Witchflower Days: Pilot-poet, Author, Composer

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Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Pilot-poet, Author, Composer

Birthday of aviator and author of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, born in Lyons, France in 1900. He and a friend entered a contest in 1935 to break the record for the fastest flight from Paris to Saigon. They crashed 200 miles into the Libyan desert with no water or food, and survived... Sign in to see full entry.

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