The Insomniacs

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Birthday of Italian airship pioneer Umberto Nobile (Jan. 21, 1885 – 1978), who together with Roald Amundsen flew an airship across the North Pole…

Photo: On May 11, 1926, the Norge expedition left Svalbard. Fifteen and a half hours later the ship flew over the Pole and landed two days later in Teller, Alaska…