I don't know anyone who knows how to describe this blog. One friend asked me why people read it. I answered that I didn't know. I added that I didn't know, exactly, why I wrote it.
We average only about 1500 readers a month, but it seems a large portion of them keep coming back. Most of them are from the U.S., but there is a high quality bunch from Canada.
More than half of our repeat readers come from outside of the U.S. I am surprised and grateful. I can only guess at the number of actual return readers.
I guess that the following countries have had recent return viewers*. I thank the return viewers from the following countries today:
Denmark
Germany
Malaysia
Russia
Netherlands
France
Argentina
Poland
China
U.K.
Now China and the United Kingdom may have only one or two recent return readers, but I love that they keep coming back.
I welcome all my readers!
* I tend to say 'viewers' rather than 'readers' because I am not sure who can read. I'd feel more certain that they were readers if they took time to leave a word of comment.
You can check to see if there are already some comments by clicking on 'comments' just below.
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Blog Statistics and Popular Posts
Average post views per month are about 1200
Post views last month were ........... 1532
Average post views per day are about . 40
Post views yesterday ................. 80
The greatest number of post views by far come from the United States.
The all time record for number of views from foreign countries come from:
Canada
South Korea
Denmark
and Malaysia
in that order
A significant number of views come from:
France
Netherlands
and India
Many views also come from:
Russia
Argentina
Colombia
China
and Germany
Posts that have recently been popular include:
~ posts referring to 'Mound Builders' and Native Americans
~ "Americans"
~ "Populist Texans" and other 'political' posts
~ "Lenga d'oc" and other world history posts
~ 'You Tube' referrals
~ "Zorro"
~ Desert related posts
~ "I Ain't Dead Yet"
~ Science related posts
~ "Demand"
Post views last month were ........... 1532
Average post views per day are about . 40
Post views yesterday ................. 80
The greatest number of post views by far come from the United States.
The all time record for number of views from foreign countries come from:
Canada
South Korea
Denmark
and Malaysia
in that order
A significant number of views come from:
France
Netherlands
and India
Many views also come from:
Russia
Argentina
Colombia
China
and Germany
Posts that have recently been popular include:
~ posts referring to 'Mound Builders' and Native Americans
~ "Americans"
~ "Populist Texans" and other 'political' posts
~ "Lenga d'oc" and other world history posts
~ 'You Tube' referrals
~ "Zorro"
~ Desert related posts
~ "I Ain't Dead Yet"
~ Science related posts
~ "Demand"
Monday, August 1, 2011
Readers of These Posts
The overwhelming number of readers of these posts are in the United States.
However, they are getting views these days from 14 other countries and occasional views from twice that many.
It is not surprising that most foreign views come from our great neighbor to the north, Canada. Thank you Canada.
I am grateful to all the people who view What Then? After Canada the most views are coming from Estonia, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
Denmark and Malaysia provide the next greatest number of reads.
Germany and India have provided loyal readers.
Viewers from France, the United Arab Republic, Austria, South Korea, Russia, and Hungary keep coming back.
Thank you. Keep coming back. Leave me a comment now and then, even if you are from a clipping service.
However, they are getting views these days from 14 other countries and occasional views from twice that many.
It is not surprising that most foreign views come from our great neighbor to the north, Canada. Thank you Canada.
I am grateful to all the people who view What Then? After Canada the most views are coming from Estonia, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
Denmark and Malaysia provide the next greatest number of reads.
Germany and India have provided loyal readers.
Viewers from France, the United Arab Republic, Austria, South Korea, Russia, and Hungary keep coming back.
Thank you. Keep coming back. Leave me a comment now and then, even if you are from a clipping service.
Monday, July 25, 2011
The Federal Republic of Germany
Could the mother of the Father Land be Prussia? Were Ancestors to 'Mother Prussia' on the Baltic Sea before Slav or Celt saw that sea? If Prussia was mother to Germany, could the father have been the Holy Roman Empire? I need these family affairs explained to me.
What do I think I know about Germans? They:
~ sometimes read my posts;
~ politically many support a Green Party platform;
~ celebrate their culture;
~ are interested in business, like designing and selling BMWs;
~ usually think Austrians are just fine;
~ are considered hard and able workers; they may have invented the protestant work ethic; for that matter, they may have invented Protestantism;
~ contributed much of the blood, genes, education, and science that lead to the development of the United States;
~ nurtured some of the most brilliant and productive Jews of the last couple of centuries. There is more to that story;
~ have one of the world's greatest educational systems and want to make it better;
~ take care of each other better than Americans do;
~ are interested in science and engineering, and have a love of the life sciences;
~ are learning to deal with immigrants and refuges;
~ are interested in classical music and the performing arts, including dance and film;
~ like elbowroom as much as Nordic peoples;
~ describe their government as a federal parliamentary republic, among other ways;
~ have the largest economy in the European Union;
~ gave us kindergarten;
~ are the source of Saxons, Franks, Frisians, Alimani, and Thuingii;
~ have had recent international relations interests in the European Union and the U.N. as well as in China, France, U.S., Greece, and Iran;
~ are often more citizens of the world then is the average American;
~ can drink beer, play soccer, and enjoy pop music.
What do I think I know about Germans? They:
~ sometimes read my posts;
~ politically many support a Green Party platform;
~ celebrate their culture;
~ are interested in business, like designing and selling BMWs;
~ usually think Austrians are just fine;
~ are considered hard and able workers; they may have invented the protestant work ethic; for that matter, they may have invented Protestantism;
~ contributed much of the blood, genes, education, and science that lead to the development of the United States;
~ nurtured some of the most brilliant and productive Jews of the last couple of centuries. There is more to that story;
~ have one of the world's greatest educational systems and want to make it better;
~ take care of each other better than Americans do;
~ are interested in science and engineering, and have a love of the life sciences;
~ are learning to deal with immigrants and refuges;
~ are interested in classical music and the performing arts, including dance and film;
~ like elbowroom as much as Nordic peoples;
~ describe their government as a federal parliamentary republic, among other ways;
~ have the largest economy in the European Union;
~ gave us kindergarten;
~ are the source of Saxons, Franks, Frisians, Alimani, and Thuingii;
~ have had recent international relations interests in the European Union and the U.N. as well as in China, France, U.S., Greece, and Iran;
~ are often more citizens of the world then is the average American;
~ can drink beer, play soccer, and enjoy pop music.
Monday, April 11, 2011
More Notes on Prussia
Kashubians(Cassubians)are Lechtic language speakers who live on the Baltic coast between the Vistula and Oder rivers. The Cassubian language was spoken in Pomeranian. Pomeranian is a Lechtic language which is a west Slavic language that has been called Old Prussian. If I understood it better I could write it more clearly.
People in the Pomeranian are became Christian during the High Middle Ages. They were ruled by the house of Pomerania(Griffins) and the Samborides. Denmark, Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, and, to a somewhat lesser degree, Sweden, were early political neighbors of these Pomeranian Prussians.
The House of Pomeranian(Greifen, Griffins) may have been Polish. Casmir or Kasimir II probably reigned in Pomerania in 1194 AD. Casmir was the son of Bogislaw, a Pole from close to the boarder with Germany. He was probably directly to Wartislaw I, who was the first historical ruler of Pomerania and founder of the Griffin dynasty. Wartislaw was born about 1140.
Jablon has been claimed by Poland and Germany, but is Prussian.
People in the Pomeranian are became Christian during the High Middle Ages. They were ruled by the house of Pomerania(Griffins) and the Samborides. Denmark, Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, and, to a somewhat lesser degree, Sweden, were early political neighbors of these Pomeranian Prussians.
The House of Pomeranian(Greifen, Griffins) may have been Polish. Casmir or Kasimir II probably reigned in Pomerania in 1194 AD. Casmir was the son of Bogislaw, a Pole from close to the boarder with Germany. He was probably directly to Wartislaw I, who was the first historical ruler of Pomerania and founder of the Griffin dynasty. Wartislaw was born about 1140.
Jablon has been claimed by Poland and Germany, but is Prussian.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten
International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten
Fairly conservative English language news from Germany.
..... and it is interesting NEWS.
A Kind of West Balt
I am curious about the Prussians and Prussia.
I'll begin to write out things that I think about those people and that place below. Please feel free to enlighten me where I am wrong or to comment as you will.
I think that they might be like Estonians or Latvians, but with a very different recent history.
Not very long ago Prussia disappeared, with the help of Russia, into the lands of Poland and Germany. "Prussia" may sound like Russia, but the two have not seemed to have gotten on well. Some say that Prussians are a kind of Pole or a kind of German. Some say that the German State began in Prussia. That may be true, and many Prussians have spoken Polish and German; however, right now I believe that a Prussian is neither a Pole nor German.
What do you think?
Thursday, December 16, 2010
"Police Action"
I remember it being called a 'police action' because many of us still thought that, if the people had not declared the war through their representatives, the war was illegal. We did not call people in power criminals. My memory is not perfect and I may not have all this just right.
The winners of WWII, Russia and the US, divided Korea between us. Russian forces occupied the northern part and US forces the southern. I don't remember anyone consulting the Koreans. Powerful people in the US, fearful of the power of our ally, began calling parts of the world communist or non-communist. They told us that the norther part of Korea was bad, communist.
The Russians seemed to have had less interest in Korea than we did. They seemed more interested in consolidating their power closer to home and were a bit neglectful of their duties of occupation. Most of us were pretty busy at home too, catching our breath and beginning to feel the peace. But, we were told, Chinese were bad, communist, too.
Some Koreans wanted to be whole again. They felt divided and conquered. They were not pleased to be occupied. But we had a good reputation. They knew that as democrats we valued the people and justice for the people. In June of 1950 armed Koreans from the north crossed into the south in a bid to unite their country. Americans knew about uniting; they knew about civil war too.
But it seemed that some people in the US were not sympathetic. The US, with the help of the UN, got 17 countries(I just checked)to help stop the Koreans from uniting. Most of the leaders of those 17 counties were please not to be dominated by Japan or Germany, felt some loyalty to the US, if not the cause. Americans were the good guys. However, they were pleased when the US leaders said that the could get US personal to do most of the bleeding; that US citizens would agreed to be taxed for the costs of a 'police action.'
We did good and moved our troops across the north right up to the Chinese border and seemed ready to cross it. The Chinese, remembering that we had been calling them bad, asked us to back off. We had just won the greatest war and were not ready to 'back off' for anyone. China was sill suffering from their part in the war and were broke, still had something to fight with, including a lot of willing Chinese. They backed us out of China, across the north and back into what has come to be called South Korea.
Not completely up-beat, but better than The Black Death.
Home work: Why didn't Russia stop us from going into the north? Why did we give we give up our war powers? How ready should we be to have our young bleed even if we have made them pros?
The winners of WWII, Russia and the US, divided Korea between us. Russian forces occupied the northern part and US forces the southern. I don't remember anyone consulting the Koreans. Powerful people in the US, fearful of the power of our ally, began calling parts of the world communist or non-communist. They told us that the norther part of Korea was bad, communist.
The Russians seemed to have had less interest in Korea than we did. They seemed more interested in consolidating their power closer to home and were a bit neglectful of their duties of occupation. Most of us were pretty busy at home too, catching our breath and beginning to feel the peace. But, we were told, Chinese were bad, communist, too.
Some Koreans wanted to be whole again. They felt divided and conquered. They were not pleased to be occupied. But we had a good reputation. They knew that as democrats we valued the people and justice for the people. In June of 1950 armed Koreans from the north crossed into the south in a bid to unite their country. Americans knew about uniting; they knew about civil war too.
But it seemed that some people in the US were not sympathetic. The US, with the help of the UN, got 17 countries(I just checked)to help stop the Koreans from uniting. Most of the leaders of those 17 counties were please not to be dominated by Japan or Germany, felt some loyalty to the US, if not the cause. Americans were the good guys. However, they were pleased when the US leaders said that the could get US personal to do most of the bleeding; that US citizens would agreed to be taxed for the costs of a 'police action.'
We did good and moved our troops across the north right up to the Chinese border and seemed ready to cross it. The Chinese, remembering that we had been calling them bad, asked us to back off. We had just won the greatest war and were not ready to 'back off' for anyone. China was sill suffering from their part in the war and were broke, still had something to fight with, including a lot of willing Chinese. They backed us out of China, across the north and back into what has come to be called South Korea.
Not completely up-beat, but better than The Black Death.
Home work: Why didn't Russia stop us from going into the north? Why did we give we give up our war powers? How ready should we be to have our young bleed even if we have made them pros?
The Bright Side of Life
I've planned to be more positive in these posts, but it seems that I have not begun just yet.
Someone mentioned 'flu season.' That got me to thinking about being lucky about not having been touched by the flu for years even though I had resisted inoculation. Thinking of luck got me to thinking of 'luck' 13. One thing led to another and I got to thinking of the 1300s.
The 1300s were not a particularly luck times for Europeans. Not that it was all bad then; Universities were being founded France, Italy, and Czechoslovakia: in Spain it was the height of Arabic civilization and Yusuf the first was Caliph of Granada; scholarship was flourishing I Catholic monasteries; St. Catherine was born in Siena. Chaucer was born around 1340, In 1321 Dante Finished The Divine Comedy
Still I imagine that the Poles did not feel lucky when the Teutonic Knights blocked their access to the Baltic Sea; nor did the Jews being persecuted in Germany. The French and the English were beginning the Hundred Year War. The citizens of the Crimean city of Koffa, I imagine, did not feel lucky as they watched warriors of a Mongol army catapult the bodies of warriors dead of the bubonic plague over their walls.
Plague.
The People of Europe and most of the world had see plague before and They would see it again. However, this one in the 1300s has been particularly memorable. It was called the Black Death and was thought to have begun in China or India between 1330 and 1333. By 1347 it had reached Cyprus. By bout 1350 it had killed about 50,000,000 Asians and 24,000,000 Europeans. People in India and China probably feel lucky either. The 25 million individuals who died in Europe between about 1347 and 1351,when the Black Death Swept Russia, may not seem dramatic by our standards, but it was half of them.
Then, early in the 1360s, it came back. It appeared in England in 1361.
The ruled classes acted disturbed by this. In 1358 they revolted in France; in 1381 in England.
Home work: Why did the describe it as the Black Death? Do you really want to know? Did you know that today wild rodents living near people are infected with the bubonic plague? Why do we call it bubonic? Is the Black Death waiting? Are you feeling lucky.
I plan to make an effort to reflect more of the bright side of life in my posts.
Someone mentioned 'flu season.' That got me to thinking about being lucky about not having been touched by the flu for years even though I had resisted inoculation. Thinking of luck got me to thinking of 'luck' 13. One thing led to another and I got to thinking of the 1300s.
The 1300s were not a particularly luck times for Europeans. Not that it was all bad then; Universities were being founded France, Italy, and Czechoslovakia: in Spain it was the height of Arabic civilization and Yusuf the first was Caliph of Granada; scholarship was flourishing I Catholic monasteries; St. Catherine was born in Siena. Chaucer was born around 1340, In 1321 Dante Finished The Divine Comedy
Still I imagine that the Poles did not feel lucky when the Teutonic Knights blocked their access to the Baltic Sea; nor did the Jews being persecuted in Germany. The French and the English were beginning the Hundred Year War. The citizens of the Crimean city of Koffa, I imagine, did not feel lucky as they watched warriors of a Mongol army catapult the bodies of warriors dead of the bubonic plague over their walls.
Plague.
The People of Europe and most of the world had see plague before and They would see it again. However, this one in the 1300s has been particularly memorable. It was called the Black Death and was thought to have begun in China or India between 1330 and 1333. By 1347 it had reached Cyprus. By bout 1350 it had killed about 50,000,000 Asians and 24,000,000 Europeans. People in India and China probably feel lucky either. The 25 million individuals who died in Europe between about 1347 and 1351,when the Black Death Swept Russia, may not seem dramatic by our standards, but it was half of them.
Then, early in the 1360s, it came back. It appeared in England in 1361.
The ruled classes acted disturbed by this. In 1358 they revolted in France; in 1381 in England.
Home work: Why did the describe it as the Black Death? Do you really want to know? Did you know that today wild rodents living near people are infected with the bubonic plague? Why do we call it bubonic? Is the Black Death waiting? Are you feeling lucky.
I plan to make an effort to reflect more of the bright side of life in my posts.
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