Sunday, 18 November, 2018

Living Coram Deo Readership

Posted on Tuesday, 8 September, 2015Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

On 3 June 2015, I upgraded an SEO software plugin to gather some traffic information on my blog. Here are some interesting statistics harvested for the 3 months to 31 August 2015. I am quite bowled-over by the numbers being a newbie at blogging, and am pleasantly intrigued that there are commonalities that bind us together as humans despite differences in cultures and a whole lot of other factors, especially when the topics that interest me are fairly narrow and with a heavy emphasis on faith matters.

To date, readers from 98 countries have logged-in; by far the largest group was from the USA, followed by those from the Russian Federation, Germany, Singapore, France, Romania, Ukraine, the UK, Sweden, and the Netherlands, in that order; being the top ten nations. Readers as far afield as Peru, Botswana, St Lucia, French Guiana, Cape Verde, Kiribati, and Sint Maarten were among those aggregated. A total of 12,310 visitors (inclusive of repeat visitors) who viewed 88,950 blog pages (each article posted is considered one page) were registered. In August alone, there were 4,430 visitors who viewed 32,560 pages.

In total, I had posted 992 articles since I started the blog in October 2014; these included articles that I had on Facebook since February 2013, some of which were moved to the blog.

Thank you for your interest in this blog, and keep reading and thinking about issues that matter and affect us to some degree or other, and continue to appreciate the exquisite beauty of our created universe and man’s gifted creativity that I will continue to post.

The Ainu, in the historical Japanese texts the Ezo, are an indigenous people of Japan (Hokkaido, and formerly northeastern Honshu) and Russia (Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and formerly the Kamchatka Peninsula). On June 6, 2008, the Japanese Diet passed a bipartisan, non-binding resolution calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group. Recent research suggests that the historical Ainu culture originated in a merger of the Okhotsk culture with the Satsumon, one of the ancient archaeological cultures that are considered to have derived from the Jōmon-period cultures of the Japanese archipelago. The Ainu economy was based on farming, as well as on hunting, fishing and gathering.

The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula.
Credit & Copyright: Marcelo Salemme. It is the largest and most complex star-forming region in the entire galactic neighbourhood located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. The region's spidery appearance is responsible for its name, the Tarantula Nebula, about 1,000 light-years across and 1,500 light-years from Earth. The spindly arms of the Tarantula nebula surround NGC 2070, a star cluster that contains some of the brightest, most massive stars known, visible in blue on the right. Since massive stars live fast and die young, it is not so surprising that the cosmic Tarantula also lies near the site of the closest recent supernova.

The flag of the Netherlands is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. The tricolour flag is almost identical to that of Luxembourg, except that it is shorter and its red and blue stripes are a darker shade. It originates as a variant of the older orange-white-blue Prinsenvlag (Prince's Flag), introduced in the 17th century as the Statenvlag (States Flag), the naval flag of the States-General of the Dutch Republic. Its official status as the national flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was formalized in 1937.

The Last Judgment is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo, covering the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It is a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgment by God of all humanity. There are over 300 figures, with nearly all the males and angels originally shown as nudes; many were later partly covered up by painted draperies. The work took over four years, between 1536 and 1541. Michelangelo began working on it twenty-five years after he finished the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and was nearly 67 at its completion. It was commissioned by Pope Clement VII but was completed under Pope Paul III.

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