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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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Subject: Re: Major Taylor
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 15:24:57 -0700
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On Fri, 30 May 2025 12:15:03 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

>On Fri, 30 May 2025 07:46:24 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:59:05 -0400, Catrike Ryder
>><Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:47:36 -0400, Catrike Ryder
>>><Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 06:25:00 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 30 May 2025 06:18:01 -0400, Catrike Ryder
>>>>><Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Thu, 29 May 2025 16:36:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>>>><frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Major Taylor made the cover of The New Yorker magazine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-06-02
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>He deserves more recognition than he commonly gets.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>An article in an obscure paywalled leftist magazine isn't going to get
>>>>>>him much recognition.
>>>>>
>>>>>Not really "obscure":
>>>>><https://deadline.com/2025/02/new-yorker-centenary-defies-magazine-downturn-1236296103/>
>>>>>"The New Yorker with its 1.23 million subscribers..."
>>>>
>>>>In the USA, they're rated as 21st, after The American Legion Magazine
>>>>and American Rifleman, both of which are also obscure..
>>>>
>>>>Actually, all magazines are obscure, nowdays.
>>
>>>Sorry, forgot  the cite;
>>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_by_circulation
>>
>>The Wikipedia circulation list is only up to date to 2016.  See the
>>"This article has multiple issues" box near the top of the page.
>>
>>This list seems a little better:
>>"Top 100 U.S. Magazines by Circulation"
>><http://www1.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf>
>>The New Yorker is 88 out of 100.  Not great, but hardly obscure.
>
>A million and a half subscribers in a USA population of 3.5 million,
>and some of them are in other countries. 

You're off by factor of 100.  The US population for 2025 is about 347
million.
<https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/>

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