What people search on google: gulliver s travels, tropic of cancer, grapes of wrath, capital of michigan, mayan civilization

Google trends on January 24, 2008:

1. gulliver s travels

“Gulliver’s Travels, officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the “travellers’ tales” literary sub-genre. It is Swift’s best known work, and a classic of English literature.”

2. tropic of cancer

The Tropic of Cancer, or Northern tropic, is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth.

3. grapes of wrath

“The Grapes of Wrath is a classic novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes. A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was made in 1940; however, the endings differ greatly.”

4. capital of michigan

Capital of Michigan is Lansing

5. mayan civilization

The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its spectacular art, monumental architecture, and sophisticated mathematical and astronomical systems.