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Fate delivers bit of history

 Poughkeepsie's De Pasquale discovers date book of
 groundbreaking Italian aviator
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/sunday/lifeentertainment/stories/li052602s1.shtml


(and the following article tells more about who the aviator is)

 Italian pilot made headlines

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/sunday/lifeentertainment/stories/li052602s2.shtml

Francesco De Pinedo, born in 1890 to aristocratic Neapolitan parents,
was
 schooled in literature and art but made a name for himself in
aviation. [snip]  1933, he quietly left for America under the pseudonym
''Smith'' and began preparing for his next and most ambitious journey, a
nonstop flight from New York to Baghdad.  [snip]



Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Information Services Librarian

The Culinary Institute of America
1946 Campus Drive
Hyde Park, NY  12538
(845) 451-1322
c_crawfo@culinary.edu

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