As usual the overwhelming majority of viewers are from the United States. Nearly 14,000 page views to date.
French viewers have long been with us, but very recently they are second to the US.
Next highest number of viewers come from Russia.
Fourth among high level of viewers is Ireland.
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Saturday, June 16, 2012
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.
The Best Posts
Others probably haven't found the best post. Posts others are finding the most interesting include:
Right Now:
"Here Now Today"
Most recent 24 hours:
"More Mound Builder Notes"
"Hopewell People Continued"
"Robert Reich: Investing in America"
Most recent 7 days:
"Zorro" hope they didn't feel cheated
"Around the Place"
"More of History"
Most recent 30 days:
"Tohono O'odham"
"Lenga d'oc"
"Medicinenet"
"Nude"
I don't know why, but the following are among the all time popular posts:
"Direct Line Genealogy"
"1912 Lawrence Textile Strike"
"Populist Texan"
Right Now:
"Here Now Today"
Most recent 24 hours:
"More Mound Builder Notes"
"Hopewell People Continued"
"Robert Reich: Investing in America"
Most recent 7 days:
"Zorro" hope they didn't feel cheated
"Around the Place"
"More of History"
Most recent 30 days:
"Tohono O'odham"
"Lenga d'oc"
"Medicinenet"
"Nude"
I don't know why, but the following are among the all time popular posts:
"Direct Line Genealogy"
"1912 Lawrence Textile Strike"
"Populist Texan"
Friday, July 22, 2011
Lenga d'oc
Languages often define the culture, the people, the nation. Those who spoke, and speak today, the Occitan language I see as an open, liberal, generous, and free people. As such, they have had to be crushed with some regularity. The crushings may have made them a bit less open in recent centuries.
The language had little Germanic or Celtic influence, but was highly Romanized. What it was that was Romanized I don't know. I don't know if there was ever a significant Moorish influence. I am willing to be taught or informed by you. Discourse may take place in the 'comment' section below.
These days the southwest of France may be the place to find the most speakers of Occitan. It is similar to Catalan. A Spaniard tends to be a sort of conservative. Still liberal tending Occitan speakers tend to be more than tolerant of them.
There is a very enjoyable novel by George W. Cronyn entitled The Fool of Venus. That novel can inform one a bit about the manner of the the people who spoke this language in the Middle Ages. They welcomed troubadours. It may be because of them that we know the word 'troubadour. Love Courts were held there. "Make love not war."
Occitan languages have long been spoken in Italy, Spain, and Monaco. In France you may have heard it called Provencal. I believe that the language may be traced back from pre-Roman to pre-historic times.
The land of Languedoc has known Burgundians, Cathars, and Albigensi and may have provide garden space in which Gnosticism could flower.
Now, tell me, what might all this have to do with limestone caves beneath the ruggedly beautiful plateaus, deep river canyons, and jagged ridges of the scenic Department of Aude where the commune Rennes-le-chateau is found?
The language had little Germanic or Celtic influence, but was highly Romanized. What it was that was Romanized I don't know. I don't know if there was ever a significant Moorish influence. I am willing to be taught or informed by you. Discourse may take place in the 'comment' section below.
These days the southwest of France may be the place to find the most speakers of Occitan. It is similar to Catalan. A Spaniard tends to be a sort of conservative. Still liberal tending Occitan speakers tend to be more than tolerant of them.
There is a very enjoyable novel by George W. Cronyn entitled The Fool of Venus. That novel can inform one a bit about the manner of the the people who spoke this language in the Middle Ages. They welcomed troubadours. It may be because of them that we know the word 'troubadour. Love Courts were held there. "Make love not war."
Occitan languages have long been spoken in Italy, Spain, and Monaco. In France you may have heard it called Provencal. I believe that the language may be traced back from pre-Roman to pre-historic times.
The land of Languedoc has known Burgundians, Cathars, and Albigensi and may have provide garden space in which Gnosticism could flower.
Now, tell me, what might all this have to do with limestone caves beneath the ruggedly beautiful plateaus, deep river canyons, and jagged ridges of the scenic Department of Aude where the commune Rennes-le-chateau is found?
Monday, March 7, 2011
Marianne
You might see her 'down by the seaside sifting sand.'
Marianne is a national emblem of France and an allegory of 'reason' and 'liberty.'
Reason, for many, including the French, is the faculty of discursive reason which defines our common humanity. It includes our speech, science, art, mathematics, philosophy, logos, and the rational.
Liberty, for many, including the French authors of the rights of man, is that condition which allows us to govern ourselves.
I take this opportunity to thank the French for lending us their Navy and know how to help us win our liberty. They went into deep debt to help us and then gave us the gift of the Statue of Liberty. Who has done more?
The Statue of Liberty could represent a very close relative of Marianne.
People of France, you have my enduring gratitude.
Understanding benefits from an occasional sifting.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Energy from the Tides
Electric energy from the tides and the waves to .......
Seems we could benefit from some of that.
There are people in France benefiting by harvesting the tides.
People in Korea are beginning to harvest energy from the tides in a large scale to their benefit.
Let's begin to benefit from sea energy now.
Seems we could benefit from some of that.
There are people in France benefiting by harvesting the tides.
People in Korea are beginning to harvest energy from the tides in a large scale to their benefit.
Let's begin to benefit from sea energy now.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
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.
Monday, December 13, 2010
TV: Persons per Broadcast Station
Estimates, by country, of the number of broadcast stations divided into population. Work out the ratios. Before you make any big bets on my population figures or station count it would probably be wise to check my figures against original sources.
Russia has 7306 broadcast stations for a population of 142,000,000 people; that's about one station for each 20,000 people.
China has 5240 stations for 300,000,000 people; that's about one station for each 60,000 people.
The US has 2218 stations for 76,000,000 people; that's about a station for each 3,800 persons.
India has 1400 stations for about 200,000,000; that's a station for each 143,000.
Ukraine 674 stations for about 45,831,408 persons; about a station for each 70,000.
Turkey has 635 stations for 72,561,312 people or about 121,000 for each station.
France has 584 stations for a population of about 38,000,000 people or about 63,000 for each station.
By my rules it looks like so far in this bunch the US is winning and India is losing.
Romania has 575 stations for 21,466,174 people, or about 35,800 people per station.
South Africa has 556 stations for 1,400,000 people or about 2,510 persons per station.
Oh, oh! Looks like South Africa is winning.
Brazil has 384 stations and 17,000,000 people or about 44,550 persons for a station.
Singapore has 1 station and 5,076,700 population, or over 5 million persons per station.
Singapore loses!
Nepal has 1 station for its28,585,000 people.
Maybe Nepal isn't playing this game.
What does it all mean?
Russia has 7306 broadcast stations for a population of 142,000,000 people; that's about one station for each 20,000 people.
China has 5240 stations for 300,000,000 people; that's about one station for each 60,000 people.
The US has 2218 stations for 76,000,000 people; that's about a station for each 3,800 persons.
India has 1400 stations for about 200,000,000; that's a station for each 143,000.
Ukraine 674 stations for about 45,831,408 persons; about a station for each 70,000.
Turkey has 635 stations for 72,561,312 people or about 121,000 for each station.
France has 584 stations for a population of about 38,000,000 people or about 63,000 for each station.
By my rules it looks like so far in this bunch the US is winning and India is losing.
Romania has 575 stations for 21,466,174 people, or about 35,800 people per station.
South Africa has 556 stations for 1,400,000 people or about 2,510 persons per station.
Oh, oh! Looks like South Africa is winning.
Brazil has 384 stations and 17,000,000 people or about 44,550 persons for a station.
Singapore has 1 station and 5,076,700 population, or over 5 million persons per station.
Singapore loses!
Nepal has 1 station for its28,585,000 people.
Maybe Nepal isn't playing this game.
What does it all mean?
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