The national anthem having been played, both teams took the field and prepared for play.

Fürst missed the commercial foresight to paint more of it and less of the dazzling sheen of waves. With ghonnellas, dgħajsas and karrozzini, his paintings would today fetch four or five figure prices at auction.

If you were to pull back further to see all of Europe you might find at the end of those roads bold new headquarters of chemical companies which employed deskfuls of economists to monitor subsidy payments and adjust pricing in accordance with any change in them, and laboratoryfuls of people working on genetic modifications which would allow their employers to patent seeds themselves.

He had heard the stirring pibrochs speed the Gordons in their fights, / It had borne them through the fire zone as they swung up Dargai's heights […]