Internet Search                                 Date: 9-13-05

            Todd Alderman

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

        The Cherokee Rose

2. What is the exact wording for the 15th Amendment, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution?

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

        1. 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.

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

    URL: http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USLocalStd.asp?loc=KVLD&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=Forecasts&product=Forecast&prodnav=none

        Sunset is at 7:41 P.M.

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

    URL: http://www.valdostacity.com/

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

    URL: http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/       

        1. At dinner, angrily declares, 'Death to meatloaf'"

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

    URL: http://www.jewishgen.org/jos/josdates.htm

        09 Elul 5765

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

    URL: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004925.html

        Total Resident Pop. (July 2005 est.)¹: 296,496,649

8. Who is Edward Jenner?

URL: http://www.edward-jenner.com/

    Edward Jenner

       

        Edward Jenner

        Edward Jenner was born may 17th 1749 Gloucestershire. His father was the vicar of Berkeley the Reverend James Stephen Jenner, his mother was Sarah     Jenner. He had 8 brothers and sisters. When he was five years old both of his parents had died and he was left in the care of his eldest sister Mary. Mary was married to the incoming vicar the reverend GC Black

        White attending school as a small child he was inoculated against small pox. The inoculation affected him for the duration of his life. When he was 14 years old he began working as the apprentice of Dr Daniel Ludlow. Under the tutelage of Dr Ludlow he learned how to become a surgeon. He moved to London in 1770 to

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

    URL: http://www.thewordnerd.com/Origin.html

        There are two popular stories about the origin of the word, "nerd."

        The first is that it come from Dr. Suess'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 theory could be correct. There is no record of the term prior to its 1950 appearance in the Dr. Suess book. The earliest citing of the    current usage is from 1951.

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

URL: http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html

        cadeira

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