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| Teaching - there can be no finer calling requiring the clearest demonstration of moral and ethical behavior. Ira Shull, For the Love of Teaching |
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| Why do you teach? Let Us Know. | 
| Tell Us about your most memorable teacher. |
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Today's 5-Minute Quest
Good Luck! |
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  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a political or social leader born on this date:
CATTLE ELEMENT |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of a book illustrated by Chris Soentpiet (according to Houghton Mifflin):
I SANG |
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(hint: all three questions will require you to use a link found on this page)
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1967 work by J.R.R. Tolkien (according to the Authors' Calendar):
RENEGADE OVERSHOOT |
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Alaska: Admission Day
(Commemoration of the addition of Alaska as the 49th state: 01/03/1959) |
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| 1892 | J.R.R. Tolkien (English Author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) |
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| 1898 | Carolyn Haywood (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author) |
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| 1926 | Joan Walsh Anglund (Illinois-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1929 | Anthony Chen (Jamaican-born Asian-American Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1934 | Patricia Lee Gauch (Michigan-born Children's Author) |
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| 1938 | Alma Flor Ada (Cuban-born Latin-American Children's Author) |
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| 1960 | J. Otto Siebold (Los Angeles-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1970 | Chris Soentpiet (South Korean-born Asian-American Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 106 B.C. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman Orator, Writer) |
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| 1886 | John Gould Fletcher (Arkansas-born Poet) |
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| 1904 | Boris Kochno (Russian-Born French Ballet Librettist, Critic) |
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| 1922 | Morten Nielsen (Danish Poet) |
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| 1913 | Gardner Read (Illinois-born Composer) |
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| 1823 | Robert Whitehead (English Inventor of a Self-propelled Underwater Torpedo) |
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| 1886 | Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin (Russian Astronomer) |
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| 1898 | T. Claude Ryan (Kansas-born Aviation Expert: Built the Spirit of St. Louis for Charles Lindbergh) |
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| 1906 | William Wilson Morgan (Tennessee-born Astronomer) |
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| 1869 | John Reynolds (Arkansas-born President of Hendrix College) |
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| 1793 | Lucretia Mott (Massachusetts-born Rights Activist, Abolitionist) |
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| 1834 | Alonzo Jacob Ransier (South Carolina-born African-American Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1840 | Father Damien (Belgian Missionary to Hawaiian Lepers) |
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| 1871 | Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate (Tennessee-born African-American Religious Leader) |
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| 1883 | Clement Attlee (Prime Minister of England from 1945 to 1951) |
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| 1901 | Dinh Diem Ngo (Premier and President of South Vietnam) |
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| 1916 | Betty Furness (New York City-born Consumer Advocate) |
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| 1935 | Millard Fuller (Alabama-born Founder of Habitat for Humanity) |
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| 1918 | Jeane Dixon (Wisconsin-born Astrologer, Psychic) |
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| 1865 | Henry Alfred Lytton (English Operatic Performer) |
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| 1886 | Josephine Hull (Massachusetts-born Actress) |
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| 1909 | Victor Borge (Danish Pianist, Humorist) |
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| 1916 | Maxene Andrews (Minnesota-born Popular Singer; The Andrews Sisters) |
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| 1922 | Bill Travers (English Actor) |
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| 1932 | Dabney Coleman (Texas-born Actor) |
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| 1945 | Stephen Stills (Texas-born Popular Musician: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) |
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| 1946 | Victoria Principal (American Actress: "Dallas") |
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| 1956 | Mel Gibson (New York-born Actor, Filmmaker) |
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| 1975 | Danica McKellar (California-born Actress: Winnie in The Wonder Years) |
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| 1923 | Hank Stram (Chicago-born Football Coach: Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1939 | Bobby Hull (Canadian Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame) |
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| 1795 | Josiah Wedgwood (English Artists, Designer Who Founded Wedgwood Pottery) |
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| 1946 | William Joyce (New York City-born Nazi Propagandist Hanged by the British for Treason) |
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| 1967 | Jack Ruby (Chicago-born Assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald) |
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| 1980 | Joy Adamson (Austrian Author of Born Free Killed by a Servant in Kenya) |
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| 1521 | Martin Luther Is Excommunicated by Pope Leo X |
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| 1624 | William Tucker, the First African-American Born in America, Is Baptized in Jamestown Colony |
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| 1777 | George Washington Routs Cornwallis's Forces At the Battle of Princeton |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: Soome Snow to day; 8 men go to hunt the buffalow, killed a hare & wolf Several Indians visit us to day & a Gross Ventre came after his wife, who had been much abused, & come here for Protection.
Ordway:
Snowed this morning, Several men went out hunting this morning as Whitehouse: This morning some Buffalo came near our fort, the officers sent out 9 Men to hunt them, they returned but had killed none, One of the hunters killed a beautiful white hare, which is common in this Country.— |
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| 1806 |
Lewis: At 11 A. M. we were visited by our near neighbours, Chief or Tiá, Co-mo-wool; alias Conia and six Clatsops. they brought for sale some roots buries and three dogs also a small quantity of fresh blubber. this blubber they informed us they had obtained from their neighbours the Callamucks who inhabit the coast to the S. E. near whose vilage a whale had recently perished. this blubber the Indians eat and esteeme is excellent food. our party from necessaty have been obliged to subsist some length of time on dogs have now become extreemly fond of their flesh; it is worthy of remark that while we lived principally on the flesh of this anamal we were much more healthy strong and more fleshey than we had been since we left the Buffaloe country. for my own part I have become so perfectly reconciled to the dog that I think it an agreeable food and would prefer it vastly to lean Venison or Elk. a small Crow, the blue crested Corvus and the smaller corvus with a white brest, the little brown ren, a large brown sparrow, the bald Eagle and the beatifull Buzzard of the columbia still continue with us.— Sent Sergt. Gass and George shannon to the saltmakers who are somewhere on the coast to the S. W. of us, to enquire after Willard and Wiser who have not yet returned. Reubin Fields Collins and Pots the hunters who set out on the 26th returned this evening after dark. they reported that they had been about 15 Miles up the river at the head of the bay just below us and had hunted the country from thence down on the East side of the river, even to a considerable distance from it and had proved unsuccessful having killed one deer and a few fowls, barely as much as subsisted them. this reminded us of the necessity of taking time by the forelock, [In Roman mythology Opportunity, or Time (Saturn), was represented as having hair on the front of the head, but being bald behind. The expression has been used by Rabelais, Spenser, and Shakespeare.] and keep out several parties while we have yet a little meat beforehand.— I gave the Chief Commowooll a pare of sattin breechies with which he appeared much pleased.—
Clark:
The Sun rose fair this morning for the first time for Six weeks past, the Clouds Soon obscure it from our view, and a Shower of rain Suckceeded—
last night we had Sharp lightening a hard thunder Suckceeded with heavy Showers of hail, and rain, which Continud with intervales of fair moon Shine dureing the night.
Sent out Sergt. Gass & 2 men to the Salt makers with a vew to know what is the Cause of the delay of 2 of our party Willard & Wiser who we are uneasy about, as they were to have been back 6 days ago.
Gass:
The weather is still cloudy and wet.
I set out this morning with one of the men to go to the salt-works, to see what progress those engaged in that business had made; and why some of them had not returned, as they had been expected for some time.
We proceeded along a dividing ridge, expecting to pass the heads of some creeks, which intervened. We travelled all day and could see no game; and the rain still continued. In the evening we arrived at a place where two of the men had killed an elk some time ago. Here we struck up a fire, supped upon the marrow-bones and remained all night.
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| 1823 | Joseph Hernandez Seated as Florida Territory's First U.S. Congressional Representative |
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| 1831 | "The Waverly", the First Steamboat on Arkansas' White River, Arrives in Batesville |
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| 1833 | British Seize Control of the Falkland Islands |
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| 1834 | Mexican Government Imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City |
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| 1841 | Herman Melville Sets Sail for the Pacific As a Seaman on the Whaling Ship "Acushnet" |
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| 1842 | Lincoln Provides Love Advice in Letter to His Friend Joshua Speed |
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| 1846 | Edgar Allan Poe Publishes the Final Issue of Broadway Journal |
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| 1848 | In Minnesota, a Sewing Club—the St. Paul Circle of Industry—Is Formed to Raise Money for a New School Building |
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| 1850 | Presidio County, Texas Is Created |
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| 1856 | The First Train From Chicago Enters Iowa City |
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| 1861 | Florida Delegates Convene in Tallahassee to Consider Secession |
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| Delaware State Legislature Overwhelmingly Votes to Remain in the Union |
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| Georgia's Savannah Volunteer Militia Seizes Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island |
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| Lincoln Writes Seward It Is Safest Not to Arrive in D.C. Until After Official Vote Count |
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| 1862 | President Lincoln Transmits to Senate Treaty with Tribe of Potawatomi Indians |
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| 1865 | U.S.S. Kanawha Captures Confederate Schooner Mary Ellen Off Florida's Gulf Coast |
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| 1866 | Edwin Booth Appears As Hamlet Is His First Role Since His Brother's Assassination of President Lincoln |
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| 1868 | Meiji Restoration Re-establishes Japan's Emperor Heralding Fall of Shoguns |
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| 1870 | Construction Begins on the Brooklyn Bridge |
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| 1871 | Henry Bradley of Binghamton, New York Is Issued Patent 110,626 for Oleomargarine |
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| 1888 | Marvin Stone Patents the Paraffin-covered Paper Drinking Straw |
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| 1895 | 19 Hopi Leaders From Arizona Are Imprisoned in California for Failure to Comply with U.S. Government Rules |
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| 1897 | John E. Rickards Ends His Four-Year Term As Governor of Montana |
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| 1900 | Frederick Weyerhaeuser Purchases 900,000 Acres of Washington State Timberlands |
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| 1905 | Minnesota's State Legislature Meets for the First Time in the Present Capitol Building |
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| 1910 | Horace H. Lurton Sworn in As Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1911 | 8.2 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 450 in Central Asia |
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| Willis Van Devanter Sworn in As Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court |
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| Joseph R. Lamar Sworn in As Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1921 | West Virginia's State Capitol in Charleston Is Destroyed by Fire |
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| Joseph W. Dixon Begins a 4-Year Term as Governor of Montana |
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| 1924 | Explorer Howard Carter Discovers King Tutankhamen's Sarcophagus in Egypt |
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| 1938 | U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt Establishes March of Dimes to Fight Polio |
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| 1940 | The Marlborough Apartment-Hotel Burns in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Killing At Least 18 |
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| 1942 | Parker Pen in Janesville, Wisconsin Is Awarded a Contract for 35 Million Parts for Anti-Aircraft Shell Fuses |
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| 1945 | MacArthur and Nimitz Given Command of U.S. Forces in the Pacific |
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| 1946 | William Joyce Is Hanged in London for Broadcasting Nazi Propaganda |
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| Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited Is Published |
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| 1947 | Opening Session of Congress Televised in Philadelphia, D.C. & New York City |
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| 1949 | U.S. Supreme Court Rules Closed Union Shops Are Illegal |
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| John W. Bonner Succeeds Samuel C. Ford Ends As Governor of Montana |
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| 1955 | Iris Faircloth Blitch Sworn in as First Georgia Woman Elected for a Full Term in Congress |
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| 1959 | President Eisenhower Signs Proclamation Admitting Alaska As the 49th State |
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| 1961 | United States Severs Diplomatic Relations with Cuba |
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| 1962 | Pope John XXIII Excommunicates Fidel Castro |
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| 1963 | Robert Frost Is Notified of His Selection As Winner of the Bollington Prize for Poetry |
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| 1966 | General Lamizana Assumes Power of Burkina Faso, Suspends Constitution |
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| 1967 | U.S. Patent Awarded for Solar Heating and Cooling a House |
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| 1972 | Alabama's Legislative Districts Are Reapportioned by Federal Court Order |
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| 1973 | Andrew Young Sworn in As Georgia's First African-American Congressman Since 1871 |
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| 1980 | Afghanistan President, Babrak Karmal, Defends Soviet Invasion of His Country |
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| Author Joy Adamson (Born Free) Killed in Kenya by Servant |
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| 1986 | NASA Researchers Use Voyager 2 Data to Discover Uranus Moons Juliet and Portia |
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| 1987 | Allan Hendrickse Protests South Africa's Apartheid with Swim at Whites-only Beach |
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| Aretha Franklin Is First Woman Inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
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| 1989 | The Arsenio Hall Show Premieres |
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| 1990 | Ousted Panamanian Dictator, Manuel Noriega, Surrenders to U.S. Troops |
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| 1991 | Great Britain Expels 8 Iraqi Officials |
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| 1993 | President Bush and Russian President Yeltsin Sign Missile Treaty in Moscow |
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| 1995 | U.S. Postal Service Raises Price of First-class Stamp to 32 Cents |
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| 1999 | NASA Launches Two Probes to Test the Sub-surface Properties of Mars |
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| NASA Launches Polar Lander to Test for Long-term Climate Changes on Mars |
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| 2000 | The Last Original Daily ''Peanuts'' Comic Strip Appears in 2,600 Newspapers |
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| 2003 | At the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona, Ohio State Defeats Miami 31-24 in Double Overtime to Win the National Championship |
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