I made some small changes in this one, but I think there is a newer template you can use. Just copy it out of the already done web pages in the cp1 noteboard. The Ice Cream Cone by Alissa Clarke

The Ice Cream Cone by Alissa Clarke

Welcome to the Ice Cream Cone Page!

Welcome to the Ice Cream Cone Page. This page is divided into five sections:
First Base
Finding the basic who, where, when facts. This was done for Ms. Carlson and Mr. Holister in October 97.
Second Base
Expository Writing Paragraphs for Ms. Snyder and Mr. Carey in December 97.
Third Base
Creative Writing Paragraphs for Ms. Snyder and Mr. Carey in January 98.
Home Plate
Graphics from Electives: Pictures drawn for Ms. Swayze in Visual Arts, Mr. Bergen in CP1 and a movie for Ms. Elroy in Drama.
Sources

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Who:Ernest Hamwi Where:St. Louis, Missouri at the World's fair. When:1904

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The Ice Cream Cone Alissa Clarke

The ice cream cone was invented in a very coincidental way. In St. Louis, Missouri at the WorldÕs Fair in 1904, a Syrian Vendor Ernest Hamwi who had been in the United States for a year, was selling Zalabia, a Persian wafer-thin waffle. He was set-up next to a vendor selling ice cream. When the ice cream vendor ran out of dishes in which to serve the ice cream, Hamwi offered to help. He wrapped the waffle around the ice cream and called it the WorldÕs Fair Cornucopia. This became quickly became a huge hit and because so many people tried it- and liked it- Hamwi already had his publicity. After being in the United States for one year, he had invented something that would stick to the American culture for years to come.

In 1903, six months before the World's Fair, an Italian, Italo Marchiony, "patented" an invention much like the ice cream cone. Marchiony ran a push cart in New York city selling Lemon Ice in a cone. The reason that Hamwi's invention, not Marchiony's, caught on and became a huge success was that there were more people who tried it at the World's Fair then tried it in New York City. The difference between and Marchiony's and the World's Fair Cornucopia is that the first was made out of pastry and the second is what we think of as an ice cream cone today; a piece of "waffle" shaped like a cone that holds ice cream in the open end. *


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*Bibliography:

1) Shorey, Rachel, Facts about the Ice Cream Cone, April 1997, Noble and Greenough School, http:\\www.noblesweb.org\cp1\RShorey2.html

2) Jones, Charlotte F, Mistakes That Worked, New York, New York, Doubleday, 1991


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