Good afternoon from the beautiful streets of Malta's seaside town of Sliema! 💙
Fifty Questions to Which We Demand Answers
The response to Covid led to the sharpest economic collapse since the Great Depression, global famine, a mental health crisis, runaway inflation, a transfer of over $3 trillion from the world’s poorest to the very richest, the premature deaths of hundreds of thousands of young people, and the worst education crisis since the Second World War.
#Covid; #Vaccination; #vaccine; #lockdowns; #Wuhan
An Infographic on the origins of the various genres of music post classical age.
Useful!!
I posted this on FB in 2013, on the same date ........... I will replicate in certain groups
Joseph Gatt Hi Peter! Just to let you know, you could have posted it first in a group, and THEN click on the "Share" button to share outside the group. 🙂
Peter Azzopardi Thanks! 👍
Joseph Gatt I wonder if the applicants were forced by the Planning Authority to get a stonemason to sign on their Commencement Notice, even though you do no need a stonemason to restore balconies and apertures ---- because that is what the bureaucratic system is forcing me to do in my case. 😐
A controversial history that includes the Ku Klux Klan is etched on the bronze triptych at one of the entrances to Bartlett Hall, at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
The triptych was completed by famed sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser and installed at the prestigious military academy in 1965, just a year before her death. It turns out that the central panel includes several controversial representations, such as a hooded "Ku Klux Klan" member holding a gun, a "carpet bagger", slaves and slave-drivers. (It also includes the Tree of Life, an ancient symbol, by the way.)
For nearly 60 years military cadets walked past this door, possibly unaware of the Ku Klux Klan representation, but last summer, the Naming Commission flagged this artwork as problematic. Meantime, the Commission also identified 12 other "assets" — plaques, monuments, statues, etc . — as well as three such assets at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Following this controversy, the Academy has just announced that the triptych, as well as several other statues and images, will be duly removed from campus during the Christmas holiday break.
Good evening from Gozo's beautiful town of Rabat at Christmas time! ❤️
