Still, it's odd that Google put an Arabic title on *that* Bethlehem but not on Bethlehem, PA. And that's a much bigger town, you'd think Google would want that town to have other languages.<div><br></div><div>
If you go to street view, and go exactly to that spot, there appears to be a church on the south side of the road. Perhaps it is a church of a middle-eastern religion? It looks pretty Christian, but I guess someone could have bought it and converted it. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Morris Dovey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrdovey@iedu.com">mrdovey@iedu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 5/17/2010 9:15 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:<br>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Todd Walton<<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Just to the left of the "A" marker on this map:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.841152,-93.209081&num=1&sll=40.842872,-93.212128&sspn=0.024414,0.055747&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.842872,-93.212128&spn=0.023538,0.055661&z=15" target="_blank">http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.841152,-93.209081&num=1&sll=40.842872,-93.212128&sspn=0.024414,0.055747&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.842872,-93.212128&spn=0.023538,0.055661&z=15</a><br>
>><br>
>> there's what looks like Arabic script. Funny.<br>
><br>
> It's hard to tell because the script is so small, but it's likely that<br>
> it's Arabic for "Bethlehem"<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem</a><br>
><br>
> According to some of the other maps I looked at there's a small<br>
> unincorporated town named Bethelhem/Bethlehem located there.<br>
<br>
</div>Good eyes! Interestingly, Google maps knows the location by both<br>
spellings. A mile or so to the south of that spot is Bethlehem Cemetery,<br>
so I'd bet on "Bethlehem".<br>
<br>
The Arabic /is/ surprising. (Isn't technology wonderful?)<br>
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