pennsylvania.) [220] Alice Rivlin became the first woman to serve as Director of the Office of Management and Budget; she served under President Bill Clinton. [176] 1995 Eileen Collins was the female pilot for the Space Shuttle (on ...
Victoria Murden McClure (born March 6, 1963 [1]) is an athlete, adventurer, chaplain, lawyer, and university administrator who was the first woman and the first American to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, which she did in 1999. [2]
Harriet Quimby became the first licensed female pilot in America on August 1, 1911. On April 16, 1912, she was the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel. She pointed the direction for future women pilots including her friend, Matilde Moisant, buried at the Portal of the Folded Wings.
Usha and JD share three children: Ewan Blaine, 7, Vivek, 4, and Mirabel Rose, 3. Ewan Blaine was born in June 2017. Vivek was born in February 2020.
These figures are "massive statues of Toltec warriors". [1] They take their post-Columbian name from the European tradition of similar Atlas or Atalante figures in classical architecture. Though the most famous Atlantean figures reside in Tula, the Olmecs were the first to use Atlantean figures on a relief discovered in Potrero Nuevo. [2]