Tens of thousands of Portuguese, Greek and Irish people have left their homelands this year, many heading for the southern hemisphere. Anecdotal evidence points to the same happening in Spain and Italy.

—Here you are, says Alf, chucking out the rhino. Talking about hanging, I'll show you something you never saw

According to Beiler, adherence or nonadherence to the ordnung became a full-blown subject of discussion and controversy during the American Civil War, when changes in fashionable clothing and inventions of new farming technologies made it imperative for the Amish to address such issues directly, in the hope, as Beiler puts it, of preserving intact “their old-time religion.”

Veteran herdsmen of K'o-k'o-tzu of Teng-t'a commune was famous for his "geographic knowledge; he knows many peaks, wate, roads, and prairies in central A-erh-t'ai (Altai) Mountain region.