Walking Dead and Morton Salt

"The Walking Dead Finale was Brutal, Shocking and Heartbreaking," says i09. Agreed for the most part; not sure about "heartbreaking." You have to feel bad for the gang; things would have worked out better, you suspect, if they weren't in a TV show that needed a season finale. Comment that may be a spoiler at the absolute end of this piece, below the video. So you've been warned.

MPLS From the Strib archives, an old view of a bygone Minneapolis corner. Can you identify it? Don't worry. It's an obscure and forgotten building.

Can you find it in this picture?

Lower left-hand side. The building was the National, which was torn down for the two-tower skyscraper first known as the Pillsbury Building. Note the absence of electronics on top of the Northwestern Bell building, and the utter filth begriming City Hall. Now let's look at the billboards:

The great age of conspicuous whiskey ads. Kentucky Tavern. Still made. Can you identify the other ads? Computer, enhance!

Both brands are still around, too. Now, in the background:

A national brand: this ran in Life magazine, at the peak of the company's popularity:

Speaking of ancient civilizations: Here are 10 that history forgot. The Zapotec structure is particularly surprising: huge and intact. Then there's this: "Europe's biggest prehistoric civilization, the Vinca, existed for nearly 1,500 years. Beginning in the 55th century B.C., they occupied land throughout Serbia and Romania."

55th century BC. There's bygones, and there's bygones.

In more recent history: technological advances in uncovering Roman graffiti.

Don't miss the Latin-based pedantry in the comments; smart and amusing.

In related news: "Assyrian stele containing ancient curse will not be reunited with its other half." Not until Ghostbusters 3, anyway. Which isn't going to happen. Anyway, here's the curse:

It's amazing we know these things, really. It makes you marvel at the amount of likewise information we'll never know.

HMM Redditor spotted a map of Minnesota on the map of Minnesota. The Google one, that is:

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Votd Tired of car dashcams? Let's look at a Tramcam.

Now, for no reason, Weird Al has a problem with his hotel door chain.

1. Terminus is creepy because it has things written on the wall in a room full of candles. It seemed like a lot of candles, no? At some point I think the point's been made, and it seems like quite a lot of work. Maybe they all do it together and sing a song. If you're creepy and you know it light a match!

2. It takes a steely, determined leader to find himself stripped of weapons, heavily outnumbered, chased by sniper fire and locked in a hot train car to say "they're screwing with the wrong people." Or one who's completely delusional. At least we have a new bad guy who, we can be assured, will be gutted and brain-spiked at some point in season 5.