Internet Search                                 Date: __June 21, 2005______________

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?

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.infoplease.com/ipa/A0749825.html

 

3. What time is sunset for Valdosta, Georgia tonight?

8:39 pm

URL:  http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USGA0589_f.html

 

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

URL:   http://www.albanyga.com/

 

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

1. Midflight asks, "Which one of you losers is the designated driver?"

URL: http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/archive/ls_topten_archive2005/ls_topten_archive_20050617.shtml

 

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

14th of Sivan, 5765

URL: http://www.hebcal.com/

 

7. What is the estimated population of the United States for today?

295,734,134

URL: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html

 

8. Who is Edward Jenner?

He discovered vaccinations

URL: http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/nathist/jenner.html

 

9. What is the origin of the word: nerd?

There are two popular stories about nerd's origin.The first is that it come from Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo, in which appears a creature called a nerd. This book was published in 1950.

I'll sail to Ka-Troo
And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!

The second is that it is a variation on the name of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's (Candace's father) dummy, Mortimer Snerd.Either could be correct. There is no cite of the term prior to its 1950 appearance in the Dr. Seuss book. The earliest cite of the current usage is from 1951. Lighter, however, cites a 1941 use of the nickname Mortimer Snerd to refer to a technical, brainy type of guy:

I discussed the P-40 flying characteristics with 'Mortimer Snerd' Shilling.
--C.R. Bond & T. Anderson, Flying T. Diary

Chapman suggests that it is from surfer or hot-rodder lingo and could be a derivation of nerts or nuts. The OED2 suggests both the Dr. Seuss explanation and the possibility that it could be a euphemism for turd. Lighter plumps for the Dr. Seuss origin, despite the 1941 quote. Although it does admit that nerd could have been influenced by Bergen's puppet.The evidence appears to be against the Mortimer Snerd explanation, chiefly because the original sense of nerd was a stupid or obnoxious person. No cites of it meaning a brainy individual or an industrious student appear until the mid-1970s. Likewise the Dr. Seuss explanation seems doubtful because a one year transition from an obscure, mythical, children's book creature to stupid person seems awfully fast. So in the end, like many words that appear in these pages, we just don't know where it came from.

URL:http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorn.htm

 

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

cadeira

URL: http://ets.freetranslation.com/