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September 27

“His wife is his home” / “his home is his wife”

I understand that somewhere in the writings of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, he uses one of the above aphorisms. Not those precise words maybe. Can anyone help point me to it? Thanks -- 79.79.38.18

I don't know but I wouldn't call that a aphorism. An aphorism would be a general truth such as "If your wife is your home, make sure your service contracts and insurance are kept up to date."--Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:24, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Searching his works is proving hard because these are such common words (and so much is written in Fraktur!). Since we’ve not had luck here, you might try the German wiki reference desk Wikipedia:Auskunft. 70.67.193.176 (talk) 16:17, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ambiguities in current IATA codes

According to many sources (example), SSX is the IATA code of Samun Samair Airport - apparently inactive and not the same as Samsun-Çarşamba Airport, which according to our article has the IATA code SZF, although other sources identify these two. Again other sources attribute SSX to Singita Safari Lodge Airport in South Africa. Which is correct? Where to these inconsistencies come from? Which sources are to be trusted, which not? --KnightMove (talk) 15:29, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen codes of the form XXX.OLD which is consistent with reuse but doesn't prove it. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 16:28, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a reason to prefer these other sources over IATA itself? The IATA lookup page airport.search=ssx returns Singita Safari Lodge. I find some notes online that IATA location codes are unique at any given time, but can be reused for different locations at different times: e.g. on github. Most likely SSX was the code for Samun Samair Airport when it was operating, and the same code was later assigned to Singita Safari Lodge. --Amble (talk) 16:47, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, this answers it. --KnightMove (talk) 02:43, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

An example of a recently reassigned code is IST. It used to be the IATA code for Istanbul Atatürk Airport, but was reassigned on 6 April 2019 to Istanbul Airport when all scheduled passenger flights were transferred to the new airport.^[1] --Lambiam 12:35, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See ICAO airport code. DOR (HK) (talk) 21:14, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I know them, but they are 4-letter-codes and not involved in this problem. --KnightMove (talk) 02:38, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Nimur: as our resident ref-desk pilot, would you have any insight to offer on this question? Eliyohub (talk) 18:16, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Amble has already clarified it above. Of course I'm still happy to get further information from Nimur. --KnightMove (talk) 05:43, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a religion in the world that worship cows?

Is there a religion in the world that worships cows? (I've read that Hindu respect cows since they consider them holy Gods. On the other hand I've read they don't worship cows) --ThePupil (talk) 21:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See Cattle in religion and mythology. Alansplodge (talk) 21:23, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've heard that the holy burger is one of the "sacred cows" that's limiting moves to reduce the impact of climate change. "tee-hee" etc. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:31, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you're thinking of the Holy cow!. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:55, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Or of the Golden calf? (although Moses put an end to that worship pretty fast. Xuxl (talk) 15:13, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

For worship involving historical rather than contemporary practices and male rather than female bovines, see Sacred bull and especially Apis (deity). Deor (talk) 15:18, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pastafarianism features heavenly meatballs iirc. I don't know if that counts. 2601:648:8202:350:0:0:0:1598 (talk) 03:09, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]