Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Bette!

This blog was nominated on April 25, 2013 by Bette A. Stevens, Children’s Author, for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award.

First of all, I would like to thank Bette A. Stevens of the blog 4writersandreaders for this gracious nomination. Please, check out her awesome literary blog.

The Very inspiring Blogger Award rules are as follows:

• Display the award on your blog
• Link back to the person who nominated you
• State 7 things about yourself
• Nominate 15 bloggers, link to them, and notify them about their nominations

Seven things about myself:

1. Where did visitors to my blog come from today, so far?

Country	Views
United States	74
United Kingdom	59
Netherlands	49
Australia	14
Canada	12
Tunisia	11
Germany	8
India	7
Malaysia	4
Singapore	3
New Zealand	3
Bahrain	3
Philippines	3

2. Where did visitors to my blog come from this week?

Top Views by Country for 7 days ending 2013-05-05 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	1,222
United Kingdom	414
Canada	238
Jamaica	131
Netherlands	121
Australia	102
France	88
India	87
Greece	72
Germany	69
Tunisia	59
Ireland	49
Italy	33
New Zealand	32
Indonesia	32
Singapore	30
Brazil	29
Sweden	28
Philippines	25
Spain	23
South Africa	22
Belgium	21
Bahrain	19
Saudi Arabia	18
Malta	16
Malaysia	15
Armenia	13
Israel	13
Finland	12
Poland	12
Switzerland	10
Japan	10
Denmark	10
Republic of Korea	9
United Arab Emirates	9
Portugal	9
Thailand	9
Lebanon	8
Romania	8
Argentina	7
Czech Republic	7
Hungary	7
Slovenia	7
Russian Federation	6
Norway	6
Turkey	6
Taiwan	6
Viet Nam	6
Pakistan	5
Luxembourg	5
Kenya	5
Cyprus	5
Venezuela	5

3. Which posts on my blog were most popular this week?

Top Posts for 7 days ending 2013-05-05 (Summarized)

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		544
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka		72
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		49
Most Influential Blogger Award, thanks Joe!		40
About		40
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England		36
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		34
New Dutch king, coronation and opposition		30
Dutch princess’ father’s Argentine criminal indiction		30
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal		29
Awards		28
Save Ireland’s forests		26
US singer David Rovics concert in England		25
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation		25
Lesser Antillean iguana in danger		25
Grasshopper warbler and black-necked grebes again		24
April, record number of visitors to this blog		24
Bumblebee, wheatears, and lizard		24
UAE princely hunters threaten Tanzanian people and wildlife		23
Scotland against bedroom tax		22
WordPress Family Award, thanks Ajaytao 2010 and oasien!		22

4. These services have been used most often to share posts on my site:

Name	Shares
Twitter	1520
Facebook	499
Press This	107
Tumblr	81
Pinterest	27
LinkedIn	26
StumbleUpon	20
Reddit	17
Digg	16
Email	12

5. These posts on my site got the most shares:

Title	Shares
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation	22
Noam Chomsky on Obama, Romney	19
Dutch war crimes in Indonesia, photos	14
Stop United States wolf killing	12
Monsanto kills monarch butterflies	10
Kemp’s ridley turtle saved in the USA	10
New mouse lemur species discoveries in Madagascar	9
Stop Monsanto corporate food power grab, petition	8
British anti-nuclear weapons demonstration	8
German Kentish plover in England	8
Two new lizard species discovered in Peru	8
Antarctic explorer Scott’s last letter published at last	8
British cuckoos’ Sahara spring migration	8
British government imposes more taxes on poor people	8
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl	8
Dinosaur age bird discovery	8
Northern light in Alaska, video	8
Joint Strike Fighter billion-dollar failure	8
Trophy hunting banned in Botswana and Zambia	8
Saudi fight for women’s rights	8
Saving Canadian turtles’ lives	8
Italian far Right money-laundering scandal	8

6. Which Gravatars were clicked most on my blog?

Clicks for all days ending 2013-05-05 (Summarized)

gravatar.com/petrel41	85
gravatar.com/marinakanavaki	64
gravatar.com/fluxnews	23
gravatar.com/narhvalur	23
gravatar.com/edamib	20
gravatar.com/natycalinescu	19
gravatar.com/dragoscalinescu	18
gravatar.com/kotev1000	16
gravatar.com/clanmother	16
gravatar.com/metaretriever2	15
gravatar.com/waldotomosky	14
gravatar.com/gdartdesign	13
gravatar.com/magdalena36	13
gravatar.com/kingroar	11
gravatar.com/schtiel	11
gravatar.com/cindyknoke	11

7. Which English Wikipedia articles were clicked most on my blog?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_child_abuse_scandal	23
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_Hawk	20
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_H%C3%B6lderlin	12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liuwa_Plain_National_Park	12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamad_bin_Jassim_bin_Jaber_Al_Thani	12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Monday_Club	12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone	11
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcam	10
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii?#Brothels	10
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poecilotheria_rajaei	10
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-tail	10
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Olympus	9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta	9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_features	9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapaima	9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus	8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haifa_Wehbe	8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus_antiquus	8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlyn%27s_monkey	8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Teratorn	7
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect	7
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass	7

My fifteen nominees are:

1. Happy Kittens: World of opinions, cats, and love

2. Flowery Prose

3. dawnofthegreeks

4. ♥ One Thousand And One Illegal Dreams ♥ Sparkle & Love ♥

5. ON MY WAY…

6. Dr Bill Wooten

7. TayexSoyHermoso

8. everyphototunity

9. FAB.G.BLOG

10. Living and Lovin

11. “R”HubBlog

12. The Linden Chronicles

13. Serenity’s Musings

14. cancerkillingrecipe

15. antilandscaper

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