Angelo Sbardellotto was an Italian anarchist executed by the state on this day in 1932 for plotting to assassinate Benito Mussolini; he refused to ask for clemency, instead telling the court he regretted not succeeding in his plan.

Sbardellotto was born into a poor family who was compelled to emigrate to find work. Angelo and his father also left Italy in October 1924, living in France, Luxembourg, and Belgium, where Angelo worked as a miner and a machine hand.

While working as a miner, he joined the anarchist committee of Liege, and was active in the activities to bring about the general strike in Belgium in solidarity with framed Italian-American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti.

Already under surveillance as a suspected communist subversive, Sbardellotto was stopped by police in Piazza Venezia, Rome in 1932 and was found to be armed with two rudimentary bombs and a pistol, as well as possession of a Swiss passport.

Admitting to having entered Italy clandestinely with the intent of avenging socialist Michael Schirru by killing Mussolini (Schirru himself had attempted to assassinate Mussolini), he was interrogated and likely tortured by police before his trial a week later on June 11th.

When Sbardellotto’s lawyer requested that he write to Mussolini directly to ask for his life to be spared, he refused, stating that he was only sorry that he had not carried out the attempt on Mussolini. On June 17th, 1932, at twenty-four years old, he was put in front of the firing squad at the Bretta Fort. He refused last rites from a priest. His last words before being shot were “Long live anarchy!”.

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Masha had to find the product of three numbers in order to calculate the volume of some soil. She multiplied the first number by the second correctly and was about to multiply the result by the third number when she noticed that the second number had been written incorrectly. It was one-third larger than it should be. To avoid recalculating, Masha decided it would be safe to merely lower the third number by one-third of itself–particularly since it equaled the second number. “But you shouldn’t do that,” a girl friend said to Masha. “If you do, you will be wrong by 20 cubic yards.” “Why?” said Masha.

Why indeed? And what is the correct soil volume?

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