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Cunard Names a Female as Ship Captain of Newest Luxury Liner, Queen Anne

Cunard Names a Female as Ship Captain of Newest Luxury Liner, Queen Anne

Cunard has named a female ship captain for its newest luxury liner, the Queen Anne. How appropriate this announcement is made during Women’s History Month in March! Congratulations to Captain Inger Klein Thorhauge, who is one of the very few female ship captains in the cruise ship business, and the first female captain at Cunard.
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Bertha Benz: Automotive Pioneer

Bertha Benz: Automotive Pioneer

Bertha Benz was the first documented woman driver and the first woman we would describe today as an automotive marketing pro or influencer. Her pioneering and headline-making 130-mile round-trip drive in 1888 between home and her mother’s house was a media sensation and helped her husband’s motorized contraption become popular. It was a road trip
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Plug-in Electric Airplanes Set Records in Switzerland & USA

Plug-in Electric Airplanes Set Records in Switzerland & USA

Travel Technology: The world’s first certified aircraft powered by electricity has flown into the history books in Switzerland. The two-seater Pipistrel Velis Electro is used mainly for basic pilot training. It completed its maiden flight over a village near Fribourg, in western Switzerland. The cruising speed reportedly is 90 knots (166 km/h) and maximum autonomy
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Automotive History: 120 Years of Mercedes

Automotive History: 120 Years of Mercedes

Automotive history: How Mercedes got its name. 120 years ago, the name of an eleven-year-old girl became the epitome of cars and the first luxury car brand in the world. On April 2, 1900, Gottlieb Daimler named the vehicles produced by his Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (Daimler Motor Company) as Mercédès, after the daughter of  Daimler’s biggest customer.
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Happy 130th Birthday of the Automobile

Happy 130th Birthday of the Automobile

It was a day that would change the world by setting it in motion. Happy 130th birthday to the automobile, born January 29, 1886, when German engineer Carl Benz applied for a patent on his “gas-powered vehicle”. Later the same year and independently of Benz, German engineer and tinkerer Gottlieb Daimler built his motorized carriage
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Aviation Pioneer Erik Lindbergh

Aviation Pioneer Erik Lindbergh

Erik Lindbergh keeps aviation pioneering in the family. That’s the headline of my article on green aviation and the future of flight supported by the grandson of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh. Erik Lindbergh supports electric-powered and solar-powered flight and space tourism. He’s an interesting man, and I enjoyed interviewing him in 2013 for an article
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