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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 children's author or illustrator born on this date:
SEEN TRICK COIN END |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book published by Kate Seredy between 1941-1962 (according to the University of Southern Mississippi):
PHONE MAIL |
(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 major work by Oliver Goldsmith (according to San Antonio College):
WILD HOT FIVE RAKE CAFE |
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 Martin Luther Born on This Date 1483 [History Channel]
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 Oliver Goldsmith Born on This Date 1878 [San Antonio College]
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 Andrés Manuel del Río Born on This Date 1764 [Sequin Science]
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 Kate Seredy Born on This Date 1899 [Silverdale]
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 Ernst Otto Fischer Born on This Date 1918 [Nobel Foundation]
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Panamá: The Uprising of Los Santos
(Commemorates town of Los Santos' first declaration for Panamá's independence from Spain: 11/10/1821) |
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United States: Birthday of the United States Marine Corps
(Commemorates the creation of the U.S. Marine Corps: 11/10/1775) |
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| 1899 | Kate Seredy (Hungarian-born Children's Author, Illustrator: Awarded the 1938 Newbery Medal for The White Stag) |
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| 1929 | W.E. Butterworth: aka W.E.B. Griffin (New Jersey-born Children's Author, War/Military Novels and Stories) |
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| 1943 | Terence Dickinson (Canadian Children's Science Author) |
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| 1946 | Sandra Lee Markle (Ohio-born Children's Science Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1947 | Sal Barraca (New York City-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| Judith Logan Lehne (Maryland Children's Author) |
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| 1730 | Oliver Goldsmith (Irish Author, Poet, Playwright) |
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| 1759 | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German Author) |
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| 1879 | Vachel Lindsay (Illinois-born Poet) |
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| 1893 | John Phillips Marquand Delaware-born Author) |
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| 1913 | Karl Shapiro (Maryland-born Poet Awarded the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) |
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| 1944 | Tim Rice (English Librettist: "Jesus Christ Superstar") |
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| 1960 | Neil Gaiman (English Author of Graphic Novels and Comic Books |
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| 1890 | Eliezer Lissitzky (Russian Painter, Typographer, and Designer) |
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| 1764 | Andrés Manuel del Río (Spanish Chemist; Discovered the Element Vanadium) |
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| 1895 | John Knudsen Northrop (New Jersey-born Aviation Pioneer) |
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| 1918 | Ernst Otto Fischer (German Organic Chemist: 1973 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) |
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| 1753 | Josiah Harmar (Pennsylvania-born Union Army Civil War General) |
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| 1483 | Martin Luther (German Religious Reformer: Namesake of the Lutheran Religion) |
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| 1792 | Russell Means (South Dakota-born Native American Civil Rights Leader) |
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| 1868 | Wayne B. Wheeler (Ohio-born Temperance Leader) |
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| 1939 | Samuel Nelson (New York-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1889 | Claude Rains (English Actor) |
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| 1925 | Richard Burton (Welsh Actor) |
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| 1932 | Roy Scheider (New Jersey-born Actor) |
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| 1949 | Ann Reinking (Washington-born Dancer, Choreographer) |
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| 1956 | Sinbad (Michigan-born African-American Actor) |
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| 1982 | Heather Matarazzo (New York-born Actor) |
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| 1865 | Henry Wirz (Swiss-born Commander of Andersonville Prison: Government Execution) |
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| 1938 | Ghazi Mustapha Kemal Atatürk (Turkish Nationalist and Political Leader) |
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| 1956 | David Seymour (Polish-American Photographer) |
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| 1982 | Leonid Brezhnev (Ukrainian-born Soviet Political Leader) |
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| 1995 | Ken Saro-Wiwa (Nigerian Civil Rights Activist: Government Execution) |
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| 2001 | Ken Kesey (Oregon-born Author) |
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| 2006 | Jack Palance (Pennsylvania-born Actor Awarded 1991 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor) |
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| 2007 | Norman Mailer (New Jersey-born Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author) |
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| 2008 | Miriam Makeba (South African Popular Singer, Rights Activist) |
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| 1582 | Spanish Merchant, Antonio de Espejo, Departs San Bartolome, Mexico, Leading a Small Expedition to Explore New Mexico |
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| 1674 | Dutch Cede New Netherland and British Restore Name to New York |
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| 1766 | Governor of New Jersey Charters Queen's College (Rutgers University) |
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| 1775 | Second Continental Congress Resolves to Raise Two Battalions of Marines |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: rose early continued to build our fort
numbers of Indians Came to See us a Chief Half Pania Came & brought a Side of a Buffalow, in return We Gave the Day raw and Cold wind from the N W, the Gees Continue to pass in gangues, Some Ducks also pass Ordway: Cloudy & cold. the 2nd Chief & a Squaw came from the 1st village down in a buffaloe hide cannoe. brought us Som fat buffalow meat we finished raising one line of our huts. commenced hughing & Guttering the punchien/I> [split logs with one side roughly flattened] for the purpose of covering the huts.
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| 1805 |
Clark: Rained verry hard the greater part of last night and continues this morning. the wind has luled and the waves are not high; we loaded our canoes and proceeded on passed Several Small and deep nitch on the Stard. Side, we proceeded on about 10 miles Saw great numbers of Sea Guls, the wind rose from the N. W. and the waves became So high that we were compelled to return about 2 miles to a place we Could unload our Canoes, which we did in a Small nitch at the mouth of a Small run on a pile of drift logs where we Continued untill low water,
when the river appeared calm we loaded and Set out; but was obliged to return finding the waves too high for our Canoes to ride, we again unloaded the Canoes, and Stoed the loading on a rock above the tide water, and formed a camp on the Drift Logs which appeared to be the only Situation we could find to lie, the hills being either a our Canoes we Secured as well as we could— we are all wet the rain haveing continued all day, our beding and maney other articles, employ our Selves drying our blankets— nothing to eate but dried fish pounded which we brought from the falls. we made 10 miles today—
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| 1808 | Osage Indians Cede Most of the State of Missouri and Northern Arkansas Lands for Oklahoma Reservation |
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| 1817 | Salt Miners Form Trust Company to Control Production in West Virginia's Kanawha Valley |
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| 1834 | The First Public Sale of Land in the Wisconsin Territory Begins at the Mineral Point Land Office |
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| 1837 | Kichai Indians Kill 10 Texas Rangers at the Battle of Stone Houses |
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| 1851 | In St. Paul, Minnesota, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Open a Girls School, Enrolling 14 Pupils |
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| 1855 | Poet Henry W. Longfellow Publishes The Song of Hiawatha |
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| 1862 | In Port Washington, Wisconsin, 1,000 Residents Riot in Protest of a Draft for an Additional 300,000 Soldiers |
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| 1864 | Sherman Leaves Rome, Georgia with Orders to Destroy Everything Not Needed by Union Troops |
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| 1865 | Henry Wirz, a Swiss Immigrant and Commander of Andersonville Prison in Georgia, Is Hanged for Murdering Soldiers Incarcerated at His Prison |
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| 1871 | Reporter Henry Morton Stanley Finds Explorer David Livingstone |
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| Cretin High School Opens in St. Paul, Minnesota |
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| 1883 | Black Bart Commits His Last Crime Robbing California's Sonora to Milton Stage |
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| 1885 | Gottlieb Daimler Debuts the Worlds First Motorcycle |
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| The City of Fort Meade, Florida Is Incorporated |
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| 1889 | In Portland, Oregon, P.H. Redmon Ascends 2,000 Feet in a Balloon and Parachutes to Earth on the Descent |
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| 1897 | The Skagway, Alaska Post Office Is Established |
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| 1898 | 2,000 White Supremacists Burn Black Businesses & Kill 9 in Wilmington, North Carolina |
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| 1913 | American Federation of Labor (AFL) Holds 33rd Annual Convention in Seattle |
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| 1923 | Lake Washington's East Channel Bridge Is Opened to Mercer Island |
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| 1928 | Hirohito Is Enthroned as Emperor of Japan |
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| University of Notre Dame Football Team "Wins One for the Gippe"r |
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| 1933 | Workers at the Hormel Meat Packing Plant in Austin, Minnesota Stage the First Sit-Down Strike in American Labor History |
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| 1938 | 8.2 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered East of Alaska's Shumagin Islands |
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| 1940 | 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 1,000 in Romania |
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| 1942 | Germany Invades Vichy France |
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| 1946 | 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake and Landslides Kill 1,400 in Peru |
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| 1951 | Mayors of Englewood, New .Jersey & Alameda, California First to Direct-dial Long Distance |
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| 1953 | STAR-KIST Canned Tuna Fish Trademark Registered |
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| 1954 | U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower Dedicates the Marine Corps Memorial in Arlington, Virginia |
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| 1960 | Governor Davis Calls Upon the People of Louisiana to Build Fall-Out Shelters |
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| Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment Opens in New York to Tepid Reviews |
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| Lady Chatterley's Lover Sells Out After Being Banned for 30 Years |
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| 1961 | The Professional Golfers Association Eliminates "Caucasians Only" Clause from Its Constitution |
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| 1964 | Kenyan African Democratic Union Voluntarily Dissolves Making Kenya a One-party State |
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| 1967 | NASA Launches ESSA-6 Weather Satellite |
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| Texas' 90-mile President's Ranch Trail Is Dedicated in Honor of Lyndon Johnson |
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| 1969 | Sesame Street Debuts on Public Television |
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| 1970 | Soviets Launch Luna 17 Which Will Deploy a Rover for an 11-Month Lunar Exploration |
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| For First Week in Five Years No U.S. Casualties Reported in Vietnam |
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| 1972 | A Southern Airways Flight Bound from Birmingham to Montgomery Is Hijacked to Cuba |
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| 1973 | Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five Is Burned in North Dakota |
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| 1974 | The Charmed Quark Is Simultaneously Discovered at MIT and Berkeley |
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| 1975 | The U.N. General Assembly Approves Resolution Equating Zionism with Racism |
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| The Ore Boat Edmund Fitzgerald Vanishes in Storm on Lake Superior with Crew of 29 |
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| 1976 | Minnesota Governor Wendell R. Anderson Replaces Senator Walter Mondale, Newly Elected as Vice President of the United States |
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| Lieutenant Governor Rudy Perpich Replaces Wendell R. Anderson as Governor of Minnesota |
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| 1982 | Vietnam Veterans Memorial Opens to the Public in Washington, D.C. |
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| 1983 | President Reagan and Prime Minister Nakasone Hold Trade Talk in Japan |
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| Microsoft Announces Windows 1.0 |
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| 1986 | Congress Designates the Massachusetts Blackstone River Valley a National Heritage Corridor |
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| 1988 | The Wilmington, Delaware Rotary Club Votes to Admit Female Members for the First Time |
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| 1989 | Todor Zhivkov Forced to Resign after 35 Yrs as Bulgaria's Communist Party Chief/Head of State |
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| 1990 | Socialist Leader Chandrasekhar Sworn in As India's New Prime Minister |
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| 1995 | Nigerian Government Executes Civil Rights Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa |
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| 1997 | WorldCom Inc. and MCI Communications Corp. Agree to $37B Merger |
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| 2001 | The World Trade Organization Approves China's Membership |
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