The shadow of the Hindenburg seems to erase, on the green and gray sea, this heroic era. Its builder, Ernst Lehmann, is convinced that the lighter than air provides the safest and most economical solution to the problem of crossing the Atlantic. Besides, each of his trips is a success.On May 6, 1937
Shrouded in mysteryA month earlier — because France finally gave up the unpopular “pool” — the Laté-300 Croix-du-Sud flew from Dakar to Natal. It provides the postal service with the unique improved Arc-en-Ciel. Then will come the Blériot-5190 Santos-Dumont and the Centaure land four-engine. The Fr
As early as 1930, the French asserted their supremacy there when Mermoz, Dabry and Gimié had. joined Saint-Louis in Natal in nineteen hours and thirty-three minutes on May 12 and 13, on the Comte-de-La-Vaulx, a Laté-28. The return trip came in the grand gesture of aviation. Thwarted by an unfavorabl
At Le Bourget, on the 2nd in the afternoon, we wait the arrival of competitors. Albert Sarraut, Minister of State, converses with Laurent Eynac. We recognize Maryse Bastié, who crossed the South Atlantic the previous year, and the somewhat lanky silhouette of a bird lost on earth of Antoine de Saint
There are headlines in the newspapers:for the tenth anniversary of Lindberghs feat, France is organizing a New York - Paris air race, which must mark in the annals of aviation. Unexpected news, a little strange even, but which arouses enthusiasm. An enthusiasm mixed with concern. Most of the major n
Mickey Cohen (born Meyer Harris Cohen on September 4, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York and died on July 29, 1976 (age 62) in Los Angeles) was a Yiddish Connection mobster with very close ties to the Italian Mafia. His influence within organized crime in Los Angeles was very important from the 1930s to the
Charles Lucky Luciano (born November 24, 1897 in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy - died January 26, 1962 in Naples) was an Italian-American mobster, born under the name of Salvatore Lucania. He was certainly the criminal whose historical influence was the greatest. Times magazine named him one of the
John Herbert Dillinger Jr., born June 22, 1903 in Indianapolis (Indiana, United States) and died July 22, 1934 in Chicago (Illinois, United States), was a famous American gangster and bank robber of the Great Depression. His gang robbed two dozen banks and four police stations. He twice escaped from
Frank Costello born Francesco Castiglia in Lauropoli, in the province of Cosenza (January 26, 1891 – February 18, 1973) was an Italian-American mobster from New York who rose to the top of the Cosa Nostra hierarchy in the United States , capo di tutti capi. He was the godfather of the Luciano Family
Bugsy Siegel (February 26, 1906 in Brooklyn – June 20, 1947 in Los Angeles) was an American mobster from the Yiddish Connection. He was born as Benjamin Siegelbaum to Ukrainian Jewish parents. His nickname Bugsy (which it was better not to pronounce in front of him), meaning the crazy one, referred
Al Capone (January 17, 1899 in the borough of Brooklyn in New York, United States – January 25, 1947 in Miami Beach, Florida, United States), whose real name is Alphonse Gabriel Capone (or in Italian Alfonso Capone) and nicknamed “Scarface” (the scarred one), is the most famous of the gangsters 20th
Meyer Lansky (Polish:Majer Suchowlinski – Russian Mejer Suchowljanski or Maier Suchowljansky) was an American mobster, associate of the Luciano family. He was born in Grodno in the Russian Empire – nowadays Hrodna in Belarus – on July 4, 1902 and died in Miami on January 15, 1983. Nicknamed in the m
In the end, the explosive atmosphere of Chicago fascinated America and was even an outlet for many of the repressed. Throughout the night, State Street resounded with jazz music punctuated by the rounds of beer trucks. Until dawn, the cars of the gangsters, in long lines, crisscrossed the main arter
Gangsters compensated for the fragility of their existence by living large lives guides. Al Capone himself was well aware of the risks involved in his honorable activities. This is why he ordered an 8-cylinder Cadillac in 1928, which cost him a whopping $30,000. The machine weighed four tons, had a
Torrio then proceeded to take over several breweries and, posing as atype regular, he persuaded their managers to resume their activities. With comfortable bribes, he succeeded in corrupting the police and the political circles of the city, which allowed him to strengthen the hold of the gangsters o
The economic aspect of prohibition was soon to appear, but in a very different form from that imagined by Hoover. Prohibition brought the underworld into the business world. It was the most troubled time in American history. Moreover, hardly had the law been voted that a truck transporting whiskey w
This draconian and stunning measure was ultimately only the culmination of a campaign for temperance that had lasted more than a century. By early 1919, several states had already banned alcohol; a prohibition party had just been founded and women participated in the battle for the dry regime with a
This war with political consequences of the first importance took place according to new and sometimes outdated principles. It has been said that the high mobility of both sides meant the decline of defensive strategy, and that static trench warfare in Poland gave way to maneuver warfare. The merit
Retreat is too weak a word to describe the Soviet rout. Faced with the formidable Polish advance, there was panic, and soon collapse. It was not until the night of the 18th that Tukhachevsky, at his headquarters in Minsk, 480 km from Warsaw, learned that all he had to do was save the furniture and g
The meeting of the two forces took place on the evening of August 12. By this date, there was no longer any doubt that the Soviet armies had begun the encirclement of Warsaw - at least in the eyes of foreign observers who used the staffs of the Franco-British missions as a kind of Second Bureau. The
If at the time we talked about the Nachthexen or Witches of the night , that is what the Germans called a group of women belonging to the 588th Night Bombardment Regiment of the Soviet Union who turned their nights into real nightmares, this time it is a single woman who is the protagonist of sowing
In the year 886 an emperor rose to the Byzantine throne who would go down in history with the name of Leōn VI ho Sophos , i.e. Leo the Wise (or the Philosopher ), because of his vast culture. Second of the Macedonian dynasty, it was not entirely clear whether his father was Basil I, as the official
The Bedouins are an ethnic group that inhabit the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa, in regions of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt. They constitute about 10% of the inhabitants of the Middle East. The term “Bedouin” derives from the Arabic plural badawī , which means nomad, as
The vouge (or voulge, or breaching knife) is a medieval polearm that appeared in Germany and Switzerland at the end of the 13th century. Used by infantry, it is like many polearms derived from an agricultural tool. Description The vouge consists of a wide blade in the shape of a trencher, mounted o