Category: By the Numbers
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By the Numbers: ‘A Sand County Almanac’ Turns 70
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.” So begins the foreword to Aldo Leopold’s conservation classic, A Sand County Almanac, which is 70 years old this year. 12 The number of years it took for Aldo Leopold to […]
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By the Numbers: Notre Dame Cathedral
Following the April 15 fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, we looked at some numbers associated with the iconic Parisian landmark. 13 The weight in tons of the grand Emmanuel Bell. It is tuned to F sharp. 120 The average number of minutes a visitor had to wait to tour the cathedral. 157 The width in […]
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By the Numbers: The Housing Gap
580 Additional rental apartments needed in Door County by 2023 70 Number of new homes priced below $180,000 needed in central and northern Door County by 2023 200 Senior rental units needed in Door County by 2023 560 Additional seasonal housing beds needed in Door County by 2023 9,990 Number of Door County housing units […]
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April 22 marks the 49th anniversary of Earth Day, established in 1970 by the late Gaylord Nelson, who was a Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator from Wisconsin. 3 The percentage of the Earth’s water not contained in oceans. 3.5 The number of Earths that would be required if everyone on the planet lived as a […]
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By the Numbers: The Big Lebowski
Because Cherry Lanes in Sturgeon Bay is celebrating the 1998 movie with The Dude Bash on April 20, we decided to share some facts about the cult film and its stars. 0 Although Donny is seen in many bowling shirts, not one bears his name. That is also the number of times the Dude is […]
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By the Numbers: Marijuana Tax Revenue
A January poll by the Marquette University Law School found 59 percent of respondents in support of marijuana legalization and 33 percent in opposition, which is a major change from a poll taken only five years before, when 51 percent opposed and 41 percent were in favor. In last November’s election, voters in 16 Wisconsin […]
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By the Numbers: April Fools’ Day
April Fools’ Day The origin of the tomfoolery and hoaxing that takes place on April 1 – also known as All Fools’ Day – is a mystery. 1582 The year France changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, which shifted the start of the new year to January 1 rather than the Julian calendar’s […]
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By the Numbers: Vernal Equinox
Spring officially began at 4:58 pm on Wednesday, March 20: the moment when the sun crosses the celestial equator – the imaginary line in the sky above Earth’s equator. It’s celebrated as a time of rebirth in the northern hemisphere. 2 The number of times in a year when Earth’s axis is tilted neither toward […]
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By the Numbers: St. Patrick’s Day
On March 17, people of Irish descent and millions of want-to-bes celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, most without any real knowledge of Patrick. He was born in Dunbarton, Scotland, in 385. His grandfather was a priest and his father a deacon, but Patrick had little faith himself – that is, until at the age of 16 […]
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By the Numbers: Best and Worst States for Women
With March being Women’s History Month and women holding only 23.7 percent of the seats in Congress – despite making up 51 percent of the U.S. population – the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Best and Worst States for Women. To identify the most women-friendly states, WalletHub compared the 50 states and […]
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By the Numbers: Amazon’s Effect on American Communities
Civic Economics and the American Booksellers Association combined efforts to study the economic impact of Amazon’s retail operations in the United States. 16 The number of Amazon Books brick-and-mortar stores that are open or in the works. 44,000 The number of displaced shops in 2016, amounting to 380 million square feet. 637,000 The number of […]
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By the Numbers: Politics and Global Warming
Researchers from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication conducted a nationally representative survey of registered voters to determine global-warming beliefs and attitudes. The survey documents “an increase in Republican understanding of the reality of human-caused global warming, worry about the threat and support for […]
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By the Numbers: Black History Month
1688 The year of the first recorded protest of the slave trade in America, made by Quakers at a meeting in Philadelphia. In their written protest, the Quakers wrote, “Pray, what thing in the world can be done worse towards us, then if men should robb or steal us away, & sell us for slaves […]
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By the Numbers: The Longest Partial Government Shutdown
0 The number of other democratic governments that have shutdowns. Most avoid this sort of gridlock by requiring a simple majority to pass a budget. 6 The number of departments that had full funding and are not affected. They are Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Labor and Veterans Affairs. 8 The number of […]
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By the Numbers: Wisconsin Transportation
$4 to $5 The cost needed for future repairs for every $1 in road repairs deferred. 9 The percentage of the 14,253 bridges in the state – or 1,245 bridges – that are structurally deficient, meaning they have significant deterioration of the bridge deck, supports or other major components. 18.4 The number of cents-per-gallon tax […]
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By the Numbers: Government Shutdown
For the 21st time in U.S. history, and the third time since Donald Trump was elected president, the federal government is in a partial shutdown. This shutdown went into effect at midnight Dec. 22, and with no end in sight, it could be the longest shutdown on record. (The previous record was 21 days during […]
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Last month Japan announced that it will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume commercial whaling this summer. The Japanese government accused the IWC of focusing on conserving whale numbers rather than developing sustainable whaling practices. The Japanese government added that when it begins whaling operations in July, it will do so only […]
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By the Numbers: Happy New Year!
1 The ranking for losing weight among other New Year’s resolutions such as getting organized, saving more money and quitting smoking. 2 The number of times the Times Square ball drop did not happen – in 1942 and ’43, due to World War II light restrictions. 3 The percentage of Americans who don’t plan to […]
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By the Numbers: It’s a Wonderful Life
Director Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life was a financial flop upon its 1946 release but today is one of the most revered Christmas films, with its tale of redemption for suicidal George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart), who is given the chance to see his small town of Bedford Falls fall into disrepute without his influence. […]
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By the Numbers: Getting Away With Murder
In major American cities, murder cases pile up on the desks of homicide detectives, resulting in half of all homicides going unsolved. Getting away with murder is easier than you think. 55,868 Number of homicides in 55 cities studied over a decade by a team from the Washington Post 50 Percentage of those homicides […]