With war raging in Europe and knowing it was only a matter of time before America became involved, Jacqueline Cochran, the most famous female pilot next to Amelia Earhart, met with Eleanor Roosevelt and...
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Our words are what define us as a society, in many ways. Words may be turned into images, such as plays, or movies, or even defined further through actions associated with the words, but it is the words that...
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