Davida
@davidaflo
Illustrator, mother of 2, #AmWriting #HistoricalFiction. Obsessed with anything from #history
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#HistFicMay 31. I am focusing on my current project. I have read & watched many #WWII stories but #Malta’s part is often overlooked. I’d like to fill that gap & maybe succeed in sharing the story. Then ppl can read the book while on #holiday here.😎Sun, sea & #HistoricalFiction
Top 100 for my war novel The Tune of the Sea. 🥳Thank you @prize_novel It’s great news after all the hard work. Looking forward to the feedback.
If you made our top 100 we will send an email out directly after the longlist announcement so please do check your junk/spam folders as we do not print the top 100 titles. If you make our top 100 you may say you were in the top 100 and name your work!
Brava Miriana 👏🏻 They censored our language 🇲🇹 but on the night, the entire audience will fill the gap and serve #Maltese. #Eurovision2025
🇲🇹 Serving ha! Miriana released the final version of “Serving” (Kant Re-named”! She will represent Malta in #Eurovision 2025!
Got there in the end #WritingCommunity🥂Here’s to all writers writing ‘The End’. And those close to it too, and those at the start, or at the middle.
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 78. This site in #Gozo served as a lighthouse since the 17th c. This more recent version lit up for the first time in 1853 with a system of oil lamps & brass plates. Today it’s also an atmosphere watch for the #Mediterranean
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 77.A Carpenters’ Guild existed in #Vittoriosa #Malta since the 16th c to service the Knights’ fleet. In the 19th c the guild built this oratory dedicated to St Joseph and it survived blast from nearby direct hits in #WWII. Today it serves as a museum
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 76. According to legend, this hole at the Inquisitor’s Palace in #Vittoriosa #Malta was a well embedded with swords used for torture. The truth is that through the 16th & 18th centuries, it served as a communal latrine for all the prisoners.🙃
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 75 French Grand Master de Valette led the #Malta victory in the Great Siege of 1565. He prayed in a chapel in #Vittoriosa between skirmishes and later left his hat & sword in thanksgiving. His name remains tied to Malta’s capital #Valletta.
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 74 At noon each day a gun is fired at #Valletta’s Saluting Battery. The timekeeping service started in 1824 for vessels entering port & was discontinued in 1923 with the advent of telegraphic signals. It resumed in 2004 thanks to @WirtArtna NGO.
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 73 In April 1798 Napoleon planned the invasion of #Malta in this letter. On 9th June his fleet anchored off Malta requesting the Grand Master to ‘resupply water’ 😏Within a day the islands fell to the new French Order after 268 yrs of Knights’ rule.
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 72 Strained relations between the bishop of #Malta & the Knights of St John in the 16thc, led the Pope to appoint his permanent delegate to the island in 1574 - the Roman Inquisitor. For 2 centuries, this was his seat in #Vittoriosa.
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 71 In May 1942, #Malta’s only official #WWII traitor & spy, showed up on a dinghy beneath these cliffs. Caught in rough weather, he was rescued by a patrol boat but was recognised by a childhood friend. He was executed for treason later that year.
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 70 This square in #Valletta captures 4 eras: the Auberge d’Aragon (right) built in 1571, also the venue for #Malta’s Independence negotiations in 1964; a memorial to the 1798 revolt vs the 🇫🇷; the 1844 Anglican Cathedral (left) & a British phonebox.
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 69. The Lascaris War Rooms were the nerve centre for #Malta’s defence coordination during #WWII. In July ‘43, the complex welcomed Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery & other Allied leaders for the launch of Operation Husky.
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 68 The biggest legacy of the early medieval Arab rule in #Malta is the Maltese language, but beautiful artefacts survive like Maymuna’s gravestone. The Kufic script records the girl’s death in 1174.
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 67 Construction of #Malta’s capital city, #Valletta, started in March 1566. Situated on a hill, most of the city’s peripheral streets are sheer slopes or stairways. Quite challenging if you’re going up.
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 66 In February 1883 #Malta’s locomotive train departed for the first time from #Valletta and reached the outskirts of #Mdina in 25 minutes, reducing the journey time by 2.5 hrs. The service shut down 48 yrs later in March 1931, never to resume.
#Fun #Maltese #History #Fact 65 The Library was the last building erected by the Knights in #Malta to store the Order’s collection dating from the 12thc. Finished in 1796, 2 yrs before Napoleon’s invasion, it fell to the British,new lords of the islands,to inaugurate it in 1812.
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