I don't get why more people aren't Muslims... They believe in Jesus - they know he was a prophet. I don't think anyone really believes he was a human god anyway...
Did you know that the shape of the heart we see on Valentine's day comes from the shape of the siphium seed, a primitive birth control that worked 100% of the time.
It was really popular with the Romans - but they used it so much that it went extinct.
If the universe is always expanding, and this is the farthest star that we know about, and that in itself took 13 billion years to reach us - we know that the universe has to be a least 13 billion light years wide - but what is actually the size of the universe now, 13 billion years later?
The Arabs have been known to do this since ancient times - it's called ??? ??? (bint 'amee) which means "the daughter of my uncle"
Back in the day, when the Arabs primarily lived in familial tribes in the desert - patriarchs would try to marry their sons to the daughters of their brothers. In doing this, they would expand their own tribe and prevent other tribes from taking away their women.
This has been adopted into the culture and it's not uncommon or taboo for Arabs to marry their first cousins.
It was really popular with the Romans - but they used it so much that it went extinct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium
Back in the day, when the Arabs primarily lived in familial tribes in the desert - patriarchs would try to marry their sons to the daughters of their brothers. In doing this, they would expand their own tribe and prevent other tribes from taking away their women.
This has been adopted into the culture and it's not uncommon or taboo for Arabs to marry their first cousins.
This is a very cool picture - very neat.
I'm pretty sure that's money in there