[Cialug] Middle "West" not "East"

[Morris Dovey]

On 5/17/2010 9:15 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Todd Walton<tdwalton at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Just to the left of the "A" marker on this map:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> there's what looks like Arabic script.  Funny.
>
> It's hard to tell because the script is so small, but it's likely that
> it's Arabic for "Bethlehem"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem
>
> According to some of the other maps I looked at there's a small
> unincorporated town named Bethelhem/Bethlehem located there.

Good eyes! Interestingly, Google maps knows the location by both 
spellings. A mile or so to the south of that spot is Bethlehem Cemetery, 
so I'd bet on "Bethlehem".

The Arabic /is/ surprising. (Isn't technology wonderful?)