[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts II: Another 10,000 to come.

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So, if 52% are Christian and less than 10% are everyone else, why do only 30% claim no affiliation? What's the other 8%?
 
So, if 52% are Christian and less than 10% are everyone else, why do only 30% claim no affiliation? What's the other 8%?

Non response and unclear response. Which is actually 9%, there's rounding involved in this chart.

Orthodox=Atheist

The various Orthodox denominations are about 3% I believe. That includes some of the middle eastern churches that don't sit under Eastern Orthodoxy.
 
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A fascinating paper that came out yesterday using historical references, mathematics, and philology (but a bit too much
untranslated Greek) to answer the question:
WHAT WAS THE RIVER ISTER (Iστρος) IN THE TIME OF STRABO?

We discovered an astonishing fact that the Strabo’s river Ister, or better say the river Ister in the times of Strabo, does not
correspond to the river Danube on its entire course, but it perfectly fits with the nowadays Tauernbach-Isel-Drava-Danube
course (or if simplified we can just say to the Drava-Danube course).


It goes down a short sidetrack to Colchis with the Argonauts...

Just as a curiosity we mention that our result simply solves also the otherwise unexplainable paradox in the voyage of
Argonauts, where, by Apollonius of Rhodes (3rd century BC) in his epic poem Argonautica, "the Argonauts had been obliged
to abandon their regular course from Colchis homeward, and had gone from Euxine Sea (Black Sea) up the Ister and then
passing down the other branch of that river, they had entered into Adriatic". By our result it is allowed, Argonauts could
follow the Danube-Drava upstream up to the Val di Pusteria and continue to the Adriatic by the stream of Rienza-Isarco-Adige.

Good to see a smiley in an academic paper!

Of course, we do not want to claim that Argonauts made such a voyage :) but to explain why "such story was accepted
even by so able geographer as Eratosthenes who seems to have been a firm believer in the reality of the Argonautic voyage".


One of their conclusions...

We hope that results of this paper can at least slightly help historians...

...to explain how it was possible that Slavs (Sclavenes) appeared so fast in the Carpathian basin and north of the Istros
(lower Danube) at the beginning of the second half of the first millennium AD. In fact, the Slavs did not appear, they were there
"since time immemorial".


https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06505
 
 
Doesn't Japan's age of consent vary by prefecture? I'm sure I read that most of the country has raised it to 18 even though the national minimum is still 13.
 
Ι like Persia, where you can be 13 but have to be married, Yemen where you can be 9 but must be married, other Saudia where apparently there isn't even a lower end ( :p ) and Tunisia, where you must be 20 ^_^
Angola & Philippines with (no other restrictions) 12 are worth noting too.
And, of course, the ffa in Mexico...
 
This one felt close to home.

 
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