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Nobile, Umberto

Umberto Nobile is an Italian general, airman and explorer, born in Lauro (Avelino) in 1885. In 1928 AD, he explored the North Pole on board a Dirigible; lost off the coast of Spitzberg, he was rescued by a Soviet ice-breaker.

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