query: What site did Lindbergh begin his flight from in 1927?

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a [[U.S. Air Mail]] pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the [[Orteig Prize]]: making a nonstop flight from [[Roosevelt Field (airport)|Roosevelt Field]], [[Long Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]], to [[Paris]], France. Lindbergh covered the -hour, flight alone in a single-engine purpose-built [[Ryan Airline Company|Ryan]] [[monoplane]], the "[[Spirit of St. Louis]]". This was not the [[Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown|first flight between North America and

title: Erik Lindbergh

text: service to humanity. Erik Lindbergh Erik Charles Lindbergh (born 1965) is an aviator, adventurer, and an artist. He is the grandson of pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly non-stop between New York and Paris in 1927. In 2002 Erik Lindbergh honored the 75th anniversary of his grandfather's historic flight by retracing the journey in his own single-engine aircraft. The journey was documented by the History Channel, raised over one million dollars for three charities, garnered half a billion media impressions for the X PRIZE Foundation and prompted a call from United States President George W. Bush for

title: Erik Lindbergh

text: Erik Lindbergh Erik Charles Lindbergh (born 1965) is an aviator, adventurer, and an artist. He is the grandson of pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly non-stop between New York and Paris in 1927. In 2002 Erik Lindbergh honored the 75th anniversary of his grandfather's historic flight by retracing the journey in his own single-engine aircraft. The journey was documented by the History Channel, raised over one million dollars for three charities, garnered half a billion media impressions for the X PRIZE Foundation and prompted a call from United States President George W. Bush for inspiring the country

title: "WE" (1927 book)

text: "WE" (1927 book) "WE" is an autobiographical account by Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) about his life and the events leading up to and including his May 1927 New York to Paris solo trans-Atlantic flight in the "Spirit of St. Louis", a custom-built, single engine, single-seat Ryan monoplane (Registration: N-X-211). It was first published on July 27, 1927 by G.P. Putnam's Sons in New York. Just 57 days after then 25-year old former US Air Mail pilot Charles Lindbergh had completed his historic Orteig Prize-winning first-ever non-stop solo transatlantic flight from New York (Roosevelt Field) to Paris (Le Bourget) on May

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: dragged Lindbergh out of the cockpit, and literally carried him around above their heads for "nearly half an hour". Some damage was done to the "Spirit" (especially to the fine linen, silver-painted fabric covering on the [[fuselage]]) by souvenir hunters before pilot and plane reached the safety of a nearby hangar with the aid of French military fliers, soldiers, and police. Lindbergh's flight was certified by the National Aeronautic Association based on the readings from a sealed [[barograph]] placed in the "Spirit". [[File:CharlesLindbergh-RaymondOrteig.jpg|left|upright=0.75|thumb|Lindbergh accepting the prize from Orteig in New York, , 1927]] Lindbergh received unprecedented adulation after his historic

title: One Summer: America, 1927

text: One Summer: America, 1927 One Summer: America, 1927 is a 2013 history book by Bill Bryson. The book is a history of the summer of 1927 in the United States. It was published in October 2013 by Doubleday. The book focuses on various key events of that summer as lenses through which to view American life: what it had recently been and what it was becoming. The events covered include the nonstop transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh; the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927; the unusual season played by Babe Ruth and the rest of the 1927 New York Yankees; the

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: brother, events which occurred years before she was born. In her latest book, "Two Lives" (Brigantine Media; 2018), Lindbergh reflects on how she navigates her role as the public face of arguably "the most famous family of the twentieth century," while leading a "very quiet existence in rural Vermont." Reeve Lindbergh's parents, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, were considered a "golden couple". Her father's famous solo, non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927 occurred 18 years before she was born. Hailed as a hero, Charles went on to marry the daughter of wealthy businessman Dwight Morrow, then

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the name of a living person. A half-century later, a 13-Cent commemorative stamp (Scott #1710) depicting the "Spirit" flying low over the Atlantic Ocean was issued on , 1977, the 50th anniversary of the flight from [[Roosevelt Field]]. On , 1998, a 32¢ stamp with the legend "Lindbergh Flies Atlantic" (Scott #3184m) depicting Lindbergh and the ""Spirit"" was issued as part of the [[Celebrate the Century]] stamp sheet series. [[Category:1902 births]] [[Category:1974 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:20th-century American male writers]] [[Category:1927 in aviation]] [[Category:American anti-communists]] [[Category:American anti-war activists]] [[Category:American environmentalists]] [[Category:American inventors]] [[Category:American military personnel who served in the

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: and Nazi sympathies. [[File:SoSL US Stamps.jpg|thumb|left|Scott C-10 and#1710 with , 1977 First Day of Issue CDS]] Lindbergh and the "Spirit" have been honored by a variety of world postage stamps over the last eight decades, including three issued by the United States. Less than three weeks after the flight the [[United States Post Office Department|U.S. Post Office Department]] issued a 10-cent "Lindbergh Air Mail" stamp (Scott C-10) on , 1927, with engraved illustrations of both the "Spirit of St. Louis" and a map of its route from New York to Paris. This was also the first U.S. stamp to bear

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: Reeve Lindbergh Reeve Morrow Lindbergh (born October 2, 1945) is an American author from Caledonia County, Vermont who grew up in Darien, Connecticut as the daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001). She was graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968. Her second husband, writer Nathaniel Wardwell Tripp (1944-) wrote the Vietnam memoir, "Father, Soldier, Son" (1997) which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Lindbergh writes of her experiences growing up in the household of her famous father — with echoes of his famous transatlantic flight and the kidnapping of her eldest

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: wrote a musical called "Der Lindberghflug" (The Lindbergh Flight) with music by [[Kurt Weill]] and [[Paul Hindemith]]. Because of Lindbergh's apparent Nazi sympathies, in 1950 Brecht removed all direct references to Lindbergh and renamed the piece "[[The Flight across the Ocean|Der Ozeanflug]]" (The Ocean Flight). In 2016, as part of his series of scores based around historical events, Adam Young released a score based around The Spirit of St. Louis's flight. During World War II, Lindbergh was a frequent target of [[Dr Seuss]]'s first political cartoons, published in the New York magazine [[PM (newspaper)|PM]], in which Geisel emphasised Lindbergh's anti-semitism

title: Jon Lindbergh

text: Karen Pryor, daughter of author Philip Wylie; they divorced in 1997. Lindbergh is currently married to Maura Jansen. He had two daughters with Jansen. When his father was dying, Lindbergh took charge of transporting him from New York City to Hawaii to die, and helped build his father's grave. Lindbergh's eldest brother, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the first of six children born to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, died in 1932 in the infamous kidnapping — what many termed at the time "the crime of the century". Jon's other Lindbergh siblings are: Land Morrow Lindbergh (1937-), writer Anne Spencer Lindbergh (1940–1993),

title: "WE" (1927 book)

text: and he must enter with the intention of devoting every effort and all of the energy during the next 12 months towards a single goal. But when he receives the wings at Kelly a year later, he has the satisfaction of knowing that he has graduated from one of the world's finest flying schools." (""WE"", p. 125) "WE" (1927 book) "WE" is an autobiographical account by Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) about his life and the events leading up to and including his May 1927 New York to Paris solo trans-Atlantic flight in the "Spirit of St. Louis", a custom-built, single

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the "[[Spirit of St. Louis]]", the fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane ([[Civil Aeronautics Authority|CAB]] registration: N-X-211) was designed jointly by Lindbergh and Ryan's chief engineer [[Donald A. Hall]]. The "Spirit" flew for the first time just two months later, and after a series of test flights Lindbergh took off from San Diego on . He went first to St. Louis, then on to Roosevelt Field on New York's Long Island. [[File:Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of Saint Louis (Crisco restoration, with wings).jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|Lindbergh with the "Spirit of St. Louis" before his Paris flight]] In the early morning of Friday,

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: banquet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|Program for the New York "WE" Banquet (, 1927)]] Lindbergh flew from Washington, D.C. to New York City on , arriving in lower Manhattan. He traveled up the [[Broadway (Manhattan)#Canyon of Heroes|Canyon of Heroes]] to City Hall, where he was received by Mayor [[Jimmy Walker]]. A [[ticker-tape parade]] followed to Central Park Mall, where he was honored at another ceremony hosted by New York Governor [[Al Smith]] and attended by a crowd of 200,000. Some 4,000,000 persons saw Lindbergh that day. That evening, Lindbergh was accompanied by his mother and Mayor Walker when he was the guest of honor at

title: "WE" (1927 book)

text: London, Washington, New York and St. Louis. While the precipitating event for the publication of ""WE"" was the solo non-stop flight from New York to Paris, Lindbergh's account of this takes up only 18 pages (pp. 213–230) in the book which is mostly about his life before May 20, 1927. It would not be until Lindbergh wrote his Pulitzer Prize winning "The Spirit of St. Louis" a quarter-of-a-century later in 1953 that he provided a first hand book length account of the flight itself. Reviews for the book were generally positive although expressed disappointment that so little of the text

title: Lindbergh Beacon (Los Angeles)

text: of aviation and in commemoration of man's first transatlantic solo flight from New York to Paris on May 20, 1927. Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles. The plaque must have been put in place after this professional group was founded in 1936. During the period 1992–2001, the television personality Huell Howser broadcast, on PBS, three programs related to the history of the Lindbergh Beacon. Each successive program built on the previous programs. His first broadcast in 1991 stirred interest in the historical beacon including on the part of city's mayor, Tom Bradley. The second program in 1992 shows details

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: a 500-guest banquet and dance held at Clarence MacKay's Long Island estate, [[Harbor Hill]]. The following night, Lindbergh was honored with a grand banquet at the Hotel Commodore given by the Mayor's Committee on Receptions of the City of New York and attended by some 3,700 people. He was officially awarded the check for the prize on . On July 18, 1927, Lindbergh was promoted to the rank of colonel in the Air Corps of the Officers Reserve Corps of the U.S. Army. On , 1927, a Special [[Act of Congress]] awarded Lindbergh the [[Medal of Honor]], despite the fact

title: Lindbergh (book)

text: Lindbergh (book) Lindbergh is a 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg. The book became a "New York Times" Best Seller and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. Once he had completed his second book, "" (about film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.) in 1989, Berg began the search for his next subject. He wanted it to be "another great American cultural figure but—because I had written about Perkins and Goldwyn—not somebody from the worlds of publishing or film". After briefly considering Tennessee Williams, Berg chose the aviator Charles Lindbergh, attracted by what he

title: Erik Lindbergh

text: half the time as the original (33 1/2 hours), but still a challenge as Lindbergh suffers from disabling rheumatoid arthritis and has two artificial knees. The "Mission Control" for the flight was located at the Saint Louis Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, which as of 2011 maintains multiple exhibits about the flight. Lindbergh participated in the Flight Across America project, speaking during the opening ceremonies at Paine Field, Everett, Washington on August 11, 2002 and then participating in the closing ceremonies in New York City on the deck of the USS "Intrepid" on September 8, 2002. In December 2017,

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: (St. Louis, Missouri)|Forest Park]] in St. Louis, Missouri. [[File:Congressional Gold Medal presented to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|The [[Congressional Gold Medal]] presented , 1930, to Lindbergh by President [[Herbert Hoover]] ]] [[File:Charles Lindberg, Medal of Honor.JPG|thumb|upright=0.75|Lindbergh's Medal of Honor]] Rank and organization: Captain, U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve. Place and date: From New York City to Paris, France, , 1927. Entered service at: Little Falls, Minn. Born: , 1902, Detroit, Mich. G.O. No.: 5, W.D., 1928; Act of Congress , 1927. In addition to ""WE"" and "The Spirit of St. Louis", Lindbergh wrote prolifically over the years on other topics, including

title: Erik Lindbergh

text: how we travel around the planet." In May 2002, Erik Lindbergh honored the 75th anniversary of his grandfather's historic flight by re-tracing the flight across the Atlantic in a small single engine aircraft, a Lancair Columbia 300 dubbed "The New Spirit of St. Louis" which cost US$289,000. Leaving from San Diego, he flew to St Louis, then Farmingdale, New York, and then the most famous portion, the non-stop flight from Republic Airport on Long Island to Le Bourget Airport in Paris on May 2, 2002. The last portion of the flight was completed in 17 hours and 7 minutes, roughly

title: Naval Air Station North Island

text: the first seaplane flight in 1911, the first mid-air refueling and the first non-stop transcontinental flight, both in 1923. One of history's most famous aviation feats was the flight of Charles A. Lindbergh from New York to Paris in May 1927. That flight originated at Rockwell Field on North Island on May 10, 1927, when Lindbergh began the first leg of his journey. Forefathers of today's "Blue Angels", the three-plane "Sea Hawks" from VF-6B, the "Felix the Cat" squadron, were thrilling audiences with flight demonstrations as early as 1928. They demonstrated the training skills of Navy fighter and bomber pilots

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: foundation. Lindbergh serves on the Vermont Arts Council. Reeve Lindbergh Reeve Morrow Lindbergh (born October 2, 1945) is an American author from Caledonia County, Vermont who grew up in Darien, Connecticut as the daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001). She was graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968. Her second husband, writer Nathaniel Wardwell Tripp (1944-) wrote the Vietnam memoir, "Father, Soldier, Son" (1997) which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Lindbergh writes of her experiences growing up in the household of her famous father — with echoes of his famous

title: Harlan Gurney

text: had attended the US Army Air Corps flight school at Brooks Field with Lindbergh. In 1927, when Lindbergh took leave from Robertson Aircraft to make his epic non-stop New York to Paris flight, Gurney replaced him as Robertson’s chief air mail pilot and flight instructor. Robertson was soon absorbed by Universal Air Lines for which Gurney became director of operations. In 1929 he was lured to Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) for which Lindbergh was technical advisor. TAT, which was known as 'The Lindbergh Line,' offered coast to coast transportation in 36 to 48 hours hours using a combination of linked

title: Spirit of St. Louis

text: the site of Roosevelt Field from which the original departed in 1927. According to information at the Henry Ford Museum, their copy (B-156) was actually owned by James Stewart, who portrayed Lindbergh in the film. Stewart is credited as having donated the aircraft to the Henry Ford. Lindbergh was reputed to have flown one of the reproductions during the film's production, however, the connection to Lindbergh is now considered a myth. On the 40th anniversary of Lindbergh's flight, a new reproduction named "Spirit 2" was built by movie stunt pilot Frank Tallman. It first flew on April 24, 1967 and

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: Europe]], but he did achieve the first solo [[transatlantic flight]] and the first non-stop flight between North America and the European mainland. Lindbergh was an officer in the [[United States Army Reserve|U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve]], and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the [[Medal of Honor]], for the feat. Lindbergh's achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, and he devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity. But his historic flight and celebrity status also led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., [[Lindbergh kidnapping|was kidnapped and murdered]] in what

title: Lindbergh Boom

text: Lindbergh Boom The Lindbergh Boom (1927–1929) is a period of rapid interest in aviation following the awarding of the Orteig Prize to Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 non-stop solo transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. The Lindbergh Boom occurred during the interwar period between World War I and World War II, where aviation development was fueled by commercial interests rather than wartime necessity. During this period, dozens of companies were formed to create airlines, and aircraft for a new age in aviation. Many of the fledgling companies funded by stock went under as quick as they started as

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: Year Award, [[Elinor Smith|Elinor Smith Sullivan]], said that before Lindbergh's flight, [[File:Lindbergh Airmail Stamp c10.jpg|thumb|right|"Lindbergh [[Airmails of the United States|Air Mail]]" 10¢ issue (C-10) , 1927]] Barely two months after Lindbergh arrived in Paris, G. P. Putnam's Sons published his 318-page autobiography ""WE"", which was the first of 15 books he eventually wrote or to which he made significant contributions. The company was run by aviation enthusiast [[George P. Putnam]]. The dustjacket notes said that Lindbergh wanted to share the "story of his life and his transatlantic flight together with his views on the future of aviation", and that ""WE""

title: Lindbergh Forest

text: entry, "Lindbergh Forest," was suggested by Emilee Cate. She submitted the name in honor of aviator Charles Lindbergh, who had completed his famous trans-Atlantic flight in 1927. Cate was the wife of Sheriff J. Carroll Cate, who as a deputy sheriff had unsuccessfully defended the Knox County Jail from a lynch mob during the Riot of 1919. The Cates lived on Chamberlain Boulevard. Early residents of Lindbergh Forest included local business owners, local politicians, University of Tennessee professors, and Tennessee Valley Authority employees. During the 1930s, three consecutive mayors of Knoxville lived in Lindbergh Forest— John T. O'Connor, James Elmore,

title: Lindbergh Boom

text: St. Louis". Over the remainder of 1927 applications for pilot's licenses in the U.S. tripled, the number of licensed aircraft quadrupled, and U.S. Airline passengers grew between 1926 and 1929 by 3,000% from 5,782 to 173,405. Lindbergh's flight was the peak of several other factors that lead to the boom. This included: Companies were consolidating Lindbergh Boom start-ups at a rapid rate. Some, like Curtiss-Wright, went on a buying spree before the market crash and struggled to maintain control afterward. Others like the Detroit Aircraft Corporation were dissolved. Lindbergh Boom The Lindbergh Boom (1927–1929) is a period of rapid interest

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: France]], bestowed the French [[Légion d'honneur]] on Lindbergh, and on his arrival back in the United States aboard the U.S. Navy [[cruiser]] on , 1927, a fleet of warships and multiple flights of military aircraft escorted him up the [[Potomac River]] to the [[Washington Navy Yard]], where President [[Calvin Coolidge]] awarded him the [[Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)|Distinguished Flying Cross]]. The [[United States Postal Service#History|U.S. Post Office Department]] issued a 10-cent [[Airmails of the United States|Air Mail]] stamp (Scott C-10) depicting the "Spirit" and a map of the flight. [[File:Charles Lindbergh flight to Brussels.ogg|thumb|upright=0.75|Newsreel of Lindbergh's flight to Brussels]] [[File:Cal

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: books for juvenile readers called the "[[Ted Scott Flying Stories]]" (1927–1943), which were written by a number of authors all using the "[[pen name|nom de plume]]" of [[Franklin W. Dixon]], in which the pilot hero was closely modeled after Lindbergh. Ted Scott duplicated the solo flight to Paris in the series' first volume, entitled "Over the Ocean to Paris" published in 1927. Another fictional literary reference to Lindbergh appears in the [[Agatha Christie]] book (1934) and movie "[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]" (1974) which begins with a fictionalized depiction of the [[Lindbergh baby kidnapping]].

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: in Klink's Curtiss JN-4C "Canuck" (the Canadian version of the Jenny). Lindbergh also "cracked up" this aircraft once when his engine failed shortly after take-off in [[Pensacola, Florida]], but again he managed to repair the damage himself. Following a few months of barnstorming through the South, the two pilots parted company in [[San Antonio]], Texas, where Lindbergh reported to [[Brooks City-Base|Brooks Field]] on , 1924, to begin a year of military flight training with the [[United States Army Air Service]] there (and later at nearby [[Kelly Field Annex|Kelly Field]]). Lindbergh had his most serious flying accident on , 1925, eight

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] in late 1920, Lindbergh dropped out in the middle of his sophomore year and then went to [[Lincoln, Nebraska]], in March 1922 to begin flight training. [[File:Lincoln Standard biplane.jpg|thumb|left|[[Standard J|Lincoln Standard J]] biplane]] From an early age, Lindbergh had exhibited an interest in the mechanics of motorized transportation, including his family's [[Saxon (automobile)|Saxon Six]] automobile, and later his [[Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company|Excelsior]] motorbike. By the time he started college as a [[mechanical engineering]] student, he had also become fascinated with flying, though he "had never been close enough to a plane to touch it".

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: Wyoming, and Montana as a [[wing walking|wing walker]] and [[Parachuting|parachutist]]. He also briefly worked as an airplane mechanic at the [[Billings, Montana]], municipal airport. [[File:"Daredevil Lindbergh".jpg|thumb|right|"Daredevil Lindbergh" in a re-engined Standard J-1, the plane in this photo often misidentified as a Curtiss "Jenny", probably 1925]] Lindbergh left flying with the onset of winter and returned to his father's home in Minnesota. His return to the air and first solo flight did not come until half a year later in May 1923 at [[Jimmy Carter Regional Airport|Souther Field]] in [[Americus, Georgia]], a former Army flight training field, where he had come

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: duties included evaluating new aircraft types in development, recruitment procedures, and finding a site for a new air force research institute and other potential air bases. Assigned a [[Curtiss P-36 Hawk|Curtiss P-36]] fighter, he toured various facilities, reporting back to Wright Field. Lindbergh's brief four-month tour was also his first period of active military service since his graduation from the Army's Flight School fourteen years earlier in 1925. [[File:MIH-film101jpg.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.65|Longines' Lindbergh watch]] [[File:Lindbergh perfusion pump in Putnam Gallery, 2009-11-24.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.75|A Lindbergh [[perfusion]] pump, "circa" 1935]] Lindbergh wrote to the [[Longines]] watch company and described a watch that would make navigation easier for

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: for [[Montgomery, Alabama]], some 140 miles to the west, for his first solo cross-country flight. He went on to spend much of the rest of 1923 engaged in almost nonstop barnstorming under the name of "Daredevil Lindbergh". Unlike the previous year, this time Lindbergh flew in his "own ship" as pilot. A few weeks after leaving Americus, the young airman also achieved another key aviation milestone when he made his first flight at night near [[Lake Village, Arkansas]]. [[File:Charles Lindbergh 1925.JPG|thumb|left|upright=0.75|2nd Lt. Charles A. Lindbergh, USASRC March 1925]] While Lindbergh was barnstorming in [[Lone Rock, Wisconsin]], on two occasions he

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: to Mexico, Lindbergh met Anne in Mexico City in December 1927. The couple was married on , 1929 in Englewood, New Jersey. They had six children: [[Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.]] (1930–1932); [[Jon Morrow Lindbergh]] (b. 1932); Land Morrow Lindbergh (b. 1937), who studied anthropology at [[Stanford University]] and married Susan Miller in San Diego; [[Anne Lindbergh]] (1940–1993); Scott Lindbergh (b. 1942); and Reeve Lindbergh (b. 1945), a writer. Lindbergh taught Anne how to fly and she accompanied and assisted him in much of his exploring and charting of air routes. Lindbergh saw his children for only a few months a

title: Lindbergh Beacon (Los Angeles)

text: Lindbergh Beacon (Los Angeles) The Lindbergh Beacon, an aircraft beacon atop the Los Angeles City Hall, operated nightly from April 26, 1928, until just after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was restored to its original condition in 2001, and "Los Angeles" magazine described it as "a tiara of light atop our beautifully restored Los Angeles City Hall." City officials now occasionally put the beacon into operation for special occasions such as the year-end holidays. In an article of September 1, 1927, during construction of the hall and less than four months after the historic solo trans-Atlantic flight of Col.

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: days before graduation, when a midair collision with another Army [[Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5|S.E.5]] during aerial combat maneuvers forced him to bail out. Only 18 of the 104 cadets who started flight training a year earlier remained when Lindbergh graduated first overall in his class in March 1925, thereby earning his Army pilot's wings and a commission as a [[Second Lieutenant#United States|2nd Lieutenant]] in the [[Military reserve force|Air Service Reserve Corps]]. Lindbergh later said that this year was critical to his development as both a focused, goal-oriented individual and as an aviator. The Army did not need additional active-duty pilots,

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: covering in just over 116 hours of flight time. A year and two days after it had made its first flight, Lindbergh flew the "Spirit" from St. Louis to Washington, D.C., where it has been on public display at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] ever since. Over the previous 367 days, Lindbergh and the "Spirit" had logged 489 hours 28 minutes of flight time together. [[File:Spirit of St. Louis Smithsonian.JPG|thumb|right|The "Spirit of St. Louis" on display at the National Air and Space Museum]] A "Lindbergh boom" in aviation had begun. The volume of mail moving by air increased 50 percent within six

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: science, technology, nationalism, war, materialism, and values. Included among those writings were five other books: "The Culture of Organs" (with [[Alexis Carrel|Dr. Alexis Carrel]]) (1938), "Of Flight and Life" (1948), "The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh" (1970), "Boyhood on the Upper Mississippi" (1972), and his unfinished "Autobiography of Values" (posthumous, 1978). In addition to many biographies such as A. Scott Berg's massive ""Lindbergh"" published in 1999 and others, Lindbergh also influenced or was the model for characters in a variety of works of fiction. Shortly after he made his famous flight, the [[Stratemeyer Syndicate]] began publishing a series of

title: Lindbergh Boom

text: the stock that capitalized them plummeted in value following the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression dried up the market for new aircraft, causing many aircraft companies to go into bankruptcy or get consolidated by larger entities. Air racing, record attempts, and barnstorming remained popular, as aviators tried to recapture the prizes and publicity of Lindbergh's Transatlantic flight. Publicity surrounding Lindbergh and his flight boosted the aviation industry and made a skeptical public take air travel seriously. Within a year of his flight, a quarter of Americans (an estimated thirty million) personally saw Lindbergh and the "Spirit of

title: Erik Lindbergh

text: X Prize is seen as a major boost for the cause of space tourism, and of private spaceflight in general. It is fashioned after the Orteig Prize, the aviation incentive prize won by Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight in 1927. In June 2012, Lindbergh became a brand ambassador for global aircraft charter provider, Air Charter Service. The company's founder and chairman, Chris Leach, was quoted as saying: "It is a great honour to have Erik on board as our Brand Ambassador – his pioneering work in the world of aviation is inspiring and he shares our visions for the future of

title: China Clipper flight departure site

text: China Clipper flight departure site The China Clipper flight departure site is listed as California Historical Landmark number 968. It is the site from which Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) initiated trans-Pacific airmail service on November 22, 1935. A flying boat named "China Clipper" made the first trip, and the publicity for that flight caused all flying boats on that air route to become popularly known as "China Clippers". For a few years, this pioneering mail service captured the public imagination like the earlier Pony Express, and offered fast luxury travel like the later Concorde. In 1927, wetlands on

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: his autobiography, Lindbergh derided pilots he met as womanizing "barnstormers"; he also criticized Army cadets for their "facile" approach to relationships. He wrote that the ideal romance was stable and long-term, with a woman with keen intellect, good health, and strong genes, his "experience in breeding animals on our farm [having taught him] the importance of good heredity". [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] (1906–2001) was the daughter of [[Dwight Morrow]] who, as partner at [[J.P. Morgan & Co.]], had acted as financial adviser to Lindbergh. He was also the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico in 1927. Invited by Morrow on a goodwill tour

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics]]. Between and , 1927 Lindbergh visited 82 cities in all 48 states, delivered 147 speeches, rode in parades, was seen by more than 30 million Americans, one quarter of the nation's population. Lindbergh then toured 16 Latin America countries between , 1927 and , 1928. Dubbed the "Good Will Tour", it included stops in Mexico (where he also met his future wife, Anne, the daughter of U.S. Ambassador [[Dwight Morrow]]), Guatemala, British Honduras, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, the Canal Zone, Colombia, Venezuela, St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Cuba,

title: Lindbergh (book)

text: the two women did not know each other. Not long after, Berg heard from Mrs. Lindbergh. Berg convinced Lindbergh's widow, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who considered him "trustworthy," to grant him unprecedented access to the man's archives, which he was surprised to find totaled "1,300 boxes, or several million papers". In addition to his research in the archives, Berg also spoke with Mrs. Lindbergh, their five children and Lindbergh family friends. "You can't write about Charles without writing about me," the widow told Berg, allowing him access to her memoirs and diaries. Berg found Lindbergh's papers "in a miraculous order." Lindbergh

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: L. Mills]]. News of the Lindberghs' "flight to Europe" did not become public until a full day later, and even after the identity of their ship became known [[Radiogram (message)|radiograms]] addressed to Lindbergh on it were returned as "Addressee not aboard". They arrived in Liverpool on , then departed for South Wales to stay with relatives. The family eventually rented "[[Long Barn]]" in [[Sevenoaks Weald]], Kent. In 1938, the family moved to [[Île Illiec]], a small four-acre island Lindbergh purchased off the [[Brittany|Breton]] coast of France. [[File:Long barn.JPG|thumb|right|[[Long Barn]], the Lindberghs' rented home in England]] Except for a brief visit

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: [[Haiti]], and [[Havana]], [[Cuba]]the last three stops he and the "Spirit" made during their "Good Will Tour" of Latin America and the Caribbean between , 1927 and , 1928. [[File:CAL SoSL STD HAV.jpg|thumb|upright=1|right|B.L. Rowe corner cover flown in the "Spirit of St. Louis" from Santo Domingo to Port-au-Prince and Havana]] Two weeks after his Latin American tour, Lindbergh piloted a series of special flights over his old CAM-2 route on and . Tens of thousands of self-addressed souvenir covers were sent in from all over the world, so at each stop Lindbergh switched to another of the three planes he

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: with [[Nazi Germany]]. Within days of the flight, dozens of [[Tin Pan Alley]] publishers rushed a variety of popular songs into print celebrating Lindbergh and the "Spirit of St. Louis" including "[[Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.)]]" by Howard Johnson and [[Al Sherman]], and "Lucky Lindy" by [[L. Wolfe Gilbert]] and Abel Baer. In the two-year period following Lindbergh's flight, the U.S. Copyright Office recorded three hundred applications for Lindbergh songs. [[Tony Randall]] revived "Lucky Lindy" in an album of [[Jazz Age]] and [[Great Depression|Depression]]-era songs that he recorded entitled "Vo Vo De Oh Doe" (1967). In 1929, [[Bertolt Brecht]]

title: "WE" (1927 book)

text: of the air. It will be idle for me or any one else to estimate now what these results will be. But America vibrates with glowing pride at the thought that out from our country has come this fresh spirit of the air and that the whole world hails Lindbergh not only as a brave aviator but as an example of American idealism, character and conduct." In addition to Herrick's foreword, also included as an appendix is an 85-page essay by editor Green entitled "A Little of what the World thought of Lindbergh" describing the post-flight welcomes in Paris, Brussels,

title: Lindbergh Range

text: Lindbergh Range The Lindbergh Range or Lindbergh Nunataks ( or "Lindbergh Nunatakker") is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. The range was observed and mapped in 1933 by Lauge Koch during aerial surveys made in the course of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Koch named it after pioneering aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902–1974), who reportedly had seen these tall nunataks previously during an eastward flight across the Greenland Ice Sheet and had discussed the matter with him when they met in Ella Island. Although not

title: Lindbergh Range

text: the average temperature reaches -5 °C and the coldest is February when the temperature sinks to -19 °C. Lindbergh Range The Lindbergh Range or Lindbergh Nunataks ( or "Lindbergh Nunatakker") is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. The range was observed and mapped in 1933 by Lauge Koch during aerial surveys made in the course of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Koch named it after pioneering aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902–1974), who reportedly had seen these tall nunataks previously during an eastward flight across the

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: After quitting college in February 1922, Lindbergh enrolled at the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation's flying school in Lincoln and flew for the first time on , as a passenger in a two-seat [[Standard J|Lincoln Standard "Tourabout"]] biplane trainer piloted by [[Otto Timm]]. A few days later, Lindbergh took his first formal flying lesson in that same machine, though he was never permitted to solo because he could not afford to post the requisite damage bond. To gain flight experience and earn money for further instruction, Lindbergh left Lincoln in June to spend the next few months [[barnstorming]] across Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado,

title: August Lindbergh

text: their younger children, who did not live long. August Lindbergh August Lindbergh (12 May 1808 – 14 October 1893) was a Swedish American farmer and politician. He was the father of the U.S. politician Charles August Lindbergh, and the grandfather of aviator Charles Lindbergh. August Lindbergh was born Ola Månsson in Smedstorp, Tomelilla Municipality in Skåne, Sweden. His father, Måns Jönsson (at that time, Swedish peasants used patronymics as family names), married to Sara Carlsdotter, owned a small farm and worked as a parish tailor in Smedstorp. Through his marriage to Ingar Jönsdotter, who brought in a substantial dowry, and

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: his loyalty. At an America First rally in September, Lindbergh accused three groups of "pressing this country toward war[:] the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt Administration": He went on to warn of "large [Jewish] ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government", though he condemned Germany's [[antisemitism]]: "No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany." He continued, Responding to criticism of his speech, Lindbergh denied he was anti-Semitic but did not back away from his positions. Anne Lindbergh felt that the

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: be withdrawn from circulation and would therefore attract attention; the bills' serial numbers were also recorded. On , the child's remains were found in woods not far from the Lindbergh home. [[File:Charles Lindbergh testifying.jpg|thumb|right|Lindbergh testifying at the Hauptmann trial in 1935. Bruno Hauptmann can be seen on the right side of the photograph.]] In response to what was widely called "The Crime of the Century", Congress passed the so-called [[Federal Kidnapping Act|"Lindbergh Law"]], which made kidnapping a [[Federal crime|federal offense]] if the victim is taken across state lines or (as in the Lindbergh case) the kidnapper uses "the mail or...

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: flight. People were "behaving as though Lindbergh had walked on water, not flown over it". His mother's house in Detroit was surrounded by a crowd estimated at about 1,000. Countless newspapers, magazines, and radio shows wanted to interview him, and he was flooded with job offers from companies, think tanks, and universities. The French Foreign Office flew the American flag, the first time it had saluted someone who wasn't a head of state. Lindbergh also made a series of brief flights to Belgium and Great Britain in the "Spirit" before returning to the United States. [[Gaston Doumergue]], the [[President of

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: Anne Lindbergh, died in 1932 in a famous kidnapping — what many termed at the time "the crime of the century". Reeve's other Lindbergh siblings include aquanaut Jon Lindbergh (1932-), Land Morrow Lindbergh (1937-), writer Anne Spencer Lindbergh (1940–1993), and conservationist Scott Lindbergh (1942-), who raised rare monkeys in France. Reeve discovered later in life that her father had three other families in Germany and Switzerland. Reeve's brother Land Morrow Lindbergh has been considered a possible model for central character in French writer-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince". The author visited the Lindbergh home in 1939, hoping to convince

title: What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?

text: cites "I, Jonathan" by Jonathan Richman, "Milo Goes to College" by Descendents and "California Girls" by The Beach Boys as his major inspirations during the writing of this album. All lyrics written by Justin Young; all music composed by The Vaccines. What Did You Expect from The Vaccines? What Did You Expect from The Vaccines? is the debut studio album by English indie rock band The Vaccines. It was released on 11 March 2011 by Columbia Records, entering the UK Albums Chart at #4, going on to become the biggest-selling debut by a band in 2011. Two singles preceded the

title: Charles A. Lindbergh State Park

text: died, and the farm was largely neglected. After Charles Lindbergh became famous in 1927, souvenir seekers frequently broke into the empty house and caused extensive damage. Encouraged by locals hoping to see the house protected, the Lindbergh family donated the farm to the state of Minnesota in 1931 as a park in memory of C.A. The family worked with the Minnesota Historical Society to restore the home, and donated many original furnishings. The Works Progress Administration developed the park for recreation. In 1969 the house and its grounds were transferred to the Minnesota Historical Society. In what was to be

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: death) did not know the true identity of their father, whom they had only known by the alias Careu Kent and they had only seen him when he briefly visited them once or twice per year. However, after reading a magazine article about Lindbergh in the mid-1980s, Brigitte's daughter Astrid deduced the truth; she later discovered snapshots and more than 150 love letters from Lindbergh to Brigitte. After Brigitte and Anne Lindbergh had both died, she made her findings public; in 2003 DNA tests confirmed that Lindbergh had fathered Astrid and her two siblings. Reeve Lindbergh, Lindbergh's youngest child with

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the [[Vought F4U Corsair]] fighter-bomber's rated capacity. At the time, several Marine squadrons were flying bomber escorts to destroy the Japanese stronghold of [[Rabaul]], [[New Britain]], in the Australian [[Territory of New Guinea]]. On , 1944, Lindbergh flew his first combat mission: a strafing run with [[VMF-222]] near the Japanese garrison of Rabaul. He also flew with [[VMF-216]], from the Marine Air Base at [[Torokina]], [[Bougainville Island|Bougainville]]. Lindbergh was escorted on one of these missions by Lt. Robert E. (Lefty) McDonough, who refused to fly with Lindbergh again, as he did not want to be known as "the guy who

title: Erie International Airport

text: as an airfield. Soon after, a flight training school was based at the field. In 1927, as part of a nationwide tour by Charles Lindbergh after his transatlantic flight, Erie was selected as one of the cities where Lindbergh would make a brief stopover. However, as Griswold Field proved inadequate for the larger "Spirit of St. Louis" to land and an alternative site could not be located, a flyover by Lindbergh had to suffice. This event showed the need for a proper airport and prompted the Erie City Council to examine to possibility of establishing a municipal airport. City Council

title: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

text: at the Lindbergh home police began the first search into the disappearance of young Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., there police witnessed two clear sets of footprints outside of the Lindbergh home. One set specifically lead southeast towards a ladder that was believed to be used in the abduction. Upon the discovery of intruders, police returned inside the home to begin there initial search of the nursery. Before calling the police Charles Lindbergh uncovered a plain white envelope located on the windowsill. Believing it was a ransom note, Charles left it for police inspection. Expert in crime-scene photography and fingerprints, Corporal

title: Lindbergh (book)

text: retained copies of all his correspondence, including carbon copies of all letters and notes he wrote. Amongst the archives Berg found the tie Lindbergh wore on his famous flight. Lindbergh annotated books that had been written about him, leaving abundant notes for future biographers. Berg found detailed lists of "errors and corrections" to these books, some running up to 75 pages in length. These qualifications were sometimes "less than flattering to him, but they were always the truth. It was done with a cold, objective sense of himself," Berg told Vanity Fair. It took the author two years to go

title: Erik Lindbergh

text: control for larger aircraft than multicopter drones' fixed-pitch propellers, avoiding control lag. Son of Jon Lindbergh and Barbara Robbins, Erik Lindbergh is the grandson, by his father, of the pioneering aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. His father's Lindbergh siblings are Land Morrow Lindbergh (1937-), writer Anne Spencer Lindbergh (1940–1993), conservationist Scott Lindbergh (1942-), and writer Reeve Lindbergh (1945-). Lindbergh has written the foreword to several books, a monthly column in AOPA Pilot magazine and numerous freelance and op-ed articles. In May 2008 Lindbergh was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws degree from Molloy College in NY for outstanding

title: Lindbergh Schools

text: Lindbergh Schools Lindbergh Schools is a public school district in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. Lindbergh School District serves 6877 students as of the 2017-2018 school year. Its new headquarters are located at the former site of Johnny's Market in Sappington, a census-designated place and unincorporated area. Lindbergh Schools is currently facing a large growth rate in student population The district has 6 elementary schools, 2 middle schools and 1 high school, and Lindbergh High School, which has a student teacher ratio noticeably higher than the state and national averages. There are 464 staff as of the 2016-2017 school

title: Lindbergh (book)

text: criticized Berg's reluctance to deal more strongly with it. The author did bring to light the alteration of Lindbergh's "supposedly candid World War II era diaries," reporting that the diaries published in 1970 had anti-Semitic entries omitted. Berg writes: "The bulk of the omissions centered on one subject: the Jews." An example of the quotes omitted from the diaries but included in "Lindbergh": "A few Jews add strength and character to a country, but too many create chaos and we are getting too many." Lindbergh (book) Lindbergh is a 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg.

title: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

text: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case is a 1976 American television film dramatisation of the Lindbergh kidnapping. It was directed by Buzz Kulik and stars Cliff DeYoung, Anthony Hopkins, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, and Walter Pidgeon. The film opens with archive footage of Charles Lindbergh's pioneering transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis and the song “Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.)”. Hopewell, New Jersey, March 1, 1932. After preparing a bath, Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Sian Barbara Allen) is alerted by her nurse, Betty Gow, that her baby is not in its crib. They check with Charles

title: Charles A. Lindbergh State Park

text: forest with oak and prairie openings. Damming has raised the water level of the Mississippi substantially from the days when Charles Lindbergh swam in it. The park has a campground with 38 sites, 15 of those with electrical hookups. There is also a group campsite that accommodates up to 30 people, one walk-in campsite, and a canoe-in site along the Mississippi River. Charles A. Lindbergh State Park Charles A. Lindbergh State Park is a 569-acre (2.3 km²) Minnesota state park on the outskirts of Little Falls. The park was once the farm of Congressman Charles August Lindbergh and his son

title: Lindbergh (book)

text: Jews." During an interview not long after the release of the book, Charlie Rose recalled asking Berg nine years earlier "What's next?" Berg asked him to "think about who is the one person that hasn't been written about in a way that there's a giant great biography." When Rose could not think of a subject, Berg said "Lindbergh," and Rose replied "Absolutely right; he is one person I want to know a lot more about." The previously unpublished photo of Lindbergh, taken a matter of days before his transatlantic flight, was found at the publishing deadline amongst hundreds of photos

title: Anne Lindbergh

text: also divorced. She was married to Noel Perrin, American essayist and a professor at Dartmouth College, at the time of her death. They lived together in Thetford Center, Vermont. Anne Lindbergh wrote numerous books, most of them for children. Anne Lindbergh died of cancer in 1993 at her home in Thetford Center, Vermont, at the age of 53. Anne Lindbergh's eldest brother, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the first of six children born to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, died in 1932 in a famous kidnapping — what many termed at the time "the crime of the century". Anne's other Lindbergh siblings

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: however, so immediately following graduation Lindbergh returned to civilian aviation as a barnstormer and [[flight instructor]], although as a reserve officer he also continued to do some part-time military flying by joining the [[110th Bomb Squadron|110th Observation Squadron]], 35th Division, Missouri [[National Guard of the United States|National Guard]], in St. Louis. He was soon promoted to [[First Lieutenant#United States|1st Lieutenant]], and to captain in July 1926. [[File:CharlesLindbergh PostOfficeOath.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]] In October 1925, Lindbergh was hired by the [[Robertson Aircraft Corporation]] (RAC) at the [[Lambert-St. Louis International Airport|Lambert-St. Louis Flying Field]] in Anglum, MO (where he had been working as a flight

title: Lindbergh High School (Washington)

text: Lindbergh High School (Washington) Lindbergh High School is a (senior) high school located in the southeastern section of Renton, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, in the Renton School District. It is named after Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous aviator who was first to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927. The school was founded in 1972. Freshmen, sophomores and juniors attended the first year, making the class of 1974 the first to graduate. Lindbergh's school motto is "ad astra", which is Latin for "to the stars". The crest features the Spirit of St. Louis (the plane that Charles Lindbergh flew),

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: A Memoir" recounts Lindbergh's life as a child growing up in Darien, Connecticut with her “loving but stern father”. Charles did not allow his children to drink soda or eat candy, and he favored family discussion over watching television. He directed his family with a set of hard-and-fast rules. "There were only two ways of doing things—Father's way and the wrong way," Lindbergh notes in her book. The build-up to World War II brought more controversy to the Lindbergh household. Charles Lindbergh was an outspoken isolationist and critic of U.S. military involvement against Nazi Germany. Putting her father's views in

title: The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

text: The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh is a short film made in 1984 by Orson Welles. The film was intended as a private video letter from Welles to his longtime friend and accountant Bill Cronshaw, who was ill. In the film, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and speaks of the human spirit, quoting the journal of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Welles was in visibly poor health himself when the film was made, and he did not intend for it to be seen by the public. "The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh" was the last film

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: or Autobiography winners]] [[Category:Racism in the United States]] [[Category:Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)]] [[Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)]] [[Category:Sidwell Friends School alumni]] [[Category:Transatlantic flight]] [[Category:United States Air Force officers]] [[Category:United States airmail pilots]] [[Category:United States Army Air Forces officers]] [[Category:United States Army Medal of Honor recipients]] [[Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni]] [[Category:Writers from Detroit]] [[Category:Antisemitism in the United States]] [[Category:Critics of Judaism]] [[Category:American male non-fiction writers]] Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age

title: What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?

text: What Did You Expect from The Vaccines? What Did You Expect from The Vaccines? is the debut studio album by English indie rock band The Vaccines. It was released on 11 March 2011 by Columbia Records, entering the UK Albums Chart at #4, going on to become the biggest-selling debut by a band in 2011. Two singles preceded the release of the album which attained generally positive reviews and gold status by May of the same year. The first single from the album, "Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)" / "Blow It Up" was released in the United Kingdom on 22

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. In 1932, the Lindbergh’s firstborn, Charles Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped from their home in Hopewell, New Jersey — and killed — 13 years before Reeve was born. Reeve's parents never discussed the kidnapping with their children. As she relates, “ As the youngest, it’s been easiest for me. My brothers and older sister grew up under the shadow of the kidnapping and the war years.” In "The Names of the Mountains" Lindbergh reveals what life as a Lindbergh was like after the death of her father through a fictional family. "Under a Wing:

title: Lindbergh Forest

text: 18 different businesses, Graystone Presbyterian Church, and the Cecil Webb Recreation Center. A trailhead located behind Dogwood Elementary School links the Lindbergh Forest neighborhood to Knoxville's Urban Wilderness. The Lindbergh Forest neighborhood is heavily wooded, with numerous mature trees, and contains streets which follow the natural topography. This setting provides a stark contrast with the busy sprawl along adjacent areas of Chapman Highway. In the late 1920s, real estate developer Victor McClain purchased what is now the Lindbergh Forest area from Samuel B. Luttrell (son of former Knoxville mayor James C. Luttrell). McClain, who had made a fortune developing subdivisions

title: Pelle Lindbergh

text: playing his first games for the Flyers in 1982. In 1983, he was named goalie of the NHL All-Rookie Team. He led the NHL with 40 victories during the 1984–85 season and won the Vezina Trophy, the first European goaltender to do so in NHL history. That same year, he was also named a First Team All-Star. Lindbergh was the first goalie to bring a water bottle on ice with him during NHL games. Lindbergh did this to combat severe dehydration he commonly suffered from. This practice first drew criticism from opponents and coaches alike, but is now the norm

title: Jon Lindbergh

text: conservationist Scott Lindbergh (1942-), and writer Reeve Lindbergh (1945-). Jon Lindbergh Jon Morrow Lindbergh (born August 16, 1932) is a former underwater diver from the United States. He has worked as a United States Navy demolition expert and as a commercial diver, and was one of the world's earliest aquanauts in the 1960s. He was also a pioneer in cave diving. He is the oldest surviving child of aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Lindbergh was born on August 16, 1932, five months after the kidnapping and death of his older brother, Charles Lindbergh Jr. Jon's parents had

title: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

text: was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Made for TV. Anthony Hopkins won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case is a 1976 American television film dramatisation of the Lindbergh kidnapping. It was directed by Buzz Kulik and stars Cliff DeYoung, Anthony Hopkins, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, and Walter Pidgeon. The film opens with archive footage of Charles Lindbergh's pioneering transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis and the song “Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.)”. Hopewell, New Jersey, March 1,

title: Jon Lindbergh

text: was seriously injured. Hopf died despite the efforts of Lindbergh and his other companions to save him. Lindbergh graduated from Stanford, where he had been a member of the Navy ROTC, and did postgraduate work at the University of California, San Diego. He served for three years as a frogman with the United States Navy Underwater Demolition Team (UDT), reaching the rank of Lieutenant. He then became a commercial diver, working for Offshore Divers, Inc. in Santa Barbara, California, and making dives from offshore oil rigs on the West Coast of the United States at depths between 230 and 400

title: Lindbergh (book)

text: described as "the dramatic possibilities of the story of the great hero who became a great victim and a great villain". "Charles Lindbergh is a window onto the whole world -- a great lens for observing the American century," Berg elaborated. When asked about previous biographies of Lindbergh, Berg noted "The problem is most of what has been written about him is wrong or misleading." Berg had been interested earlier by the idea of writing a book on the life of Lindbergh but "had scratched Lindbergh off my list" when he heard that Lindbergh's papers were locked up and inaccessible.

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: that his prewar assessments of the Soviet threat were correct. Lindbergh witnessed firsthand the defeat of Germany and the Holocaust, and Berg reported, "he knew the American public no longer gave a hoot about his opinions." In 1954, on the recommendation of President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], Lindbergh was commissioned a [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]] in the [[U.S. Air Force Reserve]]. Also in that year, he served on a Congressional advisory panel that recommended the site of the [[United States Air Force Academy]]. In December 1968, he visited the crew of [[Apollo 8]] (the first manned mission to orbit the

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: pilots. First produced in 1931, it is still produced today. In 1929, Lindbergh became interested in the work of rocket pioneer [[Robert H. Goddard]]. By helping Goddard secure an [[Financial endowment|endowment]] from [[Daniel Guggenheim]] in 1930, Lindbergh allowed Goddard to expand his research and development. Throughout his life, Lindbergh remained a key advocate of Goddard's work. In 1930, Lindbergh's sister-in-law developed a fatal heart condition. Lindbergh began to wonder why hearts could not be repaired with surgery. Starting in early 1931 at the Rockefeller Institute and continuing during his time living in France, Lindbergh studied the [[perfusion]] of organs outside

title: Lindbergh kidnapping

text: Lindbergh kidnapping On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was abducted from his home Highfields in East Amwell, New Jersey, United States. On May 12, his body was discovered nearby. In September 1934 Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested for the crime. After a trial that lasted from January 2 to February 13, 1935, he was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Despite his conviction, he continued to profess his innocence, but all appeals failed and he was executed in the electric chair at the New Jersey

title: Jon Lindbergh

text: Jon Lindbergh Jon Morrow Lindbergh (born August 16, 1932) is a former underwater diver from the United States. He has worked as a United States Navy demolition expert and as a commercial diver, and was one of the world's earliest aquanauts in the 1960s. He was also a pioneer in cave diving. He is the oldest surviving child of aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Lindbergh was born on August 16, 1932, five months after the kidnapping and death of his older brother, Charles Lindbergh Jr. Jon's parents had discovered the name "Jon" in a book about Scandinavian

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the attack on Pearl Harbor came as a shock to Lindbergh, he did predict that America's "wavering policy in the [[Philippines]]" would invite a bloody war there, and, in one speech, he warned, "we should either fortify these islands adequately, or get out of them entirely." After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh sought to be recommissioned in the USAAF. The Secretary of War, [[Henry L. Stimson]], declined the request on instructions from the White House. [[File:Vmf222a insig.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|left|VMF-222 "Flying Deuces"]] [[File:VMF-216 insignia.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|left|VMF-216 "Bulldogs"]] Unable to take on an active military role, Lindbergh approached a number of aviation companies and

title: The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

text: at the end of Vassili Slovic's 1995 documentary "Orson Welles: the One-Man Band." The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh is a short film made in 1984 by Orson Welles. The film was intended as a private video letter from Welles to his longtime friend and accountant Bill Cronshaw, who was ill. In the film, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and speaks of the human spirit, quoting the journal of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Welles was in visibly poor health himself when the film was made, and he did not intend for it to be

title: Jon Lindbergh

text: de Saussure. Lindbergh discovered a hidden chamber inside the cave, confirming Saussure's theory that the nearby swimming spa was fed from such a chamber. Lindbergh returned the next month to photograph the underwater lake from a rubber raft. Lindbergh also took up mountain climbing and skydiving while in college. After his second year, he moved out of his dormitory into a tent in the foothills of the Coast Range. As a senior at Stanford, Lindbergh took part in an expedition to Mount Shasta in California, during which Werner Hopf, a 30-year-old electronics engineer from the Stanford Research Institute, fell and

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: interventionist policies, telling Treasury Secretary [[Henry Morgenthau Jr.|Henry Morgenthau]], "If I should die tomorrow, I want you to know this, I am absolutely convinced Lindbergh is a Nazi." In 1941 he wrote to Secretary of War [[Henry Stimson]]: "When I read Lindbergh's speech I felt that it could not have been better put if it had been written by [[Joseph Goebbels|Goebbels]] himself. What a pity that this youngster has completely abandoned his belief in our form of government and has accepted Nazi methods because apparently they are efficient." Lindbergh elucidated his beliefs regarding [[White people|white race]] in a 1939 article

title: Peter Lindbergh

text: Peter Lindbergh Peter Lindbergh (born Peter Brodbeck on 23 November 1944) is a German photographer and film director. Lindbergh is known for his cinematic images. Lindbergh was born on 23 November 1944 in Leszno, Poland. He spent his childhood in Duisburg. As a teenager, he worked as window dresser for the Karstadt and Horten department stores in Duisburg. Coming from a part of Germany close to the Dutch border, North Rhine-Westphalia, he spent summer holidays with his family in the Netherlands on the coast near Noordwijk. The vast beaches and the industrial settings of his hometown Duisburg, have influenced his

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the next hours, Lindbergh and the "Spirit" faced many challenges, which included skimming over [[Cumulonimbus cloud|storm clouds]] at and wave tops at as low as . The aircraft fought [[Icing conditions|icing]], flew blind through fog for several hours, and Lindbergh navigated only by [[Dead reckoning#Air navigation|dead reckoning]] (he was not proficient at navigating [[Celestial navigation|by the sun and stars]] and he rejected [[radio navigation]] gear as heavy and unreliable). He was fortunate that the winds over the Atlantic cancelled each other out, giving him zero wind drift – and thus accurate navigation during the long flight over featureless ocean. He

title: Lindbergh, Atlanta

text: artists played, such as Billy Joel, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and BB King. During this time, the Georgia Department of Transportation was acquiring land for what is now Georgia Route 400 freeway, and so the surrounding land had a network of dirt roads, one of which was located where Sidney Marcus Boulevard is today and which connected Buford Highway to Lindbergh Drive. In the late 1990s, planning began between MARTA, the City, developers, and BellSouth to build a town center for the neighborhood in the area surrounding the MARTA station and renovate Lindbergh Plaza shopping mall. Lindbergh City Center opened

title: I Did What I Did for Maria

text: I Did What I Did for Maria "I Did What I Did for Maria" is a song recorded by English singer Tony Christie. It was written and produced by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander, who were also responsible for Christie's "Las Vegas" and "Avenues and Alleyways". The song is about a widower who, on the eve of his execution, recalls how he remorselessly avenged his dead wife, hence the title. It was a number 2 UK hit in June 1971, and was also a hit in Ireland, where it also reached number 2. The track later appeared on Christie's compilation