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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

344 Questions: The Creative Person's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment by Stefan Bucher

Stefan Bucher's 344 Questions: The Creative Person's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment is a pocket-sized book full of flowcharts to help you mindfully find your way through blocks and lack of direction to a more creative center.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

US Presidents and their Vice Presidents


President
Vice President
George Washington (1789-1797)
John Adams (1789-1797)
John Adams (1797-1801)
Thomas Jefferson (1797-1801)
Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
Aaron Burr (1801-1805)

George Clinton (1805-1809)
James Madison (1809-1817)
George Clinton (1809-1812)

none (1812-1813)

Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814)

none (1814-1817)
James Monroe (1817-1825)
Daniel D. Tompkins (1817-1825)
John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
John C. Calhoun (1825-1829)
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
John C. Calhoun (1829-1832)

none (1832-1833)

Martin Van Buren (1833-1837)
Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
Richard M. Johnson (1837-1841)
William Henry Harrison (1841)
John Tyler (1841)
John Tyler (1841-1845)
none (1841-1845)
James K. Polk (1845-1849)
George M. Dallas (1845-1849)
Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
Millard Fillmore (1849-1850)
Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
none (1850-1853)
Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
William King (1853)

none (1853-1857)
James Buchanan (1857-1861)
John C. Breckinridge (1857-1861)
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865)

Andrew Johnson (1865)
Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
none (1865-1869)
Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873)

Henry Wilson (1873-1875)

none (1875-1877)
Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
William Wheeler (1877-1881)
James A. Garfield (1881)
Chester Arthur (1881)
Chester Arthur (1881-1885)
none (1881-1885)
Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)
Thomas Hendricks (1885)

none (1885-1889)
Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
Levi P. Morton (1889-1893)
Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)
Adlai E. Stevenson (1893-1897)
William McKinley (1897-1901)
Garret Hobart (1897-1899)

none (1899-1901)

Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
none (1901-1905)

Charles Fairbanks (1905-1909)
William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
James S. Sherman (1909-1912)

none (1912-1913)
Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
Thomas R. Marshall (1913-1921)
Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
Calvin Coolidge (1921-1923)
Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
none (1923-1925)

Charles Dawes (1925-1929)
Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
Charles Curtis (1929-1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
John Nance Garner (1933-1941)

Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945)

Harry S Truman (1945)
Harry S Truman (1945-1953)
none (1945-1949)

Alben Barkley (1949-1953)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
Richard Nixon (1953-1961)
John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-1963)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
none (1963-1965)

Hubert Humphrey (1965-1969)
Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
Spiro Agnew (1969-1973)

none (1973)

Gerald Ford (1973-1974)
Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
none (1974)

Nelson Rockefeller (1974-1977)
Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)
Walter Mondale (1977-1981)
Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
George Bush (1981-1989)
George Bush (1989-1993)
Dan Quayle (1989-1993)
Bill Clinton (1993-2001)
Al Gore (1993-2001)
George W. Bush (2001-2009)
Dick Cheney (2001-2009)
Barack Obama (2009-present)
Joe Biden (2009-present)

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

List of Shakespeare Characters by Number of Lines

List of Shakespeare Characters by Number of Lines, Most to Least:


Lines           Character           Plays in which s/he appears
733             Shakespeare             , , , , ,
471             Falstaff             Henry4p1, Henry4p2, Henry5, Wives
377             Henry V             Henry4p1, Henry4p2, Henry5
358             Hamlet             Hamlet
285             Duke of Gloucester             Henry5, Henry6p1, Henry6p2, Richard3
274             Othello             Othello
272             Iago             Othello
253             Antony             Antony, Caesar
246             Richard III             Henry6p3, Richard3
210             Timon             Timon
204             Cleopatra             Antony
201             Rosalind             AYLI
194             Brutus             Caesar
194             Vincentio             Measure
189             Coriolanus             Coriolanus
188             Lear             Lear
183             Henry VI             Henry6p1, Henry6p2, Henry6p3, Richard3
182             Earl of Warwick             Henry4p2, Henry5, Henry6p1, Henry6p2, Henry6p3
172             Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)             Henry6p1, Henry6p2, Henry6p3, Richard3
169             Queen Margaret             Henry6p1, Henry6p2, Henry6p3, Richard3
165             Desdemona             Othello
163             Romeo             Romeo
162             Menenius Agrippa             Coriolanus
159             Biron             LLL
158             Hostess Quickly             Henry4p1, Henry4p2, Henry5, Wives
158             Petruchio             Shrew
154             Henry IV             Henry4p1, Henry4p2, Richard2
153             Pandarus             Troilus
152             Cressida             Troilus
152             Sir Toby Belch             12Night
149             Valentine             2Gents
147             Proteus             2Gents
146             Macbeth             Macbeth
144             King Edward IV (Plantagenet)             Henry6p2, Henry6p3, Richard3
141             Parolles             AWW
140             Cassius             Caesar
136             Robert Shallow             Henry4p2, Wives
135             Don Pedro             Ado
134             Benedick             Ado
131             Troilus             Troilus
129             Isabella             Measure
129             Queen Elizabeth             Henry6p3, Richard3
127             Earl of Kent             Lear
125             Claudio             Ado
125             Leontes             WT
122             Pistol             Henry4p2, Henry5, Wives
121             Pericles             Pericles
121             Viola             12Night
120             Orlando             AYLI
120             Leonato             Ado
118             Juliet             Romeo
118             Imogen             Cymbeline
118             Earl of Gloucester             Lear
118             Olivia             12Night
117             Ferdinand             LLL
117             Titus Andronicus             Titus
117             Portia             Merchant
117             Octavius             Antony, Caesar
117             Speed             2Gents
117             Sicinius Velutus             Coriolanus
115             Prospero             Tempest
115             Duke of Buckingham             Henry6p2, Richard3
114             Hotspur (Henry Percy)             Henry4p1, Richard2
113             Domitius Enobarus             Antony
111             Lucio             Measure
110             Cassio             Othello
109             Horatio             Hamlet
109             Helena             AWW
108             Celia             AYLI
108             Earl of Suffolk             Henry6p1, Henry6p2
107             Julia             2Gents
106             Beatrice             Ado
104             Feste             12Night
103             Antipholus of Syracuse             Errors
103             Emilia             Othello
102             Claudius             Hamlet
102             Bertram             AWW
102             Princess of France             LLL
102             Don Adriano de Armado             LLL
101             Mistress Page             Wives
100             Apemantus             Timon

List of Shakespeare's Plays by Date

1589           Comedy of Errors
1590           Henry VI, Part II
            Henry VI, Part III
1591           Henry VI, Part I
1592           Richard III
1593           Taming of the Shrew
            Titus Andronicus
1594           Romeo and Juliet
            Two Gentlemen of Verona
            Love's Labour's Lost
1595           Richard II
            Midsummer Night's Dream
1596           King John
            Merchant of Venice
1597           Henry IV, Part I
            Henry IV, Part II
1598           Henry V
            Much Ado about Nothing
1599           Twelfth Night
            As You Like It
            Julius Caesar
1600           Hamlet
            Merry Wives of Windsor
1601           Troilus and Cressida
1602           All's Well That Ends Well
1604           Othello
            Measure for Measure
1605           King Lear
            Macbeth
1606           Antony and Cleopatra
1607           Coriolanus
            Timon of Athens
1608           Pericles
1609           Cymbeline
1610           Winter's Tale
1611           Tempest
1612           Henry VIII

List of Shakespeare's Plays by Genre

List of Shakespeare's Plays by Genre

COMEDIES
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale

HISTORIES
Cymbeline
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III

TRAGEDIES

Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida

US States by Area

U.S. States by Area

The United States is the world's third largest country by area. Its fifty states vary widely in area. The largest state, Alaska, is more than four hundred times larger than Rhode Island, the smallest state. Texas is the largest state of the 48 contiguous states. The U.S. states by area listed below include water features that are part of the state and are ranked in size by square miles. 

1. Alaska - 663,267
2. Texas - 268,580
3. California - 163,695
4. Montana - 147,042
5. New Mexico - 121,589
6. Arizona - 113,998
7. Nevada - 110,560
8. Colorado - 104,093
9. Oregon - 98,380
10. Wyoming - 97,813
11. Michigan - 96,716
12. Minnesota - 86,938
13. Utah - 84,898
14. Idaho - 83,570
15. Kansas - 82,276
16. Nebraska - 77,353
17. South Dakota - 77,116
18. Washington - 71,299
19. North Dakota - 70,699
20. Oklahoma - 69,898
21. Missouri - 69,704
22. Florida - 65,754
23. Wisconsin - 65,497
24. Georgia - 59,424
25. Illinois - 57,914
26. Iowa - 56,271
27. New York - 54,556
28. North Carolina - 53,818
29. Arkansas - 53,178
30. Alabama - 52,419
31. Louisiana - 51,839
32. Mississippi - 48,430
33. Pennsylvania - 46,055
34. Ohio - 44,824
35. Virginia - 42,774
36. Tennessee - 42,143
37. Kentucky - 40,409
38. Indiana - 36,417
39. Maine - 35,384
40. South Carolina - 32,020
41. West Virginia - 24,229
42. Maryland - 12,406
43. Hawaii - 10,930
44. Massachusetts - 10,554
45. Vermont - 9,614
46. New Hampshire - 9,349
47. New Jersey - 8,721
48. Connecticut - 5,543
49. Delaware - 2,489
50. Rhode Island - 1,545

US State Postal Abbreviations

U.S. State Abbreviations

Alabama - AL
Alaska - AK
American Samoa - AS
Arizona - AZ
Arkansas - AR
California - CA
Colorado - CO
Connecticut - CT
Delaware - DE
District of Columbia - DC
Federated States of Micronesia* - FM
Florida - FL
Georgia - GA
Guam - GU
Hawaii - HI
Idaho - ID
Illinois - IL
Indiana - IN
Iowa - IA
Kansas - KS
Kentucky - KY
Louisiana - LA
Maine - ME
Marshall Islands* - MH
Maryland - MD
Massachusetts - MA
Michigan - MI
Minnesota - MN
Mississippi - MS
Missouri - MO
Montana - MT
Nebraska - NE
Nevada - NV
New Hampshire - NH
New Jersey - NJ
New Mexico - NM
New York - NY
North Carolina - NC
North Dakota - ND
Northern Mariana Islands - MP
Ohio - OH
Oklahoma - OK
Oregon - OR
Palau* - PW
Pennsylvania - PA
Puerto Rico - PR
Rhode Island - RI
South Carolina - SC
South Dakota - SD
Tennessee - TN
Texas - TX
Utah - UT
Vermont - VT
Virgin Island - VI
Virginia - VA
Washington - WA
West Virginia - WV
Wisconsin - WI
Wyoming - WY

*Although Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Marshall Islands are independent countries, each is still served by the United States Postal Service.