Blurred Out: 51 Things You Aren’t Allowed to See on Google Maps

Depending on which feature you use, Google Maps offers a satellite view or a street-level view of tons of locations around the world. You can look up landmarks like the Pyramids of Egypt or the Great Wall of China, as well as more personal places, like your ex’s house. But for all of the places that Google Maps allows you to see, there are plenty of places that are off-limits. Whether it’s due to government restrictions, personal-privacy lawsuits or mistakes, Google Maps has slapped a “Prohibited” sign on the following 51 places.

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Dueling deacons: Baptists vie for Alabama seat in U.S. House

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Sometimes it’s hard to find much brotherly love on the campaign trail, particularly in a hard-fought, high-profile race for an open seat in the U.S. House.

But that’s exactly what the pastor of Montgomery’s First Baptist Church, the Rev. Jay Wolf, hopes he sees in abundance as two of his church’s deacons campaign for the right to represent Alabama’s 2nd District in Congress.

Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright, the Democratic Party nominee, and state Rep. Jay Love of Mont gomery, the GOP nominee, are running for the south east Alabama seat held by retiring U.S. Rep. Terry Everett.

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Michelle Obama Has a Rabbi in Her Family

 

While Barack Obama has struggled to capture the Jewish vote, it turns out that one of his wife’s cousins is the country’s most prominent black rabbi — a fact that has gone largely unnoticed.

Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic presidential nominee, and Rabbi Capers Funnye, spiritual leader of a mostly black synagogue on Chicago’s South Side, are first cousins once removed. Funnye’s mother, Verdelle Robinson Funnye (born Verdelle Robinson) and Michelle Obama’s paternal grandfather, Frasier Robinson Jr., were brother and sister.

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I never really understood that whole “once removed” stuff, so I did a little research and found the following should you have the same confusion as I do.  Link

When the word “removed” is used to describe a relationship, it indicates that the two people are from different generations. You and your first cousins are in the same generation (two generations younger than your grandparents), so the word “removed” is not used to describe your relationship.

 

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