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Today's 5-Minute Quest
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  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a professional baseball team for which "Cool Papa" Bell played (according to the Baseball Hall of Fame):
STOREWIDE VOLT |
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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 name of a Spike Lee production involving Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (according to Indiana University):
GRIN TIGHT HOT HED |
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 Zora Neale Hurston
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 Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
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 Ruby Dee Ossie Davis
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 Malcolm X
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 Eddie Robinson
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World Radio Day
((Observed annually on this date to commemorate the birth of UN radio in 1946)) |
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| 1881 | Eleanor Farjeon (English Poet, Children's Author) |
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| 1924 | Ouida Sebestyen (Texas-born Children's Author) |
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| 1932 | Simms Taback (New York City-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1945 | William Sleator (Maryland-born Children's Author) |
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| 1947 | Janet Taylor Lisle (New Jersey-born Children's Author) |
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| 1769 | Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (Russian Folklorist) |
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| 1903 | Georges Simenon (Belgian Crime Novelist) |
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| 1910 | Margaret Halsey (English Author) |
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| 1918 | Joseph B(oxley) Roberts, Jr (Mississippi-born Educator, Author) |
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| 1943 | Elaine H(iesey) Pagels (California-born Religion Historian, Nonfiction Writer) |
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| 1892 | Grant Wood (Iowa-born Artist: "American Gothic") |
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| 1920 | Eileen Farrell (Connecticut-born Operatic Soprano) |
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| 1766 | Thomas Malthus (English Economist) |
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| 1910 | William Shockley (California-born co-Inventor of the Transistor; 1956 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1923 | Chuck Yeager (West Virginia-born Test Pilot) |
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| 1933 | Leeann W. Chin (Chinese-American Restaurateur) |
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| 1831 | John Rawlins (Illinois-born Union Army General) |
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| 1873 | Emmet J. Scott (Texas-born African-American Educator, Author) |
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| 1885 | Bess Truman (Missouri-born Wife of President Harry Truman) |
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| 1892 | Robert H. Jackson (Pennsylvania-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1884 | Sophie Tucker (Russian-American Vaudeville Performer) |
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| 1919 | Tennessee Ernie Ford (Tennessee-born County Singer) |
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| 1933 | Kim Novak (Chicago-born Actress) |
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| 1934 | George Segal (New York-born Actor, Musician) |
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| 1944 | Stockard Channing (New York City-born Actress) |
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| 1950 | Peter Gabriel (English Popular Musician, Songwriter) |
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| 1961 | Julia Louis-Dreyfus (New York City-born Actress: Elaine in Seinfeld) |
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| 1961 | Henry Rollins (Washington, D.C. Popular Singer) |
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| 1964 | Penelope Ann Miller (Los Angeles-born Actress) |
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| 1966 | Patrick Dempsey (Maine-born Actor) |
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| 1968 | Kelly Hu (Hawaiian-born Asian-American Actress) |
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| 1918 | Patty Berg (Minnesota-born Member of the World Golf Hall of Fame) |
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| 1919 | Eddie Robinson (Louisiana-born African-American Football Coach; Member of the College Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1947 | Mike Krzyzewski (Chicago-born Hall of Fame Olympic Gold Medal Basketball Coach) |
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| 1542 | Catherine Howard (Fifth Wife of Henry VIII, Executed for Adultery) |
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| 1728 | Cotton Mather (Massachusetts-born Puritan Religious Leader) |
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| 1793 | Father Antonio Paterna (California-born Latin-American Founder of Mission Santa Barbara) |
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| 1818 | George Rogers Clark (Virginia-born Pioneer, Frontiersman, Military Leader) |
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| 1883 | Richard Wagner (German Operatic Composer) |
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| 1888 | Jean Baptiste Lamy (French-born Archbishop of Santa Fe) |
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| 1951 | Lloyd C. Douglas (Indiana-born Religious Author: The Robe) |
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| 1977 | Manuel Trazazas Gonzaullas (Latin-American Texas Ranger) |
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| 2002 | Waylon Jennings (Texas-born Member of the Country Music Hall of Fame) |
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| 2010 | Lucille Clifton (New York-born African-American Poet) |
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| 1542 | Catherine Howard, the Fifth Wife of England's King Henry VIII, Is Executed for Adultery |
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| 1633 | Galileo Galilei Arrives in Rome for His Trial Before the Inquisition |
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| 1635 | Boston Latin School, America's First Public School, Is Established |
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| 1689 | William and Mary Are Proclaimed Joint Sovereigns under Britain's New Bill of Rights |
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| 1713 | Smallpox Epidemic Sweeps through the Indigenous People of Southern Africa's Cape Peninsula |
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| 1776 | Patrick Henry Named Colonel of 1st Virginia Battalion in Defense of State's Supply of Gunpowder |
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| 1806 |
 Lewis: The Clatsop left us this morning at 11 A. M. not any thing transpired during the day worthy of notice. yesterday we completed the operation of drying the meat, and think we have a sufficient stock to last us this month. the Indians inform us that we shall have great abundance of a small fish in March which from their discription must be the herring. these people have also informed us that a trader by the name of More who sometimes touches at this place and trades with the natives of this coast, had on board of his vessel three Cows, and that when he left them he continued his course along the N. W. coast. I think this strong circumstancial proof that there is a stettlement of white persons at Nootka sound or some point to the N. W. of us on the coast.
Whitehouse: It rained the greater part of last night, and this morning was Cloudy. the Men at the fort were employed making of Moccasins & mending their Cloathing |
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| 1818 | Conecuh and Marion Counties Are Created in Alabama |
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| 1826 | American Temperance Society (Later the American Temperance Union) Is Founded in Boston |
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| 1837 | The Delaware Academy of Natural Sciences Is Founded in Wilmington |
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| 1841 | Racine, Wisconsin Is Incorporated as a Village |
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| 1849 | Otterbein College Is Chartered in Westerville, Ohio |
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| 1850 | British Ship Childe Herold Sinks Off South Africa's Coast Carrying Ivory from Bombay to London |
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| Gordon County Is Created as Georgia's 94th County |
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| 1854 | Chattahoochee County Is Created as Georgia's 109th County |
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| 1855 | Michigan Legislature Passes Provisions to Protect Escaped Slaves |
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| 1857 | Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Attend a Party at the Governor's Mansion in Springfield, Illinois |
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| Isanti County, Minnesota Is Created and Named for a Dakota Band That Lived in the Region in the 17th Century |
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| The Delaware General Assembly Incorporates the Junction and Breakwater Railroad to Build a Line From Milford to Lewes |
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| 1861 | Bernard J.D. Irwin Earns the First Medal of Honor in an Arizona Conflict with Apache Indians |
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| The Virginia Secession Convention Assembles in Richmond |
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| President Lincoln Speaks in Columbus, Ohio as His Train Makes Its Way to Washington, D.C. |
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| 1866 | Joe Cain Revives the First Celebration of Mardi Gras in Mobile, AL Since the Start of the Civil War |
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| Jesse James Holds Up His First Bank, Liberty Missouri ($15,000) |
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| 1891 | Body of Frances Coles, Probable Victim of Jack the Ripper, Found in London |
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| 1892 | World's Fair Colored Opera Company: First African-Americans at Carnegie Hall |
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| 1895 | Lumiere Brothers Granted French Patent for First Movie Projectors |
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| 1898 | Businessman Henry Lindfield Is the First English Automobile Fatality |
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| 1899 | A Record Low Temperature for Louisiana Is Set in Minden (-16 F) |
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| 1901 | Negotiations Fail to End South Africa's Anglo-Boer War |
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| 1905 | President Theodore Roosevelt Outlines His Plan for Racial, Social and Economic Equality in America |
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| 1909 | President Theodore Roosevelt Establishes Superior National Forest |
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| 1912 | The First Meeting of a Rotary Club in Florida Is Held in Jacksonville |
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| 1913 | La Prensa, a Spanish-Language Daily Newspaper Is First Published in San Antonio, Texas |
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| Labor Activist, "Mother" Jones, Is Arrested in Charleston, West Virginia |
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| Fire Destroys the Printing Plant of the Seattle Times |
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| 1914 | American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers (ASCAP) Founded |
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| 1915 | Robert Frost and His family Set Sail from Liverpool, England, Bound for New York |
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| 1918 | 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills at 10,000 in China |
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| 1920 | The League of Nations Recognizes Switzerland's Perpetual Neutrality |
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| Negro National Baseball League Is Organized at a Kansas City YMCA |
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| 1935 | Bruno Hauptmann Is Found Guilty of Kidnap & Murder of Lindbergh's Infant |
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| In an Effort to Stop Price Wars, Wisconsin Established a Minimum Price of 16 Cents/Gallon for Gasoline |
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| 1937 | Prince Valiant Comic Strip First Appears |
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| NFL Boston Redskins Move to Washington DC |
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| 1939 | Louis Brandeis Retires from the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| Italian-American, Mario Olmeda, Records Six Italian Folk Songs |
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| 1942 | Author Mark Harris, Stationed at Camp Wheeler, Near Macon, Georgia, Goes AWOL |
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| 1943 | William Faulkner Publishes "Shingles for the Lord" in the Saturday Evening Post |
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| First Class of Military Aerial Navigators Arrives at San Marcos Army Air Field, Texas |
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| 1945 | Allies Firebomb Dresden, Germany for Four Days: 50,000 Die |
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| Soviets Liberate Budapest from German Occupation |
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| 1948 | The Articles of Incorporation for the Potato Growers of Wisconsin Are Recognized by the Secretary of State |
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| 1951 | 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Hits the Alaskan Peninsula |
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| 1956 | Georgia's Senate Votes 39-0 to Declare Brown v. Board of Education Null and Void in Georgia |
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| Georgia's Governor Signs Legislation Adopting a New State Flag |
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| 1958 | Tallahassee, Florida Receives a Record 2.8 Inches of Snow |
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| 1960 | France Conducts First Nuclear Test in Algeria (20 - 200kT atmospheric) |
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| 1966 | Soviets Conduct 125kT Underground Nuclear Test in Kazakhstan |
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| 1967 | The Beatles Release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields Forever" |
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| 1970 | Joseph L Searles First African-American Member of New York Stock Exchange |
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| 1973 | President Nixon Raises the Official U.S. Gold Price from $38.00/ounce to $42.22/ounce |
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| 1974 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Is Expelled from the Soviet Union |
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| James "Cool Papa" Bell Elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
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| 1975 | British Coal Miners Accept 35% Pay Raise |
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| 1976 | U.S. Figure Skater, Dorothy Hamill, Wins Olympic Gold in Innsbruck, Austria |
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| 400 Bookbinders Go on Strike in the Minnesota Twin Cities Area |
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| 1978 | U.S. Conducts Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| 1979 | West Half of Washington's Hood Canal Bridge Collapses in 85-120 mph Winds |
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| 1982 | Thousands Attend Funeral of South African Labor Leader, Neil Aggett |
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| 1984 | Konstantin Chernenko Succeeds Yuri Andropov as Soviet General Secretary |
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| 1990 | Drexel Burnham Lambert Financial Group Files for Bankruptcy |
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| 1991 | U.S. Bombers Strike Civilians in Baghdad, Killing Hundreds |
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| The Lost Manuscript of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn Is Authenticated |
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| 1995 | Los Angeles Dodgers Sign Hideo Nomo, a Five-time All-Star in the Japanese Leagues |
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| 1997 | Space Shuttle (STS-82: Discovery) Astronauts "Fine Tune" Hubble Telescope |
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| Dow Jones Industrial Average Closes Above 7,000 for the First Time at 7,022.44 |
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| 2000 | The Last Original Sunday Peanuts Comic Strip Is Published |
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| 2001 | 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Kills at Least 315 in El Salvador |
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| 2002 | Olympic Figure Skating Judge Admits She Was Pressured into Voting for the Russian Pairs |
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| 2005 | Ray Charles Receives 8 Grammy Awards Posthumously |
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