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@annalesbelli
Aug 29, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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- The history of the Ferrari logo 🧵-

The story of the Ferrari prancing horse logo is tied to military history and especially the history of military aviation (1/7) #svagaiature #Ferrari #History #Historia #WWI #WW1 #Aviation #AeronauticaMilitare
The prancing horse was in-fact the insignia of the Italian WWI aviation ace Francesco Baracca, one of the greatest pilots of Italian history, who was shot down during a mission in 1918 (2/7)
That insignia was a symbol of speed and audacity, a black horse on a white back, renown in all of Italy. Baracca became a legend especially in his home region, Emilia Romagna, the same of Enzo Ferrari (3/7)
In 1923 Enzo Ferrari is still working as a race pilot for Alfa Romeo and is racing at the Gran Premio di Savio in Ravenna, where he’s gonna make an encounter that will change history forever (4/7)
In Ravenna Enzo meets Countess Paolina Baracca, that after he has won the race propose him to put her son’s insignia on his car as a good luck emblem (5/7)
When in 1929 Enzo founds the Scuderia Ferrari in Modena, as a branch of Alfa Romeo, he keeps using the symbol. Sadly when Ferrari departs from Alfa Romeo the formers stops him to use the logo until 1940 when the prancing horse comes back better then ever (6/7)
The horse is thinner, the tail now goes up instead of down, the back is now yellow (in honour of the colors of Modena) and for the first time the name Ferrari is present in the logo with the typical stretched F (7/7)

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- The Pianist who dared to challenge Stalin 🧵-

Our story begins on an evening of 1944 in Moscow, Stalin was listening to the radio in his office when he heard Maria Yudina playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 and absolutely loved it (1/8) #Svagaiature #History
The dictator loved it so much that personally called the radio station demanding for a copy of the performance, there’s was only one problem: what he had listen was a live broadcast of a concert that hadn’t been recorded but no one wanted to upset the leader (2/8)
Maria Yudina was woken up in the middle of the night and urgently driven back to the theatre she had left just few hours before together with a conductor and a small hastily gathered orchestra (3/8)
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Mar 24, 2023
-Battle of Lechfeld 955- 🧵

The battle of Lechfeld was a significant event in the history of europe, because it stopped the raids of the Magyars people.
The battle took place near the city of Augusta, in a plain flanked by the river Lech. (1/6)
#svagaiature #battles #medieval Image
Otto I arrived with his troops near the city between the 8th and 9th of August. He was joined by the dukes of Bavaria, of Lotharingia, of Swabians and of Bohemia. Otto had at his disposala round 10k heavy cavlry, against around 50k of the enemy light cavalry. (2/6) Image
The emeperor knew the strategy of the magyars, as it was similar to the one used by the Hunn: they tried to avoid at all cost a melee fight. The next day Otto arranged his troops in a column diveded by nationality, (3/6)
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Mar 17, 2023
- The Man Who Fought in WWII with a Sword and a Bow 🧵 -

Born into an old Oxfordshire family, Jack Churchill graduated from the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in 1926 #Svagaiature #WWII #History #Scotland #Trivia (1/16) Image
In 1930 he left the Army and worked as an editor of a Nairobi newspaper, a model, and a movie extra, he even participated to the 1939 bow World Championship representing Britain (2/16) Image
In 1940 Jack felt the call of duty and re-joined the Army becoming the second in command of an infantry platoon. Everything fine, if it wasn’t for the fact that Mad Jack always marched into battle with bow, arrows and his trusty basket-hilted claymore by his side (3/16)
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Mar 16, 2023
-The Carroccio- 🧵

A carroccio was a large very decorated wagon, moved by oxes, bearing the city signs. It was highly regard by the italian communes, around it the militia of the city gathered and fought, and losing it in battle meant defeat. (1/6)
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It is thought to have Lomgobards origins, used by the aristocracy of the kingdom as a charriot. By XI century its functions became mainly symbolic, because of the added weight of the Cross and the city banners. (2/6)
Documents dating 1158 and 1201 confirm the presence of the milanese carroccio in San Giorgio al Palazzo’s church, in time of peace. In the battle of #Legnano, 29th of May 1176, the carrocio played a crucial role in the final victory. (3/6)
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- That Time Caesar was Kidnapped by Pirates 🧵-

In 75 BCE a band of Cilician pirates in the Aegean Sea captured a 25-year-old Roman nobleman named Julius Caesar, who had been on his way to study oratory in Rhodes. (1/8) #Svagaiature #History #Caesar @SNicotinus @UpdatingOnRome Image
From the start, Caesar refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his ransom at 20 talents, he laughed at them for not knowing who it was they had captured and suggested that 50 talents would be a more appropriate amount. (2/8)
Caesar wasn’t the usual captive, he treated the pirates as if they were his subordinates. In few time he became the de facto leader of the ship. He even sent his entourage out to gather the ransom money and settled in for a period of captivity. (3/8)
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- Landing on the wrong aircraft carrier 🧵-

Carriers can look indistinguishable to an untrained eye, but it seems that even the most trained of eyes can sometimes make some mistakes (1/5) #Svagaiature #History
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This exactly what happened to an A-7 Corsair II from USS Kitty Hawk that in the 1970s mistakenly landed on USS Hancock (3/5)
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