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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
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  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a children's author or illustrator born on this date:
NE SAVES LINE |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of a novelist who was born on this date
FUTS ORANGE |
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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 1939 work by Robert Penn Warren (according to Author's Calendar):
RIGHT DINER |
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The Bahá'í Faith: Festival of Ridván
(sunset 4/20 - sunset 5/2: commemorates Baha'u'llah's 1863 stay in "Garden of Ridvan" as God's messenger.) |
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Armenia: Genocide Memorial Day
(Observed in remembrance of the 1915 Turkish extermination of 1M+ Armenians) |
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Niger: Concord Day
(Commemoration of the military overthrow of Hamani Diori's presidency: 4/24/1974) |
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| 1825 | R.M. Ballantyne (Scottish Children's Author) |
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| 1911 | Evaline Ness (Ohio-born Illustrator) |
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| 1940 | Bert Kitchen (English Illustrator) |
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| 1766 | Robert Bailey Thomas (Massachusetts-born Publisher of "Old Farmer's Almanac") |
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| 1815 | Anthony Trollope (English Novelist) |
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| 1845 | Carl Spitteler (Swiss Poet) |
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| 1900 | Elizabeth Goudge (English Novelist) |
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| 1905 | Robert Penn Warren (Kentucky-born Poet, Novelist and First Poet Laureate of the United States) |
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| 1916 | Stanley Kauffmann (New York City-born Film and Theater Critic) |
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| 1940 | Sue Grafton (Kentucky-born Crime Novelist) |
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| 1953 | Eric Bogosian (Massachusetts-born Playwright, Actor) |
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| 1874 | John R. Pope (New York City-born Architect; Designed the National Gallery of Art) |
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| 1904 | Willem de Kooning (Dutch Abstract Expressionist Painter) |
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| 1924 | John T. Biggers (North Carolina-born African-American Muralist/Sculptor) |
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| 1706 | Giovanni Battista Martini (Italian Composer, Music Theorist and Teacher) |
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| 1620 | John Graunt (English Statistician, Father of Demography) |
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| 1743 | Edmund Cartwright (English Inventor) |
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| 1856 | Henri-Philippe Petain (French General, WWI Hero, Head of French Vichy Government: 1940-44) |
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| 1876 | Erich Raeder (German Naval Commander) |
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| 1581 | St. Vincent de Paul (French Religious Leader, Canonized in 1737 by Pope Clement XII) |
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| 1906 | William Joyce (New York City-born English Traitor Who Made Propaganda Broadcasts for Nazi Germany) |
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| 1911 | Jack E. Leonard (Chicago-born Comedian) |
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| 1934 | Shirley MacLaine (Virginia-born Singer, Actor, Dancer) |
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| 1936 | Jill Ireland (English Actress) |
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| 1937 | Joe Henderson (Ohio-born African-American Tenor Saxophonist ) |
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| 1942 | Barbra Streisand (New York City-born Singer, Actor, Director) |
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| 1952 | Jean-Paul Gaultier (French Costume Designer) |
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| 1982 | Kelly Clarkson (Texas-born Popular Singer) |
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| 1903 | Mike Michalske (Ohio-born Green Bay Packer Football Player; Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1972 | Chipper Jones (Florida-born Baseball Player) |
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| 1731 | Daniel Defoe (English Author of Robinson Crusoe) |
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| 1931 | O. P. DeWalt (Texas-born African-American President of the Houston, Texas NAACP: Assassinated) |
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| 1947 | Willa Cather (North Carolina-born Author) |
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| 1964 | Gerhard Domagk (German-born Chemist, Awarded 1939 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology) |
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| 1967 | Vladimir Komarov (Soviet Cosmonaut, First Known Victim of Space Flight) |
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| 1974 | Bud Abbott (New Jersey-born Member of the Abbott and Costello Comedy Team) |
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| 1986 | Wallis Warfield Simpson (Pennsylvania-born Duchess of Windsor) |
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| 1988 | Miguel Pedraza, Sr. (Tigua Leader) |
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| 1993 | Oliver Reginald Tambo (South African Co-founder of the African National Congress with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu) |
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| 1997 | Pat Paulsen (Washington-born Comedian) |
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| 1704 | Boston News-Letter Begins Operation as the First Continuously Published Newspaper in America |
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| 1781 | British Troops Capture Petersburg, Virginia |
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| 1792 | France's National Anthem, ''La Marseillaise,'' Is Composed by Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle |
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| 1800 | President John Adams Approves $5,000 Appropriation to Purchase Books for Congress |
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| 1802 | Georgia Cedes to the United States All Land West of Its Present State Boundaries |
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| 1806 |
 Lewis: We were up early this morning and dispatched the men in surch of our horses, they were all found in a little time except McNeal's. we hired an indian to surch for this horse it was one in the evening before he returned with him. in the intermediate time we had 4 packsaddles made purchased three horses of the Wah-howpums, and hired three others of the Chopunnish man who accompanys us with his family and horses. we now sold our canoes for a few strands of beads, loaded up and departed at 2 P. M. the natives had tantalized us with an exchange of horses for our canoes in the first instance, but when they found that we had made our arrangements to travel by land they would give us nothing for them I determined to cut them in peices sooner than leave them on those terms, Drewyer struck one of the canoes and split of a small peice with his tommahawk, they discovered us determined on this subject and offered us several strands of beads for each which were accepted. we proceeded up the river between the hills and it's Northen shore. the road was rocky and sandy alternately, the road difficult and fatieguing. at 12 ms. we arrived at a village of 5 lodges of the Met-cow-wes, having passed 4 lodges at 4 and 2 at 2 Ms. further. we ramined all night near the Met-cow-we lodges; we purchased three dogs and some shappellel of these people which we cooked with dry grass and willow boughs. many of the natives pased and repassed us today on the road and behaved themselves with distant rispect towards us. most of the party complain of the soarness of their feet and legs this evening; it is no doubt caused by walking over the rough stones and deep sands after bing for some months passed been accustomed to a soft soil. my left ankle gives me much pain. I baithed my feet in cold water from which I experienced considerable releif. the winds which set from Mount Hood or in a westerly direction are much more cold than those from the opposite quarter. there are now no dews in these plains, and from the appearance of the earth there appears to have been no rain for several weeks.— we derected that the three horses which we purchased yesterday should be hubbled and confined to a picqut, and that the others should be disposed of in the same manner they were last evening.
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| 1813 | At Astoria, Jane Barnes, a Barmaid From England, Is the First European Woman to Set Foot on Oregon Soil |
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| 1819 | English Artist, Botanist and Explorer, Thomas Nuttall, Reaches Fort Smith, Arkansas |
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| 1851 | First Settlers Arrive At What Will Be Port Townsend, Washington |
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| 1855 | The Cornerstone Is Laid for the First Building of St. Mary's College and Academy in South Bend, Indiana |
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| 1859 | The Town of Live Oak, Florida Is Founded by the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad |
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| 1861 | President Lincoln Responds to Reverdy Johnson's Concerns About Federal Troops in Washington, D.C. |
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| 1863 | Code of Conduct (General Orders 100) Issued for Federal Soldiers |
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| 1867 | 5.1 Magnitude Earthquake Is Largest in the Recorded History of Kansas |
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| 1877 | Federal Troops Are Ordered Out of New Orleans, Ending Post-Civil War Military Rule in the South. |
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| 1880 | Amateur Athletic Association Is Founded in Oxford, England |
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| The First Piano Recital in Iowa Is Held at the Dubuque Academy of Music |
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| 1884 | The First Professional Organization Just for African-American Physicians Is Founded |
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| 1895 | Canadian Joshua Slocum Begins the First Solo Around-the-world Voyage (3+ years) |
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| 1898 | Spain Declares War on the U.S. After Rejecting America's Ultimatum to Withdraw from Cuba |
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| 1899 | Idaho Mine Workers Riot When Wage Demands Are Rejected |
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| 1901 | Chicago White Stockings Defeat the Cleveland Blues 8-2 in First Official American League Baseball Game |
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| 1907 | Charles A. Zimmerman Copyrights "Anchors Aweigh" |
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| The Incorporation of the Town of Bonifay Is Approved by the Florida Legislature |
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| 1908 | Ralph DePalma Drives in His First Auto Race |
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| 1911 | The Magnolia Petroleum Company Is Founded |
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| 1913 | The Florida Legislature Creates Bay County |
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| From the White House, President Woodrow Wilson, Illuminates 80,000 Electric Lights in the Woolworth Building, New York City's Tallest Structure |
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| 1914 | Thousands of Frogs Overrun Melrose, Minnesota |
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| 1915 | Turkish Authorities Deport/Exterminate 650 Armenian Leaders |
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| 1916 | Easter Uprising: Irish Nationalists Storm the Dublin Post Office Declaring Ireland's Independence from England |
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| 1922 | Alabama's First Radio Station, WSY (Now WAPI), Begins Broadcasting |
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| 1931 | O. P. DeWalt, President of the Houston NAACP, Is Assassinated |
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| Laurens Hammond Receives a Patent for His Electric Organ |
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| 1940 | Allied Troops Evacuate Following the Surrender of Greece to the Axis |
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| 1941 | The Detroit Tank Arsenal Delivers Its First M3 Tank |
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| 1942 | Warner Bros. Contracts Ingrid Bergman for Casablanca |
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| 1944 | U.S. Supreme Court Rules Freedom of Belief Is Absolute, but Freedom to Act on Beliefs Is Not |
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| 1945 | President Harry Truman Learns the Full Details of the Manhattan Project |
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| 1951 | First African-American Student Is Admitted to the University of North Carolina |
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| 1953 | Winston Churchill Is Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II |
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| Oregon's Wayne Morse Breaks the U.S. Senate Record for Filibuster by Holding the Floor for 22 Hours and 26 Minutes |
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| 1954 | British Authorities Clamp Down on Mau Mau Guerillas Opposing White Settlement in Kenya |
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| 1955 | Bandung Conference of African-Asian Nations Concludes |
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| 1956 | Alaskans Approve a Constitution by a Vote of 17,447 to 7,180 |
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| 1959 | Your Hit Parade Airs for the Last Time |
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| 1960 | 6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 420, Injures 3,000 and Causes $20M Property Damage in Southern Iran |
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| 1962 | MIT Transmits First Successful Coast-to-Coast Satellite-Relayed Image |
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| 1964 | President Lyndon Johnson Arrives in Huntington, West Virginia to Promote His War on Poverty |
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| 1967 | Soviet Cosmonaut Is First Known Victim of Space Flight |
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| 1969 | Student Protestors Begin Weeklong Occupation of Buildings at Columbia University in New York City |
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| 1974 | The Tampa Bay Buccaneers Franchise Is Approved by the National Football League |
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| 1975 | Baader-Meinhof Blows Up the West German Embassy in Stockholm |
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| Elvis Presley Appears in Concert in Macon, Georgia |
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| 1979 | "Georgia On My Mind" Is Designated as the Official State Song |
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| 1980 | US Military Operation Fails in Attempt to Rescue 52 Hostages in Iran |
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| 1982 | British Suffer First Casualty in the Falklands Campaign |
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| 1984 | Carnegie Report Exposes the Poverty Caused by Apartheid in South Africa |
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| 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Causes $7.5M Damage in Central California |
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| 1985 | 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 6, Injures 11 in Luzon, Republic of the Philippines |
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| 1989 | Thousands of Chinese Students and Workers Continue Strikes |
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| 1990 | Space Shuttle Discovery Is Launched with Hubble Telescope Aboard |
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| The Massachusetts Legislature Designates This Date as a Day of Remembrance of the 1915 Armenian Genocide |
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| 1993 | IRA Bomb Devastates London |
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| 1996 | Palestine Liberation Organization Votes to Revoke Its Call for the Destruction of Israel |
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| 1997 | Opening Statements Are Made in the Trial of Timothy McVeigh for the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing |
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| 1999 | The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame Officially Opens to the Public |
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