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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 title of a book by Karen Hesse (according to Writer's Almanac)
RIFLE FORK MATTERS
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Use all of these letters to spell the name of a performing artist who was born on this date.
SO CINCH JAM LAKE |
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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 film for which Ingrid Berman received an Academy Award (according to Biography.com):
GIG HALTS |
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Russian Orthodox Church: Linen Spas (Third Savior)
(Observed annually 08/29 to commemorate the linen cloth on which the image of Christ was imprinted) |
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Slovakia: Uprising Day
(Commemoration of unsuccessful uprising of the Slovak resistance: 08/29/1944 - 10/27/1944) |
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| 1952 | Karen Hesse (Maryland-born Children's Author: 1998 Newbery Award Winner for Out of the Dust) |
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| 1809 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Massachusetts-born Physician, Poet, Essayist and Humorist) |
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| 1862 | Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian Poet, Playwright and Essayist: 1911 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1929 | Thom Gunn (English-born American Poet) |
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| 1632 | John Locke (English Philosopher) |
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| 1904 | William Niederland (German Psychoanalyst) |
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| 1780 | Jean-Auguste Ingres (French Neoclassical Painter) |
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| 1848 | Albert Bartholome (French Sculptor) |
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| 1923 | Lester Trimble (Wisconsin-born Composer) |
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| 1876 | Charles F. Kettering (Ohio-born Engineer, Inventor, Automotives Pioneer) |
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| 1899 | Lyman Lemnitzer (Pennsylvania-born U.S. Army General, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff: 1960-62) |
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| 1619 | Jean-Baptiste Colbert (French Secretary under King Louis XlV) |
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| 1936 | John McCain (U.S. Senator from Arizona; Republican Candidate for President of the United States) |
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| 1898 | Preston Sturges (Chicago-born Film Director, Screenwriter and Playwright) |
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| 1908 | Alton Strickland (Texas-born County and Western Musician) |
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| 1915 | Ingrid Bergman (Swedish Actress) |
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| 1920 | Charlie Parker (Kansas-born African-American Jazz Saxophonist and Composer) |
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| 1924 | Dinah Washington (Alabama-born African-American Blues Singer: Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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| 1927 | Marion Williams (Florida-born African-American Gospel Singer) |
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| 1956 | Mark Morris (Seattle-born Choreographer) |
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| 1959 | Michael Jackson (Indiana-born African-American Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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| 1945 | Wyomia Tyus (Georgia-born African-American Member of the Track and Field Hall of Fame) |
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| 1533 | Atahualpa (Last Incan King: Murdered on Orders from Spanish Conqueror Francisco Pizarro) |
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| 1877 | Brigham Young (Vermont-born Mormon Political Leader) |
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| 1880 | Paul Octave Hebert (Governor of Louisiana: 1853-1856) |
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| 1946 | John Steuart Curry (Kansas-born Artist, Illustrator) |
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| 1982 | Ingrid Bergman (Swedish Actress) |
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| 1533 | Pizarro Orders the Murder of Atahualpa, the Last Incan King |
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| 1641 | New Amsterdam Colonists Select 12 Men to Represent Them; Establishing New York's First Representative Government |
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| 1803 |
 Meriwether Lewis Is in Pittsburgh Awaiting Completion of His Keelboat for an Aug 31 Launch |
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| 1805 |
Clark: a Cold morning Some frost. the Wind from the South, I left our baggage in possession of 2 men and proceeded on up to join Capt Lewis at the upper Village of Snake Indians where I arrived at 1 oClock found him much engaged in Counceling and attempting to purchase a fiew more horses. I Spoke to the Indians on various Subjects endeavoring to impress on theire minds the advantaje it would be to them for to Sell us horses and expedite the our journey the nearest and best way possibly that we might return as Soon as possible and winter with them at Some place where there was plenty of Buffaloew, — our wish is to get a horse for each man to Carry our baggage and for Some of the men to ride occasionally, The horses are handsom and much acustomed to be changed as to their Parsture; we cannot Calculate on their carrying large loads & feed on the Grass which we may Calculate on finding in the Mountain Thro which we may expect to pass on our rout made Some Selestial observations I purchased a horse for which I gave my Pistol 100 Balls Powder & a Knife.
our hunters Killed 2 Deer near their Camp to day. 2 yesterday & 3 The Day before, this meet was a great treat to me
Ordway: a clear pleasant morning. about 8 oClock A. M. a nomber of Indians arived here who had been gone along time from the nation one of them got Sculped by some Indians in the prarie or plain he did not know what nation they belonged to. Some of their relations cryed when they came in the village. Capt Lewis bought two more horses. about 11 oClock A. M. Capt Clark and party arived here except 2 men who Stayed to take care of the baggage which they left. they informed us that the mountains were amazeing high and rough. almost impossable to pass over them. they had a guide with them. they came uppon one or 2 lodges in a valley between the mots. they started to run but the guide Spoke to them and they Stood and gave them Some cherries and Servis berrys which they were gethering. they lived 4 or 5 days on Such berrys. killed but one Deer while they were out. they find that the mountains are So bad that we can not follow the river by land and the river So rapid and full of rocks that it is impossable for crafts to pass down. neither is their any game they got some Salmon from the natives which they caught in the River with their bone & horn gigs, but had suffered considerable with hunger. the natives tells us that we cannot find the ocean the course we want to go for their old men has been a Season or more on that course to find it but could not. and that their was troublesome tribes of Indians to pass. that they had no horses and if they could git hold of any they would eat them as they lived on roots &C their being no game the country So rough and mountaineous.
we are not like to purchase any more horses here as the natives tell us that they must keep Some horses unless they could git arms and ammunition in return So that they may be able to defend themselves. but we told them that we could not Spare any guns if we Should git no more horses. So we put up the goods, as we have now 27 horses and intend to Set out on our journey tomorrow and go around or between the mountains and strike the columbia River |
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| 1806 |
Clark: a cloudy morning the hunters proceeded on agreeable to their orders of last night. I Sent out two men to the village of barking Squirels with direcitions to kill Some of them. they after 2 hours returned and informed me that not one of those Squirels were to be Seen out of their holes. the Skins of the party which they had been dressing Since yesterday being now completely dressed I derected all loose baggage to be put on board the Canoes and at 10 A. M. Set out and proceeded on passed the white river at 12 oClock and halted below the enterance of Shannons Creek where we were joined by Labeech Shannon and Willard, they had killed 2 common der but no Mule deer or antilopes. Willard informed me that he Saw 2 antilopes but Could not get near to them. Willard and Labeech waded white river a fiew miles above its enterance and inform me that they found it 2 feet water and 200 yards wide. the water of this river at this time nearly as white as milk. put Drewyer out to hunt on the S W. Side and proceeded on below the round Island and landed on the N. E. Side I with Several of the men went out in pursute of Buffalow. the men killed 2 Bulls near me they were very por I assended to the high Country and from an eminance, I had a view of the plains for a great distance. from this eminance I had a view of a greater number of buffalow than I had ever Seen before at one time. I must have Seen near 20,000 of those animals feeding on this plain. I have observed that in the country between the nations which are at war with each other the greatest numbers of wild animals are to be found— on my return to the river I killed 2 young deer. after Dinner we proceeded down the river about 3 mile to the Camp of Jo. & Rubin fields and Collins, and encamped on the S W. Side a little below our encampment of 13th Septr. 1804, haveing made 20 Miles only. neither of the hunters killed either a Black tail deer or an antilope. Jo Fields & Shields each killed a porcupin and two others of the hunters Killed Deer, Drewyer did not join us untill 10 P. M. he informed that he Saw some antilopes and Mule deer but Could kill none of them. Jo. Field informed that he wounded female of the Mule deer a little below our Camp late in the evening and could not prosue her I directed him to Set out with 3 others and follow the Deer and get her if possible early in the morning |
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| 1818 | Spain Severs U.S. Diplomatic Relations Due to U.S. Occupation of Forts in Spanish Florida |
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| 1821 | A Treaty with Potawatomi, Ojibway and Odawa Cedes Land That Will Be Steuben, LaGrange and Elkhart Counties in Indiana |
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| 1839 | An Initial Hearing Is Held About the Rights of the Slaves Aboard La Amistad |
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| 1851 | Settlers of North Oregon Convene a Convention to Form a Separate Territory |
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| 1856 | The Houston Academy Is Chartered |
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| 1857 | Minnesota's Constitutional Conventions Agree to a Compromise Document as the State's Constitution |
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| Minnesota's William Brewster and Company Bank Goes Out of Business |
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| 1860 | The First Telegraphed Message from St. Paul, Minnesota Is Sent to William H. Seward, Governor of New York |
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| 1862 | Day Two of the Battle of Second Bull Run |
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| U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Founded |
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| 1864 | Sherman's Troops Destroy 12 Miles of Railroad Track West of Atlanta |
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| 1865 | Charles Anderson Becomes Ohio's 27th Governor |
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| 1866 | The First Train Crosses the Mississippi and Arrives in Des Moines, Iowa |
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| 1873 | Storm Floods Wash Away Bridges in the Townsend and Middletown Areas of Delaware |
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| 1877 | 150 Irish Workers March on Georgetown, Delaware Demanding Pay for Laying Railroad Track Between Georgetown and Frankford |
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| 1885 | Lieutenant Henry Allen Reaches St. Michael, Alaska After Exploring the Copper and Yukon Rivers |
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| 1893 | Whitcomb Judson Patents the Zipper |
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| 1898 | Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Is Incorporated |
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| 1901 | A Confederate Monument Is Unveiled at Union, West Virginia |
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| 1911 | The Sole Surviving Member of the Yahi Tribe, Wanders into Oroville, California |
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| 1918 | Delaware's 59th Infantry Leaves Hoboken, New Jersey for Brest, France |
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| 1930 | A Student Pilot and His Passenger Are the First Air Crash Fatalities in Wisconsin's Rock County |
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| 1942 | Japan Refuses Red Cross Supplies for U.S. Prisoners of War |
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| 1944 | Jan Golian Leads 80,000 Slovaks in Attempted Overthrow of Fascist Government |
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| 1957 | Senator Strom Thurmond Sets Senate Filibuster Record (24h18m) |
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| 1958 | George Harrison Joins John Lennon and Paul McCartney |
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| 1961 | Atlanta's Mayor Hartsfield Promises Orderly Desegregation of Four Atlanta Schools |
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| 1962 | Robert Frost Goes to the Soviet Union on Goodwill Tour |
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| 1965 | U.S. Gemini 5 Splashes Down with Astronauts Cooper & Conrad Aboard |
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| 1966 | The Beatles Hold Their Final Concert in San Francisco |
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| 1973 | Judge Sirica Orders President Nixon to Turn over Watergate Tapes |
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| 1977 | Lou Brock Breaks Ty Cobb's Record for Career Stolen Bases (893) |
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| 1991 | U.S. Stamp Commemorates Comic Film Stars Laurel and Hardy |
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| 2005 | Hurricane Katrina Devastates New Orleans, Southern Louisiana, Alabama &Mississippi |
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