I have family in southwestern Arkansas and I'm planning the same thing.

I get why you consider excluding "Grace" (because probably when it appears in song titles it's often as the common noun) but why exclude "Maria"? Also, what's the most common male name?

It looks like these are honorary renamings, usually after some locally famous person (they don't affect anything about the actual mail, they usually just put up a plaque at the post office) and they are occasionally controversial.

Not a bad guess, but New Jersey has the highest density. Rhode Island is second.

How do you get these numbers from the win probability?

Ben and Jerry's has (had?) a very large ice cream sundae by that name.

There should be one more at 3:34 or 3:35 AM for Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4"

I think that flattening might correspond to when Buffett seriously started giving away money.

These seem off to me. Ruth 1:1, for example, is basically "hey, there were some people a long time ago". My guess for Ruth would be Ruth 1:16, "Your people will be my people and your God my God." - that might not be the most quoted verse but surely it's more quoted than the first one.

That is seriously impressive. I found the paper where that time series is introduced and it sounds like they had to do a lot of work to build it because no individual station has reported over that whole time period.

Does the underlying data have any indication of geography? I'm wondering if, say, traffic in Brazil went down even more when Brazil was playing.

Also traffic across the US Thanksgiving period seems to have been down all day, but you can still see the match effects on top of that.

Not quite, though - does that explain the differences in the lengths of the lines?

Not all airports can be reached in 4 hops from all others - see this Travel StackExchange question for examples. Examples are something like Adak, Alaska (which only has service to Anchorage) to Chimbu, Papua New Guinea (which only has service to Port Moresby, the capital of PNG); Anchorage to Port Moresby requires three hops, something like Anchorage - LAX - Brisbane - Port Moresby). I'm not sure if that explains the length differences, though.

I looked through Wikipedia's lists of municipalities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_New_Hampshire is an example; just change the name in the URL to get the others). Looks like Old Orchard Beach, Maine is the only one.