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Informative (but barely an actual map)

This is a map of existing, former, and future casino sites on the Las Vegas Strip. This map is partially, but not exactly, to scale.

There have been depictions of Mohammed in every era throughout history. Here are a few from periods not covered in other categories:

BYOL.
(via PoeTV)

Silent film footage taken in 1909 by Thomas Edison at Stormfield (CT) at Mark Twain’s estate. Twain is shown walkng around his home and playing cards with his daughters Clara and Jean. The flickering is due to film deterioration, but this is the only known footage of the great author.

(via Grow a Brain)

(via Arbroath)

Model of Ancient Rome.

From Japundit:

Though they do not have the right to vote in American elections, the residents the
city of Obama, Japan are cheering on their namesake, U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, in the primary elections underway in the United States.

One of the foundation stones of our faith is the Old Testament. If that book is not true, if its authors were unaided men, if it contains blunders and falsehoods, then that stone crumbles to dust.

The geologists demonstrated that the author of Genesis was mistaken as to the age of the world, and that the story of the universe having been created in six days, about six thousand years ago could not be true.

The theologians then took the ground that the “days” spoken of in Genesis were periods of time, epochs, six “long whiles,” and that the work of creation might have been commenced millions of years ago.

The change of days into epochs was considered by the believers of the Bible as a great triumph over the hosts of infidelity. The fact that Jehovah had ordered the Jews to keep the Sabbath, giving as a reason that he had made the world in six days and rested on the seventh, did not interfere with the acceptance of the “epoch” theory.

Robert Green Ingersoll – “The Foundation of Faith”(1895)