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A PATRIOTIC SONG
• Born in Massachusetts in 1859, Katharine Lee Bates grew up to become a professor of English literature at Wellesley College. She was Answer: Dell. also a prolific writer, authoring many books, A VERYand LARGE articles, poems, stories.NUMBER • Edward Kasner was atomathematician. In 1938 • In 1893 she traveled the Rocky Mountains he was asked to come up with a name for a where she spent the summer teaching at Colovery large number: the numeral one, followed rado College. One day, she joined a group of by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young people headed the they top of 14,000-foot nephews whatfor name would suggest.Pikes Peak. They traveled by wagons, mules, and foot. • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name • Katharine exhausted by strip the time she out of thewas funnies. A cartoon character reached the top, was but the was magnificent. named Barney veryview popular. Milton chose Inspired thename sightfor of the the number. mountains, plains, Barney’sbylast skies,announced she composed a poem •and Kasner the new name celebrating for the big the beauty of America. number in his next book, altering the spelling. • •Two poem wasand published in a Sixtyyears yearslater, later,her Larry Page Sergey Brin magazine Congregationalist” for developedcalled a new“The internet search engine. Other search engines searched their Fourth of July edition,each and webpage it reachedand an ranked them according to how many times even wider audience when it was reprinted ina specific termEvening appearedTranscript” on them, but Page and “The Boston in 1904. Brin designed their search engine to search for • Meanwhile, a New musician the specific term andJersey then find out hownamed many Samuel Wardwere had written hymntocalled links there that leda back that “Mapage, terna.” song’s was,engine. ‘O Mother which The resulted in a first betterline search dear, Jerusalem’ and the tune was metrically • They decided they needed a name that identical Katharine’s It was reflectedtohow many poem. websites the natural search for Katharine’s poem and Samuel’s tune to engine was searching. They took the name match up, and soon people werenumber, singingonly the of Edward Kasner’s very large new song. they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being spelled exactly the same way thethe cartoon • By the time Katharine died in 1929, song character Barney spelled his last name. whose lyrics she had penned had becomeWhat’s a nait called? (Answer at bottom of page) tional favorite. COMPUTER FACTS • Many people approached Congress asking for •this In 1981 said, kb of national memory song Bill to beGates chosen as “640 America’s ought to be enough for anybody.” anthem because it is simple, beautiful, and •easy Moore’s LawEven statesthough that computer performance to sing. “The Star Spangled doubles every 18 to 24inmonths, ever since Banner” was chosen 1931, and many people 1971, this has been true. still feel that Katharine and Samuel’s song •would HP, Google, and Apple wereThe all make aMicrosoft, better national anthem. started in garages. song is called “America the Beautiful.” Answer: Google, from googol.
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