Talk:Bsharri
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[edit] Milky white?
"The name is biblical, meaning ‘milky white’, and refers to the snow-covered cedars of the Lebanon Mountains." I can't seem to find any justification for this unsourced comment, at least not from anywhere that's not a mirror of the Wikipedia site. From what feeble research I can do, it seems that "ﺑﺸﺮﻱ" actually means something closer to "philanthropic". Can anyone else either confirm or refute this with a good source? Keldan 06:57, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
- After further research, it appears this comment is in reference not to the name Bsharri, but to Lebanon, which comes from the Aramaic word for "white". Since it is mentioned already in both the Lebanon and Mount Lebanon articles, I've removed the sentence from this article. Keldan 20:48, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Date of Maronite village
On an unrelated topic, the page on Gibran Khalil Gibran suggests - to my considerable suprise when I saw it - that Bcharre only became a Maronite village in the second half of the C19. Can anyone provide any source to this effect or to the contrary? Palmiro | Talk 17:59, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bsharri-Sannine Zenith-Olympics?
Bsharri is a possible candidate city for the 2018 Winter Olympics. The Lebanese government is currently debating whether to spend the $1.2 billion from the Sannine Zenith project to build an Olympic Stadium in Bsharri, or in Beirut for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Whoever posted the above is absolutely uniformed and didnt even bother to contact the management of Sannine Zenith Lebanon project to verify the information. Spending the money from the Project to build a stadium in Bsharri???????????? Is this for real?
For more information about the project kindly visit www.sanninezenith.com
