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AMELIA EARHART CROSSES THE ATLANTIC, BALLYARNETT, DERRY
In 1932 attempting to make a solo trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland, Canada to Paris to emulate the achievement of Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart did indeed cross the Atlantic and landed in a field in Derry/Londonderry. As her plane developed problems Amelia was forced to land as soon as she could, landing in a field in Ballyarnett Village. T he American Aviator had placed Derry/Londonderry in the history of aviation as the landing site of the first female non-stop trans-Atlantic flight. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Amelia_Earhart_crosses_the_Atlantic
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, LEA HURST, DERBYSHIRE
Childhood home of Florence Nightingale. Though born in Florence, her family returned to England, and Lea Hurst was the family home and later on their summer home, in the area from which the family made its fortune in lead-mining. After the Crimean War, Florence returned again to Lea Hurst. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Lea_Hurst,_Florence_Nightingale Lyme Regis is famous for its Fossils, and Mary Anning was the pioneering female fossil hunter - the 'Princess of Paleontology', 1799 - 1847.
She discovered the first ichthyosaur (aged 12), first plesiosaur and first British pterosaur. Her range of scientific discoveries did not gain her the credit they deserved, in the male dominated scientific community at the time. She took on the family fossil business, selling samples to the King of Saxony, and for display at the forerunner to the New York Academy of Sciences, the Lyceum of Natural History. She is buried in St. Michael's church, where there is a window dedicated to her. In 2010 the Royal Society placed her in a list of the ten British women who had most influenced science. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Mary_Anning,_Fossil_Hunter You are never more than 30 miles from a legendary location or historical site in Northern Ireland using the Map-olah map!
From St. Patrick to Amelia Earhart, and Conn-Edda to Finn MacCool - there's plenty to discover! Pocahontas, the legendary Native American daughter to a Chief was buried in St. George's Church in Gravesend.
Captain John Smith leader of the Jamestown English settlement in Virginia, told how Pocahontas prevented his death from beating by throwing herself across his body. She was also known for visiting Jamestown and providing food for the settlers.Pocahontas was later captured by the English, and taught Christianity, being baptised as Rebecca. She married English settler John Rolfe, leading to peace between her tribe and the settlers, with whom she had a son Thomas Rolfe. They visited England travelling to Plymouth and being feted as a Princess in London and meeting the King. On the return voyage to America they only made it down the Thames to Gravesend where gravely ill Pocahontas died. Today a statue to Pocahontas stands in the graveyard of St. George's, though the exact location of her grave is unknown. She also lived at Rolfe Hall in the Heacham, Norfolk. See on the Mapolah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=American_Indian_Princess - Pocahontas'_final_resting_place Lyme Regis is famous for its Fossils, and Mary Anning (1700 - 1847) was the pioneering female fossil hunter - the 'Princess of Paleontology' - a Jurassic Princess!
She discovered the first ichthyosaur (aged 12), first plesiosaur and first British pterosaur. Her range of scientific discoveries did not gain her the credit they deserved, in the male dominated scientific community at the time. She took on the family fossil business, selling samples to the King of Saxony, and for display at the forerunner to the New York Academy of Sciences, the Lyceum of Natural History. She is buried in St. Michael's church, where there is a window dedicated to her. In 2010 the Royal Society placed her in a list of the ten British women who had most influenced science. |
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