Alphabetical Ordering

The second post for this week's blog 2 posts is to sort out a list in alphabetical order and answer few of the questions. 

The original unsorted list is:

• El Paso, Texas
• Saint Nicholas, Belgium
• The Lord of the Rings
• Newark, New Jersey
• XVIIme siècle
• .38 Special
• St. Louis, Missouri
• New York, New York
• 1001 Arabian Nights
• The 1-2-3 of Magic
• Albany, New York
• #!%&: Creating Comic Books
• The Hague, Netherlands
• $35 a Day Through Europe
• H20: The Beauty of Water
• Plzen, Czech Republic

Here is my alphabetical order for the above list:

• #!%&: Creating Comic Books
• $35 a Day Through Europe
• .38 Special
• 1001 Arabian Nights
• The 1-2-3 of Magic
• Albany, New York
• El Paso, Texas
• H20: The Beauty of Water
• The Hague, Netherlands
• The Lord of the Rings
• New York, New York
• Newark, New Jersey
• Plzen, Czech Republic
• St. Louis, Missouri
• Saint Nicholas, Belgium
• XVIIme siècle

List of Questions: 

1. Did you put The Hague under T or H?

I placed "The Hague" under "H" as I excluded "The" from the title.

2. Did you put EI Paso under E or P?

I placed "EI Paso" under "E" as it's a location in Texas, United States, it should be sorted following the ASCII Sort Order Chart. 

3. Which came first in your list, Newark or New York?

"New York" came first in the list, because space come before letters.

4. Does St. Louis come before or after Saint Nicholas?

"St. Louis" came before "Saint Nicholas", because "St" is an abbreviation of "Saint", therefore, L precedes N.

5. How did you handle numbers, punctuation, and special characters?

I followed ASCII Sort Order Chart for this, therefor, punctuation and special characters came before numbers, and then numbers came before letters.

6. Assuming the italicised terms are book titles, what might be a more useful way to organise this list?

The more useful way of organizing this list will be having book titles in a separate list as there are different from city names. 

7. If the cities represent places you’ve visited and the book titles are ones you’ve read, how could chronology be used to order the list in a more meaningful way?

Chronological order refers to a record of events starting with the earliest and following the order in which they occurred. Therefor, I'll be sorting this list by date, like a timeline, which it will show the cities i visited or books I have read according to the date.