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Edith Ronne, first U.S. woman in Antarctica, dies
WASHINGTON - Edith "Jackie" Ronne never intended to leave Bethesda, Md. She had gone to Beaumont, Texas, in 1947 to see off her explorer husband and a volunteer crew headed to Antarctica to fill in the blanks on the map of the last continent. She packed little more than a good suit, a good dress, stockings and heels. But Finn Ronne, her husband of two years, talked her into accompanying him, stop...
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