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The name was in regular use by the 19th century in the Anglosphere, particularly in the United States, where it was among the 300 most used names for American girls between 1880 and 1890, among the top 500 names until 1922, and among the top 1,000 names until 1973.
British-born Kenyan aviator (one of the first bush pilots), adventurer, racehorse trainer and author; first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west Sarah Marquis: Swiss 1972: Swiss adventurer and explorer who walked 16,000 km (10,000 mi) across Asia, Siberia and Australia Nicole Maxwell: American 1906: 1998
Louise Arner Boyd (September 16, 1887 – September 14, 1972) was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic, who wrote extensively of her scientific expeditions.She became the first woman to fly over the North Pole in 1955, after privately chartering a DC-4 and crew that included aviation pioneers Thor Solberg and Paul Mlinar.
Marina is a feminine given name. It is the female version of the Roman family name Marinus, which is a form of the Latin name Marius. The meaning of Marius might be connected to Mars, the Roman god of war, or with the Latin word maris, meaning virile. It also later became associated with the Latin word marinus, meaning "of the sea". [1]
The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends , or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population .
She was the natural leader of the girls in her age group because of her initiative, humour and fearlessness, qualities she has preserved unwaveringly to the present day”. [3] Ingrid married Lars Christensen in 1910, uniting two of Sandefjord's most powerful ship owning families, and they had six children. [4] [5]
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Attempting to reach another safe fur trading station in the Pacific Northwest, one of Dorion's two horses collapsed in the Blue Mountains. [5] [7] She supported her two children for 50 days during winter. [5] Dorion created snare traps out of the horse manes to provide a supply of mice and squirrels for her family. [7]