Amelia Earhart saw her first airplane at the Iowa State Fair in 1908 when she was 10 years old, but wasn’t impressed by it at the time.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. met his future wife, Coretta Scott, while they were both college students in Boston.
Yayoi Kusama once wrote a letter to the famous American artist Georgia O’Keeffe asking for help and advice about being an artist. To her surprise, O’Keeffe wrote back encouraging her and even told her to show her art to as many people as she could — and that helped Kusama follow her dream!
Albert Einstein requested that his ashes be scattered in a secret location after his death.
Cultural Encounters
Vasco da Gama met many different peoples and learned about their customs.