Angela Galea (born May 5, 1983 in Pietà) is a retired Maltese swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.
Anton Buttigieg was born in Qala, Gozo, on 19 February 1912, the third child of Salvatore and Concetta (née Falzon) Buttigieg.
Coryse Borg is a Maltese actress, director and writer, resident in Żebbuġ, Malta.
Gianluca's maternal grandfather, the late Gaetano Buttigieg of Marsa, Malta, better known as Gaetano Kanta, was also a very well-known figure in Malta.
In the early 17th century Abela converted his house at Marsa to a historical museum, the first on Malta.
Glenn Bedingfield (b. 15 November 1974, Pietà, Malta) is a Maltese journalist and formerly a Member of the European Parliament and General Secretary of the Forum Żgħażagħ Laburisti (the Labour Youth Forum of the Maltese Labour Party) and member of the Party's National Executive.
Immanuel Mifsud (born September 12, 1967) is a writer of poetry and prose, born in Paola, Malta.
However their hopes took a massive blow, when they failed to capitalise on Poland's surprise home defeat to Croatia, losing 16-13 to Malta in Paola.
The film will be shot in Chennai, Bangalore and Athirapally during the first schedule and a couple of songs will be shot at Malta.
Malcolm Licari (born 18 April 1978 in Pietà, Malta) is a professional footballer currently playing for Rabat Ajax in the Maltese Premier League, where he plays as a striker, and also occasionally as a defender.
In the 12th century some families established their lives in Malfa on the island of Salina.
The coat of arms of Malta was created in the 20th Century but has an older history.
Luke's Hospital (in Maltese: Sptar San Luqa), was a general hospital located on Gwardamanġia hill, in Pietà, Malta.
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The Malta Football Best Goalkeeper of the Year award for 2008 was won by Andrew Hogg of Valletta.
The largest fundraising effort came from Malta, and was shared between Inspire Foundation and the Daniel Delicata Memorial Association for the construction of a children's outdoor play area at the new national Mater Dei Hospital.
"7th Wonder" (occasionally rendered as "Seventh Wonder") was the Maltese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, performed in English by Ira Losco.
The Consul saw service with small scheduled and charter airlines as feeder liners in Great Britain, and also Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, East Africa and Canada, and was the first type operated by Malayan Airways, the predecessor of Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines.
Benjamin Disraeli was also famously accused of Caesarism in March of 1878 when, in In anticipation of war with Russia, he mobilised British reserves and called Indian troops to Malta.
Carmelo "Carm" Mifsud Bonnici (born 17 February 1960) is a Maltese politician who served in a number of Ministerial posts in the Government of Malta.
On 13 April 1919, the capital of the republic, Kars, was occupied by the British troops under the command of General William M. Thomson and after a period of local resistance he was arrested by the British forces and sent, through Batum and İstanbul, to a one-year exile in Malta (see Malta exiles) together with 11 members of his cabinet.
In 1931 Callus resigned from all of his offices in Malta and permanently left for Hawkesyard, and then, a year later, for Oxford, England, where he stayed until his death.
Edward de Bono, a Malta-born British physician, author, and consultant
Named for Doyle Brunson, the 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, the Doyle Brunson Poker Network is licensed and incorporated in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles with the website also stating "Letter of Intent from Malta Lotteries and Gaming Authority Received".
Hadise started off her promo tour in Malta, appearing on 5 popular television shows including the National Final of Malta in which their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, What If We by Chiara, was chosen.
Fossil remains of dwarf elephants have been found on the Mediterranean islands of Cyprus, Malta (at Ghar Dalam), Crete (in Nomos Chanion at Vamos, Stylos and in a now under water cave on the coast), Sicily, Sardinia, the Cyclades Islands and the Dodecanese Islands.
Francis Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Barloch (1889–1980), MP from Battersea North and Governor-General of Malta
With head coach Korytoski deciding to move on from his post after changes in the clubs ownership, Muir signed for Vittoriosa Stars in Malta.
The site has also benefited in recent years from the UNESCO funded Malta Mosaics Project, which mapped mosaics and pavements at Għajn Tuffieha and the Domvs Romana.
However, because the propsal list of the Maltese government got rejected repeatedly by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Bonellos term of office according to Article 23 para.
A Jewish subculture re-emerged in Malta during the reign of the Knights Hospitaller.
The Zabbar Ground better known by its nickname Il-Foss is a football ground in Ħaż-Żabbar, Malta.
He studied in a college in Malta, where he picked up many languages, he worked as a sailor on an English ship, travelling between London and Melbourne, he was an interpreter in Turkish institutions in Tsarigrad, he taught languages in İzmir to the sons of Turkish notables (including Midhat Pasha).
In February 1939, just before the Second World War started, Warfield was appointed as Command Armament Staff Officer at HQ Mediterranean Command at RAF Luqa serving under Air Vice Marshal Hugh Lloyd, a post he held until the spring of 1941 when he was promoted to Wing Commander and appointed as Officer Commanding of the Malta airbase RAF Ta' Qali.
As an MEP he supported a reduction in the tax for Satellite television, the right for customers to watch sport events for free, and a number of issues related to environmental protection in Malta.
Their fairy-tale story was however unfortunately short-lived when Ludwig admitted publicly on the local program "Xarabank" on TVM that the duo split up.
It will also be the third time in the history of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest that the event will be hosted by the previous year's winning country, after Malta won the 2013 edition in Kiev, Ukraine, with the song "The Start" by Gaia Cauchi.
KIC also offers short, medium and long-term residential foreign language courses in China, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Russia and Spain through partner schools.
The following years saw La Barokka giving another concert at the Saint James Cavalier, which was followed by another in St. Julian's at the Bay Street complex.
The local television channels in Malta are broadcast mainly in Maltese and sometimes English.
There are a few gay clubs including 'Tom Bar', situated in Floriana, which is the oldest gay club in Malta, and 'Monaliza' in Paceville and Valletta.
In 1592 the village of Luqa was hit by Bubonic plague, which at that time hit all the population of Malta and caused many deaths.
In the final, Macedonia was drawn to perform 22nd, after Malta and preceding Ireland.
Malta was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 by the song "Angel" performed by Chiara.
Sir Maurice Henry Dorman, GCMG, GCVO (7 August 1912 – 26 October 1993) was the representative of the British Monarchy in Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Sierra Leone, and Malta.
On 26 July 1941, two human torpedoes (Maiale) and ten MAS boats (including six MTs) launched an unsuccessful attack on the British naval base at Valletta, Malta.
During the running order draw, which took place on 25 November 2013 in Kiev, Ukraine, The Netherlands were drawn to perform tenth, following Georgia and preceding Malta.
# 2011 — the Personal exhibition of works in Russian center of a science and culture on Malte in Vallette, July 2011
HMEH Frà Matthew Festing, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta,
These contacts included Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Malta, Finland, West Germany, Denmark, Japan, China, Kuwait, the Czech Republic, Poland and Bosnia.
There are a number of recognized subspecies, such as P. f. melitensis in Malta and P. f. borealis in Scotland.
He became a Knights Hospitaller and was the Order's governor of the island of Lango when Rhodes fell to the Ottomans on New Year's Day 1523, and was still there in 1534 when he received the news of his election to the office of Grand Master of the Order, to succeed Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam at Malta.
He is the musical director and drummer/percussionist of the Maltese folk band Walter Micallef u l-Ħbieb, and works very closely with Contact Dance Company (Malta), writing music and performing live on stage with the company in Malta and across Europe.
In April 1941 he sailed on HMS Argus for Gibraltar, where he was transferred to HMS Ark Royal and was one of a group of Hurricane pilots who flew off Ark Royal for Malta.
Popeye Village, also known as Sweethaven Village, tourist attraction in Malta
This figurine is held in the Museum of Archaeology, in Valletta, Malta.
Attard, Balzan, and Lija are three small villages located near the centre of the Mediterranean island of Malta.
Verdala palace was restored by Governor Sir William Reid by 1858 and was the official summer residency of the Governors of Malta during British rule.
She was born and raised in Malta and won several national and international titles, including the European Champion, the Badminton Horse Trials and the Burghley Horse Trials a record five times.
Some notable examples of military Mediterranean watchtowers include the towers that the Knights of Malta had constructed on the coasts of Malta.
In 1905 Sir Themistocles Zammit infected a goat with the bacteria Micrococcus Melitanensis which then caught Malta fever.
According to folklore, some moved to Malta, because Kosh members considered themselves the kind of Maltese chivalry.
Zefta is well known in the modern Egyptian history during the 1919 uprising, lately called Egyptian Revolution of 1919, when the British occupation expelled Saad Zaghloul Pasha out of Egypt along other leaders of Wafd Party and were exiled to Malta, the people of Zefta, led by Youssef El Guindi, gathered and declared their independence of the crown and named it Zefta Republic.