It looks like Jim put the donation meter at the top of the page,
It basically means "house of God". Bethlehem for example means "house of bread"
It is easy to look this shit up.
and how did his nose become narrow
and how did his eyebrow ridge become smaller
and how did his eyes move closer together apart.
Yeah you can see the picture on the right has gauged ears and the guy in the center has an earlobe that was gauged. The bumps on the outer ear is called Darwin's tubercle; 10% of people have this; they are not an uncommon ear feature.
The only reasonable thing would be that the Military probably wants it for pilots. Outside of this only evil things exist.