TOP 10s
TOP 10s
by: lilc
related tags: Music | Theater | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1940s |

1. Oh! Calcutta
1976-1989
5,959 shows

2. Life With Father
1939-1947
3,224 shows

3. Tobacco Road
1933-1941
3,182 shows

4. Abie’s Irish Rose
1922-1927
2,327 shows

5. Gemini
1977-1981
1,819 shows

6. Deathtrap
1978-1982
1,793 shows

7. Harvey
1944-1949
1,775 shows

8. Born Yesterday
1946-1949
1,642 shows

9. Mary, Mary
1961-1964
1,572 shows

10. The Voice of the Turtle
1943-1948
1,557 shows

According to The League of American Theaters and Producers

by: lilc
related tags: Music | USA | 2005 | Theater | 2003 | 1990s |

1. Cats
1982-2000
7,485 shows

2. The Phantom of the Opera
1988-
7,061 shows and counting as of 01/01/2005

3. Les Miserables
1987-2003
6,680 shows

4. A Chorus Line
1975-1990
6,137 shows

5. Beauty and the Beast
1994-
4,386 shows and counting as of 01/01/2005

6. Miss Saigon
1991-2001
4,092 shows

7. Rent
1996-
3,614 shows and counting as of 01/01/2005

8. 42nd street
1980-1989
3,486

9. Grease
1972-1980
3,388 shows

10. Chicago
1996-
3,385 shows and counting as of 01/01/2005

According to The League of American Theaters and Producers

by: lilc
related tags: Education | Theater | About.com | Shakespeare |

1) Macbeth

2) Romeo and Juliet

3) Julius Caesar

4) Hamlet

5) The Tempest

6) King Lear

7) Henry IV, Part I

8) King John

9) Much Ado About Nothing

10) The Winter’s Tale

According to About.com

by: lilc
related tags: Education | Theater | Artists | Writers |

1. Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)

2. Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)

3. A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)

4. Look Back in Anger (John Osborne)

5. Long Day’s Journey into Night (Eugene O’Neill)

6. The Crucible (Arthur Miller)

7. Private Lives (Noël Coward)

8. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (Tom Stoppard)

9. Angels in America (Tony Kushner)

10. The Caretaker (Harold Pinter)

According to the Royal National Theatre of Britain

by: lilc

1 - Niger - 84.3% Adult Illiteracy Rate

2 - Burkina Faso - 77.0% Adult Illiteracy Rate

3 - Afghanistan - 63.7% Adult Illiteracy Rate

4 - Sierra Leone - 63.7% Adult Illiteracy Rate

5 - Gambia, the - 63.5% Adult Illiteracy Rate

6 - Guinea-Bissau - 63.2% Adult Illiteracy Rate

7 - Senegal - 62.7% Adult Illiteracy Rate

8 - Benin - 62.5% Adult Illiteracy Rate

9 - Ethiopia - 61.3% Adult Illiteracy Rate

10 - Mauritania - 60.1% Adult Illiteracy Rate

According to CIA Factbook

by: lilc
related tags: Science | Books | 1950s | 1980s | 1940s |

1 - The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

2 - Forbidden Planet (1956)

3 - The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

4 - Dune by Frank Herbert

5 - Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

6 - Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

7 - Ringworld by Larry Niven

8 - It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

9 - Metropolis (1926)

10 - King Kong (1933)

by: lilc
related tags: Education | USA | Books | Writers |

1. John Steinbeck

2. Ernest Hemingway

3. William Faulkner

4. Eugene O’Neill

5. T.S. Eliot

6. Willa Cather

7. Robert Frost

8. James Baldwin

9. Eudora Welty

10. E.B. White

According to Writers Digest

by: lilc
related tags: Business | Education | Politics | USA | 1960s | 1970s | 1940s |

1 “I Have a Dream”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
28 Aug 1963
Washington, DC

2 Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy
20 Jan 1961
Washington, DC

3 First Inaugural Address
Franklin D. Roosevelt
4 Mar 1933
Washington, DC

4 War Message (”A Date which Will Live in Infamy”)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
8 Dec 1941
Washington, DC

5 Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention
Barbara Jordan
12 July 1976
New York, NY

6 “My Side of the Story” (”Checkers”)
Richard M. Nixon
23 Sept 1952
Los Angeles, CA

7 “The Ballot or the Bullet”

Malcolm X
3 Apr 1964
Cleveland, OH

8 Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster
Ronald Reagan
28 Jan 1986
Washington, DC

9 Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
John F. Kennedy
12 Sept 1960
Houston, TX

10 Address to Congress on the Voting Rights Act (”We Shall Overcome”)
Lyndon B. Johnson
15 Mar 1965
Washington, DC

According to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Texas A & M University

by: derek
related tags: Business | Food |

Ranking for overall best drive-thru restaurants:

1 - Chick-fil-A

2 - Wendy’s

3 - Taco Bell

4 - Krystal Burger

5 -, 6 - Taco John’s and Del Taco (tie)

7 - Burger King

8 - KFC

9 - Rally’s

10 - A&W

According to QSR Magazine

by: derek
related tags: Business | Economy | Food |

1 Quebec

2 Vermont

3 Maine

4 Ontario

5 New York

6 New Brunswick

7 Wisconsin

8 New Hampshire

9 Ohio

10 Michigan

According to US Dept. of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (information from 2002)

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