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Letters to the editor - May 16, 2021

Cloud-seeding experiments The article ‘Malta becoming too dry to support its habitat’ (May 2) predicts that our islands are turning into a desert because of the continuing rainfall shortage. This is a dire prospect for the agricultural sector and would be very detrimental to our green environment. On a number of days during the ‘rainy’ seasons our sky is quite cloudy but we often remain without rainfall. Facing similar occurrences, various countries are resorting to cloud seeding, with varying degrees of success. This seeding involves spraying certain substances, such as dry ice, which already exists in the atmosphere, into the clouds by means of aircraft or rocket to induce the water vapour inside them to fall as rain or snow.

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Coats of arms have long histories Now they have a future, too

A chatty coat of arms? According to the French, it is. Known as arms parlant or ‘canting’ arms, these shorthand emblems of identification play a visual pun on the family surname. It is up to the observer to fill in the blanks. Bees carved into a limestone coat of arms, atop a façade in Għarb, reveal the occupant’s family name to be Apap − ape is Italian for a bee. The coat of arms of Lieutenant Colonel Count Charles A. Gauci, the new chief herald Naturally, an olive tree features prominently in the coat of arms for the Testaferrata Olivier family and a pear tree for the de Piro coat of arms.

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Heritage Malta masterclass on Malta s rich heraldry tradition

Heritage Malta masterclass on Malta s rich heraldry tradition
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Letters to the editor - February 7, 2021

Joe Micallef Stafrace, 1933-2021 Joe Micallef Stafrace had a distinguished career but, above all, he was a decent and well-read man. He was loyal to the Labour Party but never afraid to criticise it or its leadership when he deemed necessary. Is-Sebħ, which he edited, became a daily in 1956. It was an anti-colonial mouthpiece at a time when Dom Mintoff’s party was seeking integration with Britain. One of its famous front-page editorials in February 1956, when Major-General Sir Robert Laycock was governor, was titled “Pay up or go home”. Although Micallef Stafrace was a victim of the Church’s interdict in 1961 and got married in a sacristy, he was actually quite a religious person with an interest in theology, a man of principle with a high regard for morality.

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