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On Monday, May 16, 1808, Civil Commissioner of Malta, Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander J. Ball, accompanied by Brigadier-General Thilson and his staff, welcomed to th
Posted on 05 May 2021. This essay aims at analyzing the traditions associated with the observance of the Holy Ghost celebrations in the California diasporic communities and the way in which these festivities have been an impulse for some of the literary writings produced by three American writers whose ancestors hailed from the island of Terceira, namely the following ones: 1) David Oliveira, in his poems, “Stations of the Cross” and “Why is there anything?,” in the collection In the Presence of Snakes (2000) and in A Little Travel Story (2008) as well as “Festa,” in his most r...
By Syndicated Content By Darrin Zammit Lupi KAPPARA, Malta (Reuters) – I took the first photo of my daughter, Rebecca, moments after she was born on August 3, 2005. Barely more than 15 years later, I took the last photo of my daughter moments after she died, of cancer, on January 3, 2021. I’m a photojournalist. It was only natural that I documented just about every moment of the beautiful life of Becs, as my wife, Marisa, and I called her. Like the time she was 2 and her face looks lit up from within. The time she was onstage dancing, only 12 but defying gravity with grace and...
10 Min Read KAPPARA, Malta (Reuters) - I took the first photo of my daughter, Rebecca, moments after she was born on August 3, 2005. Nurses Naomi Balzan and Nanette Azzopardi administer pain killers and sedatives to Rebecca Zammit Lupi, a 15-year-old cancer patient, as her mother Marisa Ford looks on, shortly before she passed away in her room in Rainbow Ward at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre in Mater Dei Hospital, in Tal-Qroqq, Malta January 3, 2021. This was the last photograph Reuters photographer Darrin Zammit Lupi took of his daughter while she was still alive - she passed away 57 minu...
LifestyleWIDER IMAGE The first photo I ever took of my daughter, and the last Reuters 1/21 Rebecca Zammit Lupi, a 15-year-old cancer patient, reaches out for a ball held by physiotherapist Jonathan Dimech, in her room in Rainbow Ward at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre in Mater Dei Hospital, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tal-Qroqq, Malta November 3, 2020. "I always admired Rebecca?s will and determination to keep going. She was such a gentle soul and a total sweetheart. She touched us all with her bravery and tenacity to fight. Even when she was in pain, she still w...