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Donkeys and Horses

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    Donkeys and Horses By Fr. Claudio Doglio  (Translated from Italian by L. Pavese) Donkeys and horses fill the biblical bestiary and are very important symbolic figures. Horses represent strength and power. They remind us of the pharaoh’s army lined up for battle. In fact, impressed in the collective imagination of Israel are the archetypical figure of the pharaoh’s army chasing the people and the saving intervention of God, who made the horses end up at the bottom of the sea. The ancient sea hymn celebrates that fundamental victory with these words: “[s]ing to the LORD, for he is gloriously triumphant; horse and chariot he has cast into the sea.” (Es 15,21). Because of these words , the figure of the horse recurs as a noble, intelligent, strong, bellicose animal; a symbol of human strength but, for that reason, also the emblem of a self-assertive arrogance. A psalmist counterposed the worldly attitude of someone who relies on horses and chariots to the faithf...
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The first glider flights in Somalia

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          The first (and probably last) glider flights in Somalia     by Alberto Alpozzi         Towards the end of the 1920s, Guido Corni , Governor of Italian Somalia, looking at the vultures and at the marabou storks who took off from the ground with a few wing beats, had the intuition that, in those regions, the constant and strong rising currents could be used to practice soaring in the best conditions; and maybe, after studying the air currents, sailplanes could be even employed to carry light loads within the Colony. An Italian colonial map of Somalia      Therefore, on the “Petrella” Italian Royal Air Force base near Mogadishu, an experimental glider was built for the purpose of training the pilots of the colonial air squadriglia .      After a few test launches, the trials demonstrated the good handling qualities of the aircraft and, once the fairing of the cockpit was improved, the a...
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Infierno en el monte tucumano

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Come abbiamo visto nella prima parte  , lo E.R.P., il sedicente Esercito Rivoluzionario del Popolo argentino, emanazione del Partito Rivoluzionario del Popolo si proponeva di creare un'enclave territoriale, retta da un governo comunista, dalla quale poi estendere la loro lotta rivoluzionaria all'intera Argentina. Con l'aiuto, speravano, dei governi marxisti di altri paesi; una volta che si fossero assicurati il riconoscimento internazionale del territorio conquistato.  Lo E.R.P. aveva scelto la provincia settentrionale di Tucumán, perché la morfologia impervia della regione rendeva difficile l'accesso ai mezzi delle forze armate argentine, ed era quindi adatta alla guerriglia; ma la scelta aveva anche un valore simbolico, perché nella provincia, nel 1816, fu dichiarata l'indipendenza del paese. Questa è la seconda parte della traduzione del post:  "El Operativo Independencia. La guerra contra la guerrilla subsersiva en Tucumán (1974-1975-1976)".   di Alber...
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