September 07, 2004

Scavenger Hunt

#1 Did Google search for Leon Trotsky; then to Trotsky Internet Archive; then to Encylopedia of Trotskyism; then to Audio/Visual; then to Trotsky & Family; Rise to Communism CD (for sale)has a speech given in English in Mexico in 1932. (6 mins.)
#2 Did Google search on the quote "when all the women wanted it": then to geocities.com/paris/8066/ADMsuffrage; then scrolled to poem "Evolution" by Alice Duer Miller. (5 mins.)
#3 Did Yahoo search on George Washington letters; then to GW letters at the Library of Congress; did search on "certain forged letters" quote; then to GW letter to Timothy Pickering on March 3, 1797. (2 mins.)

#4 Did Google search on Willie Lynch; then freemaninstitute.com/lynch has text of speech. (1 min.)
#5 Did Yahoo search of "Cuban Missile Crisis"; then to thinkquest.org "14 Days in October"; then to "Debriefing Board" to discuss "what if" question with other site visitors. (3 mins.)
#6 Went to library.gmu.edu; then to ejournal finder; search by journal title "Economic History Review"; clicked JSTOR; clicked "search this journal"; entered title of the article; clicked the title for full text (3 mins.)
#7 When CHNM site; clicked "Tools"; clicked "syllabus finder"; has syllabi listings for college courses that use "Hamlet on the Hollodeck." (3 mins.)
#8 Could not find.
#9 Could not find.

Posted by DickH at September 7, 2004 08:05 PM