Lab 1, 10/5

1. William Faulkner won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, and he made his acceptance speech, an excerpt of which can be heard here, on December 10, 1950. In his speech, he described how the writer's job goes beyond simple documentation of facts and is really about lifting the human spirit:

He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

Source: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-speech.html

2. January 1, 1644 was a Friday. The weather in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was cloudy and rainy, though warm.

Sources: http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20083411

3. The five deadliest hurricanes in the United States were:
    1. Galveston, Texas in 1900
    2. Southeast Florida, 1928
    3. Hurricane Katrina, Southeast Louisiana and Mississippi, 2005
    4. Cheniere Caminanda, Louisiana, 1893
    5. Sea Islands, South Carolina and Georgia, 1893

Source: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/NWS-TPC-5.pdf

4. The original blueprint for Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater can be found here.

Source: http://historical.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=629&lotNo=25650&type=prte-pr082406b#Photo

5. An image of Ernest Hemingway's 1923 passport can be found here.
The photograph shows a young Hemingway dressed in a three-piece suit. Faded and with holes from staples and clips, the photograph is in sepia tone. It is stamped with the number 359666. There is a boxed line on the passport, in which the photograph was crookedly adhered.

Source: http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=721