There was a PR flak from the shopping centre concerned on BBC Radio 4 yesterday saying that this "tree" had had to be replaced with a real tree due the fake one having been vandalized :)

"Hulu, which I understand is not available to the whole world"

According to Hulu, the only part of the world where it is visible is the US. So yes, the whole world can't see it, apart from the US. Sucks.

And there I was thinking this post was to be about American neo-colonialism :P

A settlement by the name of Byzantium - later co-opted as the name of the eastern part of the Roman empire.

Further proof that it is possible to be a trigger happy anti-religious idiot :¬)

[Plenty of evidence elsewhere regarding religious idiots.]

This is the earliest complete compendium of the books that make up what might be called a Bible (modulo the differences noted in the original article). There are much earlier texts available for the constituent books. Those other earlier texts as well as the texts making up this codex are used by Biblical scholars to work towards the original text.