The Old University Theatre is sometimes used by Maltese troupes or drama institutions.

Dominic " Dom " Mintoff ( Maltese: Duminku Mintoff ; sometimes referred to simply as il-Perit ( the architect ); 6 August 1916 – 20 August 2012 ) was a Maltese politician, journalist and architect who was leader of the Labour Party from 1949 to 1984, and was Prime Minister of Malta from 1955 to 1958, when Malta was still a British colony, and again, following independence, from 1971 to 1984.

The drop ears with ( sometimes ) long hair and, and surrounded by darker skin pigmentation ( called a " halo "), gives Maltese their expressive look.

In English, the Maltese currency was sometimes referred to as the pound.

Dun Karm ( Żebbuġ, 18 October 1871 – 13 October 1961 ), 89, was a Maltese writer and poet, sometimes called ' the bard of Malta '

The Geneva drive, a device that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion, is also sometimes called a " Maltese cross mechanism " after the shape of its main gear.

The Inland Sea, sometimes called Qawra in Maltese, is a lagoon of seawater on the island of Gozo linked to the Mediterranean Sea through an opening formed by a narrow natural arch.

Its origin may come from Phoenicia, in the shape of a white, sometimes green, eight-pointed cross, known as Maltese Cross, each point representing a Beatitude, as the Venerable Order of St John teaches.

Image: Cross-Not-Pattee-Not-Maltese. png | With triangular arms that do not fill the square ( sometimes not called pattée but a variant of the Maltese cross ; See also variation of the St George's cross )

It is still referred to by locals as Luqa Airport, and sometimes as Valletta Airport internationally, as it is located southwest of the Maltese capital Valletta.

:* Maltese uses a C, G, and Z with a dot over them ( Ċ, Ġ, Ż ), and also has an H with an extra horizontal bar.

In recent centuries, it has come to be adopted as the insignia of numerous orders of chivalry ( for example, the Order of Saint Lazarus uses a green Maltese cross ).

Det Norske Veritas uses the Maltese Cross as symbol in the class notifications telling that the ship is constructed under their monitoring.

Malta Boat Club, a sculling club on Philadelphia's Boat House Row, uses the Maltese cross as its logo.

The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.

Saumarez's convoy of prizes stopped first at Malta, where Saumarez provided assistance to a rebellion on the island among the Maltese population.

During the night of February 10, 2010, the Sichem Osprey, a Maltese chemical tanker, ran aground on Clipperton Island on its way from the Panama Canal to South Korea.

In 1950, Jones and Maltese began working on Rabbit Fire, a short that has changed Daffy Duck's personality forever.

With business partner Les Goldman, Jones started an independent animation studio Sib Tower 12 Productions, bringing on most of his unit from Warner Bros., including Maurice Noble and Michael Maltese.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

Bosio writes that when the cornerstone of Valletta was placed, a group of Maltese elders said " Iegi zimen en fel wardia col sceber raba iesue uquie " ( which in modern Maltese reads, " Jiġi żmien li fil-Wardija Sciberras kull xiber raba ’ jiswa uqija ," and in English, " There will come a time when every piece of land on Sciberras Hill will be worth its weight in gold ").

" Other theories include those in Johann Friedrich Breithaupt's Christliche Helden Insel Malta (), published in 1632, where he calls Maltese a mixed ' barbaric ' language and John Dryden's description of the language as ' Berber ' on his visit to the islands ( the memoirs of those journeys appeared in 1776 ).

Due to the Sicilian influence on Siculo-Arabic, Maltese has many language contact features and is most commonly described as a language with a large number of loanwords.

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom was sovereign of Malta, and a Governor-General exercised executive authority on her behalf, while the actual direction and control of the government and the nation's affairs were in the hands of the cabinet under the leadership of a Maltese prime minister.

The Maltese Government has pursued a policy of increased economic freedom and privatisation, taking some steps to shift from reliance on government intervention to allowing a greater role for free market mechanisms.

These classic buses have become tourist attractions in their own right, due to their uniqueness, and are depicted on many Maltese advertisements to promote tourism as well as on gifts and merchandise for tourists.

Arriva Malta is contracted as the sole operator of bus services on the Maltese Islands for 10 years.

The megalithic temple complexes of Ġgantija on the Mediterranean island of Gozo ( in the Maltese archipelago ) and of Mnajdra ( Malta ) are notable for their gigantic Neolithic structures, the oldest of which date back to c. 3600 BC.

All the parishes of Malta and Gozo on Palm Sunday ( in Maltese Ħadd il-Palm ) bless the palm leaves and the olive leaves.

At first it seemed that this would be a repeat of the battle on Rhodes, with most of Malta's cities destroyed and half the Knights killed in battle ; but a relief force from Spain entered the battle, resulting in the loss of 30, 000 Ottoman troops and the victory of the local Maltese citizenry.

Carnival in Malta ( Maltese: il-Karnival ta ' Malta ) has had an important place on the Maltese cultural calendar for just under five centuries, having been introduced to the Islands by Grand Master Piero de Ponte in 1535.

In AD 60, the New Testament records that Saint Paul was shipwrecked on an island named Melite, which many Bible scholars and Maltese conflate with Malta ; there is a tradition that the shipwreck took place on the shores of the aptly named " Saint Paul's Bay ".

After the Norman conquest the population of the Maltese islands kept growing mainly through immigration from the north ( Sicily and Italy ), with the exile to Malta of the entire male population of the town of Celano ( Italy ) in 1223, the stationing of a Norman and Sicilian garrison on Malta in 1240 and the settlement in Malta of noble families from Sicily between 1372 and 1450.

Bogart performed radio adaptations of some of his best known films, such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon.

The Maltese language has historically been classified in various ways, with some claiming that the ancient Punic language was the base of the language, instead of Siculo-Arabic, while others believed the language to be Berber, and under Fascist Italy, it was considered a dialect of Italian.

This is also the case in some Maltese secondary schools.

After Wibaux's arrival, the town became a major cattle shipping center for the Northern Pacific Railroad, notably receiving some of the cattle from Theodore Roosevelt < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > Maltese Cross and Elkhorn ranches near Medora, North Dakota.

Algerian legend claims that the ancestors of the present Maltese, together with the first Algerians, fled from their original homeland of Aram, with some choosing to settle in Malta and others in North Africa, which would suggest that the prototypical Maltese culture had Aramaean origins.

There is also some evidence that at least one North African tribe, the Oulad Said, claim that they share common ancestry with the Maltese.

These dramatic incidents remain etched in the collective memory of the Maltese, and are reflected in Maltese folklore, some superstitions, beliefs, sayings and proverbs including Maltese literature, with works such as Anton Manwel Caruana's Ineż Farruġ ( 1889 ) and the traditional ballad l-Gharusa tal-Mosta, detailing the kidnap of a Maltese maiden by Turkish pirates.

Accordingly, it is difficult to determine whether some of the Semitic influences on Maltese culture were originally imported to Malta from North Africa, or from Sicily.

Several of the Grand Masters of the Knights of Malta had been French, and though some French customs and expressions had crept into common usage in Malta as a result ( such as the expressions " bonġu " for " good day ", and " bonswa " for " good evening ", still in use today ), Napoleon's garrison had a much deeper impact on Maltese culture.

Kilroy, a young American visitor, fulfills some of the functions of the play's narrator, as does Gutman, ( named after Sydney Greenstreet's character from The Maltese Falcon, but bearing more resemblance to Signor Ferrari, Greenstreet's character in Casablanca ) manager of the hotel Siete Mares, whose terrace occupies part of the stage.

In addition, figures released in 2010 by the Korean National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service show that some 1, 208 Maltese were abandoned between January and August 2010, making it the most abandoned breed in Seoul, Korea.

Some Maltese need to be blow-dried in order to prevent mats because drying is ineffective to some dogs.

He made a major contribution to creating the Scouts Cross where he suggested combining some elements of the Maltese Cross and the Polish Virtuti Militari Order.

The Maltese alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet with the addition of some letters with diacritic marks and digraphs.

He went into a gradual professional decline over the next decade, in part due to turning down some of the most-famous roles in movie history, notably Raoul Walsh's High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon ; both roles unexpectedly transformed Humphrey Bogart from supporting player to a major force in Hollywood in 1941.

The following season Marsaxlokk made some very impressive signings, acquiring the services of Maltese internationals, goalkeeper Justin Haber, defender Luke Dimech, midfielder Peter Pullicino and striker Daniel Bogdanovic along with Nigerian midfielder Haruna Doda.

Young midfielder Gordon Mizzi will spend the season on loan with Maltese Third Division side Gzira United, in order to gain some valuable first team experience.

In addition to pork dishes ( such as grilled pork cuts or stuffed flank ) and the exclusive predominance of pork in indigenous Maltese sausages, adding some pork to dishes such as kawlata ( a vegetable soup ) and ross il-forn ( baked rice ) have been common practice in the Maltese vernacular cuisine for centuries.