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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

The Little Giant

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Some people break through barriers with the power of their will, while others rise above in the more literal sense. Either way, they make great additions to the Cabinet of Curiosities.

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0:00.0

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:07.2

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

0:13.1

just waiting for us to explore.

0:16.2

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

0:27.8

The most difficult thing is the decision to act.

0:30.8

The rest is merely tenacity.

0:34.1

Those aren't my words, by the way.

0:35.6

They belong to someone who dared to do the impossible.

0:38.4

Someone we still remember today.

0:40.4

Amelia Earhart.

0:42.5

She set numerous records during her life, both as a woman and a pilot.

0:47.0

She was the first woman pilot to reach 14,000 feet in an airplane.

0:51.0

The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first to fly nonstop from coast

0:56.2

to coast across the continental U.S., and she would have been the first woman to circumnavigate

1:01.9

the globe by airplane had she not disappeared during her final trip.

1:06.9

But this story isn't about her.

1:09.1

It's about the woman who came before her.

1:11.2

The one who, in all respects, paved the way for women like Amelia Earhart to prove their

1:16.2

metal before the world.

1:18.3

Her name was Annie London Dairy, and while she was born in Latvia in 1870, she grew up in

1:24.2

Boston.

1:25.2

She raised an attendant along with four other siblings who all got married and started

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