[Cialug] Middle "West" not "East"

[albus]

Maybe it's a secret hide out location for Al-Qaeda.  And the Arabic script
is the password to enter. LOL

 

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Tim Wilson
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 12:00 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Middle "West" not "East"

 

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.

 

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.  

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Morris Dovey <mrdovey at iedu.com> wrote:

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
<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=0.02
3538,0.055661&z=15>
&num=1&sll=40.842872,-93.212128&sspn=0.024414,0.055747&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.8
42872,-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?)

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