Idk which specific sport you're concerned with and if it would be done through school or separately, but if we're going with school grade cutoffs then why not just let the dice fall and if they are near the cutoff then keep them home for an extra year? They would be the oldest in their grade, but only by the same margin that the the otherwise oldest kids are/would be.

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NY had the most soldiers which make sense, but Ohio had the highest percentage of enlistment.

Also Tennessee was a southern state, quickly fell and provided a lot of support to the Union.

As a Brit, my first thought was "wow that's a weird way of doing it" then my second thought was "Hang on, no it isnt. Its the only logical way of doing it. Why the fuck do we still start a new school year in September???".

> I hope it's not too bold of an opinion to say that Citizen Kane isn't an insurmountable pinnacle of movies.

Maybe not, but it's at least a movie a huge number of people have seen and liked, and has been consistently highly rated forever. Versus an obscure one that few have seen and was not highly regarded for decades after its release.

It would be interesting to see this on a per unit population basis.

No shade from me. I won’t fault any parents for wanting the best for their child. I had fertility issues so I am just happy I had a kid whenever it happened, I couldn’t plan it like that. Tho I have also seen many kids born later on the h the year who were big and strong (I am a teacher), so many factors go into how a child becomes (genetics, diet)

Thank you for confirming my suspicion that they are not correlated.

There is an excellent Veritasium (YouTube scientist) video that goes into this:

https://www.veritasium.com/videos/2020/8/28/is-success-luck-or-hard-work

Highly recommended watch.

I mean it can happen. I wouldn’t necessarily aim for a child to be born in January for this reason. My son now was born in April. And If I could “aim” for a date it would be Feb/March. People can deny it all they want but I’ve seen too many late year baby boys get bullied for being smaller - even if it’s just In the early years of school that shit leaves a lasting negative affect.

It's been a long time, but didn't the SDF-1 crash start a period of world peace? I mean, sure we get invaded by aliens a while later, but still! I could go for a little world peace.

My friends planned this, they planned to have a baby in January for the same reason. They ended up with a premature baby’s who was born in December.

For a second I thought this was a painting of a dog

I was just checking how much at risk my brother's place is. Kilauea lava flowed pretty close by where he was building in Pahoa, but he seems to be OK with this one.

Yeah, I would have said The Office but it hasn’t been on Netflix in the U.S. since January 2021.

It literally IS a voting key (maybe with NM and UT) switched.

Not sure if this is beautiful, the colour range doesn't make much sense, compare the brightness of < 10.000 with ≥ 10.000, they're reversed.

Surprised that there aren't more from Mexico and Central America

Source: All the state articles in wikipedia naming all the regiments fighting for each state, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_units_by_state

Tool: Mapchart.net & Photoshop

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Nova Scotia is raking in all that Oak Island treasure

Would be even better if could be corrected for relative worldwide birth rates per month. For example, September appears to spike, but I recall births being higher in the northern hemisphere in September

You should put percentage points within each color of each bar. Not very useful but pretty I guess

Holy cow, it’s almost a voting key, too.

This visualization makes going through the data a lot more pleasant than just viewing the Wikipedia page. However, I wonder if you tried out including graphics to denote when some movies skip a decade before showing up on the list again (e.g. a dotted line). Or would that add too much clutter to the visualization.