Word: malta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...section is devoted to X-ray studies of the "Knight of Malta" and of representative works of three artists to whom this painting has been attributed. Most critics ascribe the painting to either Titian or Giorgione, but the X-rays shows that the painting is smoothly modelled, without, the boldly defined edges characteristic of Giorgione's work, or the flickering, thin brushwork of Titian. It is shown that paintings by Palma Vecchio, a contemporary of Titian and Giorgione, have marked similarity to the "Knight of Malta...
...East that the crosscurrents boiled and eddied, across the 1,100 miles from the British base at Malta to the entrance of the Suez Canal, around the islands of Greece, in & out of the Dardanelles. There lay a net of variables, each as dangerous, each as explosive, as a floating mine...
Italy alone stands in the way. Since 1934 all of Mussolini's moves have been aimed at driving wedges between the Allies' Eastern and Western Fronts. From Sicily, Sardinia and the Spanish Balearics, the Italians menace Britain's island of Malta; from Libya they threaten Egypt. Off the coast of Asia Minor they have a naval base at Leros in that happy hunting ground of submarines-the Aegean. The master stroke of recent Italian history was the seizure of Albania. For between Albania's capital of Tirana and the Greek port of Salonika there...
...fossils, first found at Gibraltar in 1848, first scientifically described in 1856 from a find in the Neanderthal Gorge near Düsseldorf in Germany, have been discovered also in France, Belgium, Spain, Moravia, Croatia, Palestine, on the island of Jersey in the British Channel, on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. This oldtimer persisted for a long but chronologically vague period, perhaps 150,000, perhaps 40,000 years ago. With his low-vaulted skull, huge eye-sockets and a short, broad nose, Neanderthal Man was no beauty, but he had just as big a brain and far better...
Scattered British warships hastily steamed out of Mediterranean ports for unnamed stations and the British fleet at Malta was warned to be ready for instant duty. Leaves were cut short. Admittedly a French-British "naval demonstration" in the Mediterranean was under way and blunt notice was expected to be served on Italy that any attempt to attack Greece and especially to take Corfu, the Greek island at the Adriatic's mouth, would mean war. In 1923 Dictator Mussolini himself seized Corfu, left only after extensive diplomatic maneuvering by Britain and France...