World War II Operation Pedestal-Malta (Full Documentary) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Operation Pedestal (Italian: Battaglia di Mezzo Agosto, Battle of mid-August), known in Malta as Il-Konvoj ta' Santa Marija (Santa Maria Convoy), was a British operation to carry supplies to the island of Malta in August 1942, during the Second World War. Malta was a base from which British ships, submarines and aircraft attacked Axis convoys to Libya, during the North African Campaign (1940–1943). From 1940 to 1942, the Axis

22K views · 306 reactions | Were YOU there? British Pathé newsreel cameras capture the moment Malta was declared Independent by the Duke of Edinburgh this week 54 years ago | Bay Retro | Facebook

Malta's close ties with Italy led to a unique cultural blend, with a significant literary culture in Italian and the influence of English due to British colonisation 🇮🇹🇬🇧 The Malta Language Question, a debate over official languages, reflected class divisions and imperial-local tensions, ultimately resulting in Italian yielding to English and Maltese by the 1940s, although English continues to dominate tertiary education, sparking concerns about the preservation of the Maltese language in co

In the 1940s–1970s, when homosexuality was criminalised or stigmatised, LGBTQ people used the question “Are you a Friend of Dorothy?” as a discreet way to identify one another. If the other person understood, they could safely acknowledge being gay. If not, the phrase seemed innocuous, just a reference to Dorothy from Oz. Judy Garland’s role in The Wizard of Oz became iconic for queer audiences. Dorothy’s journey, an outsider finding chosen family in a magical land, resonated deeply with gay men

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