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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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Today's 5-Minute Quest
Good Luck! |
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  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a scientist, mathematician or medical professional born on this date:
BULLYBOYS THERMO CABANA |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of an event in which Babe Didriksen Zaharias set an American Record (according to the Track and Field Hall of Fame):
NOVA JET WHIRL |
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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 book by Marguerite de Angeli (according to the University of Southern Mississippi list of her books from 1936-1964):
HOG RIOTS GLEE |
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Mathematics: Pi Day
(03/14 = 3.14)) |
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Andorra: Constitution Day
(Commemoration of the approval of the constitution: 03/14/1993) |
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Japan: White Day
(Observed annually on March 14. Men give chocolates & candies to women) |
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: National Heroes Day
(Observed annually on this date since 2002 to commemorates the death of the country's first national hero, Carib Chief Joseph Chatoyer who was killed in 1795) |
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| 1889 | Marguerite de Angeli (Michigan-born Children's Author) |
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| 1945 | Malka Drucker (New Mexico-born Rabbi, Children's Author) |
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| 1836 | Isabella Beeton (English Author) |
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| 1852 | Lady Augusta Gregory (Irish Author, Playwright) |
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| 1869 | Algernon Blackwood (English Author) |
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| 1887 | Sylvia Beach (Maryland-born Publisher) |
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| 1916 | Horton Foote (Texas-born Playwright, Screenwriter) |
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| 1919 | Max Shulman (Minnesota-born Author, Humorist, Screenwriter Who Created the Character "Dobie Gillis") |
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| 1681 | Georg Philipp Telemann (German Composer) |
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| 1804 | Johann Strauss (Austrian Composer of Waltzes) |
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| 1903 | Adolph Gottlieb (New York City-born Painter) |
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| 1920 | Hank Ketcham (Washington-born Cartoonist: Creator of "Dennis the Menace") |
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| 1923 | Diane Arbus (New York-born Photographer) |
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| 1833 | Lucy Beaman Hobbs Taylor (New York-born First Female American Dentist) |
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| 1854 | Paul Ehrlich (German Medical Researcher: 1908 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1879 | Albert Einstein (German Theoretical Physicist: 1921 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1928 | Frank Borman (Indiana-born Astronaut) |
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| 1931 | Eugene A Cernan (Chicago-born Astronaut) |
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| 1841 | William Dunwoody (Pennsylvania-born Businessman, Philanthropist) |
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| 1864 | Haymon Krupp (Lithuanian-born Texas Business Leader) |
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| 1813 | Joseph P. Bradley (New York City-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1854 | Thomas Marshall (Governor of Indiana, Vice-President of the United States) |
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| 1868 | Emily Murphy (Canadian Jurist: First Female Judge in the British Empire) |
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| 1945 | Prince Albert of Monaco |
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| 1864 | John Luther "Casey" Jones (Kentucky-born Railroad Engineer) |
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| 1912 | Les Brown (Pennsylvania-born Orchestral Conductor) |
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| 1933 | Quincy Jones (Chicago-born African-American Musician, Composer, Arranger, Producer) |
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| Michael Caine (English Actor) |
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| 1945 | Jasper Carrott (English Comedian) |
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| 1948 | Billy Crystal (New York-born Comedian, Actor) |
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| 1983 | Jordan Taylor Hanson (Oklahoma-born Popular Singer) |
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| 1914 | Lee Petty (North Carolina-born Auto Racer) |
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| 1931 | Bob Goalby (Illinois-born Professional Golfer) |
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| 1936 | Bob Charles (New Zealand-born Professional Golfer) |
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| 1946 | Wes Unseld (Kentucky-born African-American Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1961 | Kirby Puckett (Chicago-born African-American Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1883 | Karl Marx (German Philosopher, co-Author of the Communist Manifesto) |
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| 1932 | George Eastman (New York-born Photographic Pioneer) |
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| 1953 | Robert N Kotzé (South African Mining Engineer) |
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| 1973 | Chic Young (Chicago-born Cartoonist: Creator of Blondie) |
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| 1975 | Susan Hayward (New York City-born Actress) |
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| 1976 | Busby Berkeley (Los Angeles-born Choreographer) |
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| 1978 | Hubert H. Humphrey (South Dakota-born U.S. Congressman from Minneapolis; Vice President of the United States) |
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| 1737 | British Prime Minister Robert Walpole Appoints Samuel Horsey Governor of South Carolina |
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| 1743 | First American Town Meeting Is Held at Boston's Faneuil Hall |
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| 1757 | British Admiral John Byng Is Executed on Board Monarch for Cowardice in the Face of the Enemy |
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| 1776 | Alexander Hamilton Is Named Captain of Artillery Company |
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| 1780 | After Only a Day of Resistance the British Commander at Fort Charlotte Surrenders Mobile to Spain |
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| 1794 | Eli Whitney Patents the Cotton Gin |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a fine day Set all hands to Shelling Corn &c. Mr. McKinsey leave us to day maney Indians as usial. wind west river Still riseing Ordway: clear & warm. Mr. Sharbono a frenchman who we expected would go with us has lately took another notion and has pitched a lodge outside of the Garrison and moved out. Mr Gravelleen has joined in his place.— |
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| 1806 |
Clark: This morning we dispatched a party after two Elk which Collins killed last evening, they returned with them about noon. Jos: Field, Collins, Go:
Shannon & Labiesh went in quest of the Gang of Elk out of which Collins had killed the 2 yesterday. this evening Reuben Field and Thompson returned this evening unsuksessfull haveing killed only one Brant.
late in the evening Geo: Drewyer arrived with a party of the Clatsops who brought an indifferent Canoe, three hats we are informed by the Clatsops that they have latterly Seen an Indian from the Quin-na-chart Nation who reside Six days march to the N. W and that four vessels were there and the owners Mr. Haley, Moore, Callamon & Swipeton were tradeing with that noumerous nation, whale bone Oile and Skins of various discription. |
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| 1812 | The U.S. Issues Its First War Bonds |
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| 1840 | Whig Party of Sangamon County Nominates Abraham Lincoln for the Illinois State Legislature |
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| 1841 | Scottish Physician/Explorer/Missionary David Livingstone Arrives in Cape Town, South Africa |
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| 1844 | Florida's Territorial Legislature Creates Marion and Brevard Counties |
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| 1860 | Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln Returns Home to Illinois from New England Campaign |
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| 1862 | Union Forces Capture New Bern, North Carolina |
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| President Lincoln Shows Compensated Emancipation Is Cheaper Than the Cost of War |
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| 1864 | Union Troops Capture Louisiana's Fort DeRussy |
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| President Lincoln Orders Draft for 200,000 Men for Military Services |
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| 1865 | President Lincoln Is Ill. The Cabinet Meets in His Bedroom |
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| Michigan's Brunson Harbor Is Renamed Benton Harbor |
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| 1869 | President Grant Appoints Ebenezer Bassett to Service as the First African-American Diplomat (Haiti) |
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| 1870 | William Strong Is Sworn in as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1872 | Journalist Henry Stanley and Explorer David Livingstone Part After Five Months in Africa |
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| 1885 | Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado Premieres at the Savoy Theatre in London |
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| 1891 | A Mob Lynches 11 Men for Allegedly Murdering New Orleans' Chief of Police |
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| 1896 | Sutro's Public Baths Open in San Francisco |
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| 1900 | The U.S. Officially Adopts the Gold Standard Fixing the Value of the Dollar Against Gold |
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| 1903 | President Roosevelt Creates Pelican Island National Refuge as First National Wildlife Refuge |
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| 1915 | Cornered Off the Coast of Chile, the Crew of Germany's Dresden Sinks the Ship |
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| 1919 | Max Brand Publishes His First Novel, The Untamed |
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| The Return of Buck Gavin by Thomas Wolfe (Age 19) is Produced at the University of North Carolina |
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| 1923 | Warren G. Harding Is the First U.S. President to File Income Tax |
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| 1927 | Pan American Airlines Incorporates |
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| 1929 | International Airways Inaugurates Air Passenger Service Between Seattle and Alaska |
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| 1931 | Trans-Lux Modern Theatre Opens in New York City as the First Theater with Rear Projection |
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| 1932 | Benjamin Cardozo Is Sworn in as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1936 | First Issue of the Federal Register Is Published |
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| 1937 | Pope Pius XI Issues an Encyclical Against the Nazi "Cult" |
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| 1939 | Slovakia Declares Independence from Czechoslovakia |
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| 1940 | American Quarter Horse Association Is Founded in Fort Worth, Texas |
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| 1943 | Germans Recapture Kharkov, the Second Largest City in Ukraine |
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| Aaron Copland's ''Fanfare for the Common Man'' Is Premiered in New York City |
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| Ernest Hemingway Marries His Fourth and Final Wife, Mary Welsh, in Havana, Cuba |
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| 1947 | Striking Workers Shut Down Washington's Puget Sound Ferries for Six Days |
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| 1948 | The Freedom Train, Displaying Historic U.S. Documents, Arrives in San Francisco |
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| 1950 | The FBI Issues Its First "10 Most Wanted" List |
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| 1951 | US/UN Troops Recapture Seoul in Korea |
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| 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Euskirchen, Germany |
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| 1955 | 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered on Alaska's Andreanof Islands |
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| 1957 | 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered on Alaska's Andreanof Islands |
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| 1957 | U.S. Conducts An Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| 1958 | Perry Como Receives the First Gold Record from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) |
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| 1959 | William Faulkner Fractures His Right Collarbone in a Fall From His Horse in Charlottesville, Virginia |
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| 1960 | British Radio Telescope Sets Record Contacting Pioneer V Satellite 407,000 Miles Away |
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| 1961 | Iowa Legislature Chooses the Oak as Iowa's Official Tree |
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| 1964 | Jack Ruby Is Found Guilty of the Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald |
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| 1967 | President John Kennedy's Body Is Moved to a Permanent Memorial |
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| 1972 | NASA Announces Florida and California Will Be the Space Shuttle's Launch and Landing Sites |
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| 1975 | Bernard Slade Newbound's Same Time, Next Year Premieres in New York |
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| 1976 | U.S. Conducts 1000 kT Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada |
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| 1978 | Israel Invades South Lebanon |
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| 1979 | 7.6 Magnitude Earthquake Kills Five Near the Coast of Guerrero, Mexico |
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| 1980 | All Members of U.S. Amateur Boxing Team Die in Polish Air Crash |
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| 1982 | South African Government Bombs the African National Congress Office in London |
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| 1984 | Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams, Attacked and Shot in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
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| 1990 | Soviet Congress Elects Mikhail Gorbachev President |
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| Massachusetts' Susan Butcher Wins Her Fourth Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Five Years |
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| 1991 | Emir of Kuwait Returns after Gulf War |
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| Appeals Court Releases the "Birmingham Six" from English Prison after 16 Years |
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| 1995 | Astronaut Norman Thagard Is First American to Enter Space Aboard a Russian Soyuz Spacecraft |
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| 1997 | President Clinton Has Surgery to Repair a Torn Quadriceps Tendon in His Right Knee |
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| 1998 | 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake Kills Five, Destroys 2,000 Homes in Northern Iran |
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| 2001 | 125-car Pileup Kills 5 and Shuts Down a Foggy I-75 in North Georgia |
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