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06-01-2012, 09:53 AM
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Amelia Earhart's Anti-Freckle Cream Jar Possibly Found
Interesting read on the latest finds and research on a possible location of where her plane went down.
Discovery News:
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"A small cosmetic jar offers more circumstantial evidence that the legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart, died on an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.
Found broken in five pieces, the ointment pot was collected on Nikumaroro Island by researchers of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 75 years ago.
When reassembled,* the glass fragments make up a nearly complete jar identical in shape to the ones used by Dr.* C.* H Berry's Freckle Ointment. The ointment was marketed in the early* 20th century as a concoction guaranteed to make freckles fade.
"It's well documented Amelia had freckles and disliked having them," Joe Cerniglia, the TIGHAR researcher who spotted the freckle ointment as a possible match, told Discovery News."
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06-01-2012, 02:48 PM
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This is intriguing. Fingerprints?
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06-01-2012, 02:55 PM
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After 75 years, doubtful.
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06-01-2012, 03:14 PM
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06-01-2012, 03:19 PM
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06-01-2012, 03:25 PM
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Women are Angels and when someone breaks our wings we simply continue to fly...on a broomstick. We are flexible like that
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06-01-2012, 05:16 PM
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But if there's a jar certainly there would be signs of an aircraft...either on the island or not far off shore.
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06-01-2012, 05:21 PM
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Evidently, there are signs of aircraft but the pieces were made into other useful objects over the years. The island has quite an interesting history.
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06-01-2012, 07:39 PM
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bg, thanks for the links!! 
I too find this very intriguing. Although TIGHAR has its' critics, they have found and put together a whole list of items that make their theory at least plausible.
This, from the TIGHAR site, is great news:
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"On July 2, 2012 – the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance – TIGHAR’s Niku VII expedition will sail from Honolulu to conduct a search for the Earhart Electra in the waters adjacent to Nikumaroro."
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I can't wait to see what they find.
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06-04-2012, 01:10 AM
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06-04-2012, 02:53 PM
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This article from Discovery News reports on the info coming out of a 3 day conference sponsored by TIGHAR.
It's truly fascinating and they've really done their research.
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