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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 title of a work by Paul Fleischman.
HI WIG GIRL
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Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by Ward Just (according to the Writer's Almanac):
RESTRING |
(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 1936 work by John Cage (according to the worklist provided in his discography from New Albion Records):
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 John Cage Born on This Date in 1912 [New Albion Records]
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 Frank Jewett Born on This Date 1925 [Bell Laboratories]
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 Gloria Jean Pinkney Born on This Date 1941 [Library of Congress]
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 Cathy Guisewite Born on This Date 1950 [Norman Rockwell Museum]
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 Paul Fleischman Born on This Date 1952 [Salisbury University]
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India: National Teachers' Day
(Observed since 1962 to commemorate the birth date of the great teacher Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan)) |
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Chachapoyas, Peru: Anniversary of Chachapoyas
(Commemoration of the founding of Chachapoyas 09/05/1538)) |
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| 1941 | Gloria Jean Pinkney (North Carolina-born African-American Children's Author) |
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| 1945 | Roxie Munro (Texas-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1952 | Paul Fleischman (California-born Children's Author; Awarded 1989 Newbery Medal) |
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| 1905 | Arthur Koestler (Hungarian Novelist) |
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| 1916 | Frank Yerby (Georgia-born African-American Author of Historical Fiction) |
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| 1937 | Larry Neal (Georgia-born African-American Writer) |
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| 1935 | Ward Just (Indiana-born Journalist and Fiction Writer) |
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| 1950 | Cathy Guisewite (Ohio-born Creator of the Cathy Comic Strip) |
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| 1735 | Johann Christian Bach (German Composer: Son of Johann Sebastian Bach) |
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| 1791 | Giacomo Meyerbeer (German Composer) |
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| 1890 | Benjamin Tyamzashe (South African Composer, Educator) |
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| 1912 | John Cage (Los Angeles-born Avant-garde Composer) |
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| 1942 | Eduardo Mata (Mexican Conductor, Composer) |
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| 1879 | Frank Jewett (California-born Engineer; First President of Bell Laboratories: 1925-40) |
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| 1897 | A. C. Nielsen (Chicago-born Market Research Engineer) |
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| 1568 | Tommaso Campanella (Italian Philosopher and Writer) |
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| 1807 | Richard Chenevix Trench (Irish Clergyman, Philologist, and Poet) |
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| 1888 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Indian Philosopher) |
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| 1638 | Louis XIV, King of France |
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| 1909 | Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo (South African Physician and Political Activist) |
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| 1856 | Tom Watson (Georgia-born Populist Politician, Lawyer, Writer, and Editor) |
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| 1939 | Claudette Colvin (Alabama-born African-American Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 1847 | Jesse James (Missouri-born Outlaw) |
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| 1902 | Darryl F. Zanuck (Nebraska-born Movie Producer) |
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| 1929 | Bob Newhart (Illinois-born Comedian) |
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| 1940 | Raquel Welch (Chicago-born Actress) |
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| 1946 | Freddie Mercury (Tanzanian-born English Lead Singer of the Rock Group Queen) |
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| 1877 | Crazy Horse (South Dakota-born Chief of the Sioux Indians) |
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| 1912 | Arthur MacArthur (Massachusetts-born U.S. Army General; Military Governor of the Philippines; Father of General Douglas MacArthur) |
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| 1927 | Wayne B. Wheeler (Ohio-born Temperance Leader) |
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| 1960 | Earl Long (Former Governor of Louisiana) |
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| 1997 | Mother Teresa (Macedonian-born Catholic Missionary: 1979 Nobel Laureate for Peace) |
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| Georg Solti (Hungarian-born Operatic Conductor) |
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| 1538 | Spanish Captain Alonso de Alvarado Founds the City of Chachapoyas, Peru |
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| 1698 | Peter the Great Imposes Tax on Beards |
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| 1716 | Virginia Explorers Reach the Crest of the Appalachian Mountains |
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| 1774 | First Continental Congress Is Convened at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia |
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| 1787 | Constitutional Convention Adopts Patent & Copyright Clause |
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| 1793 | France's Reign of Terror Begins with Harsh Counterrevolutionary Measures |
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| 1803 |
 Lewis: Again it is fog that I awaken to in the morning. We loaded the canoes and waited until the fog disappeared. We had trouble passing some riffles today and had to use horse and oxen to rescue us. At six in the evening we were pounded by rain. We camped at the head of Brown's Island when the night blackened around us. I was very worried because much of our valuable belongings had not been brought up yet so I blew the trumpet and ordered our things to be secured. We traveled 16 miles today. |
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| 1806 |
Clark: The Musquetors being So excessively tormenting that the party was all on board and we Set out at day light and proceeded on very well. here the river is bordered on both sides with timber &c becoms much narrower more Crooked and the Current more rapid and Crouded with Snags or Sawyers than it is above, and continus So all day. We did not meet with McClellen as we expected at the Creek. the report of the guns which was heard must have been the Mahars who most probably have just arrived at their village from hunting the buffalow. this is a Season they usialy return to their village to Secure their Crops of Corn Beens punkins &c &c. proceeded on very well passd. the blue Stone bluff at 3 P. M here the river leaves the high lands and meanders through a low rich bottom. Encamped on the S W Side on a Sand bar at a cut off a little below our Encampment of the 9th of August 1804. haveing made 73 Miles to day— Capt. Lewis still in a Convelesent State. We Saw no game on the Shores to day worth killig only Such as pelicans Geese ducks, Eagles and Hawks &c.— |
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| 1807 | British Complete Four-day Bombardment of Copenhagen |
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| 1812 | Native Americans Lay Siege to Fort Wayne |
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| Zachary Taylor Defends Indiana's Fort Harrison From Indian Attack |
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| 1836 | Sam Houston Is Elected First President of the Republic of Texas |
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| The First Nine Miles of Track Are Opened for Florida's First Steam-Powered Railroad |
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| 1837 | President Martin Van Buren Calls for Independent Federal Treasury |
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| 1840 | Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "Un giorno di regno" (King for a Day) Is First Performed in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala |
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| 1849 | The Oregon Territorial Legislature Passes an Act to Create a Free System of Public Schools |
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| 1857 | In Weimar, Germany, Franz Liszt Conducts the First Performance of His Composition "A Faust Symphony" |
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| 1859 | Our Nig Is First Novel Published by an African-American Woman |
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| 1863 | U.S. Foreign Minister Warns the British to Stay Out of the American Civil War |
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| 1868 | William Goldmyer Is First to Settle on Lake Washington's Sand Point |
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| 1872 | In Newark, Delaware College Opens Its Doors to Women for the First Time |
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| 1877 | Sioux Chief Crazy Horse Killed by a U.S. Soldier at Fort Robinson, Nebraska |
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| In Lee County, Texas, Outlaw Bill Longley Is Sentenced to Death for Murder |
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| 1881 | Forest Fires Engulf Michigan's Thumb |
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| Alaska Holds Its First Election, Choosing M. D. Ball of Sitka as an Unofficial Delegate to the U.S. Congress |
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| 1882 | New York City Holds America's First Labor Day Parade |
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| 1892 | W.M. Fishback Is Elected Governor of Arkansas |
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| 1893 | In Minnesota, Composer Antonín Dvorák Visits Minnehaha Falls and Performs for the Czecho-Slovanic Benefit Society in St. Paul |
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| 1901 | National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues Is Formed at Chicago's Leland Hotel |
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| 1905 | The Treaty of Portsmouth Is Signed in New Hampshire Ending the Russo-Japanese War |
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| 1906 | The First Legal Forward Pass Is Thrown in a College Football Game |
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| 1911 | Voters Create the Port of Seattle and Elect First Commissioners |
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| 1914 | The First Battle of the Marne Begins: 500,000 Will Die |
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| 1917 | Iowa's First Men Are Inducted into the Military for World War I at Fort Dodge |
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| In Response to Recent anti-Draft Activity, the "Drafted Men of Brown County, Minnesota" Pass a Resolution Supporting the U.S. Entry into the Great War |
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| 1918 | The National Anthem Is Sung for the First Time at a Sporting Event |
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| 1925 | Temperature in Centreville, Alabama Reaches Highest in the State's Recorded History: 112°. |
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| 1927 | George Gershwin's Musical "Strike Up the Band" Premieres at the Shubert Theater in Philadelphia |
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| 1936 | Beryl Markham Crash Lands in Nova Scotia as the First Woman to Fly the Atlantic Solo From East to West |
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| 1939 | The United States Proclaims Neutrality in World War II |
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| South Africa's Prime Minister, J.B.M Hertzog, Is Forced to Resign Because of His Neutrality Stance |
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| 1943 | U.S. Forces Seize More of New Guinea |
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| 1944 | 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Near Massena, New York Is Largest in the State's Recorded History |
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| Union Representative Is Arrested in Georgia for Trying to Organize Cotton Mill Workers |
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| 1945 | Japanese-American Wartime Radio Propagandist, "Tokyo Rose," Is Arrested in Yokohama |
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| 1947 | Philanthropist John Deferrari Donates over $1M to the Boston Public Library |
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| 1950 | Hurricane Easy Produces 125 mph Winds and Florida Record 24-hr Rainfall of 38.7" at Yankeetown |
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| 1957 | Jack Kerouac's On the Road Goes on Sale |
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| 1958 | Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago First Appears in the U.S. |
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| Louisiana State University at New Orleans Opens for Its First Classes |
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| 1960 | Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) Wins Olympic Boxing Gold in Rome |
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| 1969 | Lt. William Calley Charged for My Lai Massacre in Vietnam |
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| 1972 | Arab Terrorists Take Israeli Hostages at the Munich Olympics |
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| 1973 | Palestinian Terrorists Seize Saudi Arabian Embassy in Paris, Take 5 Hostages |
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| 1975 | Secret Service Agent Disarms Lynette Fromme before She Can Shoot President Ford in California |
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| IRA Bomb Kills 2 Injures 63 in Lobby of the London Hilton Hotel |
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| 1977 | Red Army Faction (RAF) Terrorists Kidnap and Kill West German Executive |
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| NASA Launches Voyager 1 Spacecraft Two Weeks after Launching Its Twin, Voyager 2. |
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| 1986 | 4 Arab Gunmen Kill 21 in Aborted Airline Hijacking in Pakistan |
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| 1989 | Chris Evert Is Defeated by Zina Garrison 7-6, 6-2 in Evert's Last U.S. Open Match |
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