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 Rita Moreno Born 1932 [HHAF]
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 Pedro Jose Greer Born 1956 [HHAF]
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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 Twig C. George (according to her official web page):
BAN BAD HONO DIMPLE |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of a children's author born on this date:
NINE LEG REEL |
(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 1960s book written by Mary Childs Jane (according to the Maine Writers Index):
MY SIGHT NOT MY RYE LOB |
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| Chile: Independence Day (Commemoration of Chile's independence from Spain: 09/18/1810) |
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| 1908 | Mary Childs Jane (Massachusetts-born Children's Author) |
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| 1927 | Ellin Greene (New Jersey-born Children's Author) |
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| 1950 | Twig C. George (Michigan-born Children's Non-fiction Science Author) |
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| 1893 | William March (Alabama-born Novelist and Short Story Writer) |
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| 1908 | Harold Courlander (Indiana-born Folklorist) |
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| 1910 | Raymond Geiger (New Jersey-born Editor of the Farmers' Almanac) |
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| 1922 | George Thatcher (Mississippi-born Newspaper Columnist) |
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| 1709 | Samuel Johnson (English Writer and Lexicographer Who Compiled the First English Dictionary) |
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| 1815 | James Bicheno Francis (English Pioneer of Hydraulic Engineering) |
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| 1819 | Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (French Physicist Who Invented the Gyroscope and the Foucault Pendulum) |
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| 1907 | Edwin M. McMillan (California-born 1951 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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| 1951 | Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson (Detroit-born African-American Pediatric Neurosurgeon) |
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| 1815 | Henry C. Wayne (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1779 | Joseph Story (Massachusetts-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1826 | Thomas Gunter (Tennessee-born Governor of Arkansas) |
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| 1857 | John H. Clarke (Ohio-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1895 | John Diefenbaker (Prime Minister of Canada: 1957-1963) |
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| 1923 | Al (Albert H.) Quie (Governor of Minnesota) |
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| 1901 | Harold Clurman (New York City-born Broadway Director) |
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| 1905 | Agnes de Mille (New York City-born Choreographer) |
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| Eddie Anderson (California-born African-American Actor: Rochester on the Jack Benny Show) |
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| Greta Garbo (Swedish Actress) |
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| 1916 | Rossano Brazzi (Italian Singer, Actor, Director) |
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| 1933 | Robert Blake (New Jersey-born Actor) |
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| 1940 | Frankie Avalon (Pennsylvania-born Singer, Actor) |
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| 1961 | James Gandolfini (New Jersey-born Actor) |
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| 1971 | Jada Pinkett Smith (Maryland-born Actress) |
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| 1971 | Lance Armstrong (Texas-born Bicycling Champion: 7-time Winner of the Tour de France) |
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| 1830 | Leonhard Euler (Swiss Mathematician) |
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| 1892 | James Bicheno Francis (English Pioneer of Hydraulic Engineering) |
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| 1911 | Piotr Arkadevich Stolypin (Russian Statesman: Assassination) |
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| 1929 | Julius Myers (The Last Town Crier in America) |
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| 1961 | Dag Hammarskjold (Swedish-born Secretary-General of the United Nations) |
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| 1964 | Sean O'Casey (Irish Author) |
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| 1970 | Jimi Hendrix (Washington-born African-American Popular Musician: Drug Overdose) |
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| 1980 | Katherine Anne Porter (Texas-born Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author) |
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| 2002 | Bob Hayes (Florida-born African American Olympic Sprint Champion, Professional Football Player) |
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| 1634 | English-born Religious Leader, Anne Hutchinson, Arrives at the Massachusetts Bay Colony with Her Family |
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| 1679 | The First Sailing Vessel on the Great Lakes, the Griffin, Leaves Michigan's Rock Island on Its Final Voyage |
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| 1692 | New Mexico Governor. Don Diego de Vargas Assigns the Los Cerrillos Land Grant Southwest of Santa Fe to Alfonso Rael de Aguilar |
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| 1758 | 4,500 British Troops Camp on Boston Common Before Setting off for Quebec to Fight the French |
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| 1759 | The French Formally Surrender Quebec to the British |
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| 1772 | Poland Is Partitioned by Russia, Prussia, and Austria |
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| 1776 | General Washington Reports to Congress on the Battle of Harlem Heights |
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| 1793 | President George Washington Lays the Cornerstone Stone for the U.S. Capitol |
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| 1803 |
 Lewis: The morning was clear and we set out at sunrise. At nine in the morning we passed Letart's Falls. The rapids are amazing here-a little more than 4 ft in 250 yards. |
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| 1805 |
Lewis: Cap Clark set out this morning to go a head with six hunters. there being no game in these mountains we concluded it would be better for one of us to take the hunters and hurry on to the leavel country a head and there hunt and provide some provision
Clark: The want of provisions together with the dificuely of passing those emence mountains dampened the Spirits of the party which induced us to resort to Some plan of reviving ther Sperits. I deturmined to take a party of the hunters and proceed on in advance to Some leavel Country, where there was game kill Some meat & Send it back, &ca fair morning cold I proceded on in advance with Six hunters and let it be understood that my object was to try and find deer or Something to kill we passed over a countrey Similar to the one of yesterday more falling timber passed Several runs & Springs passing to the right from the top of a high part of the mountain at 20 miles I had a view of an emence Plain and leavel Countrey to the S W. & West at a great distance a high mountain in advance beyond the Plain, Saw but little no Sign of deer and nothing else, much falling timber, made 32 miles and Encamped on a bold running Creek passing to the left which I call Hungery Creek as at that place we had nothing to eate. I halted only one hour to day to let our horses feed on Grass and rest |
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Clark: we rose early Capt McClellin wrote a letter and we took our leave, and proceeded on passed the Grand river at 7 A M. a Short distance below we came up with our hunters, they had killed nothing. at 10 oClock we Came too and gathered pottows to eate we have nothing but a fiew Buisquit to eate and are partly compelled to eate poppows which we find in great quantities on the Shores, the weather we found excessively hot as usial. the lands fine particularly the bottoms. a charming Oake bottom on the S E Side of the Missouri above the 2 Charletons rivers we find the Current of this part of the Missouri much more jentle than it was as we assended, the water is now low and where it is much confin'd it is rapid. we saw very little appearance of deer, Saw one bear at a distance and 3 turkeys only to day. our party entirely out of provisions Subsisting on poppaws. we divide the buiskit which amount to nearly one buisket per man, this in addition to the poppaws is to last is down to the Settlement's which is 150 miles the party appear perfectly contented and tell us that they can live very well on the pappaws. we made 52 miles to day only. one of our party J. Potts complains very much of one of his eyes which is burnt by the Sun from exposeing his face without a cover from the Sun. Shannon also complains of his face & eyes &c. Encamped on an Island nearly opposit to the enterance of Mine river. |
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| 1810 | Chile Declares Its Independence from Spain |
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| 1823 | 27 Florida Seminole Chiefs Sign the Treaty of Moultrie Creek Near St. Augustine, Florida |
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| 1830 | Tom Thumb Locomotive Loses Race to a Horse |
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| 1838 | The Baltimore American Museum Publishes "Ligeia," by Edgar Allen Poe |
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| 1839 | Burton's Gentleman's Magazine Publishes "The Fall of the House of Usher," by Edgar Allen Poe |
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| 1846 | The Struggling Donner Party Sends Ahead to California for Food |
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| 1848 | Sam Houston Dedicates Texas Cemetery to Victims of the Dawson Massacre |
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| 1850 | Congress Passes Fugitive Slave Act: Escaped Slaves Returned to Owners |
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| 1851 | The First Edition of the New York Times Is Published |
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| 1852 | Oregon Pioneer James Failing Presides Over a Meeting in Portland to Raise Money on Behalf of Destitute Immigrants |
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| 1862 | McClellan Fails to Attack, Allows Lee to Retreat from Antietam |
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| 1863 | Union & Confederate Soldiers Clash at Chickamauga |
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| 1873 | Robber Baron's Create Financial Panic |
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| 1875 | The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden Opens Its Doors |
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| 1889 | Jane Addams Opens Hull House, a Settlement Home for New Immigrants. |
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| 1892 | The First Synagogue in the State of Washington Opens in Seattle |
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| 1895 | A Switch Thrown by President Cleveland in Massachusetts Opens the International Exposition in Atlanta |
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| Booker T. Washington Delivers His "Atlanta Compromise" Speech |
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| In Davenport, Iowa, D.D. Palmer Credits the First Chiropractic Adjustment with Restoring a Man's Hearing |
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| 1898 | Fire Destroys Tacoma Washington's Industrial Exposition Building |
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| 1901 | West Virginia's Alderson Academy Opens |
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| 1902 | Aldous Huxley Is Hired as a Schoolmaster at Eton |
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| 1903 | The Fairbanks News (Today's Fairbanks News-Miner) Is Established |
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| 1904 | The Rocky Mountains Are First Crossed by Automobile |
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| 1915 | Louisa May Alcott's Book, "Little Women" Is Registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office |
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| 1918 | British Forces Attack Germany's Forward Outposts Near the French Village of Epehy |
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| 1922 | Associate Justice John H. Clarke Resigns from the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1934 | Soviet Union Is Admitted to League of Nations |
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| 1940 | You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe Is Published Posthumously by Harper & Bros. |
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| 1942 | Flash Floods Ravage a Wide Area of Northwestern Wisconsin, Largely Decimating the Village of Spring Valley |
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| 1944 | Two Texas Congressional Medal of Honor Winners Are Killed in Action |
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| 1945 | General MacArthur Moves His Command Headquarters to Tokyo |
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| 1948 | In Alaska, Eielson Air Force Base Is Formally Dedicated |
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| 1953 | Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March Is Published in New York by Viking |
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| 1954 | Virgil Thomson's Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion Is First Performed in Venice, Italy |
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| 1955 | Toast of the Town Becomes The Ed Sullivan Show |
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| 1959 | NASA Launches Vanguard 3 Satellite to Test Solar Radiation and Earth's Magnetic Field |
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| 1960 | Fidel Castro Arrives in New York City |
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| 1961 | UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold Is Killed in Plane Crash |
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| 1962 | NASA Launches TIROS 6 Satellite to Demonstrate Ability to Transmit Cloud Cover Pictures |
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| 1963 | Public Television Station WHYY Begins Broadcasting from Wilmington, Delaware |
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| 1964 | NASA Conducts Test Launch of Saturn Rocket System |
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| The Addams Family Premieres on ABC |
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| 1968 | NASA Launches the First Intelsat 3 Telecommunications Satellite |
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| 1970 | U.S. Department of Justice Sues the State of Washington Over Indian Treaty Fishing Rights |
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| 1971 | The World Council of Churches Is Barred from Entering South Africa |
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| 1975 | The FBI Captures Patty Hearst |
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| 1977 | Ted Turner Wins the America's Cup Yacht Race |
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| 1978 | Egypt and Israel Reach Agreement at Camp David |
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| Dmitri Shostakovich's Unfinished Opera, "The Gamblers," Is First Performed in Leningrad at the Large Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic |
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| 1980 | Cuba's Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez Is First Black Man in Space Aboard Soviet Soyuz 38 |
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| 1981 | Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum Opens in Grand Rapids, Michigan |
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| 1987 | Pope John Paul II Visits Detroit, Michigan |
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| 1988 | General Saw Maung Seizes Power in Burma Military Coup |
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| 1990 | The International Olympic Committee Awards the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta, Georgia |
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| 1997 | Ted Turner Announces $1 Billion Donation to United Nations' Charities |
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| Welsh Voters Choose to Establish Their Own National Assembly |
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| 1998 | Bright Sheng's "Spring Dreams" Is First Performed by Cellist Yo-Yo Ma with the Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwartz Conducting |
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| 1999 | Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs Is First Professional Baseball Player to hit 60 HR in a Season Twice |
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