The States
I am an inveterate studier of the fifty states, and never tire of comparitive information. Primarily, of course, I like to know where I can find a list of the order that the original colonies adopted the Constitution:- Delaware;
- Pennsylvania;
- New Jersey;
- Georgia;
- Connecticut;
- Massachusetts;
- Maryland;
- South Carolina;
- New Hampshire;
- Virginia;
- New York;
- North Carolina;
- Rhode Island.
Those Five Canadiennes
The Dionne Quintuplets were born on May 28, 1934. Their names were:- Annette Lillianne Marie;
- Cécile Marie Emilda;
- Emilie Marie Jeanne;
- Marie Reina Alma;
- Yvonne Edouilda Marie.
Countries in Other Countries
I have always been interested in what other nations are called in other languages. For example, the English Switzerland is Suisse (French), Svizzera (Italian), Schweiz (German), etc. You get the picture. I am trying to track down a list of all the world’s states in as many languages I can reasonably fit on a page.The Presidential Succession
So, you know that the Vice President succeeds the President should anything happen, but I always have trouble remembering the whole succession. The cabinet follows the Congressional leaders, in the order the secretariats were established. Here it is*:
- The Vice President;
- The Speaker of the House;
- The President Pro Tempore of the Senate;
- The Secretary of State;
- The Secretary of the Treasury;
- The Secretary of Defense (né War);
- The Attorney General of the United States;
- The Secretary of the Interior;
- The Secretary of Agriculture;
- The Secretary of Commerce;
- The Secretary of Labor;
- The Secretary of Health and Human Services;
- The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;
- The Secretary of Transportation;
- The Secretary of Energy;
- The Secretary of Education;
- The Secretary of Veteran Affairs;
- The Secretary of Homeland Security.