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500 Years of Virgin Mary Sightings in One Map. PUBLISHED November 13, 2015 From a village in Rwanda to a rock cave in France, sightings of the Virgin Mary have been reported across the globe since A.D. 40.

500 Years of Virgin Mary Sightings in One Map

Since 1531, the Roman Catholic Church has investigated these reports and offered approval to multiple sites where bishops believe miracles occurred, such as Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City and Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Paris. MiracleHunter.com keeps a catalog of sightings. The map below shows where the sightings have been reported, and how they've been classified by the church.

You can read about how the Virgin Mary has become the world's most powerful woman in our latest magazine cover story, and see how obsession with Mary can be taken to extremes on Explorer: The Cult of Mary, which premieres Sunday, December 13, at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. Ted Cruz as Beowulf: Matching Candidates With the Books They Sound Like. Donald Trump falls somewhere between “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

Ted Cruz as Beowulf: Matching Candidates With the Books They Sound Like

Ben Carson resembles A.W. Tozer’s “The Pursuit of God.” Marco Rubio has a lot in common with “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” while Jeb Bush is a little simpler and sunnier — closer to “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” Marie Kondo’s tribute to decluttering. These comparisons aren’t about the candidates’ policy platforms. Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary. The Largest Vocabulary In Hip Hop Rappers, ranked by the number of unique words used in their lyrics By Matt Daniels Updated on January 21, 2019 with 75 new rappers including Brockhampton, Death Grips, Lil Uzi Vert, Travis Scott, and Migos This project was originally published in 2014 and recently updated in January 2019 with newer lyrics data and 75 additional artists, including Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, Migos, and 21 Savage.

Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary

It compares the number of unique words used by some of the most famous artists in hip hop (that is, an example of a quantitive view of lyricism, once proposed by Tahir Hemphill). 35,000 words covers 3 to 5 studio albums and EPs. Since the original release, there’s now a notable trend of fewer unique words among newer artists. . # of Unique Words Used Within Artist’s First 35,000 lyrics by era1 1980s| 1990s| 2000s| 2010s A Boogie wit...

Lil Uzi Vert YoungBoy Nev... 21 Savage Kid Ink Kodak Black Lil Baby Lil Durk Lil Yachty Migos Wiz Khalifa Bone Thugs-n... Juvenile Master P Salt-n-Pepa Eve BoB. Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. immigration. Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S.

Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. immigration

Immigration Nature has its own ways of organizing information: organisms grow and register information from the environment. This is particularly notable in trees, which, through their rings, tell the story of their growth. Drawing on this phenomenon as a visual metaphor, the United States can be envisioned as a tree, with shapes and growing patterns influenced by immigration. A tree for U.S. immigration Tree rings showing immigration for 1830-2016. Each dot corresponds to 100 immigrants. Cells grow more in specific directions depending on the geographic origin of the immigrants. A cell represents a specific number of immigrants who arrived in a given decade.

Close-up on the dashes that represent the simulated cells. The historical formation process of this tree can be observed in an animated way. Animation. Josh Begley. Wind Map. An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future.

Wind Map

This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US. The wind map is a personal art project, not associated with any company. We've done our best to make this as accurate as possible, but can't make any guarantees about the correctness of the data or our software. Please do not use the map or its data to fly a plane, sail a boat, or fight wildfires :-) If the map is missing or seems slow, we recommend the latest Chrome browser. Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. If you're looking for a weather map, or just want more detail on the weather today, see these more traditional maps of temperature and wind. Mta.me - Alexander Chen. At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.

Mta.me - Alexander Chen

Using the MTA's actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli's 1972 diagram. (More info at this blog post.) How to visualize periodicity ? / Pierre Ripoll. Printing money at the speed of various wages. Printing money at the speed of various wages February 13, 2020 Topic Infographics / animation, money, Neal Agarwal Neal Agarwal used a money printing metaphor to depict differences in various wages.

Printing money at the speed of various wages