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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 book by Lois Ehlert (according to the Wisconsin Library Association):
WALL SNOBS |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book of poetry by James Schuyler (according to the Academy of American Poets):
OK HOBO THEME |
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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 work by Imre Kertész (according to Authors' Calendar):
CARD AUK |
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Cambodia: Independence Day
(Commemoration of independence from France: 11/9/1953) |
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Nepal: Constitution Day
(Observance of the promulgation of the new Democratic Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal: 11/9/1990) |
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Pakistan: Iqbal Day
(Commemorates the birth date of Allama Iqbal, the National Poet of Pakistan: 11/9/1877) |
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Tunisia: Tree Festival Day
(Observed annually on this date) |
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United States: World Freedom Day
(Observed annually by presidential proclamation to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall: 11/9/1989) |
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| 1927 | Helen Pierce Jacob (Ohio-born Children's Author) |
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| 1934 | Lois Ehlert (Wisconsin-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1937 | Lynn Hall (Illinois-born Children's Author) |
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| 1950 | Pat Cummings (Chicago-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1818 | Ivan Turgenev (Russian Author) |
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| 1832 | Émile Gaboriau (French Author) |
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| 1877 | Allama Muhammad Iqbal (National Poet of Pakistan) |
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| 1892 | Erich Auerbach (German Author) |
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| 1923 | James Schuyler (Chicago-born Poet Awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) |
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| 1928 | Anne Sexton (Massachusetts-born Poet Awarded the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) |
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| 1929 | Imre Kertész (Hungarian Author: The 2002 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1853 | Stanford White (New York City-born Architect) |
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| 1924 | Robert Frank (Swiss-American Photographer) |
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| 1907 | Burrill Phillips (Nebraska-born Composer) |
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| 1731 | Benjamin Banneker (Maryland-born African-American Mathematician, Astronomer, Inventor) |
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| 1801 | Gail Borden (New York-born Inventor, Publisher, Surveyor and Founder of the Borden Foods Company |
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| 1871 | Florence Sabin (Colorado-born Medical Researcher of the Brain and Central Nervous System) |
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| 1897 | Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (English Chemist: 1967 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
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| 1934 | Carl Sagan (New York-born Astronomer and Science Author Awarded the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction) |
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| 1952 | Jack Szostak (English 2009 Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology) |
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| 1833 | Sally Louisa Tompkins (Virginia-born Hospital Administrator; the Only Woman Commissioned a Confederate Military Officer) |
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| 1522 | Martin Chemnitz (German Theologian) |
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| 1802 | Elijah P. Lovejoy (Maine-born Abolitionist, Journalist) |
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| 1841 | Edward VII (King of England) |
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| 1874 | Matthew Mansfield Neely (West Virginia Congressman, Governor and United States Senator) |
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| 1918 | Spiro Agnew (Maryland-born Vice President of the United States to Richard Nixon) |
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| 1868 | Marie Dressler (Canadian Actress) |
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| 1886 | Ed Wynn (Pennsylvania-born Actor) |
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| 1913 | Hedy Lamarr (Austrian Actress) |
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| 1922 | Dorothy Dandridge (Ohio-born African-American Actress) |
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| 1936 | Mary Travers (Kentucky-born Folk Singer: Member of Peter, Paul & Mary) |
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| 1952 | Lou Ferrigno (New York City-born Actor: "The Incredible Hulk") |
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| 1913 | Ted Rhodes (Tennessee-born African-American Golfer) |
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| 1923 | Alice Coachman Davis (Georgia-born African-American Member of the Track and Field Hall of Fame) |
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| 1935 | Bob Gibson (Nebraska-born African-American Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1856 | John Clayton (U.S. Senator From Delaware) |
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| 1938 | Edward Murray East (Illinois-born Geneticist, Pioneer in the Development of Hybrid Corn) |
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| 1940 | Neville Chamberlain (Former Prime Minister of England) |
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| 1952 | Chaim Weizmann (Russian-born First President of Israel) |
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| 1953 | King Ibn Saud (Founder of Saudi Arabia) |
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| Dylan Thomas (Welsh Poet) |
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| 1954 | Clifford Walker (Governor of Georgia: 1923-1927) |
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| 1970 | Charles De Gaulle (President of France) |
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| 1988 | John Mitchell (Michigan-born Attorney General for President Nixon: Watergate Conspirator) |
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| 2004 | Stieg Larsson (Swedish Journalist, Novelist) |
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| 2006 | Ed Bradley (Pennsylvania-born African-American Broadcast Journalist) |
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| 1682 | William Penn Decrees That Weekly Public Markets May Be Held in New Castle, Delaware |
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| 1702 | Residents of St. Augustine, Florida Seek Safety from British in the Castillo De San Marcos |
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| 1775 | Henry Hamilton Arrives in Detroit as the Newly Appointment British Governor |
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| 1788 | The Virginia General Assembly Selects Two Antifederalists, Richard Henry Lee and William Grayson, as the State's First Two U.S. Senators. |
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| 1789 | Namesake of Telfair County, Georgia, Edward Telfair, Is Sworn into Office for His Second Term as the State's Governor |
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| 1799 | Napoleon Seizes Power Ousting France's Directory in a Coup d'état |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: a verry hard frost this morning we Continue to build our Cabens, under many disadvantages, Day Cloudy wind from the N W. Several Indians pass with reports, we got a White weasel, (Taile excepted which was black at the end) of an Indian Capt Lewis walked to the hill abt. ľ of a mile— we are Situated in a point of the Missouri North Side in a Cotton wood Timber, this Timber is tall and heavy Containing an imence quantity of water Brickle & Soft food for Horses to winter (as is Said by the Indians) The Mandans Graze their horses in the day on Grass, and at night give them a Stick of Cotton wood to eate, Horses Dogs & people all pass the night in the Same Lodge or round House, Covd. with earth with a fire in the middle great number of wild gees pass to the South, flew verry high
Ordway:
a hard white frost last night. a clear & pleasant morning. we continued building as usal.
we expect our hunters Soon as we are in Great want of fresh meat.— a nomber of the natives visits us everry day
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| 1805 |
Clark: The tide of last night did not rise Sufficintly high to come into our camp, but the Canoes which was exposed to the mercy of the waves &c. which accompanied the returning tide, they all filled, and with great attention we Saved them untill the tide left them dry—
wind Hard from the South and rained hard all the fore part of the day, at 2 oClock P M the flood tide came in accompanied with emence waves and heavy winds, floated the trees and Drift which was on the point on which we Camped and tosed them about in Such a manner as to endanger the Canoes verry much, with every exertion and the Strictest attention by every individual of the party was Scercely Sufficient to Save our Canoes from being crushed by those monsterous trees maney of them nearly 200 feet long and from 4 to 7 feet through. our camp entirely under at 4 oClock P M the wind Shifted about to the S. W. and blew with great violence imediately from the Ocian for about two hours, notwithstanding the disagreeable Situation of our party all wet and Cold (and one which they have experienced for Several days past) they are chearfull and anxious to See further into the Ocian, The water of the river being too Salt to use we are obliged to make use of rain water— Some of the party not accustomed to Salt water has made too free a use of it on them it acts as pergitive. at this dismal point we must Spend another night as the wind & waves are too high to proceed.
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| 1809 | David B. Mitchell Is Elected by the General Assembly for the First of His Three Two-Year Terms as Governor of Georgia |
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| 1825 | Thomas Drummond Invents Limelight, a Dramatic Improvement for Stage Lighting |
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| 1831 | Wilson Lumpkin Is Sworn in as the Governor of Georgia for the First of Two Consecutive Two-Year Terms |
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| 1838 | In Florida, Fort Gatlin Is Established Between the Present-Day Sites of Orlando and Pine Castle |
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| 1842 | First U.S. Patent for Design Issued for a Typeface and Borders |
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| 1853 | Namesake of Johnson County, Herschel Johnson, Is Sworn in as the Governor of Georgia for the First of Two Consecutive Two-Year Terms |
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| 1857 | The Oregon Constitution Is Adopted by a Territorial Vote |
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| 1862 | General Burnside Assumes Command of the Union Army of the Potomac |
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| In New Ulm, Minnesota, a Mob Attack Indians Captured During the U.S. -Dakota War |
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| 1864 | From Kingston, Georgia, General Sherman Issues Special Field Order No. 120 Organizing the Army of the Tennessee into Two Wings |
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| 1872 | Fire Destroys Much of the Boston Business District: 13 People Die |
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| 1875 | U.S. Government Identifies Followers of Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse as Hostile |
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| 1882 | Residents in Sussex County, Delaware Celebrate Their Traditional "Return Day" Two Days After the Local Election |
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| 1884 | The Kaweah Utopian Group First Meets and Will Establish the Keweah Co-operative Commonwealth in California's Eastern Tulare County |
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| 1886 | John B. Gordon Is Sworn in as the Governor of Georgia for the First of Two Consecutive Two-Year Terms |
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| 1888 | Body of Mary Jane Kelly, Probable Victim of Jack the Ripper, Found in London |
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| 1891 | George A. Hormel Launches His Packinghouse in Austin, Minnesota, Operating Out of an Old Creamery |
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| 1895 | In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Pabst Theater Is Completed as an All-Electric Theater Featuring Air Conditioning |
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| 1901 | African American, William Monroe Trotter, Founds the Boston Guardian |
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| 1903 | An Odd Fellows Lodge for African-Americans Is Organized in Beloit, Wisconsin |
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| 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt Departs for Panama, the First Foreign Trip a U.S. President |
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| 1912 | Carlisle Indian School, PA (Pop Warner, coach - Jim Thorpe, star) Stuns Army 27-6 |
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| 1918 | Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II Announces He Will Abdicate |
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| 1923 | Police and Troops in Munich Crush the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch |
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| 1935 | 8 Industrial Union Leaders Announce the Formation of the CIO |
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| 1936 | The First Meeting of the Texas Institute of Letters Is Convened in Dallas |
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| 1938 | Kristallnacht - Nazis Burn and Loot Jewish Temples, Stores and Homes |
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| 1946 | World War II Wage and Salary Controls Are Ended |
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| 1948 | In Georgia, U.S. Post Office Issues a 3-cent Stamp Honoring Moina Michael Who Championed Selling Poppies to Help Disabled Soldiers |
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| 1952 | Maurice Richard Scores NHL Record 325th Goal. Puck Sent to Queen Elizabeth |
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| 1953 | Supreme Court Upholds Major League Baseball's Exemption from Antitrust Laws |
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| 1956 | Atlanta, Georgia's Mattiwilda Dobbs Is the First African American to Sing a Romantic Lead at New York's Metropolitan Opera |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre Condemns the Soviet Invasion of Hungary |
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| 1960 | Kennedy Elected President, Narrowly Defeating Richard Nixon |
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| 1961 | U.S. X-15 Rocket Plane Flown to Record 4,093 mph and 30,970 m Altitude |
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| 1965 | Faulty Niagara Falls Switch Creates Power Failure for NE U.S. & Canada |
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| Nate Thurmond Grabs Career-high 42 Rebounds for the Warriors vs. Detroit |
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| 1967 | Saturn V Rocket Carries First Unmanned Apollo 4 Spacecraft into Space |
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| First Issue of Rolling Stone Is Published |
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| 1968 | 5.5 Magnitude Earthquake Centered in Southern Illinois Is Felt in 23 States |
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| 1970 | U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Massachusetts Challenge of Vietnam War |
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| 1972 | NASA Launches the Anik A1 Canadian Telecommunications Satellite |
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| 1976 | United Nations Approves 10 Resolutions Condemning Apartheid in South Africa |
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| 1987 | Cal Anderson Becomes Washington State's First Openly Gay Legislator |
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| 1988 | George Bush Is Elected President, Defeating Michael Dukakis |
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| 1989 | Borders Are Opened between East and West Germany |
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| 1990 | King Birendra Proclaims New Constitution and Multi-party Democracy for Nepal |
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| 1994 | German Researchers First Detect Element 110 (3 atoms) |
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| 1996 | Ground Is Broken for the Milwaukee Brewers' Miller Park |
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| 2005 | Terrorist Bombings of Three Jordanian Hotels Kill 56 |
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| The Presidential Medal of Freedom Is Presented to Frank Robinson, Muhammad Ali & Jack Nicklaus |
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