company TWA. And she was also a stunt and racing pilot and sponsored byBeech-nut Gum Earhart was only the16th woman in the United States to receive her pilots license. Shewas married to G.P.Putnam owner of the publishing company though she insistedon always being addressed by her maiden name and never as Mrs. Putnam. For many Amelia Earhart is rememberedmore for who she died than how she lived. June 1st of his year will be the 75thanniversary of Amelia Earharts departure from the U.S. on her ill-fated round-the-worldflight. No one had ever done that beforeand Earhart was joined by navigator FredNoonan in the Lockheed Electraplane.Afterflying successfully across the United States from California to Florida thepair flew without problem to South America, Africa, India and Asia before thelast, long leg across the Pacific Ocean lost in the Pacific Ocean. Somewhere beyond New Guinea on the morning of July 2,1937, and near a tiny America territory called Howland Island where they wereheading, radio contact with Earharts plane was lost.Evidencesuggests there were problems or misunderstandings with the planes radionavigation system and they probably ran out of gas and crash-landed in the sea.But were Earhart and Noonan killed immediately, or did they survive for sometime on some deserted island without ever being found? Despite extensivesearches over the years no conclusive evidence as to how they crashed or diedhas ever been found. The remains of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, and thewreck of their Lockheed Electra, still lie somewhere in the Pacific waiting tobe found. As Tom Crouch, curator of the National Air and Space Museum says,the mystery is what keeps it interesting. Amelia Earhart is our favoritemissing person.The TitanicOn the moonless night of April 14, 1912, 100 years ago, during her maidenvoyage from Southampton, England to New York City, the luxury ocean liner H.M.S.Titanic, City struck an iceberg atfull speed 400 miles from Newfoundland, Canada, In less than 3 hours she beganto sink 2and1/2 miles into the freezing North Atlantic Ocean where her wrecklies today. Of some 2200 people aboard 1500 died that night.When the first distress signals were sent out using the Morse code telegraphsystem invented by Gugliermo Marconi the new distress signal SOS was used forthe first time by assistant wireless operator Harold McBride. Save Our Ship- 3 dots-3 dashes-3 dots- is a messageanyone could be taught to remember. Officer McBride survived the sinking of theTitanic. The elegant, white-bearded captain, Edward Smith, did not.The mighty Titanic was the greatest ship ever built, and her ownersclaimed she was unsinkable. Herbuilder, Thomas Andrews, was less sure. Let the Truth beknown, he said while the ship was being constructed. No ship is unsinkable.The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. He too did not survive thesinking while the owners son, J. Bruce Ismay, did.But how exactly did the unsinkable Titanic sink? After all, Andrews hadconstructed her to withstand even a head-on collision with another boat. Perhapsif she had hit the iceberg that sunk her head-on she would not have sunk. However,after the iceberg was sighted, the Titanic had not been able to steer clear ofit