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• In addition to its financial struggles, the fair experienced several other tragedies. A smallpox epidemic Answer: Dell. originated on the grounds in the summerAofVERY 1893 LARGE and hadNUMBER spread throughout Chicago by Autumn. Two days before the • Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 closing ceremonies, the city’s Mayor Carter he was asked to come up with a name for a Harrison assassinated in his home. The very largewas number: the numeral one, followed ceremonies were cancelled and his replaced with by a hundred zeros. He asked two young anephews public what memorial service for the mayor. name they would suggest. Shortly after the close of suggested the fair, many the • Nine-year-old Milton a of name buildings were destroyed by fire. Seventeen out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character people killed in thepopular. blaze including 14 named were Barney was very Milton chose firefighters. fire out in the Cold Barney’s lastThe name forbroke the number. Building, one of the fair’s largest • Storage Kasner announced the new name for the big structures. It was used to store perishable food number in his next book, altering the spelling. used the vendors, as well housing ice • Sixtyby years later, Larry Pageasand SergeyanBrin skating rink. The building was constructed developed a new internet search engine. Other with a 200-foot iron chimney run the and research engines searched each towebpage ranked them according to how timesofa frigeration units. In keeping withmany the theme specific term appeared on them, Page and the “White City,” builders added but a decorative Brin designed their search engine to search for wooden cupola around the chimney. A serious the hazard specificwas termcreated and then out how many fire byfind placing the wood links there were that led back to that base just 30 inches above the chimney. page, which resulted in a better search engine. • • Of the decided more thanthey 200 needed buildingsa constructed They name that for the exposition, only one remains. reflected how many websites the Known search as the Palace of Fine Arts in took 1893,the today it engine was searching. They name houses Chicago’s Museum of Science andonly Inof Edward Kasner’s very large number, they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being dustry. spelled exactly the same way the cartoon • Most folks have seen a machine that flattens a character Barney spelled his last name. What’s penny, embossing a picture of various it called? (Answer itatwith bottom of page) tourist attractions. That machine was first seen COMPUTER FACTS at the Columbian Exposition, and featured • seven In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb for of memory different lettering designs fairgoought to be enough for anybody.” ers to choose • from Moore’s for Law theirstates that computer performance doubles every 181.toSix 24times months, and ever since souvenir. 6. SpongeBob 1971, this has been true. 2. Cotton candy SquarePants THANKS 7. Starbuck 3. New York CityApple • HP, Google, Microsoft, and were all 8. 0.125 4. 1977 FOR started in garages. 5. Five: AL, FL, 9. Gin READING LA, MS, TX Answer: Google, from googol.

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