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Winged Spears

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          The Ethiopian Air Force in the 1935 War of Abyssinia in the context of cancel culture, censorship and false beliefs.      By Alberto Alpozzi, photo-reporter.      The PEGASOS AITHIOPIKOS, in the 1350 illustration above, was a breed of winged, horned horse native to Aithiopia (Ethiopia) in sub-Saharan Africa. They descended from Pegasus, the celebrated horse of Greek myth, who was himself said to have been born on the shores of the Red Sea near Aithiopia.      The ancients, in this case the Roman Pliny the Elder in the 1st century, had no problem believing that in Ethiopia there lived such creature.  `Today, there recurs another Ethiopian mythical figure, perpetuated by false historians with a political agenda: that of the Ethiopian warrior, armed only with a spear and a shield, who immolated himself to defend his land against a technologically preponderant European invader.     R ega...

Cesare Sabelli and Giuseppe Bellanca for the record

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               An Attempted Transatlantic Flight     by Gianclaudio Polidori           Cesare Sabelli, born in 1896 in Montepulciano (Siena, Italy) to upper middle-class parents, after having completed his education joined the Italian Royal Army as non-commission infantry officer. Posted initially to the 9th Army Regiment, he applied and was assigned later to the Corpo Aeronautica Militare (Air Force Corps).      In the Battaglione Aviatori (Aviators Battalion) Sabelli earned his pilot brevet and soon after he began serving at San Giusto (Pisa), and later in Busto Arsizio and Malpensa.      During the First World War, he served honorably, earning several Italian as well as Allied decorations. He had the opportunity to meet various important people of that era and collaborated with Fiorello La Guardia . After his discharge from the Army in 1920, Sabelli moved to the United S...