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 Judith Baca Born 1946 [HHAF]
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 Cristina Saralegui Born 1948 [HHAF]
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 Gregory Nava Born 1949 [HHAF]
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 Liz Balmaseda Born 1959 [HHAF]
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 Mary Jo Fernandez Born 1971 [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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Today's 5-Minute Quest
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  Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by Stan Berenstain (according to the booklist provided by Scholastic).
SEE A BIT HEN MAY STRAIN REAR FABLE |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a Christmas song written by Gene Autry (according to History Channel):
FRESHMAN OWNS TOT |
(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 1615 work by Miguel de Cervantes (according to the Authors' Calendar):
ALIENATED RENT |
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England: Michaelmas
(Ancient traditional holiday observed in celebration of St. Michael's feast day: Sep 29) |
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Paraguay: Battle of Boquerón Day
(Celebration of the Battle of Boquerón air battle fought 09/09- 0929/1932 during the Chaco War) |
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| 1923 | Stan Berenstain (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1547 | Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish Author of Don Quixote |
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| 1760 | William Beckford (English Novelist and Travel Writer) |
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| 1930 | Colin Dexter (English Author of the Inspector Morse Mysteries) |
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| 1571 | Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italain Painter) |
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| 1703 | Francois Boucher (French Painter, Engraver and Designer) |
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| 1838 | Henry Hobson Richardson (Louisiana-born Massachusetts Architect) |
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| 1901 | Enrico Fermi (Italian Physicist; 1938 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1849 | Frederick Schwatka (Illinois-born Alaskan Explorer) |
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| 106 B.C. | Pompey the Great (Roman General and Statesman) |
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| 1758 | Admiral Horatio Nelson (English Naval Commander) |
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| 1527 | John Leslie (Scottish Bishop; Advisor to Queen Mary) |
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| 1848 | Caroline Ardelia Yale (Vermont-born Educator of the Deaf) |
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| 1839 | James Kimbrough Jones (Mississippi-born Member of the U.S. Congress from Arkansas: 1885 - 1903) |
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| 1867 | Walther Rathenau (German Statesman, Industrialist and Philosopher) |
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| 1902 | Miguel Aleman (Mexican President: 1946-52) |
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| 1935 | Carmen Delgado-Votaw (Puerto-Rican Women's Rights Activist) |
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| 1942 | C. William "Bill" Nelson (Florida-born U.S. Congressman; First Member of Congress to Journey Aboard the Space Shuttle) |
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| 1943 | Lech Walesa (Polish-born 1983 Nobel Laureate for Peace) |
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| 1904 | Greer Garson (English Actress) |
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| 1907 | Gene Autry (Texas-born Country & Western Singer, Actor) |
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| 1912 | Michelangelo Antonioni (Italian Filmmaker) |
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| 1916 | Trevor Howard (English Actor) |
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| 1931 | Anita Ekberg (Swedish Actress) |
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| 1935 | Jerry Lee Lewis (Louisiana-born Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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| 1942 | Madeline Kahn (Massachusetts-born Actress) |
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| 1948 | Bryant Gumbel (Louisiana-born African-American Television Host and Commentator) |
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| 1964 | Tom Sizemore (Detroit-born Performing Artist) |
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| 1908 | Eddie Tolan (Colorado-born African-American Member of the Track and Field Hall of Fame) |
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| 1926 | Chuck Cooper (Pennsylvania-born African-American Pioneer in Professional Basketball) |
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| 1956 | Sebastian Coe (English-born Gold Medal Runner in the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games) |
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| 1560 | Gustav Vasa (King of Sweden) |
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| 1902 | Emile Zola (French Author) |
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| 1910 | Rebecca Harding Davis (Pennsylvania-born Author) |
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| 1913 | Rudolf Diesel (German Automotive Pioneer) |
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| 1967 | Carson McCullers (Georgia-born Author) |
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| 1970 | Edward Everett Horton (New York City-born Actor) |
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| 1978 | Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani; Catholic Pope) |
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| 1975 | Casey Stengel (Missouri-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1988 | Charles Addams (New Jersey-born Cartoonist; The Addams Family |
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| 1997 | Roy Lichtenstein (New York City-born Artist) |
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| 1998 | Tom Bradley (Texas-born African-American Political Leader; Mayor of Los Angeles) |
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| 2001 | Nguyen Van Thieu (President of South Vietnam) |
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| 1364 | French Fail to Break the Siege of Auray and the Town Falls to the British |
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| 1502 | Martin Luther Receives His B.A. Degree from the University of Erfurt |
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| 1526 | 600 Colonists from Hispaniola Found the Georgia Settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape |
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| 1759 | Mexican Volcano Jorullo Is Born |
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| 1789 | Congress Creates the U.S. Military on the Last Day of Its First Session |
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| 1803 | The First Roman Catholic Church in Boston Is Formally Dedicated |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: Set out early Some bad Sand bars,
at 9 oClock we observed the 2d Chief with 2 men and Squars on Shore, they wished to go up with us as far as those Indians proceeded on untill later in the evening when the Chief requested that the Perogue might put him across the river which we agreed to— Saw numbers of Elk on the Sand bars today, passed an old Ricara Village at the mouth of a Creek without timber we Stayed all night on the Side of a sand bar ½ a Mile from the Shore. |
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| 1805 |
Clark: a Cool morning wind from the S. W. men Sick as usial, all The men that are able to at work, at the Canoes Drewyer killed 2 Deer Colter killed 1 Deer, the after part of this day worm Cap Lewis very Sick, and most of the men complaning very much of ther bowels & Stomach
Gass:
A fine day; all our hunters went out, and all the men able to work, were employed at the Canoes. At noon two of our hunters came in with 3 Deer; a very welcome sight to the most of us.
Five or six of the men continue unwell.
Whitehouse:
A pleasant Morning, all our Men that were able to work, were employed at making the Canoes, Two of our hunters were sent out hunting, About noon the hunters returned to our Camp, with 3 Deer which they had killed. The Natives also brought to us, a number of Salmon, which we purchased
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| 1813 | Kentucky Riflemen Liberate Detroit from British Occupation |
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| 1817 | Native American Tribes Sign Away Rights to 4M Acres of Land in Northwest Ohio with the Treaty of Maumee Rapids |
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| 1829 | England's Metropolitan Police Service (Scotland Yard) Is Formed |
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| 1835 | Arkansans Vote for Statehood: 1,942 - 908 |
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| 1837 | Dakota Leaders Sign a Treaty in Washington, D.C., Selling Their Lands East of the Mississippi River for $500,000 in Cash and Goods |
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| 1856 | First Polish Catholic Church in the U.S. Is Consecrated at Panna Maria, Texas |
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| 1864 | African-American Soldiers Lead as Union Captures New Market Heights, VA |
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| Former Texas Slave Earns the Medal of Honor |
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| 1877 | Sanford, Florida Is Incorporated as a City |
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| 1891 | Searcy, Arkansas Is Incorporated |
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| 1893 | Mayo, Florida Is Incorporated as a City |
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| 1899 | First Meeting of Veterans of Foreign Wars Held in Columbus, OH |
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| 1910 | The National Urban League Is Organized in New York |
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| 1914 | Thomas Edison Is Granted Patent for the Phonograph Record |
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| 1915 | Violent Hurricane Reaches New Orleans: 275 Die, $5M Damage |
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| 1918 | Allied Troops Break through Germany's Hindenburg Line |
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| Gustav Holst's "The Planets" Is First Performed at Queen's Hall, London |
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| 1922 | Riviera Beach, Florida Is Incorporated as a City |
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| 1923 | San Francisco's Steinhart Aquarium Opens |
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| 1930 | CBS Begins 2nd Daily Networked News Broadcast with Lowell Thomas |
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| 1934 | William Faulkner Publishes "Ambuscade," in the Saturday Evening Post |
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| 1937 | Purdy (Spit) Bridge Is Completed in Pierce County, Washington |
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| 1938 | England, France, Italy Sign Munich Pact Ceding Sudetenland to Germany |
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| 1939 | Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union Divide Control of Occupied Poland |
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| 1940 | SS Booker T. Washington Is Launched |
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| 1941 | Nazis Complete 2-day Slaughter of 33,000 Russian Jews at Babi Yar |
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| 1942 | SS Booker T. Washington Is Launched at Wilmington, Delaware |
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| 1943 | Allied Forces Sign Armistice with Italy |
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| 1948 | WSB-TV Atlanta Is Launched As Georgia's First Television Station |
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| 1954 | With Back to Home Plate, Willie Mays Catches 450-foot blast by Vic Wertz |
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| 1956 | Hundreds of Ku Klux Klan Burn Three Large Crosses Near the Base of Stone Mountain, GA |
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| 1957 | Pittsburgh Pirates Defeat NY Giants 9-1 in Last Game at Polo Grounds |
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| 1960 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's Anger Interrupts UN Session |
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| 1965 | Phillip M Hannan Is Named Archbishop of New Orleans |
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| 1969 | Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 Is First Performed in Leningrad, by the Moscow Chamber Orchestra |
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| 1978 | Seattle Public Schools Begins Mandatory, District-Wide Busing of Students to Achieve Racial Balance |
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| 1987 | The Compaq Portable 386 Goes on Sale for $8,000 and Weighs 20 Pounds |
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| 1988 | Discovery First Shuttle Launched Since Challenger Disaster 01/28/1986 |
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| Oregon's Stacy Allison Is First U.S. Woman to Scale Mount Everest |
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| 2005 | U.S. Senate Confirms John Roberts as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 2009 | 8.0 Magnitude South Pacific Earthquake Triggers Tsunami Killing Dozens |
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