{"id":2097,"date":"2013-01-23T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T20:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2013-01-23T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T20:23:37","slug":"laconic-history-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/laconic-history-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Laconic History of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Laconic-history-of-the-World.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Laconic-history-of-the-World.png\" alt=\"Laconic history of the World\" title=\"Laconic history of the World\" width=\"917\" height=\"586\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Laconic-history-of-the-World.png 917w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Laconic-history-of-the-World-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Laconic-history-of-the-World-469x300.png 469w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martin Elmer created the <a href=\"http:\/\/hugepic.io\/d2012641f\/2.00\/60.2\/-4.6\">fantastically entertaining world map<\/a> shown above using Wikipedia. Each country in the map is represented by the most frequently used word in every Wikipedia article entitled &#8220;History of ___&#8221;. The results are somewhat predictable in many cases, as in having the word Soviet as the most common word in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Russia\">History of Russia article<\/a> (172 occurrences as of today), or the word Kim in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_north_korea\">History of North Korea article<\/a> (68 occurrences). Other results are perhaps a little bit less predictable, and yet they still make a lot of sense for those familiar with the history of each nation. Zoom in on Europe and you&#8217;ll quickly realize that War is the most frequent word for almost all countries in Western Europe. Which is the most common word in the corresponding article for your country?<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Laconic History of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/laconic-history-of-the-world\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Laconic History of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/laconic-history-of-the-world\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Laconic History of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/laconic-history-of-the-world\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Laconic History of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/laconic-history-of-the-world\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Elmer created the fantastically entertaining world map shown above using Wikipedia. Each country in the map is represented by the most frequently used word in every Wikipedia article entitled &#8220;History of ___&#8221;. The results are somewhat predictable in many cases, as in having the word Soviet as the most common word in the History [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Laconic History of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/laconic-history-of-the-world\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Laconic History of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/laconic-history-of-the-world\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Laconic History of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/laconic-history-of-the-world\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Laconic History of the World' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/laconic-history-of-the-world\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,30],"tags":[619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}