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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
10. German
100 million speakers worldwide
9. Japanese
125 million speakers worldwide
8. Russian
165 million speakers worldwide7. Portuguese
175 million speakers worldwide
6 . Arabic
205 million speakers worldwide
5. Bengali
210 million speakers worldwide
4. English
340 million speakers worldwide
3. Spanish
360 million speakers worldwide
2. Hindustani
426 million speakers worldwide
1. Mandarin Chinese
875 million speakers worldwide
Despite the ongoing troubles between India and Pakistan, its people speak the same language but write it in different alphabets; largely-Muslim Pakistan writes in Arabic script and speaks Urdu, while largely-Hindu India writes in Devanagari scipt and speaks Hindu.
1) Harvard University, Massachusets
1636 2) College of Mary & William, Virginia
1692
3) Yale University, Connecticut
1701
4) University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
1740
5) Moravian College, Pennsylvania
1742
6) Princeton University, New Jersey
1746
7) Washington & Lee University, Virginia
1749
8) Columbia University, New York
1754
9) Brown, Rhode Island
1764
10) Rutgers, New Jersey
1766
According to National Center for Education Statistics
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