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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Adam Funk Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: More Big Days Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:45:01 +0000 Organization: $CABAL Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net 3Vo8TeWArw3hYU7Qgf7vEAq3VW0jWlqL7oT1EfFeWgxeQptUMc X-Orig-Path: news.ducksburg.com!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:JnTskxfU8qk65ARCvc6PxqPwqng= sha1:rOGJE4nhX7hX3f/Zmm6jL8j3N1Y= sha256:WcQT8FENflFxHeS9bB1CuCUnT37kY+XykTN/GJoKwF0= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.4-6 (Linux) Bytes: 2106 On 2025-02-09, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote: > On 2025-02-09 09:04:18 +0000, Ross Clark said: > >> 10 February - Feast of St Paul's Shipwreck (Malta) >> >> Why? Because it's Malta's only appearance in the Bible (Acts 28:1ff.). >> And he's the patron saint of Malta. The text says "Melita", but >> scholars don't seem to have a problem with the identification. The >> Maltese of the time (?59 AD) were Roman citizens, and treated Paul >> (also a Roman citizen) well. They are described as _barbaroi_, meaning >> they didn't speak Greek. (Fr McKenzie thinks probably Punic.) >> Paul was on his way to Rome to appeal to Caesar against charges of >> making trouble. >> Why 10 February? Don't have any information on that. > > I've been labouring under a delusion for 60 years, as I thought that > happened at Matala in Crete, not Malta. I went to a conference in Malta years ago & there was quite a bit of stuff referring to St Paul's shipwreck, including a bay named after him (in both English & Maltese). BTW, Maltese is interesting --- it's an Arabic language with a lot of Italian vocabulary, somewhat similar to the way English is a Germanic language with a lot of French vocabulary. -- Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol? ---General Ripper