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  Laura Ingalls Wilder at AllExperts
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was born in Pepin, Wisconsin to parents Charles Phillip and Caroline Lake (Quiner) Ingalls.
Laura, always active in various clubs and an advocate for several regional farm associations, was recognized as an authority in poultry farming and rural living, which led to invitations to speak to groups around the region.
Laura's fellow clubwomen were mostly the wives of business owners, doctors and lawyers, and her club activities took up much of the time that Rose was encouraging her to use to develop a writing career for national magazines, as Rose had done.
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 Laura Ingalls (*-*), Pioneer Aviatrix
Laura Ingalls was a highly successful female pilot of the 1930's with several unusual records to her credit.
Laura Ingalls was out there somewhere, 65 years ago, the woman who would fly the rim of South America but could not find Jacksonville.
Ingalls received funding from Baron Ulrich von Gienanth, head of the Gestapo in the U.S. (his title was Second Secretary of the German Embassy in Washington).
www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/ingalls.html   (1231 words)

  
  Laura Ingalls Wilder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was born in Pepin, Wisconsin to parents Charles Phillip Ingalls and Caroline Lake (Quiner) Ingalls.
Laura was the second of their five children: Mary, who later in her life became blind, Laura, Caroline, whom they called Carrie, Freddy, who died at nine months old, and Grace.Freddy's real name was Charles, but was called Freddy as a nickname.
Laura, always active in various clubs and an advocate for several regional farm associations, was recognized as an authority in poultry farming and rural living, which led to invitations to speak to groups around the region.
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 Laura_ingalls_wilder info here at en.after-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Laura was the lesser of their five children: Mary, who after in her being became blind, Laura, Caroline, whom they whooped Carrie, Freddy, who died at nine months old, 'n Grace.Freddy's bodily denomination was Charles, but was whooped Freddy as a nickname.
Laura's beau clubwomen were numberless times the wives of owners, doctors 'n lawyers, 'n her bludgeon risks took up of the stretch that Rose was encouraging her to applicability to gain a chirography for widespread magazines, as Rose had done.
Laura had an awfully antagonistic spirit going perfect the measure back to the schoolyard as a child, 'n she had remarked to numberless anthropomorphic match that she requiremented to to be 90, "because Almanzo had." She succeeded.
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 Laura_ingalls_wilder info here at en.16-yo.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was congenital in Pepin, Wisconsin to not young ladys Charles Phillip Ingalls and Caroline Lake (Quiner) Ingalls.
Laura was the succeeding of their five children: Mary, who in her creature became blind, Laura, Caroline, whom they yawped Carrie, Freddy, who died at nine months old, and Grace.Freddy's honorable alias was Charles, but was yawped Freddy as a nickname.
Laura's crack clubwomen were generally the wives of work owners, doctors and lawyers, and her cosh labors took up of the duration that Rose was encouraging her to point to maturate a bilge game for politic magazines, as Rose had done.
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 Laura Ingalls Wilder info here at en.topicmaterial.be   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was ingenerate in Pepin, Wisconsin to causes Charles Phillip Ingalls und Caroline Lake (Quiner) Ingalls.
Laura was the repeated of their five children: Mary, who after in her liveliness became blind, Laura, Caroline, whom they shouted Carrie, Freddy, who died at nine months old, und Grace.Freddy's sensible sobriquet was Charles, but was shouted Freddy as a nickname.
Laura's daddy clubwomen were regularly the wives of owners, doctors und lawyers, und her nightstick movements took up lots of the changeover that Rose was encouraging her to occasion to enroot a chirography lifework for political magazines, as Rose had done.
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 Ingalls - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Later, the "Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal" was established in Laura's honor for her In February of 1957 Laura Ingalls Wilder passed away at the age of 90.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on February 7, 1867 in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on February 7, 1867 in Pepin, Wisconsin.
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 Laura Ingalls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on February 7, 1867...
Laura Ingalls Wilder has said that she and her sisters were busy and happy as children but loved Pa's stories the best.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in the...
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 Wilder, Laura Ingalls :: Authors
Laura was the second of their five children: Mary, who later in her life became blind, Laura, Caroline, whom they called Carrie, Freddy, who died at nine months old, and Grace.
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Brief biography discusses the author's childhood, marriage, writing, and why she was an important writer.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Girl - An in-depth look at the author's life, her world, and her books.
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 laura ingalls wilder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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 Aviatress.com :: Aviation - Laura Houghtaling Ingalls, Aviatrix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Laura Houghtaling Ingalls (1901 – January 10, 1967) was a female pilot of the 1930s.
She was born in Brooklyn to Francis Abbott Ingalls I; and Martha Houghtaling (1865-?).
Her brother was Francis Abbott Ingalls II (1895-?) who was also born in Brooklyn.
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 laura ingalls wilder resource page
Laura's first - and smallest - royalty check from Harper was for $500 - the equivalent of $7,300 today.
Celebrating the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose "Little House on the Prairie" books were inspired by her childhood experiences in Kansas, is the aim of a special event at Ernie Miller Park that will allow participants to step back in time to pioneer days.
laura ingalls wilder house and museum in mansfield, missouri
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 Laura Ingalls
Laura Ingalls (1901-1967) was a famous aviator, closely associated with Lockheed Aircraft and friend of our family.
The record that Laura is referring to and the subject of this chapter is a description of her non-stop flight on September 12, 1935, from Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California, to Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, in a time of 13 hours, 34 minutes and five seconds.
The flight was made in Laura’s Lockheed Orion NR 14222 which she took delivery of on February 1, 1935.
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 Aviatrix Australia | The Aviatrix And The University | Bessie Coleman Aviatrix | Blue Denim Girbaud Aviatrix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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 more info on laura ingalls wilder - laura ingals wilder - luara ingalls wilder
Little did either of them realize that Laura Ingalls Wilder, 63, was about to embark on an entirely new career: writer of books for children.
Laura once said the reason she wrote her autobiography in the first place was to preserve the stories of her childhood for today's children, to help them to understand how much America had changed during her lifetime and she has.
Laura Dronzek, 45, is a Madison-based painter and a children's book illustrator, whose first show with the Tory Folliard Gallery, 233 N. Milwaukee St., opened Friday.
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 laura ingalls wilder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Laura Ingalls Wilder is best known for her series of welloved children books Library Association established the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in her honor and Wilder was the first
Laura Ingalls WilderLaura Ingalls Wilder was born on February 7, 1867 in Pepin, WisconsinShe was second of five children born to Caroline and Charles Philip IngallsLaura had three sisters and one brother.
The Murrell Library at Missouri Valley College is hosting a 16-panel traveling exhibit on the life and work of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the "Little House" books that were the basis for the long-running TV show.
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Ingalls' record, which had taken 1 hour and 3 minutes, was set in her de Havilland Gypsy Moth at a height of about 8000 feet.
Ingalls said she landed then because "it began to get dark and I thought my wings were getting wobbly" (Au- thor unknown, 1930d).
People were intrigued by Ingalls' records; aviation enthusiasts in Muskogee, Oklahoma, invited Ingalls to Muskogee and offered to pay her $1.00 for every loop she could do over her record of 344.
www.sil.si.edu /smithsoniancontributions/AirSpace/text/SSAS-0006.txt   (21279 words)

  
 CrossRoads Access, Inc. Corinth History
As takeoff day approached, Turner and his copilot, Clyde Pangborn, who (with Hugh Herndon) had flown the first nonstop flight between Japan and the continental United States in 1931 in a Wasp-powered Bellanca, were the only fliers with a direction finder in their ship.
Laura Ingalls, the U.S. race coordinator, had written to the Army Air Corps to ask if it would equip each U.S. plane with a Kruesi radio compass, but the Air Corps told her it had no spares, thus passing up the opportunity to have its equipment tested under tough flying conditions.
Before he left for London, Nichols promised Lear he'd radio messages to him during the race whenever he had the chance, so it was with great anticipation that Lear waited for the morning of October 2, 1934.
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 Laura Ingalls (aviator) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is an article on the author Laura Ingalls Wilder.
New York Times; December 18, 1941 "Laura Ingalls Held as Reich Agent; Flier Says She Was Anti-Nazi Spy; Laura Ingalls Is Jailed as a German Agent; Flier Says She Was Anti-Nazi Spy on Her Own.
Laura Ingalls, woman flier, was arraigned before a United States Commissioner today, charged with being a paid agent of the German Government and as such failing to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act."
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laura_Ingalls_(aviator)   (878 words)

  
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Bassi 19.0S 64.6E 31.0 EU IT I2476 V34 5 1991 100 AA Laura; Italian physicist, mathemetician (1711-1778).
Batten 15.2N 217.4E 65.0 OC NZ I2457 V27 5 2000 59 AA Jean; New Zealand aviatrix (1909-1982).
Laura 48.9N 141.2E 17.2 EU SP I2467 V12 5 1985 83 AA Spanish, Italian first name.
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 Books for Girls
Heidi must leave her beloved grandfather and the Alps and move to the city so that she can be a companion to an invalid girl Klara, whom she comes to care for and even inspire.
This classic nine-book series recounts the childhood of Laura Ingalls, a spunky youngster who grew up during the U.S. westward expansion of the late 1800’s.
Laura and her sisters learn about love, courage and self-reliance.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Harmon Trophy
A fourth trophy, the "National Trophy," was awarded from 1926 through 1938 to the most outstanding aviator in each of the twenty-one member countries and again from 1946-1948 to honor Americans who contibuted to aviation.
The NAA and the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum worked to assemble a complete list to be published in conjunction with the NAA's hundredth anniversary in 2005, however this project was not completed and it appears that the source documents for a period of awards were destroyed.
Some aviatrix awards from 1980-1990 were awarded by the Ninety-Nines based on research performed by Fay Gillis Wells.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Harmon_Trophy   (1200 words)

  
 Women Fly Aviation Pioneers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In 1929, as a 20-year-old student pilot, Fay Gillis Wells became the one of the first women to parachute out of a plane when the biplane she was flying broke apart.
The legendary Glenn Curtiss hired her to ferry and demonstrate his early planes, becoming the first woman to be employed in such a job.
As if this were not enough, Laura Ingalls took second place and Amelia Earhart finished fifth.
www.easycart.net /WomenFlyInc./Aviation_Pioneers.html   (1660 words)

  
 LAURA INGALLS - ENVELOPE SIGNED CIRCA 1934
Record-holding aviatrix and convicted disseminator of Nazi propaganda.
Commemorating Ingalls' arrival in Miami, 8-cent airmail stamp affixed at upper right, postmarked Miami Springs, Florida, April 23, 1934.
Portion of newspaper article affixed at left: "Laura Ingalls/To Reach Miami/Airport Today/Noted Aviatrix Ends Solo/Flight Over South Amer-/ica, West Indies/Laura Ingalls, New York aviatrix, will land on American soil for the first time since March 8...." Ingalls was the first woman pilot to fly east-west nonstop coast to coast.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/1_2002/law/LAURA_INGALLS.htm   (198 words)

  
 Povrch Venuše
Bassi 19.0S 64.6E 31.0 EU IT I2476 V34 5 1991 100 AA Laura; Italian physicist, mathemetician (1711-1778).
Batten 15.2N 217.4E 65.0 OC NZ I2457 V27 5 2000 59 AA Jean; New Zealand aviatrix (1909-1982).
Laura 48.9N 141.2E 17.2 EU SP I2467 V12 5 1985 83 AA Spanish, Italian first name.
www.astro.pef.zcu.cz /slunecni_soustava/venuse/objekty.html   (11916 words)

  
 Kansas USA Holiday Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A few of the many other attractions in Northeast Kansas include the Museum of Natural History and the Spencer Museum of Art on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, the Combat Air Museum in Topeka, and the Agricultural Hall of Fame in Bonner Springs.
Renowned aviatrix Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison and the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum features her personal belongings.
Whether it's a well-deserved vacation or a weekend jaunt, the scenic route through Northeast Kansas promises a flavorful blend of rich heritage, rolling hills and pure enjoyment.
www.holidaystoday.co.uk /holidayreviewsNorthAmericaUSAkansas.htm   (2264 words)

  
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Her photographs for the Farm Security Administration, including Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936), document the erosion of the land and people of rural America during the Great Depression and are her best-known images.
She was an American aviatrix who organized the Women's Airforce Service Pilots, WASP, during World War II.
She held more speed, distance, and altitude records than any of her contemporaries and was voted the world's leading aviatrix in 1937, 1938, and 1939.
www.primate.wisc.edu /people/hamel/whistory.html   (3134 words)

  
 FMCA Motorhome Travel - Kansas childhood homes
The birthplace museum of this famous and record-setting aviatrix.
A replica of the house near where Laura lived as a child for a brief time can be seen 13 miles southwest of Independence off U.S. Laura is famous for her books about the prairie, including Little House on the Prairie.
The Adair Cabin, the house of Brown’s half-sister, Florella, and her husband, Rev. Samuel Adair, is now a state historic site.
www.fmca.com /motorhometravel/spotlight/2002/1002_KS_homes.asp   (537 words)

  
 Blanche Noyes at AllExperts
In their astonishing victory the two women flew a Beech C17R Staggerwing biplane and defeated twin-engine planes specifically designed for racing.
Laura Ingalls, another aviatrix, came in second by 45 minutes flying a Lockheed Orion.
First prize was $4,500 and they also won the $2,500 prize for a woman finishing.
en.allexperts.com /e/b/bl/blanche_noyes.htm   (758 words)

  
 Louise Thaden (1905-1979), Pioneer Aviatrix
Born in 1905, Louise had her first airplane ride when she paid a local barnstormer $5 for five minutes in the air.
After landing, she was amazed to learn that she had won the race.
Placing second, behind Louise, was her friend Laura Ingalls flying a Lockheed Orion.
www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/thaden.html   (2839 words)

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