on Malta’s megalithic temple culture in the Netherlands, Germany and Gozo, and has conducted tours especially designed to see all the accessible ancient sites. She subsequently embarked on the project to try to solve the many questions surrounding this enigmatic civilisation. It resulted in the book Sirius, the Star of the Maltese Temples (MaletBooks 2018), which reveals that the discovery of the orientation of the temples to Sirius presents the answer to the most important questions. It also uncovers manoeuvrings that have taken place in Maltese archaeology in the past, which caused Malta’s temple culture to remain practically unknown to the public at large.of 1890, less that just over 1 out of a thousand Americans could be classified as paupers.

Indeed, this period – the era before entitlements – was the age during which America became known as “the land of opportunity” and immigrants flocked here by the millions. Many of these men and women prepared for their old age by working, saving, earning private pensions, and joining mutual aid societies (basically, private insurance against deprivation). Those who hit tough times turned to friends, family, neighbors, and private charity for help.

The reason Americans finally accepted the creation of Social Security was because of the strain of the Great Depression. But as modern economists such as Milton Friedman have shown, one could argue that the Depression was actually created by government intervention. The