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Manchester United – Munich Air Disaster 1958

The history and Sport are two disciplines that have often intersected his path. And often this intersection is the heavy burden of a tragedy. The 6 February 1958 in Munich there was a snow storm. Matt Busby, l’ coach of Manchester United, After rebuilding the club from the ruins of World War II, He had managed to bring him back to the top of the English Championship. From the second half of the 50 He had a dream: win the European Cup. In the season 1956/57 the Red Devils were escalated to semifinals, in 1958 Manchester United wanted to try to win the ultimate continental trophy. The team was young and promising. Played champions like Tommy Taylor paid 29999 British pounds, Duncan Edwards, Bobby Charlton, Bill Foulkes. That Thursday afternoon 6 February 1958 the club was returning from Belgrade. He had just passed the Cup against the Red Star by accessing to semifinals. All’ era trafficking in Belgrade – Manchester required a stopover for refueling in Munich. Despite the bad weather conditions, the delay already in Belgrade for the loss of passport of Berry, the pilots decided to leave the same. Three attempts were made to take off, the third fatal. The track was covered with snow, the pilot led l’ plane down the runway, lost speed and broke a wing and the aircraft crashed into a fuel depot. L’ Depot explosion ignited l’ plane. They died instantly David Pegg, Tommy Taylor, Geoff Bent, Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Mark Jones, Liam ' Billy’ Whelan. Johnny Berry and Jackie Blanchflower survived but were injured so serious not to allow them to resume playing ever again. The talent of that team Duncan Edwards resisted 15 days and then died. Matt Busby was awarded the’ extreme unction three times but after weeks of cure survived. Survived two players Bobby Charlton and Bill Foulkes who along with Matt Busby would have lifted the European Cup in 1968, ten years after the Munich tragedy. The toll of the tragedy, including three staff members of Busby, eight journalists and four members of the’ crew. Outside of’ Old Trafford, the stadium of Manchester United, There is l’ Munich clock stopped all’ time and date of the tragedy.

HECTOR PARKER

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THE DEATH OF ALDO MORO AND L’ BEGINNING OF THE END OF BR

The 9 may 1978 a call to professor Franco Tritto announced the death of Aldo Moro. A dramatic telephone call which fell in last wishes expressed by the Italian statesman before he was killed by the Red Brigades. That morning, very soon, the President of the Christian Democrats was boosted in the trunk of a Renault 4 redhead. According to the account of the Red Brigade members l’ Mr was wrapped in a blanket and twelve were fired shots from two different weapons, a submachine gun Skorpion caliber 7,65 and a Walther Pkk caliber 9. Over the years the direct responsibility of the murder were traced to three different people. Three different versions. The first that portrayed the scenario in which shooting was Prospero Gallinari, then where was Mario Moretti and finally that which concerned Germano Maccari. With certainty we know very little. Recently the RIS has conducted surveys that have changed that old version. The new version sees Aldo Moro not crouched in the trunk, but sitting on the floor of the boot and in a frontal position all’ performer. After l’ killing a few hours later the phone call to professor Tan by the brigades Valerio Morucci explaining where he would be found to deliver it to the family. The place chosen was via Caetani in Rome. A symbolic place being halfway between the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Party and the Communist Party.

Hector Parker

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The faith in man, between enlightenment and Republic day

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Every phenomenon or fact has its own beginning, in recent times and easy to locate, remote and sometimes for this difficult to trace or to remember. If today, 2 June 2016, We are celebrating the Republic day a beginning we must trace. It was a Republic, our, founded on the blood of a civil war in the mid-20th century has disrupted our country leaving him poor, destroyed and reduced to fame. It was thanks to the merit of men who, by rolling up your sleeves, together they have decided to rebuild a country, brick by brick, House after House, hope after hope. Within a few years, the Italy has been able to give himself a Republican form, a Constitution and restart the economy of the State. There was the desire not to forget, to remember, to learn of what happened because in the future, the new generations are not fighting the same wars and to relive the same fears. Was hope in the power of man United with the idea of freedom. It was as if that wind of hope and liberty had returned to blow on Europe after decades of totalitarianism and oppression. It was a wind from ancient origins. It was the same belief, in the same strength and same freedom, that had pushed, a century before, our people to fight for freedom of the country from "foreign oppressor.". In The 19th Century, convinced of being right, believe in the power of man and the idea that freedom was the most valuable asset at man's disposal, We won back those that we believed to be our lands and we created a State. A State that had joined with territorial, but not humanly, It was like geography, but not as a people. Once again the strength of hope together with the idea of freedom was enough to hold the destiny of this state until the advent of fascism. But if even in the second half of the nineteenth century vigevano the ideals of hope in man and in the idea of freedom, to investigate the sources we have to downgrade again over time. In this route backwards we find many industrial revolutions, social and political. The strength in the hope of man caused unprecedented technological advances, the idea of freedom was pushing the poor masses to take up sticks to revolt to absolute monarchs. It's a wind, that of freedom, that blows throughout the nineteenth century, that comes from the 18th century. It's a fresh wind, new, pushing to believing in the potential of man. This is our point of arrival, that is the starting point from which hope and freedom are rooted in the idea that man can be at the center of the world, It can by their own efforts to become judge of your own future. In The Eighteenth Century, was the enlightenment to end the middle ages and open the doors of the modern age. Thanks to this movement of men and ideas he set the focal point man, in its entirety, placing under the scrutiny of reason all aspects of human life, religion including. For the first time the man had no more excuses, excuses of a God that predestined her future, I was driving along a path already written. The end of the dark age, the man had the idea of himself, ends when you turn on the light of enlightenment. Enlightenment is the man with the light of reason. The secularisation that followed and which involved the appropriation of man in the world, in the century just, with the crisis of religious movements has come the times with the winds of hope and freedom giving way, only in modern times, to globalisation. The latter phenomenon, like the previous mass, caused the unification of man-mix spegnando standard hope and reducing the freedom of a space on social networks. But the winds of hope and freedom in humans continue to expire, driven by an ideal that in the 18th century it never faded, just today rather than continuing to ride them you prefer to close them out the window.

Roberto Rossetti

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The Danish girl: the story of Lili Elbe

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In 1930, at the dawn of the Nazi totalitarian regime, a Danish man named Einar Wegener was in Germany in search of identity. The threshold of fifty years, This man had decided to embark on a path that would change and unfortunately put an end to their existence: Einar wanted to become a woman in all respects.
Einar was a Danish artist who was married at the age of twenty-two with a colleague named Gerda Gottlieb. The two were illustrators: Einar ran mostly to paint landscapes, While Gerda primarily for some fashion magazines. Together they travelled a lot all around Europe, and in 1912 They settled in Paris.
Both very talented artists, Einar resigned however to its success to better support his wife, that thanks to the help and advice of her husband had the opportunity to exhibit their work in several important art galleries.
It was during this period that Einar began increasingly to manifest the desire to be a woman: with the backing and support of the young wife started just for fun to pose as a model for paintings of Gerda in the privacy of their home.
During the 1920s, Einar disguised in women's clothes to many parties and participated to some public events. The questions of the curious, the pair replied that Lili Elbe – this was the female name chosen by Einar's own alter ego cloths when dressed – He was a distant cousin of Gerda visiting Paris.
Only a few friends were actually aware of transsexuality of Einar and his path to rediscovery of itself, and maybe the only Gerda understood thoroughly the sense of frustration and discomfort with whom the husband had to live.
Einar consulted several doctors who obliged him to intrusive anti deviance and catalogued as a patient with schizophrenia; However, the late 1920s he met a German surgeon willing to help you.
Just to get rid of the body in which no recognized, Einar went to Germany and underwent five dangerous surgeries to the final exchange of sex, the last of which proved fatal.
Recognized as the first transsexual woman in history subjected to sexual conversion operations, the story of Lili strikes again today for the relevance of the themes that tells; in the 21st century we still struggle to talk about these issues, often considered taboo and shameful. Of these topics, Instead, would do well to talk: There shouldn't be anything, In fact, most sacred and natural prosecution of identity and happiness.

Maria

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"No, never ". Giovanni Falcone

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"The thought of death accompanies me everywhere. But, as Montaigne, It soon becomes second nature. Certain, you're on your toes, It is estimated, We observe, There is organized, you avoid repetitive behaviour, is getting away from the crowds and from any situation that cannot be kept under control. But it also buys a good dose of fatalism; at the bottom you die for many reasons, a car accident, a plane explodes in flight, an overdose, cancer and also for no particular reason».

Giovanni Falcone responds in this way to a question about the possibility of an attack against him. As always, in front of the cameras, the judge retains an attitude compounded, a smile politely, not exuding any emotion. Are the years of the maxi trial, difficult years for Giovanni Falcone. The landmark ruling, more than two thousand years in jail for the defendants and nineteen life sentences throughout the Sicilian Mafia Commission, instead of elevating heroes Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino isolated them even more. In 1988 the High Council of the judiciary States that will be Mahesh Mahesh and not Falcone, to replace Calvert. Giovanni is once again rejected, as was the case at the beginning of the eighties, After the death of Rocco Chinnici, He preferred Calvert. Meli the curtain falls on the experience of the pool and returns to the old unsuccessful mafia investigation methods. Borsellino publicly denounces the State of things, Conversely receives the meeting request from C.S. M. alongside Meli. The pool, Although limping, He was put back on feet. This is not helped break the isolation of man more danger for the mafia, for one who has devoted his life to fighting for the State. In 1989 the failed assassination attempt at Addaura represents the pinnacle of the sense of isolation around the figure of Falcone: not just part of the power of Attorney, the same colleagues and the State does not show solidarity with judge, but he is alleged to have procured alone, the attack. It's the beginning of the end, Falcone takes a job in Rome at the Ministry of Justice, Criminal Affairs section. Falcone in Rome are building a super proxy capable of channeling, centralize and optimize the investigations of the mafia. Unfortunately, however, the 23 may the mafia (or not only the mafia, but it was mafia – CIT. Paolo Borsellino, speech at the public library of Palermo, June 1992) He ended the life of John, Francesca, Rocco, Antonio, Vito.

The man who dreamed of defeating the mafia by applying the law died, because that dream I was making. So who cares that Falcone was sleeping only, on the floor, with a gun for fear of an attack at night, He received several warnings that threats, who said that to be credible we must be dead.

The reporter writes down the answers of Falcone, brief and concise, betrayed only by the movement of the mustache. One more question, the last "have you ever had a moment of discouragement, any questions about, the temptation to give up this fight?”

"No, never "Giovanni Falcone.

Roberto Rossetti

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