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Stealing the conclave

Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 09:56 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

Sooner or later, it will have to happen. The conclave to choose a new pope. Novelists of all hues and colours have been trying to draw up a scenario for the next conclave for many years...

marie Benoit's Diary: A complete change of career in midlife

Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 09:53 Last update: about 5 years ago Marie Benoît

"I was happily working for the past sixteen years as a self employed beautician, when out of the blue, we were hit by Covid 19.  Nobody had the slightest idea that the world was to face one of...

MAGG webinar on Covid-19 and older persons

Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 09:51 Last update: about 5 years ago

Noel Borg, senior nursing manager of the CareMalta Group and non-executive director of Hila Homes, was a guest speaker at a webinar organised on 20 January by the Malta Association of Gerontology and...

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in Malta (1952-54)

Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 09:47 Last update: about 5 years ago Anthony Zarb Dimech

The early 1950s saw the ascension of Queen Elizabeth to the throne of England and her first visit in that capacity to Malta on 3 May 1954.  The 1950s were marked by many of the world powers...

The opera of our time

Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 09:42 Last update: about 5 years ago

Since Dido and Aeneas was written by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell in the 17th century, the face of the world has changed radically through multiple moments of triumph and tragedy. Yet, the...

Don Bosco – A historical perspective

Sunday, 31 January 2021, 10:02 Last update: about 5 years ago

John Bosco's birth in 1815 saw Napoleon defeated at Waterloo, the Congress of Vienna and temporary peace restored in Europe. In 1820, John Bosco, when only five, was already teaching catechism to his...

Promoting STEM through entertainment and education

Thursday, 28 January 2021, 14:29 Last update: about 5 years ago

Recent studies by international education authorities, who continuously monitor how academic formation is impacting the economy show that the more a country invests in science education, the more...

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