<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Amelia Earhart stands June 14, 1928 in front of her bi-plane called 'Friendship' in Newfoundland.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/amelia-earhart">Amelia Earhart</a> disappeared in her <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/plane">plane</a> over 80 years ago, but since then there have been many technological advances to keep that from happening.</strong></li><li><strong>Today, radar, satellites, and other flight-tracking systems keep a close eye on planes around the globe. It's a mix of old and new technologies which come together to create a larger system of checks and backups.</strong></li><li><strong>Despite these advances, however, there are still problems with tracking planes in certain remote regions. To remedy this, coordinated international reform efforts are set to take hold over the next few years.</strong></li></ul><p> </p><p>In July of 1937, Amelia Earhart, her navigator Fred Noonan, and her Lockheed Electra plane took off from New Guinea, at the tail-end of her quest to <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/amelia-earhart-disappears">circle the globe</a>. They were never seen again.</p><p>Fast forward to March 2018, when a <a href="http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/fa/article/view/525/518">report</a> from Forensic Anthropology claimed to have identified Earhart's bones, found on a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean in 1940, with 99% accuracy - contradictory to the initial original report, which said the bones were from a man. Even now, the circumstances of Earhart's disappearance remain somewhat of a mystery. Her plane, for example, is still missing.</p><p>Nowadays, a disappearing plane is almost unthinkable (though it can happen - many of us remember when <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/mh370">Malaysia Airlines Flight 370</a> vanished in 2014).</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Justin Benson-Cooper - Pool/Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Pilot Russell Adams searches from a Royal Australian Airforce AP-3C Orion from Pearce Airforce Base during a search mission for possible MH370 debris on March 21, 2014 in Perth, Australia.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>But for the most part, technology has taken us far from the days when a person could fly out into the unknown, never to be seen again. For one thing, the unknown feels hard to come by these days. For another, air traffic is highly regulated, backed up by technological advances and overlapping systems that allow planes to be monitored at almost every stage.</p><p>One such system is radar, or "<a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/radar/about/what_is_radar.shtml">Radio Detecting and Ranging</a>," which uses radio waves to keep air traffic controllers aware of each aircraft's location, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The concept of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/radar/History-of-radar">radar</a> has been around since before Earhart first climbed into a cockpit, according to Britannica. Despite its age and relative simplicity, it remains a staple for most flight-tracking systems, Mark Millam, a vice president at the <a href="https://flightsafety.org/">Flight Safety Foundation</a>, told Business Insider.</p><p>But some programs, like the Federal Aviation Administration's <a href="https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/">NextGen program</a>, are focusing on switching from radar to a more accurate and reliable satellite-based tracking technology. In fact, most planes operating in U.S.-controlled airspace must be equipped with satellite-compliant technology by January 2020, according to the FAA.</p><p>When radar and satellites aren't available, in remote areas for example, it's up to flight crews to report their position back to air traffic control centers, Millam said. The <a href="https://www.icao.int/safety/globaltracking/Pages/GADSS-Update.aspx">International Civil Aviation Organization</a> (ICAO), a specialized agency of the United Nations, has recommended that commercial planes be required to report their positions every 15 minutes, according to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/07/passenger-planes-to-report-position-every-15-minutes-under-new-un-tracking-plan">The Guardian</a>. This recommendation applies starting on November 8, 2018.</p><p>Millam said that most countries are already complying with that standard. But it still leaves a bit to be desired, especially when you're travelling hundreds of miles per hour.</p><p>That's where the <a href="https://www.icao.int/safety/globaltracking/Pages/GADSS-Update.aspx">Global Aeronautical Distress Safety System</a> (GADSS), another set of potential reform initiatives, comes in. It calls for things like automating the location-reporting process for planes in distress, thereby shrinking the search radius for missing planes to a six-nautical-mile radius. That standard goes into effect on January 1, 2021.</p><p>"You'll get a tighter and tighter window of where that aircraft is if it begins to show signs that it's not operating like a typical aircraft. Altitude, pressurization ... GADSS is meant to be able to identify these aircraft early, report more information back to air traffic control and help recover the aircraft," Millam said.</p><p>As it stands, however, these layers of accountability have fallen short in the not-so-distant past. Consider, for example, the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. The plane, which had over 200 people on board, was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-flight-mh370-searchers-said-about-failing-to-find-the-plane-2018-5">never found</a>, as Business Insider previously reported. It was the <a href="https://www.icao.int/safety/globaltracking/Documents/NATII%20Final%20Report.pdf">catalyst</a> which later prompted the ICAO to create GADSS.</p><p>It's worth noting that this event was an anomaly for modern aviation.</p><p>"That aircraft flew for hours after it reported that it was not on its planned flight path. That is something that had never been seen before," Millam said. "With the changes that are proposed since Malaysia 370, since Amelia Earhart - there's been so much more that's been set up in terms of coverage."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>J. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Amelia Earhart on June 20, 1928.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>When planes crash on land, force-activated <a href="https://www.aopa.org/advocacy/aircraft/aircraft-operations/emergency-locator-transmitters">emergency-locator transmitters</a> are meant to help search and rescue locate the ones that don't make it home. And larger aircraft flying internationally are required to have underwater locating devices, which activate automatically and send out a signal for at least 30 days.</p><p>Despite the loss of that Malaysia Airlines flight, however, the expectation that your flight will arrive at the intended destination is still mostly taken in stride. Planes still crash, but it's much more difficult for a plane to disappear than it was in Earhart's day. And given the flight-tracking proposals on the table, it will only become more difficult as new initiatives and technologies become the norm.</p><p>Over the years, Earhart's mysterious disappearance has taken her from a person of public fascination to that of an aeronautic legend and an icon of female empowerment. In honor of her impressive life and pioneering contributions to aviation, July 24 is celebrated as Amelia Earhart Day.</p><p>Although we've mostly managed to move beyond the phenomenon of vanishing aircraft, her disappearance does still resonate with a certain degree of fascination, reflecting our deepest desires for exploration and discovery - even if that means confronting the unknown.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoins-value-solving-the-problem-with-fiat-money-2018-7">An early investor in Airbnb and Uber explains why he started buying bitcoin in 2009</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Modern <keyword id="732445" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Cereal">cereal</keyword> owes its existence to a bitter rivalry between John Harvey <keyword id="112964" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kellogg">Kellogg</keyword> and his younger brother Will Kellogg, who founded the iconic Kellogg's food brand.</li><li>John Harvey was a renowned doctor in the late 19th century who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a medical facility in <keyword id="18877" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Michigan">Michigan</keyword> where presidents and celebrities like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Amelia Earhart received treatments to improve their bowel movements.</li><li>John Harvey had his younger brother Will develop the first modern wheat flakes in the 1890s so that patients could have a pre-cooked, ready-to-eat breakfast cereal.</li><li>Recognizing the commercial potential of the new invention, Will bought his brother's cereal business and left the Sanitarium to found the now-iconic brand Kellogg's in 1906. </li><li>Jealous of his brother's success and angry over the commercial use of the Kellogg name, John Harvey set up a competing cereal company, sparking a legal challenge from Will and a lifetime of rivalry.</li><li>To hear the full story, subscribe for free to Business Insider's podcast, "<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brought-to-you-by/id1413374332">Brought to You By ...</a>"</li></ul><ul class="summary-list"></ul><h2>Listen to the full episode: </h2><p>You may owe the existence of the cereal in your cabinet to a bitter rivalry between two brothers.</p><p>John Harvey and Will Kellogg were born in Michigan in the mid-19th century and had a contentious relationship from the very start. The elder John was seen as brilliant and left home to study medicine in New York. The younger Will was suspected of having low intelligence by his family. John Harvey frequently subjected Will to verbal and physical abuse.</p><p>By the time they were adults, John Harvey was a highly regarded doctor and ran a <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dr-kelloggs-world-renowned-health-spa-made-wellness-titan">massive medical complex</a> called the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan.</p><p>At the time, Americans were obsessed with healthy bowel movements. John Harvey was at the forefront of this obsession. At the Sanitarium, presidents and celebrities like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Amelia Earhart received treatments intended to improve digestion.</p><p>John Harvey hired Will at age 20 to run the business side of the Sanitarium. Under his brother, Will's humiliating treatment continued. He wasn't allowed to have an office. John Harvey called him his "lackey" and forced him to follow him around with a notebook, dictating ideas as they occurred to him. That meant that when John Harvey rode his bike across the Sanitarium campus, Will was forced to run alongside him to keep up. John Harvey even forced Will to come into the bathroom with him to record his thoughts.</p><p>"That really, I think, explains the relationship to a T," medical historian Dr. Howard Markel of the University of Michigan told Business Insider. "Will was quiet, but he hated it."</p><p>But a menial task from John Harvey eventually led to Will's massive success.</p><h2>Inventing modern cereal</h2><p>In the 1890s, pre-cooked, ready-to-eat, safe breakfast cereals did not exist. So John Harvey decided to make some. The gut-obsessed older brother was convinced that if grain was baked at an extremely high heat, its complex sugars and starches would break down and make it easier to digest. That meant Will had to spend hours crouched under a hand-cranked roller, catching flattened dough and chiseling off tiny flakes. That led to what is now a ubiquitous type of cereal: Wheat flakes.</p><p>"That was a Eureka moment," Markel said.</p><p>Will set up a makeshift factory at the Sanitarium and started selling the flakes in ten ounce packs for 15 cents each. In its first year of production, the brothers sold over 113,000 pounds of flakes.</p><p>"It was a huge deal because all of a sudden you could have an instant breakfast poured out of a box, pour milk on it, eat it," Markel said. "Even dad could make breakfast now."</p><p>To Will's frustration, John Harvey wasn't interested in exploiting the clear commercial possibilities of their new product. So in the early 1900s, Will started experimenting with a new kind of cereal. He played with different ingredients, like salt and sugar — which John Harvey would never have condoned. Through relentless experimentation he created another iconic food: Corn flakes.</p><p>In 1905, after 25 years of working for his brother, Will offered to buy his brother's cereal business. John Harvey, who was in debt and uninterested in marketing his cereals, agreed. The 46-year-old Will Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Toasted Cornflake Company, better known today as Kellogg's.</p><h2>Battling over the Kellogg name</h2><p>Will poured millions of dollars into ad campaigns using mascots like Snap, Crackle, and Pop. He sparked his brother's ire when he put the name "Kellogg" on his cereal boxes and started signing his work: Every box was branded with "W.K. Kellogg" in big swoopy red cursive.</p><p>"He [John Harvey] hated it," Markel said. "And the fact that Will was doing well. He hated the fact that it was his invention. He hated the fact that he was using the name Kellogg, and their signatures actually were even somewhat similar….he just went nuts."</p><p>John Harvey created "The Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company'' in 1908 and started selling a version of his brother's product. In 1910, Will asked a judge to put an injunction against his brother for making a Kellogg's-branded cereal, and the two went to court.</p><p>The brothers reached a settlement out of court but continued their legal sparring for a decade. When John Harvey started marketing a new "sterilized bran" cereal in 1916, Will immediately made his own version. John Harvey filed a restraining order against his brother, and by 1917 they were back in court.</p><p>This time, Will crushed John Harvey. A judge dismissed the elder brother's complaints and decided Will was entitled to all of the money John Harvey had made off of his cereal in the last ten years. John Harvey appealed to the Michigan Supreme Court, but they unanimously backed his brother.</p><p>Besting John Harvey so thoroughly did not make Will a better person. After a lifetime of feeling beaten down, Will became bitter, passive-aggressive, paranoid, and hostile. His marriages fell apart. Two of his sons broke off contact with him. After he died at the age of 91 years old, one of his grandsons described it as a relief.</p><p>"He got the ultimate revenge," Markel said, "but he couldn't enjoy it."</p><p>The brothers never fixed their shattered relationship. When they did meet, Will insisted upon having a third party in the room. Near the end of his life, John wrote Will an emotional letter— a mea culpa— from a man who was clearly full of regret.</p><p>But Will didn't get the letter. Because John Harvey's secretary never sent it to him.</p><p>"She didn't want it to be sent because it made John Harvey look weak," Markel said.</p><p>Will finally received the letter in 1948, years after John Harvey's death. By then, Will was blind from glaucoma.</p><p>"The letter had to be read to him," Markel said. "There were tears and silent stoicism…. it must have hurt him to the core."</p><p>Most people's names are not going to be remembered. Yet these two brothers from a tiny town in the middle of the state of Michigan are still being talked about.</p>

The sibling rivalry behind Kellogg's that created the modern breakfast cereal

<ul class="summary-list"><li>President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> announced the construction of a "National Garden of American Heroes" to honor iconic figures through history.</li><li>The president announced the <keyword id="944390" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="executive-order">executive order</keyword> for the garden while railing against protesters who have in recent weeks pushed for cities and institutions across the US to topple <keyword id="6396736" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="monuments">monuments</keyword> to Confederate figures.</li><li>The executive order on the development listed at least 31 Americans who will be memorialized in a series of statues, none of which "will have lived perfect lives, but all will be worth honoring, remembering, and studying," the order said.</li></ul><p>President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-building-rebuilding-monuments-american-heroes/">announced</a> on Friday that his administration will create a "National Garden of American Heroes" to honor iconic Americans through history as the US grapples with removing and renaming Confederate monuments and symbols across the country.</p><p>During his remarks at the base of South Dakota's <keyword id="397216" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mount-Rushmore">Mount Rushmore</keyword> ahead of Independence Day, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-statue-protesters-want-to-end-america-mount-rushmore-speech-2020-7">Trump railed against what he called "far-left fascism"</a> at play in anti-racism protests that have demanded US cities remove monuments and symbols of their Confederate ties. Trump said they were looking to "overthrow the American Revolution" and to "end America."</p><p>The <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-building-rebuilding-monuments-american-heroes/">executive order</a> repeated Trump's disapproval of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/confederate-white-nationalist-monuments-removed-cities-2018-2">cities and institutions that have toppled or are considering removing offensive historical symbols</a>.</p><p>"My Administration will not abide an assault on our collective national memory," the executive order read. "In the face of such acts of destruction, it is our responsibility as Americans to stand strong against this violence, and to peacefully transmit our great national story to future generations through newly commissioned monuments to American heroes."</p><p>The new series of lifelike statues will contain the likenesses of at least 31 Americans including civil-rights figures, Founding Fathers, and military heroes "who have contributed positively to America throughout our history."</p><p>The full list of figures named in the executive order includes:</p><ul><li>John Adams</li><li>Susan B. Anthony</li><li>Clara Barton</li><li>Daniel Boone</li><li>Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain</li><li>Henry Clay</li><li>Davy Crockett</li><li>Frederick Douglass</li><li>Amelia Earhart</li><li>Benjamin Franklin</li><li>Billy Graham</li><li>Alexander Hamilton</li><li>Thomas Jefferson</li><li>Martin Luther King, Jr.</li><li>Abraham Lincoln</li><li>Douglas MacArthur</li><li>Dolley Madison</li><li>James Madison</li><li>Christa McAuliffe</li><li>Audie Murphy</li><li>George S. Patton, Jr.</li><li>Ronald Reagan</li><li>Jackie Robinson</li><li>Betsy Ross</li><li>Antonin Scalia</li><li>Harriet Beecher Stowe</li><li>Harriet Tubman</li><li>Booker T. Washington</li><li>George Washington</li><li>Orville and Wilbur Wright.</li></ul><p>"None will have lived perfect lives, but all will be worth honoring, remembering, and studying," the order said.</p><p>The executive order established a task force that will be provided with funding and resources from the Department of the Interior. The task force has 60 days to submit a report including proposals for the garden's location.</p><p>The National Garden is set to be open to the public by July 4, 2026, according to the White House.</p><p>Though Confederate symbols are not a new target for protestors and civil-rights advocates, George Floyd's May 25 death in police custody sparked some of the largest protests ever seen in the US, which have earned Trump's ire through demanding changes to monuments, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mississippi-flag-confederacy-removed/2020/06/30/f47df152-baed-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html">flags</a>, and military bases. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/trump-rejects-renaming-military-bases.html">Trump has rejected any possibility</a> of changing the names of military bases honoring Confederate generals, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/donald-trump-vandals-statues-prison-fact-check/index.html">threatened anyone who vandalizes a statue in the US with 10 years in prison</a>. </p><p>However, discussions over preserving ties to the Confederacy have sparked long-awaited changes in local fixtures like <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mississippi-flag-confederacy-removed/2020/06/30/f47df152-baed-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mississippi changing its state flag</a>.</p>

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Barrack denies any wrongdoing. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-tom-barrack-donald-trump-uae-middle-east-colony-2021-7">More on how Barrack met Trump, including their reported partying with Jeffrey Epstein</a>.</p><ul><li><strong>Eye-popping stat:</strong> Eight Trump campaign or administration officials have faced federal criminal indictments. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-trump-campaign-admin-officials-to-face-federal-charges-2021-7">A recap of every charge thus far</a>.</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/salary-database-google-goldman-amazon-how-much-top-jobs-pay-2021-7"><strong><div type="image" title="Logos of companies including Deloitte, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Disney, Walmart, Facebook, and JP Morgan Chase on a green background." height="1250" width="2500" msid="84612836" hostid="261"></div></strong></a></p><p><strong>6. 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The company that owns the program, NSO Group, denied that Macron was ever the "target" of any of its customers in the "Pegasus" program. The Post and journalists around the world have illustrated how spyware allowed governments to snoop on journalists and silence dissidents. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/20/heads-of-state-pegasus-spyware/">More on what it means for some of the most powerful leaders to be in this database</a>.</p><p><strong>9. Caitlyn Jenner's tax returns show her income has slid over the years: </strong>Jenner's tax returns from 2016 to 2019 show that her income has fallen to a fifth of what she earned in 2016, when she had her own reality-TV show. <a href="https://www.insider.com/caitlyn-jenners-tax-returns-income-dropped-drastically-since-2016-2021-7">More on how the California gubernatorial candidate is nowhere near as rich as people think she is</a>.</p><p><strong><div type="image" title="Tom Brady jokes with President Biden" height="1667" width="2500" msid="84612837" hostid="261"></div></strong></p><p><strong>10. Tom Brady trolled Trump at the White House: </strong>Brady, a former Trump golf partner, poked fun at the former president's inability to accept his election defeat. During the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' visit to the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl championship, Brady joked to Biden: "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-brady-biden-joke-white-house-visit-40-percent-election-2021-7">I think about 40% of the people still don't think we won. You understand that, Mr. President?</a>"</p><p><em><strong>Today's trivia question: </strong>How did Amazon honor its first customer? Email your guess and a suggested question to me at <a href="mailto:bgriffiths@insider.com">bgriffiths@insider.com</a>.</em></p><ul><li><em><strong>Yesterday's answer: </strong><a href="https://www.space.com/neil-armstrong-son-apollo-11-auction-interview.html">Neil Armstrong brought pieces of the Wright brothers' plane</a> with him on the historic moon landing. Bringing historic mementos into space appears to be a lasting tradition. Bezos <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/bezos-blue-origin-space-amelia-earhart-wright-brothers-aviation-history-2021-7">brought a different Wright-brothers plane piece, Amelia Earhart's goggles, and other priceless aviation artifacts with him</a> on the anniversary of Apollo 11's landing.</em></li></ul>

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The world will celebrate <keyword id="6421805" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="International-Womens-Day">International Women’s Day</keyword> on Sunday, March 8, 2020. It is time to celebrate womanhood in all its glory. <br /><br />Greet your friends, family members and contacts with thought provoking and meaningful quotes on this wonderful day. There is no better way to connect with your dear ones than by greeting them with the chosen <keyword id="124343" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Womens-Day">Women’s Day</keyword> quotes that will inspire them. And remember, the theme for this year’s Women’s Day is <a href="https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme">#EachForEqual</a> that calls for a gender-equal world. Here is a collection of such quotes.<br /><br /><strong>Women are made to achieve anything and everything</strong><br /><br />Here are some quotes for aspiring women.<br /><br />“To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can.” –Spanish Proverb<br /><br />“Where there is a woman, there is magic.” –Ntozake Shange<br /><br />“Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim.” –Nora Ephron<br /><br />“Girls should never be afraid to be smart.” –Emma Watson<br /><br />“A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else.” –Unknown<br /><br /><strong>Confidence and courage can take a woman forward to achieve big</strong><br /><br />Women of our times are becoming stronger than ever. Choose from these quotes to encourage courageous women.<br /><br />“The best protection any woman can have is courage.” –Elizabeth Cady Stanton<br /><br />“She wasn’t looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword.” –Atticus<br /><br />“A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.” –Gina Carey<br /><br />“Little girls with dreams become women with vision.” –Unknown.<br /><br />“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” –Eleanor Roosevelt<br /><br />“She remembered who she was and the game changed.” –Lalah Deliah<br /><br />“Her soul is fierce, her heart is brave, her mind is strong.” –Unknown<br /><br /><strong>Unleash the potential <br /></strong><br />Women are a treasure house of wisdom, courage, confidence and will power. With the following quotes, remind your dear one that she has a lot of potential.<br /><br />“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” –Hillary Clinton<br /><br />“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” –Michelle Obama<br /><br />“There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.” –Hannah Gadsby<br /><br /><strong>Women can outperform men</strong><br /><br />A lot of women are proving they are no way inferior to men. Choose from the following quotes to appreciate women who are challenging men. <br /><br />“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” –Margaret Thatcher<br /><br />“Sometimes it’s the princess who kills the dragon and saves the prince.” –Samuel Lowe<br /><br />“A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.” –Rhonda Hansome<br /><br />“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.” –Gloria Steinem<br /><br />“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” –Amelia Earhart<br /><br /><strong>Nurture the team spirit in women</strong><br /><br />It is time that women inspire each other and motivate one another to make a new history. Ignite the team spirit in women with these quotes.<br /><br />“You can always tell who the strong women are. They are the ones you see building one another up instead of tearing each other down.” –Unknown<br /><br />“Real queens fix each other’s crowns.” –Unknown<br /><br /><strong>Never be afraid of failures</strong><br /><br />It is acceptable to fail in life as long as you have learnt the lessons they teach you. Rise up once again and invest the lessons you derived from failures courageously only to succeed, and show to the world who you are. Send these quotes to women to make them stronger after every fall they sustain.<br /><br />“It’s okay if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire.” –Colette Werden<br /><br />“A woman is like a tea bag: You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” –Eleanor Roosevelt<br /><br />“The strongest action for a woman is to love herself, be herself, and shine amongst those who never believed she could.” –Unknown<br /><br />“A strong woman can also be vulnerable. Just because there’s a crack in your armor, don’t doubt your strength for one moment.” –Unknown<br /><br />“I am proud of the woman I am today because I went through one hell of a time to become her.” –Unknown<br /><br />“Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.” - Unknown<br /><br />“Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.” –Unknown<br /><br /><br />

Happy International Women’s Day Quotes

<ul class="summary-list"><li>President Donald Trump ordered the building of a "National Garden of American Heroes" with statues of an eclectic range of people.</li><li>The list includes Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the basketball player Kobe Bryant, and the "Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek.</li><li>Read the full list of Trump's picks below.</li></ul><p>President Donald Trump ordered the building of a "National Garden of American Heroes" with statues of people including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the basketball player Kobe Bryant, and the "Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek.</p><p>Trump issued <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-building-national-garden-american-heroes/">an executive order</a> on Monday, the penultimate full day of his presidency, directing the construction of a statue garden "to reflect the awesome splendor of our country's timeless exceptionalism."</p><p>Trump <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-announced-national-garden-of-american-heroes-2020-7?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">first proposed the garden</a> last July at Mount Rushmore amid a heated debate about <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/confederate-monuments-spark-controversy-2017-8">removing Confederate monuments and statues</a>.</p><p>He <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-plays-race-card-and-culture-war-against-biden-2020-7?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">claimed the US was threatened</a> by a "left-wing cultural revolution" and suggested activists were seeking to "tear down every statue."</p><p>The executive order issued Monday did not specify a location for the garden but listed over 200 "American heroes" to commemorate. The president said it was "America's answer to this reckless attempt to erase our heroes, values, and entire way of life."</p><p>The list included the sports stars Muhammad Ali and Herb Brooks, the singer Whitney Houston, the actors Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, and dozens of historical figures such as Christopher Columbus.</p><p>There were also aviation pioneers, writers, inventors, musicians, military veterans, industrialists, and former presidents.</p><p>"The gates of a beautiful new garden will soon open to the public where the legends of America's past will be remembered," the executive order said. "The National Garden will be built to reflect the awesome splendor of our country's timeless exceptionalism. It will be a place where citizens, young and old, can renew their vision of greatness."</p><p>The garden appears unlikely to be built, given that Trump issued the order during his last week in office and that President-elect Joe Biden has promised to spend his first days in the White House reversing Trump's signature policies.</p><h2>Read Trump's full list of 'American heroes'</h2><div type="image" title="Trump " height="1000" width="2000" msid="80350013" hostid="261"></div><ul><li>Ansel Adams</li><li>John Adams</li><li>Samuel Adams</li><li>Muhammad Ali</li><li>Luis Walter Alvarez</li><li>Susan B. Anthony</li><li>Hannah Arendt</li><li>Louis Armstrong</li><li>Neil Armstrong</li><li>Crispus Attucks</li><li>John James Audubon</li><li>Lauren Bacall</li><li>Clara Barton</li><li>Todd Beamer</li><li>Alexander Graham Bell</li><li>Roy Benavidez</li><li>Ingrid Bergman</li><li>Irving Berlin</li><li>Humphrey Bogart</li><li>Daniel Boone</li><li>Norman Borlaug</li><li>William Bradford</li><li>Herb Brooks</li><li>Kobe Bryant</li><li>William F. Buckley Jr.</li><li>Sitting Bull</li><li>Frank Capra</li><li>Andrew Carnegie</li><li>Charles Carroll</li><li>John Carroll</li><li>George Washington Carver</li><li>Johnny Cash</li><li>Joshua Chamberlain</li><li>Whittaker Chambers</li><li>Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman</li><li>Ray Charles</li><li>Julia Child</li><li>Gordon Chung-Hoon</li><li>William Clark</li><li>Henry Clay</li><li>Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)</li><li>Roberto Clemente</li><li>Grover Cleveland</li><li>Red Cloud</li><li>William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody</li><li>Nat King Cole</li><li>Samuel Colt</li><li>Christopher Columbus</li><li>Calvin Coolidge</li><li>James Fenimore Cooper</li><li>Davy Crockett</li><li>Benjamin O. Davis Jr.</li><li>Miles Davis</li><li>Dorothy Day</li><li>Joseph H. De Castro</li><li>Emily Dickinson</li><li>Walt Disney</li><li>William "Wild Bill" Donovan</li><li>Jimmy Doolittle</li><li>Desmond Doss</li><li>Frederick Douglass</li><li>Herbert Henry Dow</li><li>Katharine Drexel</li><li>Peter Drucker</li><li>Amelia Earhart</li><li>Thomas Edison</li><li>Jonathan Edwards</li><li>Albert Einstein</li><li>Dwight D. Eisenhower</li><li>Duke Ellington</li><li>Ralph Waldo Emerson</li><li>Medgar Evers</li><li>David Farragut</li><li>The Marquis de La Fayette</li><li>Mary Fields</li><li>Henry Ford</li><li>George Fox</li><li>Aretha Franklin</li><li>Benjamin Franklin</li><li>Milton Friedman</li><li>Robert Frost</li><li>Gabby Gabreski</li><li>Bernardo de Gálvez</li><li>Lou Gehrig</li><li>Theodor Seuss Geisel</li><li>Cass Gilbert</li><li>Ruth Bader Ginsburg</li><li>John Glenn</li><li>Barry Goldwater</li><li>Samuel Gompers</li><li>Alexander Goode</li><li>Carl Gorman</li><li>Billy Graham</li><li>Ulysses S. Grant</li><li>Nellie Gray</li><li>Nathanael Greene</li><li>Woody Guthrie</li><li>Nathan Hale</li><li>William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr.</li><li>Alexander Hamilton</li><li>Ira Hayes</li><li>Hans Christian Heg</li><li>Ernest Hemingway</li><li>Patrick Henry</li><li>Charlton Heston</li><li>Alfred Hitchcock</li><li>Billie Holiday</li><li>Bob Hope</li><li>Johns Hopkins</li><li>Grace Hopper</li><li>Sam Houston</li><li>Whitney Houston</li><li>Julia Ward Howe</li><li>Edwin Hubble</li><li>Daniel Inouye</li><li>Andrew Jackson</li><li>Robert H. Jackson</li><li>Mary Jackson</li><li>John Jay</li><li>Thomas Jefferson</li><li>Steve Jobs</li><li>Katherine Johnson</li><li>Barbara Jordan</li><li>Chief Joseph</li><li>Elia Kazan</li><li>Helen Keller</li><li>John F. Kennedy</li><li>Francis Scott Key</li><li>Coretta Scott King</li><li>Martin Luther King Jr.</li><li>Russell Kirk</li><li>Jeane Kirkpatrick</li><li>Henry Knox</li><li>Tadeusz Kościuszko</li><li>Harper Lee</li><li>Pierre Charles L'Enfant</li><li>Meriwether Lewis</li><li>Abraham Lincoln</li><li>Vince Lombardi</li><li>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</li><li>Clare Boothe Luce</li><li>Douglas MacArthur</li><li>Dolley Madison</li><li>James Madison</li><li>George Marshall</li><li>Thurgood Marshall</li><li>William Mayo</li><li>Christa McAuliffe</li><li>William McKinley</li><li>Louise McManus</li><li>Herman Melville</li><li>Thomas Merton</li><li>George P. Mitchell</li><li>Maria Mitchell</li><li>William "Billy" Mitchell</li><li>Samuel Morse</li><li>Lucretia Mott</li><li>John Muir</li><li>Audie Murphy</li><li>Edward Murrow</li><li>John Neumann</li><li>Annie Oakley</li><li>Jesse Owens</li><li>Rosa Parks</li><li>George S. Patton Jr.</li><li>Charles Willson Peale</li><li>William Penn</li><li>Oliver Hazard Perry</li><li>John J. Pershing</li><li>Edgar Allan Poe</li><li>Clark Poling</li><li>John Russell Pope</li><li>Elvis Presley</li><li>Jeannette Rankin</li><li>Ronald Reagan</li><li>Walter Reed</li><li>William Rehnquist</li><li>Paul Revere</li><li>Henry Hobson Richardson</li><li>Hyman Rickover</li><li>Sally Ride</li><li>Matthew Ridgway</li><li>Jackie Robinson</li><li>Norman Rockwell</li><li>Caesar Rodney</li><li>Eleanor Roosevelt</li><li>Franklin D. Roosevelt</li><li>Theodore Roosevelt</li><li>Betsy Ross</li><li>Babe Ruth</li><li>Sacagawea</li><li>Jonas Salk</li><li>John Singer Sargent</li><li>Antonin Scalia</li><li>Norman Schwarzkopf</li><li>Junípero Serra</li><li>Elizabeth Ann Seton</li><li>Robert Gould Shaw</li><li>Fulton Sheen</li><li>Alan Shepard</li><li>Frank Sinatra</li><li>Margaret Chase Smith</li><li>Bessie Smith</li><li>Elizabeth Cady Stanton</li><li>Jimmy Stewart</li><li>Harriet Beecher Stowe</li><li>Gilbert Stuart</li><li>Anne Sullivan</li><li>William Howard Taft</li><li>Maria Tallchief</li><li>Maxwell Taylor</li><li>Tecumseh</li><li>Kateri Tekakwitha</li><li>Shirley Temple</li><li>Nikola Tesla</li><li>Jefferson Thomas</li><li>Henry David Thoreau</li><li>Jim Thorpe</li><li>Augustus Tolton</li><li>Alex Trebek</li><li>Harry S. Truman</li><li>Sojourner Truth</li><li>Harriet Tubman</li><li>Dorothy Vaughan</li><li>C. T. Vivian</li><li>John von Neumann</li><li>Thomas Ustick Walter</li><li>Sam Walton</li><li>Booker T. Washington</li><li>George Washington</li><li>John Washington</li><li>John Wayne</li><li>Ida B. Wells-Barnett</li><li>Phillis Wheatley</li><li>Walt Whitman</li><li>Laura Ingalls Wilder</li><li>Roger Williams</li><li>John Winthrop</li><li>Frank Lloyd Wright</li><li>Orville Wright</li><li>Wilbur Wright</li><li>Alvin C. York</li><li>Cy Young</li><li>Lorenzo de Zavala</li></ul>

Trump's picks for his 'National Garden of American Heroes' include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kobe Bryant, and a quiz-show host

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://the-woman-cards.myshopify.com/">The Woman Cards</a></span></p><p class="caption">Deal us in.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>It's time to play the woman card.</p><p>Inspired by the presidential election, brother and sister team Zach and Zebby Wahls produced this deck of cards, which features 15 badass women.</p><p>The Wahls started a <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zachwahls/the-woman-card-s" target="_blank">Kickstarter campaign</a> to design and create The Woman Card[s] after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of playing "the woman card." Clinton responded by saying, "Deal me in."</p><p>They raised more than $150,000 dollars to successfully manufacture the deck, and, according to the Hollywood Reporter, more than <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/woman-card-deck-hillary-clinton-ellen-degeneres-betty-white-beyonce-916886" target="_blank">10,000 decks have been ordered</a>.</p><p>Each card is a hand-drawn portrait of an inspirational American woman.</p><p>The deck includes:</p><p>Ace - Hillary Clinton<br />King - Ruth Bader Ginsburg<br />Queen - Beyoncé<br />Jack - Clara Barton<br />10 - Sylvia Rivera<br />9 - Amelia Earhart<br />8 - Harriet Tubman<br />7 - Mary Cassatt<br />6 - Susan B. Anthony<br />5 - Wilma Rudolph<br />4 - Rosa Parks<br />3 - Ida B. Wells<br />2 - Dr. Sally Ride<br />Big Joker - Betty White<br />Small Joker - Ellen DeGeneres</p><p>The deck can be <a href="https://the-woman-cards.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/first-edition-deck-of-the-woman-cards" target="_blank">pre-ordered for $19.99</a>. Prints are also <a href="https://the-woman-cards.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-woman-cards-print" target="_blank">available for $47.99</a> each.</p><p><strong>Check out some of the other cards available:</strong></p><p><strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://the-woman-cards.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-woman-cards-print">The Woman Cards</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://the-woman-cards.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-woman-cards-print">The Woman Cards</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://the-woman-cards.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-woman-cards-print">The Woman Cards</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></strong></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hairstyling-team-creates-pixelated-hair-2016-7">This pixelated hair style is straight out of a comic book</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="h0MHN0NDE6kKwCPWk0n9xw1OtyrDpE01" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container no-rightrail"><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Hollis Johnson</span></p></div><p></p></div></p><p>About as far southeast as one can go in Brooklyn, at the very end of Flatbush Avenue, what was once New York's first municipal airport bakes in the sun - its original purpose now just history.</p><p><span>These days, Floyd Bennett Field is part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, a place where locals come to<span> fish or camp, school children take tours, and disused hangars are transformed into sports complexes or public kayak storage space.</span></span></p><p><span><span><span>Far across the field from the terminal building, the colossal Hangar B houses the Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, a largely volunteer organization currently working to restore a significant collection of vintage aircraft to museum condition.</span></span></span></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right no-rightrail"><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Hollis Johnson</span></p></div><p></p></div>When it opened in 1931, the airport was a state-of-the-art facility designed to accommodate a rapidly-expanding aviation industry.</p><p>It would host some of the most famous aviators of the period, people like Howard Hughes, Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post, and Roscoe Turner.</p><p>The field is named after Floyd Bennett, who would earn the Congressional Medal of Honor after he and partner Richard E. Byrd became the first men to fly to the North Pole. It was one of many accomplishments in what is now considered the golden age of aviation.</p><p>Eventually, the airport lost business to Newark Airport, then much more convenient for traveling New Yorkers. The field would be turned into a naval air station just a decade after it opened, serving as a base for training and patrol and anti-submarine aircraft for much of the Cold War, Lincoln Hallowell, a park ranger who has served as a de facto historian of the field for 16 years told Business Insider.</p><p>Hallowell led us on a tour of the field. Here's what we saw.</p>

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<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/lularoe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LuLaRoe</a> founder DeAnne Stidham kicked off her sixtieth birthday with a masquerade-themed party at Riverside, California's Mission Inn &amp; Spa.</li><li>Partygoers wielded oversized cardboard caricatures of Stidham's smiling face.</li><li>The event at the historic landmark came about as LuLaRoe faces a number of lawsuits.</li></ul><p>LuLaRoe founder DeAnne Stidham marked her sixtieth birthday with a masquerade soirée at a historic hotel, even as her multi-level marketing company fends off multiple lawsuits.</p><p>The masquerade-themed event took place at Riverside, California's <a href="https://www.missioninn.com/meetings-events/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mission Inn Hotel &amp; Spa</a> on Saturday evening, according to multiple Instagram posts reviewed by Business Insider. Guests included loved ones and LuLaRoe retailers alike.</p><p>Stidham launched the multi-level marketing <keyword id="6354851" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="retail">retail</keyword> empire with her husband, Mark, back in 2015. Recently, the company was slapped with lawsuits from its former clothing <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lularoe-lawsuit-supplier-sues-for-49-million-2018-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supplier</a> and the state of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/washington-sues-lularoe-and-alleges-its-an-illegal-pyramid-scheme-2019-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington</a>.</p><p>The Mission Inn Hotel &amp; Spa, a Mission Revival Style landmark, has hosted US presidents, Hollywood stars, and luminaries like Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller, and Albert Einstein over the decades. According to the award-winning inn's website, rooms start at $199 a night.</p><p>A private party for around 40 guests on a Saturday evening would start at $5,000 at the Mission Inn Hotel &amp; Spa. The same event with 100 guests would cost $10,000 and up, but the price might vary depending on food and beverage choices, audiovisual services, and décor options.</p><p>It's unclear how many guests attended Stidham's event. LuLaRoe did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment. Business Insider reviewed Instagram posts from the event to glean a number of details of what occurred at Stidham's birthday bash.</p><p>Social media posts depict a flock of revelers congregating in the inn's courtyard, faces disguised by feathered and bejeweled masks. Some brandished oversized caricatures of Stidham's smiling face. Above the crowd, acrobats twisted on strands of blue silk.&#xa0;</p><p>Stidham posed for a few selfies with guests, sporting a shawl dripping in gold beads, a loopy silver mask, and matching facial art, according to photos reviewed by Business Insider.</p><p>Other partygoers documented the night by modeling before the on-site chapel altar - gilded with 18-karat gold leaf - or in the courtyard, beside a small statue of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of merchants. These guests posted the results of their photo shoots on Instagram.</p><p>Business Insider reviewed one guest's picture of a deep pink cake, bedecked with a carnival mask of its own and a sparkling topper that read "Sixty."&#xa0;</p><p><em><strong>Read more</strong>: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lularoe-lawsuit-founders-llcs-2018-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LuLaRoe's founders have been linked to 31 LLCs set up during the last 3 years - and a lawsuit alleges they're attempting to shield assets like a Gulfstream jet, a ranch in Wyoming, and a world-record-breaking supercar named Ruthie</a></em></p><p>Stidham was also regaled with an approximately seven-minute dance routine performed by her children and their spouses, according to a video viewed by Business Insider. The group busted a move to the musical stylings of The Carpenters, Elton John, Abba, Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Estefan, La Bouche, Basia, Ace of Base, Montell Jordan, Pharrell Williams, and Lee Greenwood.&#xa0;</p><p>Stidham even got up to join her family when 50 Cent's "In Da Club" came on.</p><p>"Oh my gosh," Stidham joked at the conclusion of the performance, according to a video reviewed by Business Insider. "I can't believe it. Whose fault was this?"</p><p>The celebration wasn't confined to the Mission Inn Hotel &amp; Spa, however.</p><p>LuLaRoe retailers also took to Instagram, posting photos of themselves wearing red - Stidham's favorite color - marked with the hashtag #llrbirthdaysquad and #llrsquadlife in honor of the founder.</p><p>"On Sunday we wear red to honor the queen of LuLaRoe," read one post, which Stidham subsequently shared on her Instagram story.</p><p>The founder also got in on the trend, filming an Instagram live in her office on Sunday. The workspace had been decorated in pink, white, and gold balloons and streamers.</p><p>"I guess that's what we have to do, we have to celebrate the day," she said, according to video reviewed by Business Insider. "Look at this. I'm not kidding you these guys, they put a lot of work into this. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all my amazing people here at the office."</p><p>On January 28, the company posted a birthday message to its founder on Instagram: "Each and everyday you strive to make everyone feel loved and appreciated."</p><p>The birthday celebration came days after Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit against LuLaRoe, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/washington-sues-lularoe-and-alleges-its-an-illegal-pyramid-scheme-2019-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleging</a> that the company is an illegal "pyramid scheme." LuLaRoe's longtime manufacturer, Providence Industries, is also suing the company for $63 million in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lularoe-is-starting-over-amid-seller-exodus-legal-battle-2019-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">damages</a>, having alleged that the company consistently failed to pay its debts. <span>LuLaRoe has </span><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lularoe-lawsuit-ceo-says-he-has-no-plans-tojump-ship-2018-12">denied</a><span> the claims in the lawsuit.</span></p><p>The lawsuit from Providence Industries also alleges that LuLaRoe, the Stidhams, and their associates have created a web of shell companies in order to protect their <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lularoe-lawsuit-founders-llcs-2018-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">high-value assets</a>, including a Wyoming ranch worth over $7 million, luxury Koenigsegg cars, and a Gulfstream jet.</p><p>Business Insider has spoken to multiple former LuLaRoe retailers who have said they're been waiting&#xa0;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lularoe-legging-empire-mounting-debt-top-sellers-flee-2018-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">months</a> to receive thousands of dollars in refunds from the company.</p><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more about LuLaRoe:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/washington-sues-lularoe-and-alleges-its-an-illegal-pyramid-scheme-2019-1" data-read-more-link="" data-e2e-name="read-more-link">Washington Attorney General accuses LuLaRoe of operating an illegal 'pyramid scheme' in new lawsuit</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lularoe-lawsuit-supplier-demands-34-million-claims-company-is-liquidating-2019-1" data-read-more-link="" data-e2e-name="read-more-link">LuLaRoe supplier files new demand for immediate seizure of $34 million and alleges the company is quietly liquidating goods</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lularoe-is-starting-over-amid-seller-exodus-legal-battle-2019-1" data-read-more-link="" data-e2e-name="read-more-link">LuLaRoe founder says the company is 'starting over' amid seller exodus and looming $63 million legal battle</a></li></ul><div>    </div><div>    </div><div>    </div><div>    </div><div>    </div><div>    </div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hotels-to-unwind-at-2018-9">5 hotels for people who need to unwind</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

LuLaRoe's founder celebrated her birthday with a lavish masquerade party while the company faces multiple lawsuits

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew is set to announce on Thursday that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will remove Alexander Hamilton from the ten dollar bill, in favor of a woman.<p>The change could happen as soon as 2020.</p><p>The announcement came via Nancy Lindborg, president of the&#xa0;<span>US Institute of Peace, who tweeted out the news.</span></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The IJ Review is reporting </span><a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2015/06/347257-the-us-government-is-replacing-alexander-hamilton-with-a-woman-on-the-10-bill/">that Lindborg's tweet was premature</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p><p class="embed-spacer">France24 White House correspondent Philip Crowther is reporting that Lindborg broke an embargo on the news.</p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">CNN's Michelle Kosinski alluded to the embargo on Wednesday as well.</span></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While it has yet to be announced who will grace the ten dollar bill, Lindborg invited people to sound off on Twitter with the hashtag #TheNewTen.</span></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;Not everyone took it seriously.</p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer">More than a few people were unhappy with the news.</p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-running-president-2015-6">Here are all the best moments from Donald Trump's presidential announcement</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="NudzFwdTo6LjJ5ItRE2VLJU84Dt1X3PZ" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

The US is reportedly changing the face of the $10 bill

<p><div class="image-container float_right" style="width:480px"><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://www.panam.org/">Courtesy of the Pan Am Historical Foundation</a></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Once upon a time, air travel was exciting.</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Transatlantic flights were novel, and p</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">assengers often dressed to the nines -<span>—</span>a far cry from the sweatpants-and-flip-flops travel wardrobes of today. </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Aviators like Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and Howard Hughes were national heroes, and airline stewardesses were considered to have some of the most glamorous jobs in the world. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Air travel today has its benefits. Flights are faster and more frequent, go to more places, and we're able to dress more casually. But many people feel a certain nostalgia for the days when all air travel was considered luxury travel and people behaved as such. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span></span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We rounded up 25 great photos that exemplify the glamour and excitement of early air travel. </span></p>

25 Vintage Photos From The Glory Days Of Aviation

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="152792" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="WNBA">WNBA</keyword> players publicly endorsed Democratic candidate <keyword id="307904" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Raphael-Warnock">Raphael Warnock</keyword> — the opponent of incumbent Georgia senator and Atlanta Dream owner Kelly Loeffler.</li><li>Their support proved instrumental in Warnock's victory and the Democrats taking control of the US <keyword id="6355284" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="senate">Senate</keyword>.</li><li>The internet flooded with praise for the players, but many of the plaudits were directed at one player in particular — Seattle Storm superstar <keyword id="1148900" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Sue-Bird">Sue Bird</keyword>.</li><li>Bird, Liberty star Layshia Clarendon, Wings rookie Satou Sabally, WNBPA President Nneka Ogwumike, and agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas talk about the role of race and gender play in keeping the women from getting their due.</li></ul><p>WNBA players helped change the course of the American Republic.</p><p>In August, the women of the league banded together to oust Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler from her US Senate seat. Earlier that month, players across the league <a href="https://www.insider.com/wnba-stars-endorse-dream-owner-kelly-loefflers-senate-race-opponent-2020-8">publicly expressed their support for Loeffler's Democratic challenger</a>, Reverend Raphael Warnock, by wearing T-shirts bearing his name before a slate of games.</p><p>Continued support from the <a href="https://www.insider.com/wnba-players-georgia-senate-runoff-vs-team-owner-kelly-loeffler-2020-11">WNBA players propelled Warnock through Georgia's special jungle election</a> in November. <a href="https://www.insider.com/wnba-players-raphael-warnock-endorsement-pushed-dem-in-georgia-polls-2020-12">Research suggests that their efforts were pivotal</a> in enabling the Reverend to force January's runoff, which had significant national implications in determining which party would control the US Senate.</p><div type="image" title="sue bird warnock" height="1285" width="1714" msid="80334316" hostid="261"></div><p>When <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/georgia-senate-runoffs-loeffler-warnock-ossoff-perdue-live-results-2021-1">Warnock defeated Loeffler</a> to become the first Black Democratic senator elected in a Southern state, the internet flooded with long-overdue praise for the WNBA players who made the Reverend's victory possible. However, many of the plaudits were directed at one player in particular - Seattle Storm superstar Sue Bird.</p><p>That fact was not lost on the 11-time All-Star and all-time WNBA assists leader, who spoke with Insider about her role "as a white player ... trying to amplify the voices of the Black women."</p><p>"Was it easier to digest that me, as a white woman, came up with this idea?" Bird asked. "Yeah, probably. I am probably treated differently because I am white."</p><h2>Who gets the credit?</h2><p>New York Liberty star Layshia Clarendon spearheaded the league's dedication to the social justice movement and the "Say Her Name" campaign throughout the 2020 season She told Insider that, after a spring that reinforced "the exhaustion of being Black in America," they and WNBA players' union president Nneka Ogwumike asked Bird "to carry this emotional weight" of the efforts to take on Loeffler.</p><div type="image" title="layshia clarendon" height="1512" width="2016" msid="80334317" hostid="261"></div><p>"We just told Sue like, this is great, we're all behind it, but we don't have the time and energy - particularly as Black women - to lead this fight," Clarendon told Insider. "It's too hard for us. It's too draining and difficult and really hurtful."</p><p>"We just felt as though this was more of a moment for allyship and for players like Sue to take the reins and really support us," Ogwumike added. "We didn't feel as though we'd necessarily had the energy to be able to take that on by ourselves ... It was one of these hard conversations that people find themselves having today."</p><p>But there was another, more disheartening motive for Clarendon, Ogwumike, and their Black counterparts to appoint Bird as unofficial point person of the "Vote Warnock" movement. They assumed that, based on her skin color, Bird would garner more attention for the Reverend's campaign than they could.</p><p>"You sometimes have to wait until you get like a white voice, like a Sue or someone to validate it," Clarendon said. "And then it's like, 'Oh, okay, got it.' It's like, why won't you just listen to the Black voices that have been saying this time and time again?"</p><p>"White folks in our country will listen to other white people tell the pain and struggle of Black people before actually just listening to Black folks," they added.</p><div type="image" title="breanna stewart" height="1666" width="2223" msid="80334318" hostid="261"></div><p>This phenomenon was underscored at the end of 2020 when <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sports">Sports</keyword> Illustrated selected Breanna Stewart as the WNBA's lone recipient of the 2020 Sportsperson of the Year award. After recovering from a 2019 Achilles tear, leading the Storm to their second title in three years, and earning her second WNBA Finals MVP award in the process, Stewart undoubtedly deserved recognition for her remarkable 2020 season. But SI's explanation for her nomination, which framed the soft-spoken, 26-year-old as the crusader behind the social efforts the entire league championed together, was not received well.</p><p>While accepting the award, Stewart used her platform to clarify the record. She explained that she's committed to "representing the majority of our league, which is Black women."</p><p>"Even as a white woman and a white player, I'm going to continue to amplify the message for them and continue to make this world a better place," Stewart said. "And that starts with our league."</p><p>Through no fault of Stewart's own, one of the leading publications in the sports world chose to cherry-pick her as their "Activist Ally" when several Black WNBA players - Clarendon, Ogwumike, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/sports/basketball/elizabeth-williams-activism-wnba.html">the Dream's Elizabeth Williams</a>, Natasha Cloud, and Renee Montgomery, to name a few - were perhaps more fitting of the award's description.</p><div type="image" title="nneka ogwumike" height="1156" width="1541" msid="80334319" hostid="261"></div><p>"Tone deaf was absolutely the right term to use for SI, especially with the manner in which it was presented," Ogwumike told Insider. "And quite frankly, as a Black woman and as a Black woman athlete, it almost was kind of like, oh, people still don't understand us."</p><p>"And it's at the detriment of someone who should be celebrated for what she did on the court," she added.</p><p>For Clarendon, it's "no surprise" that the WNBA's Black players are "constantly overlooked," adding, "I mean, it has happened to Black women throughout history every day."</p><h2>'<keyword id="6390075" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sexism">Sexism</keyword> and <keyword id="44060" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Racism">racism</keyword> come together to create the most challenging possible environment for Black women to find success'</h2><p>Sexism and racism have a long history of operating hand-in-hand to stifle the achievements of Black women in America. Amelia Earhart is widely remembered as America's sweetheart of the skies, but Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who earned her pilot's license months before Earhardt did, hardly gets comparable recognition. Though the LGBTQ+ rights movement has long been portrayed as one engineered by white, gay men, it was Marsha P. Johnson - a Black transgender woman - who has only recently been credited for her role in orchestrating the Stonewall riots that started it all. And who could forget Neil Armstrong's 1969 "one small step for man?" But who remembers Katherine Johnson, the Black woman whose mathematical prowess powered his "one giant leap for mankind?"</p><div type="image" title="satou sabally" height="1666" width="2222" msid="80334322" hostid="261"></div><p>The Black women of the WNBA find themselves in a similar, all-too-familiar position. They've been at the forefront of the social justice movement, but their contributions have regularly been overlooked in favor of white and male faces because, according to Clarendon, they're "fighting so many layers as Black queer women that a lot of folks don't have to face."</p><p>"We have to almost anticipate that this is going to happen," Dallas Wings star and WNBA Social Justice Council member Satou Sabally told Insider. "That whatever we did the summer may not get as much recognition as the NBA would or other leagues would get if they were to do the same thing."</p><p>"If an NBA player or a major male sports league had gotten behind a candidate, it would just be such national news that the cycle would constantly be playing over and over," Clarendon added. "They say Black people have to be twice as good. Black women have to be 30 times as good just to get the attention that a LeBron [James] or another male athlete would get."</p><p>According to Wasserman agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas - who represents a star-studded list of WNBA players including Bird, Ogwumike, Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore, Brittney Griner, Sylvia Fowles, Jewell Loyd, Seimone Augustus, and more - "Black women athletes have represented this intersection" of racism and sexism for as long as they've been competing.</p><div type="image" title="AP20208579410612" height="3848" width="5130" msid="80334324" hostid="261"></div><p>While living "at those intersections of identity" serves as a hindrance for Black women's advancement in all sorts of pursuits, it also "automatically sets you up to be more aware," according to Clarendon.</p><p>"I think WNBA players have always recognized the fundamentally political nature of their existence and certainly their success in sport," Colas said. "And so they've always been activists because they're Black women when they wake up."</p><p>Still, it may come as a surprise that Black women in the WNBA used their platforms to protest police brutality before some of the bigger names in sport spoke out on the issue. In July of 2016, Maya Moore and her Minnesota Lynx teammates wore T-shirts calling for "Justice &amp; Accountability" to raise awareness of the police shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling.</p><p>Two months later, Colin Kaepernick took a knee for the same cause.</p><p>"People now will recognize the things that Maya Moore has done," Bird said. "But Maya Moore and her Minnesota teammates, they were protesting police brutality even before Colin Kaepernick. I think a lot of people either don't know it because it didn't get its coverage or just kind of have chosen to forget. I don't know what the reason is. I don't know why that happens."</p><p>"And to your point earlier, is it because it's Black women?" she added. "You know, history would say, yeah, that's exactly why."</p><div type="image" title="wnba breonna taylor" height="1166" width="1555" msid="80334325" hostid="261"></div><h2>'You're going to have to do it better for longer to make progress' </h2><p>"The fact that this still exists doesn't really surprise me," Colas said. "It's an everyday battle of chipping away, celebrating the wins, but knowing that there's still progress to be made."</p><p>Throughout her career, Colas has found that representing WNBA athletes comes with the added challenge of overcoming the dual forces of bigotry and misogyny. She finds herself, time and again, having to "explain why these women should matter, why brands should be investing in them, and why they should be paid their value."</p><p>But even further, Colas and others affiliated with the league - as well as the women of the WNBA themselves - continue to fight for acknowledgment of the strides they've made in the social justice sphere. </p><p>"I still am not naive to the fact that the W is still going to have to like fight and claw and scratch to be acknowledged for this Warnock win," Clarendon said.</p><p>"We helped flipped the Senate," Sabally added. "And that is something that a lot more people should talk about."</p><div type="image" title="layshia clarendon" height="1667" width="2500" msid="80334326" hostid="261"></div><p>For some, the players' role in the elections may look like a breakthrough. Clarendon even described feeling "really hopeful that things are changing." But for Colas and the women she represents, complacency is not on the table.</p><p>"We take the wins, and we get to point to them, and we continue to build momentum," Colas said. "But it's just one of those things where, you know, you're going to have to do it better for longer to make progress."</p><p>It's an exercise in patience for some of the best <keyword id="36237" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="basketball">basketball</keyword> players on the planet, who are overworked, underpaid, overlooked, and undervalued relative to the athletes in whiter, more male-dominated sports leagues.</p><p>"Black women are always in the back end of everything," Sabally said. "And I think with this sport, we're able to uplift exactly this part of society that has been overlooked so many times. And that's why I'm proud to play in the WNBA."</p><p>For Sabally, as well as Bird, Clarendon, Ogwumike, and their colleagues, the influence they had in aiding Warnock's win serves as reassurance that they can "be the start of that change."</p><div type="image" title="wnba" height="1666" width="2222" msid="80334327" hostid="261"></div><p>"I mean, that's all we can hope for, right?" Bird said. "To try to be the change that we want to see. And I think the WNBA represents that, and it goes way beyond me. I happen to be one person in this one story. The WNBA has been doing it. It has been at the forefront of so many issues, and our league is made of Black women, and that's the reality."</p><p>"And I hope this league does start to get its flowers," she added. "The women of our league deserve it. They're more than deserving, and, to be honest, it's about time. I think it's past due."</p><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/wnba-players-georgia-senate-runoff-vs-team-owner-kelly-loeffler-2020-11">WNBA players endorsed the opponent of Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler to help force a runoff for Georgia's Senate seat</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/sue-bird-wnba-nba-equal-pay-2020-10">WNBA legend Sue Bird says calls for equality with the NBA are not about equal pay</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/wnba-players-raphael-warnock-endorsement-pushed-dem-in-georgia-polls-2020-12">WNBA players' endorsement of Raphael Warnock pushed the Democratic candidate ahead in Georgia Senate race, research suggests</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/lebron-james-wnba-atlanta-dream-senator-kelly-loeffler-georgia-election-2021-1">LeBron James expressed interest in buying the WNBA's Atlanta Dream after players campaigned against team owner and former Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler</a></li></ul>

It's time to give the women of the WNBA their flowers for the roles they play in politics and social justice

<p><keyword id="6360409" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="NASA">NASA</keyword> has been getting a lot of flak lately for something it wrote over 40 years ago.<span> Reddit user </span><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1hwj08/a_letter_sent_from_nasa_in_1962_regarding/" target="_hplink">come_on_now_guys</a><span> posted a letter that was allegedly sent from NASA to a woman identified as "Miss Kelly" at the University of Connecticut in 1962.</span></p>
<p><span><span>The letter stated that NASA had no existing space program for aspiring women <keyword id="34120" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="astronaut">astronaut</keyword>s and the agency wasn't planning on sending women into space in the future as women's proper place was in the kitchen cooking for their astronaut husbands. </span></span></p>
<p><span><span>All right, that last bit isn't in the letter. But we can certainly imagine it. </span></span></p>
<p><span><div class="image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><a href="http://imgur.com/2nAWIvG">imgur</a></p></div></div></div><br /></span></p>
<p>It seems a number of women have faced rejection from the aeronautical organization. At an <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-clinton-nasa-said-i-couldnt-go-to-space/article/1189121" target="_blank">event celebrating Amelia Earhart</a> last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the audience that she also received a rejection letter from NASA because of her gender.</p>
<p><span>"When I was about 13, I wrote to NASA and asked what I needed to do to try to be an astronaut," Clinton said. "And of course, there weren’t any women astronauts and NASA wrote me back and said there would not be any women astronauts. And I was just crestfallen."</span></p>
<p>At some point NASA changed its mind and <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Sally Ride became the first American woman sent to space in 1983. In this year's </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-upbeat/half-nasa-class-astronauts-women-213644113.html">new class of NASA astronauts, 50% are women</a>, which the agency said was the "</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">highest percentage of female astronaut candidates ever selected for a class." </span></p>
<p>Who would have thought it! Women in space! Doing a <em>man's</em> (snort) job. My how times have changed. </p>

NASA Had Zero Plans To Send Women Into Space In The '60s

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As the search for </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/flight-370-graphic-2014-3" target="_blank">Malaysia Airlines flight 370</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> drags on past the seven month mark, not all are happy with the progress of the investigation.</span></p>
<p>One of the sharpest critics of the investigation has been Emirates Airlines CEO Sir Tim Clarke. The recently knighted Clarke is considered to be one of the most accomplished airline executives in the business and is credited with turning Dubai's national airline into the an industry powerhouse. </p>
<p>In a recent interview with <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/mh370-emirates-head-has-doubts-about-investigation-a-996212.html" target="_blank">Germany's Der Spiegel</a>, Clarke expressed his dissatisfaction with the transparency of the investigation and believes every second of the flight needs to scrutinized. In fact, Clarke promised to continue asking questions as an obligation to those affected by MH370 tragedy. </p>
<p>The Emirates chief executive also doesn't subscribe to prevailing theory that the missing Boeing flew on autopilot until it ran out of fuel and crashed into the Indian Ocean.</p>
<p>Instead, he suggested that the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was under someone's control when it crashed. "<span>MH 370 was, in my opinion, under control, probably until the very end," Clarke told Der Spiegel.</span></p>
<p>It is a theory that will further energize the <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/flight-mh370-19-conspiracy-theories-4079775" target="_blank">numerous conspiracy theorists</a> who have pondered the disappearance of the flight over the past few months.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>The veteran airline executive explained that there is no reason for the plane's transponder and ACARS tracking system to ever be shut off or even put into standby mode. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Furthermore, Clarke added that the process to disable ACARS is quite a complicated process; pilots at Emirates are not even trained to do it. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span>"There hasn't been one overwater incident in the history of civil aviation - </span>apart from Amelia Earhart in 1939<span> -that has not been at least 5 or 10 percent trackable, " Clarke told Der Speigel. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span>"But MH 370 has simply disappeared. For me, that raises a degree of suspicion. I'm totally dissatisfied with what has been coming out of all of this."</span></span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span>Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared about an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur on a flight to Beijing. The 12 year-old Boeing 777 vanished with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board. The current search area for the flight center on a portion of the southern Indian Ocean off of the coast of Australia.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span>Clarke's Emirates is the world's largest operator of the Boeing 777. The airline currently has more than 140 examples of the airliner in its fleet with more than 100 next generation 777X aircraft on order.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Read the <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/mh370-emirates-head-has-doubts-about-investigation-a-996212.html" target="_blank">full interview </a>at Der Spiegel Online.</span></p>

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