Star System is represented, to correct scale no less, by the Little West Crater at the Apollo 11 landing site. No plaque exists there. Yet.

Fortunately, in such a scaled-down universe, the speed of light is only 6.8 miles per hour, a brisk jog.

* This model replaced a model that was inaugurated in 1992, centered at Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences. The museum moved in 2012 to the Peoria Riverfront Museum, and a new larger model was created. In 1992 it was the largest such model in the world, in the Guinness Book of Records from 1993 – 1998, at which point Guinness dropped the category. Since then, two larger models have been created, in Maine and Stockholm. Sweden’s model is 1:20,000,000 although it’s now missing both modelstrying to paint a picture of quasi-medieval history, the facts are merciless; medieval names are anything but original, and the fancy Roman numerals are there for a good reason, as there are dozens of reigning Edwards, Johns and Philips throughout numerous dynasties. The narrow naming patterns weren’t specific to the nobility, either – the firstborn son often received the name of his father as his first – or, in Scandinavian cultures, last name.

The reason for this hasn’t changed since the biblical times – parents want their children to have a good name, and the concept of a good name was to simply repeat a name that has been used in the family before. There’s a scene in the Bible when Zahariah’s relatives and neighbours argue against naming his