Charles Hamilton Smith
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Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith (9 February 1897 – 8 November 1935), nicknamed Smithy, was an Australian aviation pioneer. He piloted the first transpacific flight and the first flight between Australia and New Zealand. Kingsford Smith was born in Brisbane. He grew up in Sydney, leaving school at the age of 16 and becoming an engineering apprentice. He joined the Australian Army in 1915 and was a motorcycle despatch rider on the Gallipoli campaign.
Books
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Horses
Christopher Maynard, Jim Pipe, Gardner R. Dozois, Cynthia Fitterer Klingel, Jack Dann, A. M. Homes, Ruth Radlauer, DK Publishing, Seymour Simon, Melvin Berger, JoAnn Early Macken, K. M. Peyton, Charles Hamilton Smith, George Gaylord Simpson, Martha E. H. Rustad, Wendell Berry, Gail Gibbons, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Joyce Pope, Robert B. Noyed
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The animal kingdom
P. A. Latreille, George S. Fichter, Baron Georges Cuvier, Charles Hamilton Smith, Robert Thomas Orr, Alice A. Bailey
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