Carmen,
Thanks you for the history on Malta.  I thought it was very interesting.
Mequita Praet

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> From: Buttigieg Carmen at MOH <carmen.a.buttigieg@magnet.mt>
> To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: Journals and Malta
> Date: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 6:57 AM
> 
> Histonetters
> 
> Thanks again for the info about Journals. It seems like a lot of you are 
> interested in our little island. If I may, I'd like to give you a brief
outline.
> 
> It is true, we were given the George Cross by the British in World War
II.
> We were then a colony.
> The Maltese Cross came from the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem who were
the 
> governing body at the time of the Great Seige against the Turks in the
16th 
> century. They were the architects who fortified the island with bastions
which 
> are mostly intact to this day.
> We do have a Maltese language which is mostly derived from Arabic and
Latin, 
> but most Maltese can speak English and Italian very fluently.
> We have such a colourful History, dating back to Neolithic times, I
wouldn't 
> know how to make a summary of it.
> The only solution is to visit.
> If you look Malta up in an atlas, it is just a dot in the middle of the 
> Mediterranean, just below Sicily (Italy).
> 
> I hope I satisfied the curiosity of those who asked. My apologies to
those who 
> are not in the least interested.
> 
> Carmen 
> St. Luke's Hospital
> Malta
>