lazyjacks
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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lazyjacks, light lines led from the
hounds or lower
spreaders to each side of the boom of a sailing vessel. They prevent the sail bellying out to
leeward when it is hoisted or lowered, a convenience for a short-handed crew.
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Amelia Earhart still flying high
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 3/24/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION The Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum really is the...PHOTO - Color) (PHOTO PROVIDED) Amelia Earhart was most certainly a woman ahead...publications as Cosmopolitan. Amelia Earhart is inextricably entwined with...
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AMELIA AVIATOR AMELIA EARHART SOARED, BUT HER FEET WERE FIRMLY PLANTED IN THE VALLEY, WHERE SHE LIVED AND WORKED [Corrected 12/02/ 09]
Newspaper article from: Los Angeles Daily News; 10/18/2009; 700+ words
; ...farther and farther until one day, Amelia Earhart vanished."If Amelia had survived...who served as president of the Amelia Earhart Bronzing Committee. "We can...East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart," written by author Susan Butler...
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AMELIA AVIATOR AMELIA EARHART SOARED, BUT HER FEET WERE FIRMLY PLANTED IN THE VALLEY, WHERE SHE LIVED AND WORKED.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 10/18/2009; 700+ words
; ...farther and farther until one day, Amelia Earhart vanished. "If Amelia had survived...who served as president of the Amelia Earhart Bronzing Committee. "We can...East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart," written by author Susan Butler...
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Seattle exhibit makes Amelia Earhart, and her planes, real.(Aerospace News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 10/29/2009; 700+ words
; ...piece of the faring damaged on Amelia Earhart's first attempt to fly around...that it would be neat to have an Amelia Earhart exhibit timed to coincide with...Nonetheless, "In search of Amelia Earhart" is set to open Saturday, a...
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'Whistled Like a Bird' is a fascinating look at the friendship between Amelia Earhart and Dorothy Putnam.(Originated from The Orlando Sentinel)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/23/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...morning sky on June 1, 1937, Amelia Earhart took off in her Lockheed Electra...Everyone, it seems, has an Amelia Earhart story. A new one, which draws...Dorothy Putnam, George Putnam and Amelia Earhart'' (Warner, $22, 266 pages...
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WHAT HAPPENED TO AMELIA EARHART?
Transcript from: ABC Turning Point; 6/12/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...But what really happened to Amelia Earhart? RIC GILLESPIE, Expedition Leader...me that nobody has looked for Amelia Earhart in the most likely place? FORREST...This woman may, indeed, be Amelia Earhart. Mrs. GUY BOLAM (ph): Utter...
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Amelia Earhart mystery simmers after 50 years
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/2/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...disappearance of record-forging aviator Amelia Earhart. A veteran State Department employee...unsigned and made no mention of Amelia Earhart. But it was addressed to the...1966 author of The Search for Amelia Earhart, confirmed that he also has a...
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`AMELIA EARHART'; Now a Legend, Then a Star
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/24/1993; ; 700+ words
; Amelia Earhart had nearly finished her...part of themselves as the `Amelia part,' the part that feels...frozen in time." Because Earhart came of age when newsreels...psychological portrait." Amelia Earhart came along at the right...
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VOA NEWS: AMELIA EARHART'S DISAPPEARANCE STILL MYSTERY AFTER 70 YEARS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 6/29/2007; 700+ words
; ...that day, celebrated aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared without a trace...to seek out information about Amelia Earhart. "Earhart's disappearance...records and making headlines, Amelia Earhart proved she could compete on an...
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Amelia Earhart: The Glamour Lives On
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/3/1997; ; 700+ words
; EAST TO THE DAWN The Life of Amelia Earhart By Susan Butler Addison-Wesley. 489 pp. $27.50 In June 1928 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly...Susan Ware's "Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism...
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Earhart, Amelia
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Amelia Earhart Born: July 24, 1897Atchison, KansasDied...rights activist The American aviator Amelia Earhart remains the world's best-known...in 1937. Childhood in the Midwest Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, the daughter...
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Earhart Amelia 1897-1937?
Book article from: American Decades
EARHART AMELIA 1897-1937? Aviatrix The Road to Flight...Raised in a traditional Kansas family, Amelia Earhart faced difficult times when her parents...pilots. Sources: Doris L. Rich, Amelia Earhart: A Biography (Washington, D.C...
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Amelia Earhart
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Amelia Earhart , 1897-1937, American aviator, b...Devine and R. Daley, Eyewitness: The Amelia Earhart Incident (1987); S. Ware, Still...Witness to the Execution: The Odyssey of Amelia Earhart (1999).
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Amelia Mary Earhart
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Amelia Mary Earhart The American aviator Amelia Mary Earhart Putnam (1897-1937) remains the world's best...disappearance during a round-the-world flight in 1937. Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, the daughter of Edwin...
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Cheung, Katherine Sui Fun
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...flying in blind and low visibility situations. Joined Amelia Earhart's Ninety Nines Cheung also joined a number of prominent...club asked her to join its ranks. Famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart had established the international group of women pilots...
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