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Dorothy Olsen (1916–2019) was an American aircraft pilot and member of the Women Airforce
Service Pilots (WASPs) during World War II. She developed an interest in aviation at a young age
and earned her private pilot's license in 1939, when it was unusual for women to be pilots. In 1943,
Olsen joined the newly formed WASPs as a civil service employee. After training in Texas, she was
assigned to the Sixth Ferrying Group in Long Beach, California, where she worked ferrying new
aircraft from the factories where they were built to U.S. airbases. She flew more than 20 types of
military airplanes, including high-performance fighters – such as the P-51 and the twin-engine P-38 –
which she favored over larger aircraft such as bombers. After the war, Olsen retired from flying and
moved to the state of Washington, where she married, raised a family, and lived for the rest of her
life. In 2009, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal honoring her service during the war.
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Palestine in 1908, was opposed to Zionism and frequently criticized Jewish immigration?
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white televisions, transistor radios, and aged clocks on a wall?
 ... that Heike Heubach became the first deaf member of the German Bundestag?
  ... that larvae of the species Carabus japonicus prey on earthworms up to 400 times larger than
themselves?
 ... that John Quincy Adams described Jonathan Elliot, his former printer, as "penurious and
venal"?
 ... that an Irish comedy group wrote the film Apocalypse Clown?
 ... that scholars debate whether Anactoria, mentioned in Sappho's poems, was a real person,
a pseudonym, or an invention of Sappho?
 ... that American Colossus, a history book that describes how a banker bailed out the U.S.
government in 1895, was published around a time when the U.S. government bailed out banks?
 ... that football player Joe Gray was nicknamed the "Gray Ghost" because when running "it was
like he wasn't there anymore"?
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