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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 book by David Shannon (according to Scholastic):
YEN SUNBATH |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book written by Louise Fitzhugh (according to Random House):
PORTS |
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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 title of a 1978 work by Václav Havel (according to Authors' Calendar):
POTTERS |
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 Robert Hutchings Goddard Born on This Date 1882 [NASA]
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 Ray Kroc Born on This Date 1902 [Oak Park Tourist]
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 Louise Fitzhugh Born on This Date 1928 [Purple Socks]
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 Václav Havel Born on This Date 1936 [Ceská Politicka]
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 Maya Lin Born on This Date 1959 [University of California, Irvine]
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United Nations: World Teacher's Day
(Initiated in 1994 to commemorate U.N. recommendation regarding importance of teachers and the fundamental right of education: 10/05/1966) |
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Portugal: Proclamation of the Republic Day
(Commemorates Overthrow of the Portuguese Monarchy and Creation of the First Republic: 10/05/1910) |
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| 1913 | Gene Zion (New York City-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1928 | Louise Fitzhugh (Tennessee-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1938 | Marianne Brandis (Dutch Children's Author) |
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| 1952 | Clive Barker (British Children's Author) |
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| 1955 | Gloria Rand Dank (Ohio-born Children's Author) |
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| 1959 | David Shannon (Washington, D.C.-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1713 | Denis Diderot (French Playwright, Encyclopedist) |
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| 1911 | Flann O'Brien (Irish Avant-Garde Novelist ) |
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| 1936 | Václav Havel (Czech Author, Dramatist, President) |
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| 1950 | Edward P. Jones (Virginia-born African-American 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction) |
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| 1952 | Clive Barker (English Horror Novelist) |
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| 1922 | Bil Keane (Pennsylvania-born Cartoonist: Family Circus) |
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| 1959 | Maya Lin (Ohio-born Asian-American Architect: Vietnam Veterans Memorial) |
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| 1962 | Ken Noda (New York City-born Composer, Pianist) |
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| 1864 | Louis Jean Lumiere (French Chemist) |
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| 1879 | Peyton Rous (Maryland-born 1966 Nobel Laureate Medicine or Physiology) |
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| 1882 | Robert Hutchings Goddard (Massachusetts-born Rocket and Space Flight Pioneer) |
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| 1930 | Reinhard Selten (German-born 1994 Nobel Laureate for Economics) |
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| 1902 | Ray Kroc (Illinois-born Business Leader: McDonalds) |
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| 1789 | William Scoresby (British Arctic Explorer) |
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| 1895 | Walter Bedell Smith (Indiana-born U.S. Army Chief of Staff World War II) |
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| 1703 | Jonathan Edwards (Connecticut-born Minister/Missionary) |
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| 1751 | James Iredell (British-born Associate Justice of the United State Supreme Court) |
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| 1830 | Chester A. Arthur (Vermont-born 21st President of the United States) |
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| 1834 | Benjamin Frederick (Ohio-born Member of the U.S. Congress from Iowa) |
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| 1892 | Gardner Robert Withrow (Wisconsin-born Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1903 | Larry Fine (Pennsylvania-born Actor: The Three Stooges) |
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| 1908 | Joshua Logan (Texas-born Actor, Filmmaker) |
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| 1918 | Allen Ludden (Wisconsin-born Television Gameshow Host) |
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| 1919 | Donald Pleasence (British Actor) |
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| 1935 | Diahann Carroll (New York City-born African-American Actress) |
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| 1943 | Steve Miller (Wisconsin-born Popular Musician) |
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| 1951 | Karen Allen (Illinois-born Actress) |
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| 1975 | Kate Winslet (British Actress) |
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| 1965 | Mario Lemieux (Canadian-born Professional Hockey Player) |
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| 1965 | Grant Hill (Texas-born African-American Professional Basketball Player) |
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| 1739 | Tomochichi (Yamacraw Indian Chief) |
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| 1805 | William Killen (First Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court) |
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| 1813 | Chief Tecumseh (Native American Leader Killed at the Battle of the Thames) |
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| 1824 | Thomas B. Robertson (Governor of Louisiana: 1820-1824) |
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| 1941 | Louis Brandeis (Kentucky-born First Jewish Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1983 | Earl Silas Tupper (New Hampshire-born Inventor of Tupperware) |
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| 2001 | Mike Mansfield (New York City-born Senate Majority Leader from Montana, Ambassador ) |
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| 2011 | Steve Jobs (California-born co-Founder of Apple Computers) |
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| 1789 | James Wilson Sworn in As Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1795 | Napoleon Sparks His Career by Defending the National Convention in Paris |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: Frost this morning, we Set out early and proceeded on passed a Small Creek on the Left Side at 7 oclock heard Some yels proceeded on Saw 3 Indians of the Teton band, they called to us to Come on Shore, beged Some Tobacco, we answd. them as usial and proceeded on, Saw a Gang of Goats Swiming across the river out of which we killed four they were not fatt.
in the evening passed a Small Island Situated Close to the L. Side,— I walked on the Isd. found it Covered with wild rye, I Shot a Buck, Saw a large gang of Goat on the hills opposit, one Buck killed, also a Prarie wolf this evening, the high Land not So high as below, river about the Same width, the Sand bars as noumerous, the earth Black and many |
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Clark: Wind Easterly and Cool, had all our horses 38 in number Collected and branded Cut off their fore top and delivered them to the 2 brothers and one Son of one of the Chiefs who intends to accompany us down the river to each of those men I gave a Knife & Some Small articles &c. they promised to be attentive to our horses untill we Should return.— [Lewis's branding iron bore the legend "U.S. Capt. M. Lewis." Now in the possession of the Oregon Historical Society, it is one of the few authenticated articles associated with the expedition known to have survived. Files of the society are inexact and sources disagree on the item's provenance. It was found in 1892, 1893, or 1894, by Lineaus Winans of Hood River, Oregon, near present The Dalles, Oregon, on or below one of the Memaloose Islands before Columbia River dams inundated the area.] Nothing to eate except dried fish & roots. Capt Lewis & myself eate a Supper of roots boiled, which Swelled us in Such a manner that we were Scercely able to breath for Several hours— finished and launched 2 of our Canoes this evening which proved to be verry good our hunters with every diligence Could kill nothing. The hills high and ruged and woods too dry to hunt the deer which is the only game in our neighbourhood. Several Squars Came with Fish and roots which we purchased of them for Beeds, which they were fond of— Capt Lewis not So well to day as yesterday
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a clear cool morning a little white frost. the two men returnd from the villages late last evening with their
we continued dressing off the canoes. got up all our horses 38 in number. we branded them on the near fore Shoulder with a Stirrup Iron, and cropped their fore mane So as we may know them at our return.
the old chief [Twisted Hair (Walamottinin) of the Nez Perce]
who we leave the care of our horses with has engaged to
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| 1813 | Troops Commanded by William Henry Harrison Defeat Shawnee and Miami Indians at the Battle of the Thames: Chief Tecumseh Is Killed |
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| 1821 | Greeks Capture Tripolitza, Main Turkish Fort in Peloponnese Area of Greece |
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| 1823 | The British Medical Journal, The Lancet, Is First Published |
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| 1829 | The Second Virginia Constitutional Convention Opens in Richmond |
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| 1835 | In Little Rock, Arkansas' Last Territorial Legislature Is Convened |
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| 1840 | Archibald Yell Is Elected Governor of Arkansas |
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| 1846 | Wisconsin's First State Constitutional Convention Meets in Madison |
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| John Switzler Is Authorized to Operate a Ferry Crossing the Columbia River Opposite Fort Vancouver for 5 Years |
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| 1855 | Yakama Indians Clash with Federal Troops Igniting a Three-year War |
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| 1862 | Federal Troops Occupy a Nearly Deserted Jacksonville, Florida |
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| 1864 | Confederates Fail to Break Union Supply Line at Allatoona, GA |
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| 1877 | Nez Percé Chief Joseph Surrenders to U.S. Cavalry in Bear Paw Mountains, MT |
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| 1881 | International Cotton Exposition Opens in Atlanta, Georgia |
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| 1882 | Outlaw Frank James Surrenders in Missouri |
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| 1892 | The Dalton Gang Is Almost Wiped Out Attempting to Rob Two Coffeyville, Kansas Banks |
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| 1898 | In Minnesota, 6 U.S. Soldiers Are Killed in a Failed Attempt to Arrest Bugonaygeshig, a Native American |
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| 1909 | U.S. Army's African-American "Buffalo Soldiers" Arrive in Washington from Philippines |
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| 1910 | Portugal's Monarchy Is Overthrown and the First Republic Is Established |
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| 1913 | Storm Causes $1 Million Damage in Nome, Alaska |
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| 1918 | 3,000 Cases of Spanish Influenza Reported at Augusta Georgia's Camp Hancock |
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| 1921 | Giants Play the Yankees in the First World Series Game Broadcast on Radio |
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| 1923 | Edwin Hubble Identifies the First Cepheid Variable Star |
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| 1925 | 1,334 Copies of Ernest Hemingway's First American Book In Our Time Are Published |
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| 1926 | Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Approves $150,000 for the Purchase of a New Airfield |
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| 1930 | British Airship R101 Crashes Near Beauvais, France Killing 48 People |
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| Laura Ingalls Begins First Solo Transcontinental Flight by a Woman (4d NY-CA) |
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| The New York Philharmonic Begins Its Series of Weekly Sunday Afternoon National Broadcasts with a Program from Carnegie Hall |
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| 1931 | Two Americans Complete First Nonstop Pacific Flight (41 hours Japan to Washington) |
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| 1936 | English Miners and Shipworkers Begin Labor March from Jarrow to London |
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| 1937 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt Calls for a ''Quarantine'' of Aggressor Nations |
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| 1945 | Marine Sergeant. David Timpany, Returns to Janesville After Almost 4 years as a Japanese Prisoner of War |
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| 1946 | The Science Place Opens as the Dallas Health Museum |
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| 1947 | Truman Uses First Televised White House Broadcast to Plea for Food for Europe |
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| 1948 | 110,000 Die in 7.3 Magnitude Turkmenistan Earthquake |
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| 1951 | The Second Suburban Shopping Mall in the U.S. Opens in Framingham, MA |
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| 1953 | Former Governor of California, Earl Warren, Is Sworn in As 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1961 | Breakfast at Tiffany's Opens at Radio City Music Hall in New York |
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| 1962 | The Beatles Release "Love Me Do" |
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| 1969 | ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' Debuts on BBC Television |
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| 1970 | Quebec Separatists Kidnap British Trade Commissioner in Canada |
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| 1974 | David Kunst Returns to Waseca, Minnesota, Completing a 4-year Journey as the First Person to Walk Around the World |
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| 1978 | Isaac Singer Is Chosen as the Nobel Laureate in Literature |
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| 1982 | Unmanned Rocket Sled Reaches 6,121 mph (Mach 8) on 9.5 mile NM Track |
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| 1985 | 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Canada's Northwest Territories |
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| 1986 | Eugene Hasenfus' Capture by Sandinista Rebels Exposes Iran-Contra Scandal |
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| 1989 | Dalai Lama Chosen as the Nobel Laureate for Peace |
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| NC Jury Convicts Television Evangelist Jim Bakker of Defrauding Followers |
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| 1995 | Irish Poet Seamus Heaney Is Chosen as the Nobel Laureate in Literature |
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| 1999 | Crowded Commuter Trains Collide in London's Paddington Station: 31 die |
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| 2000 | Yugoslav Protesters Storm Parliament Proclaiming Vojislav Kostunica President |
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| 2001 | Georgia Supreme Court Banishes Electrocution As Cruel and Unusual Punishment |
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| Barry Bonds Hits Homeruns 71 & 72 for New Major League Season Record |
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