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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 an author, writer or journalist who was born on this date.
LOCAL KINEA |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book written by Mildred Taylor (according to James Madison University).
FREESTONE GHOST |
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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 1929 work by Sherwood Anderson (according to the Authors' Calendar):
SELL NOT HOW |
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 Walter Reed Born on This Date 1851 [University of Virginia]
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 Milton Snavely Hershey Born on This Date in 1857 [Milton Hershey School]
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 Sherwood Anderson Born on This Date 1876 [George Mason University]
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 Roald Dahl Born on This Date 1916 [Cassadaga Valley Central School, NY]
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 Mildred Taylor Born on This Date 1943 [Penguin Putnam]
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United States: Commodore John Barry Day
(Commemorates the life of Commodore John Barry: Established by 1981 Presidential Proclamation) |
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| 1916 | Roald Dahl (Welsh Children's Author) |
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| 1917 | Carol Kendall (Ohio-born Children's Author) |
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| 1920 | Else Minarik (Danish Children's Author) |
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| 1943 | Mildred Taylor (Mississippi-born African-American Children's Author) |
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| 1876 | Sherwood Anderson (Ohio-born Author: Winesburg, Ohio) |
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| 1886 | Alain Locke (Pennsylvania-born African-American Author) |
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| 1894 | J.B. Priestley (English Novelist, Essayist, Dramatist) |
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| 1931 | Adrienne Kennedy (Pennsylvania-born African-American Author, Playwright) |
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| 1928 | Robert Indiana (Indiana-born Sculptor) |
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| 1819 | Clara Schumann (German Pianist and Composer) |
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| 1874 | Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian-American Composer) |
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| 1917 | Robert Ward (Ohio-born Composer) |
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| 1924 | Maurice Jarre (French Film Composer) |
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| 1851 | Walter Reed (Virginia-born Pathologist and Bacteriologist: Yellow Fever) |
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| 1941 | Ed Roberts (Florida-born "Father of the Personal Computer") |
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| 1813 | Daniel Macmillan (Scottish Bookseller; Co-founder of Macmillan Publishing Company) |
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| 1826 | Anthony Drexel (Pennsylvania-born Banker, Philanthropist: Founder of Drexel University) |
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| 1857 | Milton Snavely Hershey (Pennsylvania-born Founder of Hershey Candy Company) |
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| 1739 | Grigory Potemkin (Russian Military Leader and Statesman) |
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| 1860 | John J. Pershing (Missouri-born Commander of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I) |
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| 1813 | William Augustus Barstow (Connecticut-born Governor of Wisconsin) |
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| 1831 | Samuel West Peel (First Native Son to Represent Arkansas in the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1865 | Maud Ballington Booth (English-American co-Founder of Volunteers of America) |
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| 1941 | Oscar Arias Sánchez (Former President of Costa Rica: 1987 Nobel Laureate for Peace) |
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| 1903 | Claudette Colbert (French-born 1934 Academy Award-Winning Actress) |
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| 1911 | Bill Monroe (Kentucky-born Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & the Country Western Music Hall of Fame) |
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| 1925 | Mel Tormé (Chicago-born Jazz Vocalist) |
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| 1948 | Nell Carter (Alabama-born African-American Stage and Popular Singer) |
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| 1977 | Fiona Apple (New York City-born Popular Singer) |
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| 1967 | Michael Johnson (Texas-born African-American Member of the Track Hall of Fame) |
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| 1597 | Father Pedro Corpa (Catholic Missionary in the Florida Territory) |
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| 1803 | John Barry (Irish-born Father of the U.S. Navy) |
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| 1832 | Father Gabriel Richard (French Catholic Missionary, Educator Who Served Detroit) |
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| 1860 | Anthony Bewley (Texas-born Abolitionist Minister; Lynched in Fort Worth, TX) |
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| 1881 | Ambrose Burnside (Indiana-born Union General) |
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| 1925 | Alexander Sanger (Texas Merchant, Civic Leader, and Philanthropist) |
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| 1977 | Leopold Stokowski (English Symphonic Conductor) |
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| 1998 | George Wallace (Governor of Alabama) |
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| 2006 | Ann Richards (Governor of Texas) |
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| 1597 | Indians Murder Father Pedro Corpa, at Florida Territory's Tolomato Mission |
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| 1663 | Colonial America's First Serious Slave Conspiracy Occurs in Gloucester County, Virginia |
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| 1759 | British Defeat French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham |
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| 1786 | French Explorer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse Sails into Monterey Bay, CA |
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| 1788 | Constitutional Convention Authorizes First Federal Election |
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| 1789 | Congress Selects New York City as Nation's Capital |
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| 1803 |
 Lewis: It was clear this morning so we set out at sunrise. We had to lift the boat over some riffles. I observed many pigeons passing over us moving south. The squirrels continue to cross the river from north-west to south-east. We arrived at Marietta which is a hundred miles from Wheeling. We will lay here all night and I wrote the President. I then dismissed two of my hands and hired two more. This evening I was visited by Col. Green, the postmaster of this town, he is much a gentleman and an excellent republican. |
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| 1804 |
Clark: Today was also dark and drizzly. Last night one of the hunters caught four beaver. The winds from the northwest are very cold. The water is still very shallow. Made twelve miles today through a number of sandbars, which make it difficult to find the proper channel. At night the mosquitoes were verry troublesome.
Lewis:
Killed a Porcupine; found it in a Cottonwood tree near the river. the leaves of the Cottonwood were much distroyed-as were those of the Cottonwood trees in it's neighbourhood. I therefore supposed that it fed on the folage of trees at this season. The flesh of this anamal is a pleasant and whoalsome food— the quills had not yet obtained their usual length— it has four long toes, before |
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| 1805 |
Clark: a cloud morning Capt Lewis and one of our guides lost their horses, Capt Lewis & 4 men detained to hunt the horses, I proceeded on with the partey up the Creek
at 2 miles passed Several Springs which I observed the Deer Elk &c. had made roads to, and below one of the Indians had made a whole to bathe, I tasted this water and found it hot & not bad tasted in further examonation I found this water nearly boiling hot at the places it Spouted from the rocks (which a hard Corse Grit, and of great size the rocks on the Side of the Mountain of the Same texture[) I put my finger in the water, at first could not
as Several roads led from these Springs in different derections, my Guide took a wrong road and took us out of
The pine Countrey falling timber &c. &c. Continue. This Creek is verry much damed up with the beaver, but we dispatched two men back to hunt Capt Lewis horse, after he came up, and we proceeded over a mountain to the head of the Creek which we left to our left and at 6 miles from the place I nooned it, we fell on a Small Creek from the left which Passed through open glades Some of which ½ a mile wide, [3] we proceeded down this Creek about 2 miles to where the mountains Closed on either Side crossing the Creek Several tmes & Encamped.
Gass:
A cloudy morning. Capt Lewis's horse could not be found; but some of the men were left to hunt for him
When we had gone 2 miles, we came to a most beautiful warm spring, the water of which is considerably above blood-heat; and I could not bear my hand in it without uneasiness. There are so many paths leading to and from this spring, that our guide took a wrong one for a mile or two, and we had bad travelling across till we got into the road again. At noon we halted.
Game is scarce; and our hunters killed nothing since yesterday morning; though 4 of the best were constantly out, and every one of them furnished with a good horse. While we remained here, Capt Lewis and the men, who had been left with him, came up; but had not found the horse.
At 2 o'clock we proceeded on again over a mountain, and in our way found a Deer, which our hunters had killed |
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| 1806 |
Clark: rose early Mr. McClellen gave each man a Dram and a little after Sunrise we Set out the wind hard a head from the S E at 8 A M we landed at the camp of the 5 hunters whome we had Sent a head, they had killed nothing, the wind being too high for us to proceed in Safty through the emecity of Snags which was imediately below we concluded to lye by and Sent on the Small Canoes a Short distance to hunt and kill Some meat, we Sent out 2 men in the bottom they Soon returned with one turky and informed that the rushes was so high and thick that it was impossible to kill any deer. I felt my Self very unwell and derected a little Chocolate which Mr. McClellen gave us, prepared of which I drank about a pint and found great relief at 11 A. M. we proceeded on about 1 mile and come up with the hunters who had killed 4 deer, here we delayed untill 5 P. M when the hunters all joined us and we again proceded on down a fiew miles and encamped on the N E Side of the Missouri haveing decended 18 Miles only to day. the day disagreeably worm. one man George Shannon left his horn and pouch with his powder ball and knife and did not think of it untill night. I walked in the bottom in the thick rushes and the Growth of timber Common to the Illinois Such as cotton wood, Sycamore, ash mulberry, Elm of different Species, walnut, hickory, horn beem, pappaw arrow wood willow, prickly ash, &c and Grape vines, pees of 3 species &c &c. Birds most Common the buzzard Crow the hotting owl and hawks, &c. &c.— |
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| 1813 | In Wilmington, Delaware, the United Church of Africans Is Formed as the First Church Entirely Controlled by African Americans |
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| 1814 | Francis Scott Key Watches British Bombardment of Fort McHenry |
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| 1822 | City of St. Augustine Is Incorporated Under Florida Territorial Laws |
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| 1836 | Work Begins on Indiana's Whitewater Canal at Brookville |
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| James Conway Is Inaugurated as Arkansas' First Governor |
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| 1847 | Americans Storm Chapultepec - Last Major Battle of Mexican-American War |
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| 1859 | Chief Justice of California's Supreme Court Mortally Wounds a U.S. Senator in a Duel |
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| 1860 | Abolitionist Minister Anthony Bewley Is Lynched in Fort Worth, Texas |
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| 1861 | Wisconsin's 8th Infantry Is Mustered into Service at Camp Randall in Madison |
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| 1862 | Union Soldiers Find Lee's Battle Plan for Antietam |
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| 1863 | U.S.S. DeSoto Captures British Steamer Montgomery After 9-hour Chase |
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| Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise Publishes Short Story by Mark Twain |
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| 1883 | Free-Grass Advocates Begin Cutting Wires of Fenced Texas Ranches |
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| 1886 | University of Maryland Eastern Shore Founded by Methodist Episcopal Church |
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| 1887 | Rector, Arkansas Is Incorporated |
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| 1892 | The Admission of Three Women Makes Auburn the First Coeducational University in Alabama |
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| 1899 | Henry Bliss of New York Is Struck by an Automobile and Will Die the Next Day as America's First Recorded Traffic Fatality |
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| 1900 | The Chicago Electric Vehicle Company Test Drives Its First Car in Faribault, Minnesota |
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| 1918 | Residents of Eugene, Oregon Burn Newspapers and Magazines to Protest Unfair Treatment of Local Newsdealers by the Hearst Corporation |
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| 1919 | President Wilson Campaigns in Seattle for WWI Peace Treaty & League of Nations |
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| 1922 | Viola Ross Napier & Bessie Kempton First Two Women Elected to Georgia General Assembly |
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| 1923 | First Annual Rodeo Is Held in Ellensburg, Washington |
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| 1925 | Xavier University Opens in New Orleans as the First African-American University |
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| 1927 | Charles Lindbergh Flies to Seattle Aboard the Spirit of St. Louis |
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| 1930 | Duluth Minnesota's Municipal Airport Is Dedicated with an Air Show Attended by a Crowd of 15,000 |
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| 1939 | Alabama Legislature Outlaws Open-Range Livestock Grazing |
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| 1940 | Italy Invades Egypt |
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| The Peninsula Broadcasting Corporation Opens Radio Station WBOC Near Salisbury, Maryland |
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| 1943 | Chiang Kai-shek Becomes Leader of China |
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| 1948 | Margaret Chase Smith First Woman Elected to Both Houses of Congress |
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| 1951 | Americans Begin Assault on Heartbreak Ridge in Korea |
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| 1953 | Bob Trice Is First African American to Play for the Philadelphia Athletics |
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| 1955 | In a Special Election, 55 Delegates Are Chosen for Alaska's Constitutional Convention |
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| The Reserve Mining Company Begins the Commercial Production of Taconite in Silver Bay, Minnesota |
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| 1956 | Igor Stravinsky Conducts the First Performance of His "Canticum sacrum ad honorem Sancti Marci nomiminis" at St. Mark's in Venice |
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| 1960 | Peak of Volcano Haleakala in Maui, Hawaii, Established as a National Park |
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| 1961 | U.S. Unmanned Test Proves Mercury Spacecraft Ready for Manned Missions |
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| 1965 | Louis Armstrong Wins Best Male Vocalist Grammy for "Hello, Dolly!" |
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| 1967 | In Ann Arbor, Michigan, Leonard Bernstein Conducts the New York Philharmonic in the Premiere of Aaron Copland's "Inscape" |
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| 1969 | Alabama's Talladega Speedway Opens |
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| 1971 | Four-Day Attica State Prison Riot Ends: 37 Dead |
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| 1982 | Princess Grace of Monaco Critically Injured in Auto Accident |
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| 1985 | Polaroid Wins Huge Patent Lawsuit Against Kodak |
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| 1986 | In New York City, Leonard Bernstein Conducts the Israel Philharmonic in the Premiere of His "Concerto for Orchestra" |
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| 1988 | Hurricane Gilbert's Air Pressure Falls to 888mb Producing 184mph Winds |
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| 1989 | Fay Vincent Succeeds the Late A. Bartlett Giamatti As Commissioner of Major League Baseball |
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| 1993 | Palestinians and Israelis Sign Joint Declaration at the White House |
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| 1996 | Gillette Merges with Duracell |
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| 1997 | Funeral Services Held in Calcutta, India for Nobel Peace Laureate Mother Teresa |
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| 1998 | NBC's ''Frasier'' Wins Record Fifth Consecutive Emmy as TV's Best Comedy Series |
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| 2000 | James Perkins Elected as First African-American Mayor of Selma, Alabama |
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| 2001 | Secretary of State Colin Powell Names Osama bin Laden as Prime Suspect in 9/11/ Attacks |
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| 2008 | Hurricane Ike Blasts Galveston, Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast |
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