Most Maltese women up to the 1930s and even during the Second World War days used to wear the ghonnella. That headgear used to distinguish her from all other women of the world. The ghonnella covered the head and wrapped round the body from the waist upward; it did not cover the face, but with a little move hid it from curious eyes.
The ghonnella endowed Maltese women with a proud and pretty appearance. It became her, showed her sprightly and honoured her in people's eyes. The cover of ghonnella was like a charm which bewitched and enticed men to yearn for a more revealing look at the eager face hidden behind it while the big and alluring eyes shot through the little hoop in the ghonnella like the arrow of the Son of Venus.

Many hundreds of years after the Neolithic period and precisely in 1530, the Knights of the Order of St. John brought about another epoch of great cultural significance to the island of Malta. This is not to say that between the sudden disappearance of the Neolithic culture and the arrival of the Knights nothing had happened. Quite the contrary. Many relics and remains witness to important historical events in this period. However, no unique or individual culture had originated from the many peoples - the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Normans and Castillians - who colonised the island in this prolonged interval.
The history of the Knights of St. John begins in the middle of the eleventh century in the Holy Land. The Order?s original duties were to care for the sick and wounded Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land and to help the poor. But very soon their duties expanded; the fight against the infidels became of equal or even greater importance. The Knights became Soldiers of Christ. They acquired and maintained huge estates and castles in the Holy Land and finally owned a large fleet.........

Knights of Malta

Il-Kunsill Nazzjonali ta' l-Ilsien Malti (The National Council for the Maltese Language) was set up on April 2005 after the passage of a Bill in the Maltese Parliament. Its work is to regulate new words coming into Maltese and promote the standard Maltese language in education and other new sectors. The Council consists of five departments which are: Media, Literature, Language Research, Translations and Terminology and the Development of Maltese in the Information and Technology Sector. The council's aim is to protect and promote the Maltese language, and thus to improve it by modernising its structures.
The National Council for the Maltese Language is an associate member of the EFNIL (European Federation of National Institutions for Language) in the European Union.
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Each year Australia commemorates the anniversary of Anzac Day on the 25th of April as the day when Anzacs landed onto the beaches of Gallipoli. The courage, honesty, endurance, resourcefulness and loyalty of Anzacs became an inspiration to this young nation.
Each year Australians remember with great pride and respect its great sons of Anzacs. They recall that from the deeds and sacrifices of the Anzacs at Gallipoli there emerged a powerful sense of Australian identity and culture. In fact, the young Turkish soldiers on one side and the young Australian soldiers on the other, were both innocent victims of cruel and imperialist policies of the major super powers of that time.