October 5 Lab Assignments, pt. 2 of 3

LATER THAT NIGHT:

3. Where and when did the five deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history occur?

According to the chart on http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0778120.html, which I doublechecked/verified here,
and was in too much of a hurry to copy from anywhere else, so I copied this by hand.

1. Galveston TX / Year 1900 / Category 4 / 8,000 (possibly 10-12,000) deaths
2. Lake Okeechobee, FL / Year 1928 / Category 4/ 2,500 deaths
3. Katrina (LA/Miss.) / Year 2005 / Category 3 / 1, 800 deaths
4. Florida Keys/S. Texas / 1919 / Category 4 / 500 lost at sea, total est. 600-900 deaths
5. New England 1938 / 1938 / Category 3 / 600 deaths

4. A blueprint for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.



Taken from here, icollector.com, which seems to be an auctions website. The blueprints were priced at $15,000, apparently
sold Oct. 13, 2006. I had my initial doubts, but this picture kept appearing as I browsed through Google..

5. Ernest Hemingway’s 1923 passport photograph. Make five factual observations about the document.

I was running out of MB space, so I am simply going to include the link

Taken from National Archives website, which presents the photo with extensive citation and a short summary of information regarding the photograph and its housing at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

5 Observations:

1. His signature is over the picture in black ink, which makes it kind of hard to read, but kind of aesthetically pleasing.
2. The picture has been stamped with a stamp declaring that the picture has been impressed.
3. The picture has been impressed twice with the seal of the Department of State. The caption stated that Hemingway used this picture on his return to Europe. Could it be that it was impressed at each crossing?
4. Perhaps the identifying information is elsewhere on the passport, but I still find it strange that such information is not right beside the picture as it is nowadays.
5. The picture has not been placed straightly on the outlined box (labled "Photograph of (illegible)". It was arranged by hand, not by machine.