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2015-03-27 Southeast Asia

NPA leaves dead comrade behind in Compostela

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Posted by ryuge 2015-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Composting in Compostela?

Posted by Pappy 2015-03-27 12:57|| 2015-03-27 12:57|| Front Page Top

#2 *groan* That was dreadful, Pappy -- to your room, sirrah!

Posted by trailing wife 2015-03-27 13:17|| 2015-03-27 13:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Santiago de Compostela (also Saint James of Compostela) is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia. The city's Cathedral is the destination today, as it has been throughout history, of the important 9th century medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James (Galician: Camiño de Santiago, Spanish: Camino de Santiago). Folk etymology for the name "Compostela" is that it comes from the Latin "Campus Stellae" (i.e. Stars Field), but it is unlikely such a phonetic evolution takes account of normal evolution from Latin to Galician-Portuguese. A more probable etymology relates the word with Latin "compositum", and local Vulgar Latin "Composita Tella", meaning "burial ground" as a euphemism.

Awkchewlee, twood seem Pappy might be on firm ground in his humus humorousness.

Posted by Anice Nim 2015-03-27 15:34|| 2015-03-27 15:34|| Front Page Top

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