tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post4615213518351232002..comments2024-03-17T06:13:15.256-07:00Comments on SearchReSearch: Wednesday Search Challenge (12/28/11): Who IS that woman?Dan Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-76754597390939856172012-01-01T20:18:36.224-08:002012-01-01T20:18:36.224-08:00Lou Henry Hoover. Less than a minuteLou Henry Hoover. Less than a minuteVShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14181569746718259145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-61318706063670738402011-12-29T12:54:58.196-08:002011-12-29T12:54:58.196-08:00The lady is Lou Henry Hoover and she won the gold ...The lady is Lou Henry Hoover and she won the gold medal for distinguished service. I just googled "famous geologist Dr. Branner" and the second link had the her name. I quick search of wikipedia confirmed the information. The I searched for her name with gold medal and the first link provided that information.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-28945726750913737852011-12-29T09:49:02.526-08:002011-12-29T09:49:02.526-08:00Lou Hoover, wife of Herbert Hoover.
Took my less...Lou Hoover, wife of Herbert Hoover. <br /><br />Took my less than 10 seconds.<br /><br />Searched for "16th century mining latin", 5th result was:<br /><br />http://www.britannica.com/presidents/article-9097008<br /><br />with the following blurb that tipped me off while scanning the search results: <br /><br />"... birth to two sons (1903 and 1907) and collaborated with her husband on an award-winning translation of a 16th-century mining text originally written in Latin. ..."Rickyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17740288645815252581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-33421050392906611672011-12-29T09:39:03.289-08:002011-12-29T09:39:03.289-08:00Itai -- That's actually an excellent trick. A...Itai -- That's actually an excellent trick. As I pointed out in one of my first blog posts (http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2010/01/chemical-compound-search.html?showComment=1277851579843 ) one should use all of the tricks at hand (including ALT tags on images and image filenames) as clues. Nicely done.Dan Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-69595396207836107782011-12-29T09:12:58.940-08:002011-12-29T09:12:58.940-08:00The image you've attached is named "smelt...The image you've attached is named "smelting-ore-16th-century-3.jpg". Google image search for smelting ore 16th century, returns a bunch of relevant images, including the original photo leading to the wikipedia entry on "De re metallica".Itai Lahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17416985526706204624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-47734170101075703412011-12-29T08:16:47.863-08:002011-12-29T08:16:47.863-08:00Lou Henry Hoover. About 2 minutes. Found who it wa...Lou Henry Hoover. About 2 minutes. Found who it was with one search: "1800s stanford mining engineer woman", which took me to her wikipedia page. And then a second search for "Lou Henry Hoover gold medal" took me to the relevant National Mining Hall of Fame page. The most time consuming part was reading the post to decide what to search for.<br /><br />I did not use the clue about Dr. Brenner.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11343092625634134750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-87523336745792889582011-12-29T08:11:30.064-08:002011-12-29T08:11:30.064-08:00Lou Henry Hoover, 1914 Gold Medal from Mining &...Lou Henry Hoover, 1914 Gold Medal from Mining & Metallurgical Society<br /><br />Googled 'mining engineer stanford China', third result down was Herbert Hoover on Wikipedia, Ctrl-F on that page 'wife' and found Lou Henry Hoover's page. Then googled '"lou henry hoover" gold medal', first result down was a Google Books page with the relevant info.Will Thonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06507696784681097915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-58205957227137539802011-12-29T07:32:26.348-08:002011-12-29T07:32:26.348-08:00Literally took about 60 seconds.
Searched: Dr. Bra...Literally took about 60 seconds.<br />Searched: Dr. Branner Geologist, and found his full name is John Casper Branner. That led to Dr. Branner's wikipedia page, where at the bottom it states "Two of his Stanford students, United States President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover, dedicated their English translation of the medieval mining classic De re metallica to Branner."Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07182224614012536750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-36752237855796028602011-12-29T07:09:33.633-08:002011-12-29T07:09:33.633-08:00Lou Henry Hoover, Gold Medal for Distinguished Ser...Lou Henry Hoover, Gold Medal for Distinguished Service.<br /><br />Is tarted off searching and learning about Dr. Brenner, since she and her future husband met at school, I figured it must have been where he was professor. The first name that came up was H.C. Hoover, who found a mentor in Dr. Brenner. From there is was a simple search for Herbs wife, and the metal was the first given Herb and Lou by the 1914 the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07389360799249122503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-75972248739834204412011-12-29T06:58:18.017-08:002011-12-29T06:58:18.017-08:00This took me about a minute. I googled 'minin...This took me about a minute. I googled 'mining engineer stanford chinese woman'. The third result turned up the Wikipedia entry for Lou Henry Hoover, which is strangely silent about her gold medal (ctrl-f 'medal' found no results.) A follow-up query for 'lou henry hoover gold medal' turned up the Mining Hall of Fame Inductees Database, which reports that she was awarded the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America's first Gold Medal for Distinguished Service in 1914 (along with her husband, Herbert Hoover.) She had translated Agricola’s “De Re Metallica” (1556) which was 'instantly recognized as a brilliant work of scholarship and an incomparable contribution to the history of science.'Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165743232309345454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-5264661568635957542011-12-29T06:51:42.999-08:002011-12-29T06:51:42.999-08:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Henry_Hoover
Fou...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Henry_Hoover<br /><br />Found in under 5 minutes via google and two searches.<br /><br />The process involved imagining words the target article might have in it. Key and slightly unique words that would be mentioned over and over. I started with "Woman Miner" and a long-shot phrase that I hoped would pair down the results. "speak chinese" quoted in google as a phrase search. When that returned junk I switched up to this 'mining woman stanford "chinese rebellion"' I switched to "mining" as the start word as it would be used more often than the word miner and likely woman I suspected. Then "woman" and finally two bits that might pair down the results... A proper noun I knew would be in an accurate article "Stanford" and a long-shot phrase that might be mentioned "chinese rebellion". The first hit was about the Boxer Rebellion which lead me to the miner Herbert Hoover and his wikipedia page lead me to the link above. My basic search starts with imagining what words that are as unique as possible might be mentioned over and over in a search target. From there I add successively less and less likely to occur words or phrases all the while trying to make them as unique as possible.<br /><br />For the extra points "The Society’s Gold Medal was first awarded to Herbert C. and Lou<br />Henry Hoover in recognition of “. . . Contributions to the Literature<br />of Mining. . .” This award was presented at the Society’s Annual<br />Dinner held at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City." <br /><br />Another search in under 2 mintues. Second result in '"Lou Hoover" "Gold Metal"'.attrezzo phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14277622104200859218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-12453654439017431002011-12-29T06:30:33.132-08:002011-12-29T06:30:33.132-08:00Lou Henry, found in less than a minute.
I googled...Lou Henry, found in less than a minute.<br /><br />I googled mining engineer Stanford China and she was on its 3-6.<br /><br />Googling Lou Henry Gold Medal gave the immediate result: "In 1914 the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America awarded the Hoovers its first Gold Medal for Distinguished Service"GiFohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13282859121660170746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-83402352650122079682011-12-29T06:29:59.062-08:002011-12-29T06:29:59.062-08:006min - Google search: woman 19th century "min...6min - Google search: woman 19th century "mining engineer" friends of "dr banner" geologist<br /><br />http://pagerankstudio.com/Blog/2011/01/lou-henry-hoover-biography-life-and-career-facts/gollorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01125202279631838609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-19989692084708860892011-12-29T06:27:51.224-08:002011-12-29T06:27:51.224-08:00Lou Henry
Took about 10 minutes, Dr. Banner refere...Lou Henry<br />Took about 10 minutes, Dr. Banner reference, found at Stanford, first class, Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry were students.Chris Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964256465198347083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-14638786890405905302011-12-29T06:08:36.844-08:002011-12-29T06:08:36.844-08:00Isabel Sharpe ShepardIsabel Sharpe ShepardPradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04228995801298900110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-39069382404357402212011-12-29T05:07:46.429-08:002011-12-29T05:07:46.429-08:00LOU HENRY HOOVER
Took about 5 minutes. Did a sear...LOU HENRY HOOVER<br /><br />Took about 5 minutes. Did a search on "woman mining engineer who earned her degree at Stanford".mreinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01940227094057240448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-78723622047800422352011-12-29T03:34:48.128-08:002011-12-29T03:34:48.128-08:00Is It Lou Henry Hoover? (gold medal from Mining an...Is It Lou Henry Hoover? (gold medal from Mining and Metallurgical Society of America).<br />Took about 15 min, google with some of the terms, found a bio that corresponded to the profile.<br />Then I found the image with the name of the book.PPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06231514348394939521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-28926928629665515092011-12-29T03:20:24.743-08:002011-12-29T03:20:24.743-08:00The answer is Lou Henry Hoover. I found it via he...The answer is Lou Henry Hoover. I found it via her Wikipedia entry by using the google search terms "1899 China woman mining engineer Stanford" all together. This was my second google attempt, as using the phrase "19th century" versus "1899" was not effective.<br /><br />For the bonus, she was decorated with the "Cross of Chevalier, Order of Leopold" by King Albert I of Belgium. This required a second google search using the terms lou henry hoover king albert i belgium" which I gleaned from the Wikipedia article.<br /><br />Total search time was about 5 minutes.bbowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978053321590893294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-69414254217069395772011-12-29T02:49:34.108-08:002011-12-29T02:49:34.108-08:00Found this S&R in life hacker. Located answer ...Found this S&R in life hacker. Located answer in four minutes using the following steps. Highlighted and searched "16th century Latin manuscript on mining". Discarded search results and used "female mining engineer who earned her degree at Stanford". Directed to Stanford school of earth sciences web page. Found Name Lou Henry Hoover. Performed search on this name. Chose next link to www.firstladies.org. Read biography page and success.Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15334522958871088303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-81376602572719050212011-12-29T02:22:32.766-08:002011-12-29T02:22:32.766-08:00Lou Henry Hoover http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_...Lou Henry Hoover http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Henry_Hoover<br /><br />Googled for [woman + mining engineer + china +latin book]Trial Blazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00750069780339738492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-26869949226660587912011-12-29T01:47:41.272-08:002011-12-29T01:47:41.272-08:00Lou Henry Hoover. Time to find out: 2 minutes.
Se...Lou Henry Hoover. Time to find out: 2 minutes.<br /><br />Searched google on:<br /><br />mining engineer stanford latin chinese<br /><br />got a match on Wikipedia, second link in the google results and she seemed to match the description. <br /><br />Further down in the text it's mentioned that she and Herbert translated Agricola's De Re Metallica from Latin, and the Wikipedia page on De Re Metallica has the picture on it with the text 'Smelting ore, a woodcut from the book'.<br /><br />For the question of gold medal, a search on:<br /><br />Lou Henry Hoover gold medal<br /><br />gave a hit on www.mininghalloffame.org where the following is mentioned:<br /><br />"In 1914 the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America awarded the Hoovers its first Gold Medal for Distinguished Service."Mika Perälähttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03446634058293488625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-42128951645592426982011-12-29T01:15:29.717-08:002011-12-29T01:15:29.717-08:00Lou Henry Hoover, decorated by King Albert I of Be...Lou Henry Hoover, decorated by King Albert I of Belgium for providing relief for Belgian refugees During World War I.<br /><br />I googled "woman mining engineer stanford" (without quotes) and the first result was a Wikipedia page about her - took me few seconds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-44009907981249369882011-12-29T01:15:05.867-08:002011-12-29T01:15:05.867-08:00Found out about your site from LifeHacker, and was...Found out about your site from LifeHacker, and was intrigued. Found the answer "Lou Henry Hoover" in about a minute, using the search pattern <"mining engineer" china latin manuscript translation> and the fist listing not to do with the challenge http://wolfgangcapito.wordpress.com/tag/georgius-agricola/ then the browsing spead out from there. Interesting topic, glad to have made her, and your acquaintance.jongleurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03031226677277626625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-57451021242369294132011-12-29T00:30:03.288-08:002011-12-29T00:30:03.288-08:00This was TOO EASY!! Lou Hoover is your woman! and ...This was TOO EASY!! Lou Hoover is your woman! and a simple google search of "Stanford graduates in mining engineering and women" gave me a nice list with Lou Henry Hoover listed as the third choice. right time period, right social class, right college, translated latin mining text "Agricola de re Metallica"and received a gold medal from the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America that work. Total time five minutes. Okay i'm a lousey typist and I had to go to the link from the wikipedia article to one the Biographical Article on Lou Hoover. BTW thanks. I really didn't know how amazing she was and her husband as well.Kamdesignshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629031307849143312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-44491416932117755062011-12-28T23:44:11.411-08:002011-12-28T23:44:11.411-08:00She is Lou Henry Hoover, wife of President Herbert...She is Lou Henry Hoover, wife of President Herbert Hoover. She won a gold medal for the translating of Agricola de re Metallica into English from the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.<br /><br />This challenge was quite fun; I'd never done something like it before. It took me about 10 minutes to find out who she was and another 10 minutes to find out why she was awarded the gold medal.<br /><br />I googled the phrase "stanford mining engineer 16th century latin" without quotes. It took me to a Google Books search page with the same search terms where excerpts of A Companion to California: Newly Revised and Expanded with Illustrations was presented. I found out it was Ms Hoover there and did another search on Wikipedia for Lou Henry Hoover. <br /><br />I saw at Wikipedia that she was decorated by King Albert I of Belgium for her work in the relief effort for Belgian refugees of WWI. Thinking the decoration might include a gold medal, but not certain, I googled Lou Henry Hoover Belgium. This yielded the Hoover Archives page at http://www.hoover.archives.gov/education/louhenrybio.html where it says she was awarded the gold medal for the translation work.<br /><br />Thanks, this was fun!<br /><br />JeffJeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17294317676193378416noreply@blogger.com