Audio of William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech. You must include one correct, accurate quote from Faulkner in your post.
"The young man and woman writing today have forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself, which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat."
January 1, 1644, fell on which day of the week? What was the weather like that day in Philadelphia/Pennsylvania?
Gregorian calendar? Friday. Cloudy and rainy weather, with occasional sunshine and somewhat warm.
Where and when did the five deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history occur?
Great Galveston Hurricane, Texas 1900, Death toll: 8000
Lake Okeechobee Florida 1928, Death toll: 2500
Katrina 2005, Death toll: 1200
Cheniere Caminada, Louisiana 1893 Death toll: 1100-1400
Sea Islands, South Carolina/Georgia 1893 Death toll: 1000,2000
A blueprint for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.
Ernest Hemingway’s 1923 passport photograph. Make five factual observations about the document.
1. Hemingway's passport number was 359666
2. There appears to be a stamp crookedly applied over the photograph.
3. Hemingway is wearing a suit and tie and not yet sporting his signature beard.
4. The photograph appears to have been embossed with a circular insignia in the upper lefthand corner.
5. The background paper reads 'United States passport' repe
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