It's interesting that the general reaction of the media and friends about all those Trump-backed primary victories is alarm that this is the re-birth of The Donald to become the next president of the USA.  I look upon those victories with glee, for every tainted Republican is now vulnerable to any opposing Democrat on November 8.  Why?   Read my posting of 4August2022 . Otherwise, I messed up a bit.  Yesterday was supposed to be nostalgia day.  However, I instead inserted something more scientific, hurricanes.  So today I am returning to find an older posting and bringing it up to date. I thought I would reach back to 26March2010:       195 COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD At that point, 145 countries had visited my blog site.  So how many countries are there in this world? The United Nations a decade ago had 192 members.  Plus, there are three more not in the UN:  Vatican City Kosovo and Taiwan. In 2011,  South Sudan  became a member of the UN.  So that would be 193 members and 196 countrie