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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 a book for children by Phyllis J. Perry (according to the Exploratorium):
DRAG RATS SAND SEASON |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of a sports figure born on this date:
TRUDGE DEER 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 book by Michael Crichton (according to his official website):
LIME NITE |
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 Gilbert Newton Lewis Born on This Date 1875 [University of Pennsylvania]
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 Bob Montana Born on This Date 1820 [Archie Page]
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 Phyllis J. Perry Born on This Date 1933 [The Exploratorium]
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 Mel Martinez Born on This Date 1946 [HUD]
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 Ang Lee Born on This Date 1954 [CNN]
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Hungary: Republic Day
(Remembrance of 1956 Hungarian Revolution) |
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Thailand: Chulalongkorn Day
(Commemoration of 1910 death of King Chulalongkorn) |
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United States: National Mole Day
(Celebration of the mole: Avogadro's Number 6.02 × 10 23 on 10/23 - Get it?) |
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| 1897 | Marjorie Flack (New York-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1933 | Phyllis J. Perry (California-born Children's Science Author) |
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| 1950 | Bruce Brooks (Washington, D.C.-born Children's Author) |
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| 1805 | John Bartlett (Rhode Island-born Antiquarian and Bibliographer) |
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| 1817 | Pierre Larousse (French Encyclopaedist) |
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| 1715 | Peter II, Emperor of Russia (1727-30) |
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| 1899 | Emily Kimbrough (Indiana-born Author) |
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| 1906 | Jonathan Wyatt Latimer (Chicago-born Author) |
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| 1910 | Emily Van Sickle (Mississippi-born Author) |
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| 1929 | Jere Hoar (Tennessee-born Author) |
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| 1942 | Michael Crichton (Chicago-born Author) |
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| 1944 | Alice Rose George (Mississippi-born Photography Editor) |
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| 1949 | Nick Tosches (New Jersey-born Author) |
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| 1920 | Bob Montana (California-born Cartoonist: Creator of Archie Comics) |
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| 1906 | Miriam Gideon (Colorado-born Composer) |
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| 1923 | Ned Rorem (Indiana-born Composer: Awarded the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Music) |
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| 1961 | Brett Dean (Australian Composer) |
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| 1750 | Nicolas Appert (French Chef: Pioneered Canning for Food Preservation) |
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| 1868 | Frederick Lanchester (English Engineer; Builder of the First Car in England) |
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| 1873 | William Coolidge (Massachusetts-born Engineer; Inventor of Flexible Filament for Mass-produced Light Bulbs |
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| 1875 | Gilbert Newton Lewis (Massachusetts-born Chemist: Pioneer in Acids & Bases, Bonding, Electron Dot Diagrams) |
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| 1905 | Felix Bloch (Swiss-born American Physicist; 1952 Nobel Laureate in Physics) |
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| 1715 | Peter II (Emperor of Russia: 1727-30) |
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| 1794 | Richard Banks (Georgia Physician, Namesake of Banks County, Georgia) |
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| 1835 | Adlai Ewing Stevenson (Kentucky-born Congressman, U.S. Vice-President for President Grover Cleveland) |
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| 1920 | Frank Rizzo (Mayor of Philadelphia: 1972 - 1980) |
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| 1946 | Mel Martinez (Cuban-born Member of George W. Bush's Presidential Cabinet) |
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| 1925 | Johnny Carson (Iowa-born Talk Show Host: The Tonight Show) |
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| 1954 | Ang Lee (Taiwan-born Academy Award Winning Director: "Brokeback Mountain") |
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| 1869 | John Heisman (Ohio-born Hall of Fame Football Coach: Namesake of the Heisman Trophy) |
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| 1906 | Gertrude Ederle (New York City-born Member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame) |
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| 1935 | Chi Chi Rodriguez (Puerto Rican-born Member of the Professional Golf Hall of Fame) |
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| 1940 | Pelé (Brazilian Soccer Player) |
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| 42 B.C. | Marcus Brutus (Roman Statesman, Conspirator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar; Suicide) |
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| 1874 | Harris Flanagin (New Jersey-born 7th Governor of Arkansas: 1862-1865) |
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| 1896 | Charles Frederick Crisp (English-born Georgia Congressman, Namesake of Crisp County, Georgia) |
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| 1910 | King Chulalongkorn of Thailand |
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| 1939 | Zane Grey (Ohio-born Popular Author of the American West) |
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| 1950 | Al Jolson (Lithuanian-born American Entertainer/Performing Artist) |
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| 1984 | Millard Fillmore Caldwell (Tennessee-born Congressman and 29th Governor for the State of Florida) |
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| 1997 | Luther George Simjian (Turkish-born American Inventor) |
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| 2002 | Adolph Green (New York City-born Songwriter: American Musical Librettist) |
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| 42 B.C. | Marcus Brutus Commits Suicide |
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| 1641 | Irish Catholics Massacre Tens of Thousands of Protestants |
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| 1642 | At Edgehill, the King's Troops Hold Their Ground in the First Major Battle of the English Civil War |
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| 1764 | The British Defeat Indian Forces at Buxar, India |
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| 1777 | Patriots at Fort Mifflin Bombard a British Fleet Severely Damaging 6 Ships and Killing 60 |
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| 1784 | Virginia Emancipates Slaves Who Fought in the Revolutionary War |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: a fine morning, I with the greater part of the men Crossed in the Canoes to opposit Side above the falls and hauled them across the portage of 457 yards which is on the Lard. Side and certainly the best side to pass the canoes I then decended through a narrow chanel of about 150 yards wide forming a kind of half circle in it course of a mile to a pitch of 8 feet in which the chanel is divided by 2 large rocks at this place we were obliged to let the Canoes down by Strong ropes of Elk Skin which we had for the purpose, one Canoe in passing this place got loose by the Cords breaking, and was cought by the Indians below. I accomplished this necessary business and landed Safe with all the Canoes at our Camp below the falls by 3 oClock P. M. nearly covered with flees which were So thick amongst the Straw and fish Skins at the upper part of the portage at which place the nativs had been Camped not long Since; that every man of the party was obliged to Strip naked dureing the time of takeing over the canoes, that they might have an oppertunity of brushing the flees of their legs and bodies— Great numbers of Sea Otters in the river below the falls, I Shot one in the narrow chanel to day which I could not get. Great numbers of Indians visit us both from above and below—. one of the old Chiefs who had accompanied us from the head of the river, informed us that he herd the Indians Say that the nation below intended to kill us, we examined all the arms &c. complete the amunition to 100 rounds. The nativs leave us earlyer this evening than usial, which gives a Shadow of Confirmation to the information of our Old Chief, as we are at all times & places on our guard, are under no greater apprehention than is common. we purchased 8 Small fat dogs for the party to eate the nativs not being fond of Selling their good fish, compells us to make use of Dog meat for food, the flesh of which the most of the party have become fond of from the habits of useing it for Some time past. The Altitude of this day 66° 27' 30" gave for Latd. 45° 42' 57 3/10" N. I observed on the beach near the Indian Lodges two Canoes butifull of different Shape & Size to what we had Seen above wide in the midde and tapering to each end, on the bow curious figures were Cut on the wood &c. Capt. Lewis went up to the Lodges to See those Canoes and exchanged our Smallest Canoe for one of them by giveing a Hatchet & few trinkets to the owner who informed that he purchased it of a white man below for a horse, these Canoes are neeter made than any I have ever Seen and Calculated to ride the waves, and carry emence burthens, they are dug thin and are supported by cross pieces of about 1 inch diamuter tied with Strong bark thro' holes in the Sides. our two old Chiefs appeared verry uneasy this evening.
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| 1813 | American Fur Traders Turn Over Astoria, Oregon, to the British |
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| 1819 | First Protestant Missionaries to Hawaii Sail from Boston |
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| 1826 | Miami Indians Agree to Mississinewa Treaty Ceding Land for Indiana's Michigan Road |
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| 1835 | White County, Arkansas Is Created |
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| 1847 | Abraham Lincoln Rents His Springfield, Illinois Home for $90/Year While in Congress |
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| 1864 | Union Troops Soundly Defeat Confederates at Battle of Wesport, Missouri |
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| 1876 | The New Orleans Mint Reopens as an Assay Office |
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| Atkins, Arkansas Is Incorporated |
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| 1877 | Patent for a Gas-motor Engine Is Issued to Nicolaus Otto and Francis and William Crossley |
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| 1878 | The First New York City Telephone Directory Is Published on a Single Page |
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| 1883 | Abilene Replaces Buffalo Gap as the Seat of Taylor County, Texas |
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| 1890 | President Benjamin Harrison Terminates All Land Claims by the Ponca Indians within the Nebraska Territory |
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| Railroad Accident Near Hinton, West Virginia Kills the Engineer |
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| 1900 | Walter Reed Presents Results Confirming Mosquito Theory of Yellow Fever |
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| 1905 | Actress Ethel Barrymore Appears in the Play Sunday in St. Paul, Minnesota |
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| 1907 | The German Balloon Dusseldorfland Lands in a Delaware Cornfield After a 40-hour 800-mile Flight From St. Louis, Missouri |
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| 1911 | Italy Makes First Military Use of an Airplane with Reconnaissance Flight in Libya |
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| 1913 | The Seattle Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Is Founded |
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| 1915 | 25,000 Women Demand Right to Vote with March in New York City |
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| 1920 | Sinclair Lewis' Main Street Is First Published |
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| 1921 | Green Bay Packers Played Their First NFL Game, Defeating the Minneapolis Marines 7-6 in Front of 6,000 Fans |
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| 1926 | Twelve Poems by Edith Wharton is Published by the Medici Society, London |
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| In Its First-Ever Football Game, University of Miami Beats the Rollins College Freshmen Squad 7-0 |
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| 1929 | The First All-Air Coast-to-Coast Air Service Begins from Seattle to New York |
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| 1934 | Minnesota Residents Jeannette and Jean Piccard Ascend in a Hydrogen Balloon to a Record 57,579 feet |
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| 1935 | The Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway Is Published by Scribner's |
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| 1941 | Chief of Staff Georgi K. Zhukov Takes Command of the Soviet Army |
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| U.S. Senate Passes $5.98B Lend-Lease Bill |
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| 1942 | British Begin Major Offensive at El Alamein, Egypt |
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| Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridegroom Is Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. |
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| 1945 | Brooklyn Dodgers Announce the Signing of Jackie Robinson to Play for Their Montreal Farm Team |
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| 1946 | The First Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Is Held in New York City |
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| 1947 | NAACP Issues to the United Nations a Formal Petition on Racism "An Appeal to the World" |
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| Argentine Physiologist and Czech-American Husband & Wife Researchers Chosen for Nobel Prize in Medicine |
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| 1952 | Selman A. Waksman Selected for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
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| 1956 | Hungarians Protesting Soviet Occupation Are Met with Armed Resistance |
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| 1958 | 74 Die in Springhill, Nova Scotia Mine Explosion |
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| Boris Pasternak Selected for the Nobel Prize for Literature |
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| 1960 | William R. Wood Is Inaugurated as the Fourth President of the University of Alaska |
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| 1968 | Bob Beamon Long Jumps World Record 29' 2.5" at Mexico City Olympics |
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| 1970 | Gary Gabelich Sets Land Speed Record of 631.367 mph in The Blue Flame Rocket-Powered Vehicle |
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| Suicidal Pilot Crashes a Rented Single-Engine Plane into the San Juan, Texas Religious Shrine |
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| 1971 | Disney World Opens in Orlando, Florida |
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| 1972 | Cumberland Island National Seashore Is Established on Georgia's Southernmost Barrier Island |
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| Pippin Opens on Broadway |
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| 1973 | President Nixon Agrees to Turn over Watergate Tapes to Judge Sirica |
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| 1978 | In Tokyo, China and Japan Ratify Treaty Ending Four Decades of Hostility |
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| 1980 | Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin Resigns |
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| 1983 | Islamic Jihad Blow Responsible for Bombing American Barracks in Beirut Killing 241 U.S. Marines & 58 French Paratroopers |
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| 1987 | U.S. Senate Rejects the Supreme Court Nomination of Robert H. Bork on a Vote of 58 to 42. |
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| 1989 | Hungary Becomes a Republic Independent of Soviet Rule |
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| Explosions Caused by an Ethylene Gas Leak Kills 23 at a Pasadena, Texas Plastics Factory |
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| 1991 | International Paris Peace Agreements End 12 Years of Conflict in Cambodia |
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| Clarence Thomas Is Sworn In as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1992 | 5.2 Magnitude Earthquake Kills Two in Morocco |
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| 1993 | Toronto Blue Jays' Joe Carter Is Second Player in History to End a World Series with a Home Run |
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| 2001 | Irish Republican Army Begins Decommissioning Weapons |
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| Apple Introduces the First iPod |
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| 2007 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-120) on 2-week Mission to Install the Harmony Module to the International Space Station |
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| 2011 | 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake Kills Hundreds in Turkey |
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| 90% of Tunsians Vote in the Country's First-ever Democratic Election |
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