The 15th-century Maltese poem "Il-Kantilena" is said to have been "found" in the 1960s by two Maltese historians, but the above-linked Wikipedia page, and other sources I've found online about it (one, two, three), don't give any detail on how it was "found" and how it was known to be (or presume...
Anyone know the name of this series?
Back in the late 80's or early 90's I read a series about a galactic empire that used ground based portals to travel between planets. There was some issue and all the portals stopped working. Travel between planets was then only possible by spaceship. However,...
According to Britannica Online Encyclopedia, Dun Karm is considered the national poet of Malta:
Dun Karm, pseudonym of Carmelo Psaila, (born Oct. 18, 1871, Zebbug, Gozo, Malta—died Oct. 13, 1961, Valletta), Malta’s national poet, sometimes called “the bard of Malta,” or “the Chaucer of Malta.”
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From "An Ode to America" (The Atlantic's Jan/Fed 2022 issue):
“Pretty good nose you got there! You do much fighting with that nose?”
New Orleans, 1989. I’m standing on a balcony south of the Garden District, and a man—a stranger—is hailing me from the street. He looks like Paul Newman, if Paul N...
