The five-star hotels of Sliema and St Julians and the resorts in the north-east were bundled up in packages and sold in abundance, leaving Valletta, the tiny Unesco world heritage capital city, largely untouched by tourism.
Yet for 150 years following the death of the last rabbi, tiny embers of a heritage still glowed in Kaifeng.
So when someone posts a 23andMe screenshot and asks users to rate his whiteness, it's meant to be funny, as are comments telling him "gas yourself" because his results show a tiny percentage of Ashkenazi heritage.
Miranda's one sign of Binewksi heritage is a tiny tail, which she earns a living showing off at a strip club.
Euronesians (people of mixed European and Polynesian ancestry) account for most of the rest of the population, and a tiny fraction are of wholly European heritage.
The oldest part, Dalt Vila, is a Unesco World Heritage site with a tiny modern art museum, Museu d'Art Contemporani (Ronda Narcis Puget; 34-971-302-723) that iseeingh seeing.
I fancied myself a tiny James Bond (or Weng Weng, considering my heritage) and — strange as it may sound — there's nothing I wouldn't have given to have the bitplay BANG! remote controlled lamp help me live out my pre-adolescent fantasies.
You didn't have to share Tom Wolfe's "tiny mummies" disdain for the New Yorker's heritage to feel that the times demanded madder humor and stronger stimulants.
This tiny area packs in more historical, religious and cultural heritage than perhaps anywhere else in the world, and its small size means it's completely feasible to visit a good proportion of its sights in a fairly short trip.
While Cotton Tree focuses on the unique cultural heritage of its region, Ecolodge Rendez-Vous, on tiny Saba in the Dutch West Indies, focuses on its unusual geographic environment.
