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Posted by Joyce on 7/8/2025, 2:38 pm, in reply to "Re: This Day in History – July 8"
1838 Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich, Count von Zeppelin – German soldier and air pioneer who built rigid dirigibles which were named after him. During the US Civil War, he served as a military observer for the Union Army, where he made his first ascent in a balloon
"How would you like to write that name at school?"
He probably went by Bub.
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