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 Virgilio Elizondo [HHAF]
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 Julia Alvarez Born 1950 [HHAF]
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 Lisa Quiroz [HHAF]
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 Derek Parra Born 1970 [HHAF]
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 Ricky Martin 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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| 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 Janet S. Wong (according to the Books sections of Janet Wong's official web site).
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Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by Larry Levis (according to the American Academy of Poets):
NEW CRICK GREW |
(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 work by Piri Thomas (according to In Motion Magazine):
TEEN WORDS SET MEAT HENS |
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Catholicism: Feast of St. Jerome
(Commemoration of the death of St. Jerome, patron saint of scholars and librarians, 9/30/420) |
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Botswana: Independence Day
(Commemoration of independence from the United Kingdom: 9/30/1966) |
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Sao Tome and Principe: Agricultural Reform Day
(Observed annually on this date) |
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Spain: Homenaje al Maestro (Teachers' Day)
(Observed annually on this date) |
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| 1898 | Edgar d'Aulaire (Swiss Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1912 | Zoa Sherburne (Washington-born Children's Author) |
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| 1916 | Alvin Tresselt (New Jersey-born Children's Author) |
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| 1926 | Gillian Avery (British Children's Author) |
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| 1929 | Carol Fenner (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1954 | Sylvia McNicoll (Canadian Children's Author) |
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| 1962 | Janet S. Wong (Los Angeles-born Asian-American Poet, Children's Author) |
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| 1207 | Mawlana Jalal-ud-Dine Balkhi-Rumi (Afghan Poet) |
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| 1906 | Michael Innes (Scottish Author) |
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| 1924 | Truman Capote (New Orleans-born Author) |
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| 1927 | W. S. Merwin (New York City-born Poet) |
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| 1928 | Piri Thomas (new York City-born Latin-American Author) |
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| Elie Wiesel (Romanian Author, Holocaust Survivor; 1986 Nobel Laureate for Peace) |
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| 1946 | Larry Levis (California-born Poet) |
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| 1948 | W. D. Ehrhart (Pennsylvania-born Author) |
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| 1802 | Antoine-Jerome Balard (French Chemist Who Discovered Bromine) |
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| 1870 | Jean Perrin (French Physicist; 1926 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1882 | Hans Geiger (German Nuclear Physicist Who Invented the Geiger Counter) |
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| 1883 | Nora Stanton Barney (American Civil Engineer, Architect, Suffragist) |
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| 1905 | Nevill F. Mott (British Physicist; 1977 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1939 | Jean-Marie Lehn (French Chemist; 1987 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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| 1943 | Johann Deisenhofer (German Biochemist; 1988 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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| 1951 | Barry J. Marshall (Australian Bacteriologist; 2005 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1765 | José María Morelos y Pavon (Advocate of Mexican Independence and Social/Political Reform) |
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| 1915 | Lester Maddox (Governor of Georgia, Civil Rights Opponent) |
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| 1921 | Deborah Kerr (Scottish Actress) |
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| 1922 | Oscar Pettiford (Oklahoma-born African-American Jazz Musician) |
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| 1935 | Johnny Mathis (San Francisco-born African-American Popular Singer) |
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| 1954 | Barry Williams (California-born Actor) |
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| 1957 | Fran Drescher (New York City-born Actress) |
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| 1961 | Eric Stoltz (California-born Actor) |
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| 1971 | Jenna Elfman (Los Angeles-born Actress) |
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| 1980 | Martina Hingis (Swiss Professional Tennis Player) |
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| 1981 | Dominique Moceanu (California-born Olympic Gymnast) |
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| 420 | Saint Jerome (Croatian-born Catholic Saint) |
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| 1931 | Henry Clay Warmoth (Governor of Louisiana) |
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| 1955 | James Dean (Indiana-born Actor: Car Crash) |
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| 1978 | Edgar Bergen (Chicago-born Ventriloquist, Puppeteer) |
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| 1985 | Charles Richter (Ohio-born Seismologist) |
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| 1989 | Virgil Thomson (Missouri-born Composer) |
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| 2011 | Ralph Steinman (Canadian Immunologist; 2011 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1759 | Massachusetts Soldiers Threaten Mutiny Against Their British Commander |
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| 1777 | Fleeing British Occupation of Philadelphia, Continental Congress Reconvenes in York, PA |
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| 1791 | Mozart's Opera The Magic Flute Premieres in Vienna, Austria |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: Set out this morning early had not proceeded on far before we discovered an Indian running after us, he came up with us & requested to come on bord we refused to take any of that band on board if he chose to proceed on Shore it was verry well Soon after I discovered on the hills at a great distance great numbers of Indians which appeared to be makeing to the river above us, we proceeded on under a Double reafed Sail, & Some rain at 9 oClock observed a large band of Indians the Same which I had before Seen on the hills incamping on the bank of the Left Shoe. we cast the ancher opposit their Lodgs. at about 100 yards distand, we Sent to each Chief a Carrot of tobacco, told them we had stayed two days with the band below, and we Could not delay any time, & they were friendly. we appoligised & proceeded on, Sent the perogue to Shore above with the Tobacco & Delivered. it to a Soldier. of the Chief with us. we Saw great numbers of white guls this day is cloudy & rainey.
we Saw about 6 miles above 2 Indians who came to the bank and looked at us a about ½ an hour & went over the hills to the S W. we proceeded on under a verry Stiff Breeze from the S. E, the Stern of the boat got fast on a log |
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Clark: a fine fair morning the men recruping a little, all at work which are able. Great number of Small Ducks pass down the river this morning. maney Indians passing up and down the river.
Whitehouse: This morning we had pleasant weather, The hunters that went out hunting the 28th instant had not as yet returned, and the Men that were sick belonging to our party are recovering their healths. The party employed at making the Canoes, are so weak & feeble that— they do but little work in the course of the day.— Towards evening the hunters returned, & brought in with them a Deer, & a Pheasant that they had killed.—
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| 1809 | Native Americans of Indiana Cede Land Tracts to the U.S. Government |
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| 1829 | Ralph Waldo Emerson Marries Ellen Tucker |
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| 1836 | In Arkansas, Benton and Madison Counties Are Created |
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| 1846 | Boston Dentist Is First to Use Ether as an Anesthetic |
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| 1847 | Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Enters Mount Holyoke |
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| 1854 | A Number of Ojibwe Bands Sign a Treaty Transferring Minnesota's "Arrowhead" Region to the U.S. Government for About $400,000 |
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| 1857 | Associate Justice Benjamin Curtis Resigns from the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1859 | Abraham Lincoln Makes His Last Visit to Wisconsin, Delivering an Address at the State Fair |
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| 1863 | U.S. Gem of the Sea Captures the British Schooner Director Near Sanibel, Florida |
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| Georges Bizet's Opera "Les Pecheurs de perles" (The Pearl Fishers) Premeires in Paris at the Théâtre Lyrique |
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| 1864 | Grant Fails to Take Rail Line from Lee at Poplar Springs, Virginia |
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| 1865 | 102nd U.S. Colored Troop Is Mustered Out of Service in Charleston, South Carolina |
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| 1868 | First Volume of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is Published |
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| 1869 | Texas' Governor Resigns in Protest of Reconstruction Authorities in the State |
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| 1876 | The Czecho-Slovanic Benefit Society, Known as CSPS, a Free-Thought Fraternal Organization, Is Formed in St. Paul, Minnesota |
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| 1878 | Lew Wallace Replaces the Resigning Samuel B. Axtell as Governor as Governor of the New Mexico Territory |
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| 1882 | World's First Hydroelectric Power Plant Begins Operation in Appleton, Wisconsin |
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| 1887 | The South St. Paul Livestock Market Opens, Selling 363 Cattle the First Day |
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| 1888 | Body of Catherine Eddowes, Probable Victim of Jack the Ripper, Found in London |
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| 1889 | Wyoming's Legislature Approves First State Constitution Granting Women Voting Right |
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| 1891 | The Beacon at Wisconsin's Devil's Island Lighthouse Near Bayfield Is First Lit |
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| 1892 | The Oliver Mining Company Is Organized to Work Minnesota's Iron Range |
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| 1902 | Tom Gilmore Locates the Discovery Claim on Vault Creek in Alaska's Tanana District |
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| 1907 | In Canotn, Ohio, President Theodore Roosevelt Dedicates the William McKinley National Memorial |
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| 1911 | Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Is Published by Scribner's in New York |
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| 1919 | Three Days of Deadly Race Riots between Whites and African-American Sharecroppers Break Out in Elaine, Arkansas |
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| 1927 | 10,000 See Babe Ruth Hit HR #60 at Yankee Stadium |
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| 1929 | Germany's Fritz von Opel Completes First Manned Rocket-powered Flight |
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| 1934 | Babe Ruth Plays Last Professional Baseball Game with New York Yankees |
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| Dizzy Dean Wins His 30th Game |
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| 1938 | British, French and Germans Sign the Munich Pact Allowing Nazis to Occupy the Sudetenland |
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| 1944 | R. Vaughan Williams' Oboe Concerto Is First Performed by Soloist Leon Goosens and the Liverpool Philharmonic |
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| 1945 | Aliceville German Prisoner-of-War Camp Is Decommissioned in Pickens County, AL |
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| 1946 | 22 Top Nazi Leaders Found Guilty of War Crimes by Nuremberg Tribunal |
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| 1947 | L. B. Werner and Isadore Perlman Report Isolation of First Curium Compound |
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| 1949 | The Berlin Airlift Ends as Soviets Withdraw Blockade |
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| 1951 | Billy Graham's "Hour of Decision" First Airs on ABC |
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| 1954 | USS Nautilus Commissioned as World's First Nuclear Submarine |
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| 1957 | Students Walk Out of West Virginia's Matoaka High School in Protest Over School Integration |
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| 1960 | The Flintstones Premieres on ABC |
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| Samuel Barber's "Toccata Festiva" for Organ and Orchestra Is First Performed at Philadelphia's Academy of Music |
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| 1962 | James Meredith Successfully Enrolls in University of Mississippi on 4th Try |
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| 1963 | Bronx Zoo Announces First Birth of a Gerenuk in the United States |
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| 1966 | Botswana Gains Independence from the United Kingdom |
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| 1968 | Boeing Rolls Out the First 747 "Jumbo Jet" in Everett, Washington |
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| 1970 | 5.3 Magnitude Earthquake Levels Buildings in the Philippine Islands Region |
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| 1972 | Guadalupe Mountains National Park Is Dedicated |
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| Roberto Clemente Gets His 3,000th and Final Career Hit |
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| 1980 | Xerox Publishes the Initial Ethernet Specifications |
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| 1981 | The Minnesota Twins Play Their Final Game at Metropolitan Stadium |
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| 1982 | Sixth and Final Chicago Victim Dies from Cyanide-laced Tylenol |
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| 1991 | Haitian Military Overthrows President Aristide and Set Up Military Government |
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| 1992 | Kansas City's George Brett Reaches 3,000 Career Hits |
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| 1993 | 6.4 Earthquake Strike Southern India: 10,000 die |
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| 1997 | France's Catholic Church Formally Apologizes for Silence During Holocaust |
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| 1999 | 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 33 and Injures 215 in Oaxaca, Mexico |
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| 2004 | John Kerry & George W. Bush Meet in Miami for Presidential Debate #1 of 3 |
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| First Members Are Inducted into the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame |
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| 2009 | 7.6 Magnitude Earthquake Kills Hundreds in Indonesia |
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