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Aug 29 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
- 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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Aug 17
- The WW2 Ghost Blimp 🧵 -

At 6:03 a.m., on August 16, 1942, L-8 lifted off from Treasure Island, San Francisco, on a coastal antisubmarine patrol (1/11) #svagaiature #History #Historia #USA #Mistery #Coldcase #USNavy
Inside the control car were Lieutenant Ernest DeWitt Cody, aged 27, and his co-pilot, Ensign Charles Adams, aged 35. L-8 was armed with two depth charges and one 30-caliber machine gun. At the time of the incident, the airship had made 1,092 previous safe trips (2/11)
At 7:38 a.m., L-8's crew radioed to Treasure Island and reported observing an oil slick. A Liberty ship and a fishing boat in the area both witnessed L-8 descending to within thirty feet of the ocean surface and circling the oil slick (3/11)
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Aug 16
-Battles of history- 🧵
The battle of Zwolle.

During WW2 in 1945 the canadians were approaching Zwolle, a dutch city woth a strong german presence. (1/4)
#svagaiature #WWII #heroes #Canada #Netherlands #Zwolle
Two volunteers were chosen to do a recconaissance mission around the city to help the artillery. Private Leo Major and Corporal Willy Arsenault were tasked with the mission. The two soldiers however decided to try to conquer the city alone, to try to keep the city intact. (2/4)
During the mission Arsenault was killed when he gave his position by mistake. Major however kept going and engaged many patrols and set off grenades where they would make more noise. He even assalted the SS headquarters killing 4 soldiers of the 8 present. (3/4)
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Aug 10
- Ships’ Voices 🧵-

During war the capacity to clearly identify your enemies’ equipment on the battlefield is fundamental (1/6) #svagaiature #History #Nato #Historia
For these reasons soldiers, sailors and pilots train for a long time to recognise the silhouettes of enemy equipment and see them before being seen themselves (2/6)
But the shape of the vehicles isn’t the only way to recognise an enemy, in some cases, as with animals, they have very peculiar sounds. It’s this the case of ships and submarines (3/6)
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Aug 9
- Kid soldier of WWII 🧵 -

Sergey Aleshkov, was the youngest participant in the Battle of Stalingrad and one of the youngest soldiers of the World War II (1/12) #svagaiature #Russia #WWII #History #Historia #WW2
Documents on the birth of Sergey Aleshkov were not preserved, but his estimated year of birth is 1934 or 1936 in the forest village of Gryn in the Kaluga region (2/12)
The 10-year-old older brother of Sergey, named Petya, was hanged, and his mother was shot while trying to protect her son from the nazi occupiers. Thanks to a neighbor, Sergey escaped through a window and ran into the forest (3/12)
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Aug 3
- Agrippina the Immortal 🧵-

Agrippina is known in history to have been an incredible political strategist and for being the main reason of Nero’s rise to Emperor (1/14) #svagaiature #SPQR #History @SNicotinus @ItaliaStoria @Varangian_Tagma #Roma #Rome #Historia @ancientwarfare
She was known as a poisons expert and was believed to have assassinated her husband Claudius with a poisoned mushrooms’ soup to open the road to the throne to his son Nero (2/14)
Agrippina had planned his son’s entire life, she even find him a wife, Octavia, who came from an important family and would’ve been fundamental in the political games of power. Of course Nero wasn’t happy of his mother’s interferences (3/14)
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Jun 28
- Warriors of History -

The French Musketeer of the Guard 🧵

Technically, all soldiers armed with muskets were musketeers. But the ones who wore the designation as a badge of honor were the personal household guards of French King Louis XIII (1/8) #svagaiature @LandsknechtPike
The musketeers of Louis XIII were soldiers who served as a combination of secret service and special forces. Their main duty was to protect the king and his family in a time of frequent plots and conspiracies (2/8)
The Musketeers fought in battle both on foot and on horseback making them an extremely fast and manoeuvrable elite unit on the battlefield, perfect for every situation even the most unexpected battle development (3/8)
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