Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 75 (December 2014)

Hurrah! Q Treasure Maps have reached a 3/4 Century!

I know a number of the people involved in making this doc on Jesus’ claims to be the Son of God – made in Turkey for those from that part of the world. Looks great!
The Pope draws in Tom Wright, Rick Warren, Michael Nazir-Ali and others to the discussion about family. Unprecedented?
In particular, here is fmr UK Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks’ remarkable speech in full.
Ros Clarke is an old friend who recently completed a PhD on the interpretation of the Song of Songs – she’s set up a great website to offer the fruit of all her labours more widely.

Well this is actually quite cool: a solar-powered audio bible and mp3 player for people in the majority world.
Emma Scrivener has a good simple piece on perseverance.
The mysterious disappearance of a celebrity preacher in 1926… had no idea about Aimee McPherson

Hafez: The book in every Iranian home (interesting BBC FOOC piece)
The mendacity of memes: Isabel Hartman exposes those parliament memes
An interesting post by the US Ambassador to the UK about the poppy field at the Tower
Flickr Album from the Rosetta comet landing project.
Berlin’s way of marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was stunning:

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Some of the WW1 Battlefields 100 years on (see right – Newfoundland Memorial Park, in Beaumont Hamel)
Six unexpected WW1 Battlefields
The drone-film of the Poppies around the Tower of London is very moving indeed:

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Just been sent info about this – looks like lots of great stuff coming here: How to start blogging
The Leonardo portrait hidden from Hitler in case it gave him secret powers
I love these:COSMIGRAPHICS – picturing the universe over the centuries
UK National Air Traffic Control produces another great time-lapse of Britain’s skies:

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10 ways Introverts interact with the world
The Boss’s favourite reading: great list of influential
What are the odds of this happening? A bird lands on its own page in the bird book (HT Twisted Sifter)

List of 50 best spy movies – some brilliant here, some not so… XX Committee is pretty dismissive – but names 5 real classics
Transparent Home: not sure I could cope with living in this house, but it is inspiring architecture nevertheless.
On the anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, John Naughton linked to this brilliant Powerpoint version to show the horror that is an inept presentation
Totally with John Oliver here – gives me real hope for humanity… just superb.

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