Internet Search Date: ___1/26/05_____________

Assignment 3: Summer, 2004

For each of the items below, you can use the Internet to find the answer. Please include the URL (Universal Resources Locator) you used to find your answer. Cut and paste the entire URL as a link.

For example: VSU is the text; the link is www.valdosta.edu.

1. What is the state flower of Georgia, find name and a picture? The Cherokee rose

URL: http://www.50states.com/flower/georgia.htm

2. What is the exact wording for the 15th Amendment, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution? The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

URL: http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am15

3. What time is sunset for Valdosta, Georgia tonight? 6:01 PM (EST)

URL: http://autobrand.wunderground.com/US/GA/Valdosta_Regional.html

4. Is there a home page for your hometown? Find the URL? Yes

URL: http://www.atlantainfoguide.com/gastate.html

5. What is number 1 in the "Top 10 List" for The Late Show with David Letterman, last night? Wounded knee!"

URL: http://www.geocities.com/lukefisk.geo/davidletterman.html

6. What day is it today in the Hebrew Calendar? 16 Shevat 5765

URL: http://betmish.org/hebrewdate/today.html

7. What is the estimated population of the United States for today? U.S. 295,334,420

URL: http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

8. Who is Edward Jenner? Edward Jenner was born at his father's vicarage at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, on May 17, 1749. After leaving school, he was apprenticed to a local surgeon, and in 1770 he went to London and became a resident pupil under the great surgeon and anatomist, John Hunter, with whom he remained on intimate terms for the rest of Hunter's life. In 1773 he took up practice at Berkeley, where, except for numerous visits to London, he spent the rest of his life. He died of apoplexy on January 26, 1823.

Jenner's scientific interests were varied, but the importance of his work in vaccination has overshadowed his other results. Early in his career he had begun to observe the phenomena of cowpox, a disease common in the rural parts of the western counties of England, and he was familiar with the belief, current among the peasantry, that a person who had suffered from the cowpox could not take smallpox. Finally, in 1796, he made his first experiment in vaccination, inoculating a boy of eight with cowpox, and, after his recovery, with smallpox; with the result that the boy did not take the latter disease.

Jenner's first paper on his discovery was never printed; but in 1798 appeared the first of the following treatises. Its reception by the medical profession was highly discouraging; but progress began when Cline, the surgeon of St. Thomas' Hospital, used the treatment with success. Jenner continued his investigations, publishing his results from time to time, and gradually gaining recognition; though opposition to his theory and practice was at first vehement, and has never entirely disappeared. In 1802, Parliament voted him 10,000, pounds and in 1806, 20,000, pounds in recognition of the value of his services, and the sacrifices they had entailed. As early as 1807, Bavaria made vaccination compulsory; and since that date most of the European governments have officially encouraged or compelled the practice; and smallpox has ceased to be the almost universal scourge it was before Jenner's discovery.

URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1798jenner-vacc.html

9. What is the origin of the word: nerd? The term Nerd was adopted in the mid-1960s, inspired by philosopher Timothy Charles Paul Fuller to describe a stereotypical intelligent recluse with poor social skills, one who is usually the butt of others' jokes. The word was first used in Dr. Seuss's book if I Ran the Zoo, published in 1950 where it is simply a name for one of Seuss's many comical imaginary animals. (The context is narrator Gerald McGrew's claim that he would collect "a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too" for his imaginary zoo.) Another theory of the word's origin is that it is a version of Mortimer Snerd, the name of Edgar Bergen's ventriloquist dummy. Yet another theory is that it comes from Northern Electric Research and Developments where the employees wore pocket protectors with the acronym N.E.R.D. printed on them. And yet another theory is that it comes from the word "drunk" reversed to "knurd", to illustrate someone who did not drink at parties.

URL: http://nerdii.blogdrive.com/

10. What is the word for “chair” in Portuguese? Cadeira

URL: http://www.systranlinks.com/systran/cgi?partner=systran-AffiliatesBox-en&urltext=chair&y=14&x=12&lp=en_pt