Unfortunately, I was unable to complete this lab in the time alloted (I got caught up in Faulkner's speech). Here is what I had at the end of class.
1. Here is an excerpt from William Faulkner's speech at the Nobel Banquet in December 1950. Faulkner hated giving public speeches, which is why this speech is so interesting. My personal favorite quote from the speech:
I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will still endure. That when the last ding-dong of doom clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red evening, that even then, there will still be one more sound; that of his puny, inexhaustible voice, still talking.
2. Next, January 1, 1644 fell on a Friday. From this link, I believe that the weather was cold and rainy, but with occasional bursts of sunshine,
3. The five deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history are:
1. Galveston, TX - 1900
2. Lake Okeechobee, FL - 1928
3. Hurricane Katrina, LA/MS - 2005
4. Cheniere Caminanda, LA -1893
5. Sea Islands, SC/GA - 1893
4. Here is a blueprint of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.
5. Here is Ernest Hemingway's 1923 Passport Photo: 
Five factual observations: Hemingway's middle name is Miller, he was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899.
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