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Ponsonby's Column, the Glossary

Ponsonby's Column, also known as Ponsonby's Cenotaph, was a monumental column in Valletta, Malta.^[1]

Anglo-Irish people

Anglo-Irish people denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland.

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Bank of Valletta

Bank of Valletta plc (BOV) is a Maltese bank and financial services company headquartered in Santa Venera.

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Cenotaph

A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere.

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Doric order

The Doric order is one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.

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Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby

Major General Hon.

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Giorgio Pullicino

Giorgio Pullicino (8 July 1779 – 25 October 1851) was a Maltese painter, architect, and professor of drawing and architecture at the University of Malta.

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Hastings Gardens

Hastings Gardens is a public garden in Valletta, Malta.

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Lightning is a natural phenomenon formed by electrostatic discharges through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions, either both in the atmosphere or one in the atmosphere and one on the ground, temporarily neutralizing these in a near-instantaneous release of an average of between 200 megajoules and 7 gigajoules of energy, depending on the type.

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List of governors of Malta

The governor of Malta (Gvernatur ta' Malta) was an official who ruled Malta during the British colonial period between 1813 and 1964.

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Major general (United Kingdom)

Major general (Maj Gen) is a "two-star" rank in the British Army and Royal Marines.

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Malta

Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.

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The Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA, L-Awtorità ta' Malta dwar l-Ambjent u l-Ippjanar) was the national agency responsible for the environment and planning in Malta.

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Marsamxett Harbour

Marsamxett Harbour, historically also referred to as Marsamuscetto, is a natural harbour on the island of Malta.

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Spencer Monument

The Spencer Monument is a restored obelisk monument on the way to Valletta, in Blata l-Bajda, Malta, erected for Captain Sir Robert Cavendish Spencer, R.N., a cousin of the Governor of Malta, Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby (1783–1837). Ponsonby's Column and Spencer Monument are monuments and memorials in Malta.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponsonby's_Column

Ponsonby's Column, the Glossary

Table of Contents

Anglo-Irish people

Bank of Valletta

Cenotaph

Doric order

Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby

Giorgio Pullicino

Hastings Gardens

Lightning

List of governors of Malta

Major general (United Kingdom)

Malta

Marsamxett Harbour

Spencer Monument

Times of Malta

Valletta

Victory column

World War II

See also

1838 establishments in Malta

1864 disestablishments in Malta

Buildings and structures completed in 1838

Buildings and structures demolished in 1864

Monumental columns

Monuments and memorials in Malta

Neoclassical architecture in Malta

References