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(Correct use of the "F" word) When is @#$% Acceptable? There have been only twelve times in history when the "F" word was considered acceptable for use. They are as follows:   12. "What the @#$% do you mean, we are Sinking?"   -- Capt. E.J. Smith of RMS Titanic, 1912   11. "What the @#$% was that!?"   -- Mayor of Hiroshima , 1945   10. "Where did all those @#$%ing Indians come from?"   -- Custer, 1877   9. "Any @#$%ing idiot could understand that."   -- Einstein, 1938   8. "It does so @#$%ing look like her!"   -- Picasso, 1926   7. "How the @#$% did you work that out?"   -- Pythagoras, 126 BC   6. "You want WHAT on the @#$%ing ceiling?" --Michelangelo, 1566!   5. "Where the @#$% am I?"   -- Amelia Earhart, 1937   4. "Scattered @#$%ing showers, my ass!"   --Noah, 4314 BC   3. "Aw c'mon. Who the @#$% is going to find out?"   --Bill Clinton, 1998   ...

  Amelia Earhart Clara Adams and Amelia Earhart Amy Johnson, English aviator 1903-1941. One of the first women to gain a pilot's licence, Johnson won fame when she flew solo from Britain to Australia in 1930. Her dangerous flight took 17 days. Later she flew solo to India and Japan and became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic East to West, she volunteered to fly for The Women's Auxiliary Air Force in WW2, but her plane was shot down over the River Thames and she was killed. Nightwitches - Female Russian bombers who bombed Germany during WW2.  They had old, noisy planes & the engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid-flight to restart the props.  To stop Germans from hearing them & starting up the anti aircraft guns, they'd climb to a certain height, coast down to German positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in mid-air & get the hell out of dodge. Their leader...

Check out this video about Clara Adams  for more information. Clara Adams and Amelia Earhart Clara Adams & Lady Grace Drummond-Hay Clara Adams & Lady Grace Drummond-Hay