A strategic point where ancient maritime cultures converged, traded, contested, and intertwined.
Malta is a small island nation in the central Mediterranean whose history is far larger than its modest geography, and its name alone carries centuries of linguistic speculation and cultural layering. Often traced to the Phoenician word for refuge or harbor, the term Malta also echoes the Greek island-name Melite,
Dire wolves were among the largest canids to have ever lived.
The dire wolf (Canis dirus) is an extinct species of the genus Canis that lived during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene epochs, approximately 125,000 to 9,500 years ago. Taxonomically, it belongs to the family Canidae, which includes modern wolves, coyotes, and domestic dogs.
Real power is not found running off to war. Real power lies in understanding who it is you’re truly fighting, and how they can be defeated.
I watched the 2021 spy, action film, a prequel to “Kingsman: The Secret Service” (2014) and “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” (2017), called The King’s Man. One man must race against time to stop history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds from starting a war and wiping out millions of people. After being held up a while due to Covid-19 it was released in the United States on December 22, 2021, and in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2021, by 20th Century Studios.
Diana Rigg, or as I remember her best, Emma Peel of the Avengers, died September the 10th, 2020, in her home, at the age of 82. She was born in Doncaster, England in 1938 and lived in India, her dad was a Bikaner State Railway executive until she was 8 years old.
