i am trying to prove to my teacher that the straight dope is an excellent resource. in proving thus, she gave me a question-
What Famous Poet was Named After A Hospital?
so, i am posting this from school. be quick! the “Dope” is superior!
Tom o’ Bedlam?
uh…
nope. i asked her and she says it wasn’t Tom 'o bedlam.
Edna St. Vincent Millay.
After St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, where her uncle’s life was saved.
In 1918, Dr. James W. Ames and a group of 30 black physicians, tired of asking white doctors for permission to admit a black patient to a white hospital, decided to form their own non-profit hospital for blacks. They named the hospital after the poet Dunbar, who had died at the height of his popularity in 1906. (Added: 7-Jun-2000 Hits: 22 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
from the web sight http://blackhistorypages.com/General/Medicine/
qick google search did it with the paramiters of : [poet “named for hospital”].
There you go. Within 41 minutes you received both the correct answer, and the correct answer for the converse.
sorry, I read the question backwards.
hooray! noone else got the answer before you got it down!
Straight Dope rules all!
…and I didn’t have to use no Google, either.