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A small place in the deep Piedmont in north-western Italy
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Intelligence artificielle et néanmoins militaire(5/5/2024)Posted in:Not so seriousLe Secrétaire à la US Air force, Frank Kendall, a fait un tour dans un F16 X-62A piloté par Intelligence Artificielle. C’est dans Politico. On voit une photo où le Secrétaire chausse son casque et où il arbore son meilleur air méchant et inspiré, comme il sied à un Secrétaire à la USAF. Le F16 […]
EMIG – Numbers and timing of emigration(10/3/2023)Posted in:EifelEMIG.1 Introduction The purpose of this post is specifically not to provide a detailed analysis of emigration out of the Project area. Instead, its specific purpose is to try and identify some patterns that may be of help when interpreting the fluctuations of the number of weddings as they appear in chapter WEDNUM. This includes […]
METHODS – Methodological issues(9/8/2023)Posted in:EifelMETHODS.1 A note on outliers in distances to Registry office (Standesamt) METHODS.1.1 The issue explained When plotting the average annual values of the distance between the place of birth of brides and locality of the Registry office where they married, figure METHODS-F01 below is obtained1. Considering that each point on the red curve is the […]
RELOR – Relative origin of spouses(8/11/2023)Posted in:EifelThis chapter deals with the relative origin of spouses, i.e. their origin (place of birth) relative to the Wedding registry office (RO; Standesamt) as well as their origin relative to each other. It is the twin-post to ABSOR, where it was shown that most spouses used to marry not far away from their birth places. […]
ABSOR – Absolute origin of spouses(8/11/2023)Posted in:EifelThe present ABSOR chapter deals with the “absolute origin” of spouses, i.e. the geographic origin of spouses (e.g. brides) without taking into account the origin of the other spouse (e.g. the groom). The focus is on the distance (always measured “as the crow flies”) between the registry office (Standesamt) and the place of origin of […]
WEDWEEK – Wedding season(8/6/2023)Posted in:EifelThe present chapter assesses how the occurrence of Eifel weddings is distributed over the year. Close to 40% of weddings used to take place during winter in the Moselle valley, while the effect was less marked in the volcanic Eifel of the north. The difference in tradition was completely cancelled during the first world war. […]
WEDDAY – Wedding weekday(8/5/2023)Posted in:EifelEifelers have been marrying on different days during the week, and there are some historical and spatial patterns to this behaviour. We consider that weeks start on day 1, Monday and end on day 7, Sunday1 . WEDDAY-1 Preferred wedding day changes over time Figure WEDDAY-F01 below shows that few people married on Sunday, and […]