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August 29, 2005
Master of My Domain
Well I began at the beginning (“a very good place to start”). After reading Question #1 carefully to make sure that I was looking for a site with a photo of Tito with Amin and a photo of Tito with Roosevelt (as opposed to a photo of the three of them), I hopped on Google images and easily found a photo of Tito with Roosevelt from the National Park Service Museum Collection (http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/elro/shows/foreigndignitaries/slide4.html). I realized, though, that I would not find a picture of Idi Amin here and so I decided that I should “pass” on this question and move on to #2 and boy, am I glad that I did.
#2. I went to Google and typed in “1915 “When all the women wanted it”” (in quotes) and what I found was:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/rr/f04/cw/blog/archives/000458.html
CLIO WIRED SCAVENGER SEARCH RESULTS from 2004.
And so, lucky me, the answers to most of the questions were there:
#2. http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/8066/ADMsuffrage.html, a website titled “Are women people? A book of rhymes for suffrage times by Alice Duer Miller"
#3. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-washington?specfile=/texts/english/washington/fitzpatrick/search/gw.o2w&act=surround&offset=44583481&tag=Writings+of+Washington,+Vol.+35:+To+THE+SECRETARY+OF+STATE&query=timothy+pickering&id=gw350298
The cheated answer from the results page just seemed a little too complicated for me, but having gone to U Va, I knew that the etext center has the George Washington papers online. I went to http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/washington/ and searched for “certain forged letters” and found the letter of March 3, 1797.
#4. I didn’t even bother looking up the speech in #4 because as I learned from last year’s results, this one was a trick question, but it was meant to make a point about the problem of authenticity on the Web. Lots of people found a speech purporting to be by “Willie Lynch,” although the speech is a fake but one that is widely disseminated on the Web. It’s true I googled “Willie Lynch” and found tons of sites on his speech… and even the claim that the term “lynching” came from his name.
#5. Now this question was not on last year’s hunt, and so, alas, I had to search for it myself, and so I Googled: “February 21, 1990 Vaclav havel Congress” and found
Vaclav Havel: Speeches and Writings?A Joint Session of the US Congress: Washington DC, February 21, 1990. The Visit?of German President Richard von Weizsacker: Prague, March 15, 1990 ...
http://old.hrad.cz/president/Havel/speeches/projev_uk.php3?prok=1990
BUT the page wouldn’t work and then I realized that the question asked for the speech on one of the FORMER web pages and so I went to http://web.archive.org/, which uses its Wayback Machine to let you “browse through 40 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.” So I used the Wayback Machine to search
http://old.hrad.cz/president/Havel/speeches/projev_uk.php3?prok=1990 and found the March 24, 2004 version of the site and the transcript of the speech at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040310223216/old.hrad.cz/president/Havel/speeches/1990/2102_uk.html
#6. (another “cheated” answer):
Roger Middleton; Peter Wardley ?The Economic History Review , New Series, Vol. 47, No. 2. (May, 1994), pp. 374-407. ?Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-0117%28199405%292%3A47%3A2%3C374%3AAROITD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
Although for the record, the library databases (and most likely JSTOR) are where I would have looked for this anyway.
#7. I was able to cheat for the first half of this question because last year the question was used to find Hamlet on the Holodeck. But the search was the same. Go to http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/syllabi/ and search for “Non-Designers Web Book” and you come up with a list of courses using the book, including:
1. INFO 652 Internet Information Resource Design - Drexel University
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~sms26/Class%20Syllabus1.html
2. The Art Institute of Colorado Course Syllabus COURSE TITLE: P72307 ...
http://stu.aii.edu/~jhf241/syallabi/Layout_secAV.pdf
3. VSAR 305 Syllabus F2004 - California State University, San Marcos
http://courses.csusm.edu/vsar305kd3/syllabus.html
4. Course Syllabus - Northern Illinois University?
http://www.cedu.niu.edu/~robinson/vislit/syllabus.htm
#8. I used http://web.archive.org/ and the Wayback Machine again for this one and entered “chnm.gmu.edu” and found the 1998 version at http://web.archive.org/web/19980109035256/http://chnm.gmu.edu/
#9. Well when I tried to cheat and use the suggested: http://www.thecore.nus.edu/sts/conf00/murray/talk/5.html I found that the site no longer exists. I tried it in the Wayback Machine but that page was not archived. I also tried searching around http://www.thecore.nus.edu for the picture but couldn’t find it. Apparently it was from some conference in 2000 that is no longer on the site. The search results said that this question was an exercise in using a Google image search but I got no results when I tried “Janet Murray and sims” and a search for “Janet Murray” brought up a lot of pictures, but from what I could tell, none with sims (although granted I didn’t search through all of them).
#10. I googled “Although I worry about turning the survey into little more than highbrow entertainment and students into passive consumers, having slides has in fact created new opportunities for student exchange.” And was directed to: http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/textbooks/2001/article.shtml, which had the full-text from the March 2005?"The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth": Writing, Producing, and Using College-Level American History Textbooks,” from The "Textbooks and Teaching" section.
AND THEN---WHILE STILL MAKING GOOD TIME, GIVEN THE SHORTCUT—I FOUND I HAD ABOUT 10 MINUTES LEFT TO GO BACK AND TACKLE QUESTION #1…
#1. After hitting a brickwall with the Tito and Eleanor photo, I decided that Tito would be the lynchpin and I needed to search through him… and so I tried a Google search image for “Tito and Amin” (and found one random pic from a Jackson 5 fansite)… then I tried the same in just a websearch and I came to: http://www.onlipix.com/personages/tit.htm, which had a listing of pictures of Tito with all sorts of famous people, including IDI AMIN (and Kirk Douglas) but no Eleanor Roosevelt… so I clicked through all of the links on the page… one of the last links was “Miscellaneous,” which took me to: http://www.titoville.com/images/tito-pass3.jpg, and I figured, “well, let’s just check out titoville,” so I went to: http://www.titoville.com/ which was a funny little site that included:
“Photo Album of a World Leader?
I was handsome; First take a look at some of my older pictures taken before and during WWII.? You should also take a look at pictures of me with world leaders...”, which led me to: http://www.titoville.com/voditelji.html, where I found the pictures of Josip Tito with Idi Amin AND Eleanor Roosevelt.
PHEW. AND I DID IT ALL IN ABOUT 30 MINUTES. Okay, so I didn’t quite complete #9… and I guess morally you could say I cheated, but I did find all of the answers on the web. AND I DID IT ALL USING GOOGLE (told you I could!)
But really, even though I got most of the answers from that site, I did learn quite a bit about searching through the web and I was able to save myself a lot of stress, so I say I win.
<3 Meagan
Posted by mhess3 at August 29, 2005 11:16 PM
Comments
meagan, glad i wasn't alone in this.
Posted by: nona at August 30, 2005 12:55 PM