History, written by the (Mc)Victors

 

For some reason, I recently started for the first time really appreciating history. Until now, but mostly long ago, History had been yet another class where I had to pretend I was learning things.

Recently I found myself walking through a nearby town, really trying to picture people 100-200 years ago walking the very same streets I now was, all of them caught up in their lives and the lives of their friends and family, trying to make a living, maybe making plans for an upcoming holiday. All the same things people have been doing on those same streets right up through today.

Maybe it isn’t a coincidence that I am appreciating history so much more now, considering I've been around for so much of it. After all, it recently hit me that I’ve been around for more than a quarter of this country’s existence.

 

Was it something I said?

So...a few months ago, I posted this list showing the locations of where the most people viewing this blog live. The leader by far was Sweden. 

Well, apparently I may have done something to upset my Swedish reading contingent. Maybe it was the crack about their meatballs. (Maybe that's their version of sportswriters and sports commentators in this country unable to reference Philadelphia without mentioning a certain misunderstood event involving snowballs and Santa Claus...OVER 60 YEARS AGO!)

Anyway, where was I...oh yeah, so where about 1/3 of the readers back then were located in Sweden, well, now there aren't any! But they sure are loving me in Singapore!

(And to be clear, I don't actually believe a single person in any of those top three countries - Singapore, Hong Kong or Brazil have ever been here...or any of the others either outside of the USA. I figure it's all bot-searching-type non-persona. But PLEASE, again - if you are outside the country and see this, please leave me a comment. I'd love to be in touch.)

Singapore

439

Hong Kong

205

Brazil

49

United States

16

United Kingdom

3

Russia

3

Indonesia

2

Poland

2

Romania

2

Argentina

1

Bangladesh

1

Switzerland

1

China

1

Colombia

1

Egypt

1

France

1

Iraq

1

South Korea

1

Morocco

1

Other

16