Yesterday, I was translating a portion of the book talking about the basis of Halakha (Jewish religious law). The story told was about how one year, the eve of "Paque" fell on the Sabbath, and so they had to figure out whether "Paque" took precedence over the Sabbath.
Today, after a good night's sleep, I realized that I translated "Paque" as Easter instead of Passover. Which doesn't sound like a big deal, really until you realize that Jews definitely don't celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Sometimes you forget that Easter wasn't originally a day for celebrating bunnies and going on Easter egg hunts.
Little fact about eggs: The largest chicken egg was over 12 inches around the long axis, and 9 around the short. That poor chicken. There are some other interesting facts about chickens on this page. Here is a particularly funny chicken story:
[UPI, Cairo, Egypt, 31 Aug. 1995] - Six people drowned Monday while trying to rescue a chicken that had fallen into a well in southern Egypt. An 18 year old farmer was the first to descend into the 60-foot well. He drowned, apparently after an undercurrent in the water pulled him down, police said. His sister and two brothers, none of whom could swim well, went in one by one to help him, but also drowned. Two elderly farmers then came to help, but they apparently were pulled by the same undercurrent. The bodies of the six were later pulled out of the well in the village of Nazlat Imara, 240 miles south of Cairo. The chicken was also pulled out. It survived.
I think the article forgot to mention that the chicken laid gold eggs.
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