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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 1996 book by Peg Kehret (according to Fantastic Fiction):
SAGE CLEANS GRIME |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by Kurt Vonnegut (according to Author's Calendar):
I LID JARB |
(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 1971 work by Carlos Fuentes (according to Authors' Calendar):
SEE MAP DO ROAM |
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Catholicism: Feast Day of St. Martin
(Remembrance of the patron saint of France and beggars) |
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Bhutan: Birthday of HM King Jigme Singye Wangchuck
(Commemoration of king's birth date: 11/11/1955) |
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Western European Countries & Possessions: Remembrance Day/Armistice Day
(Remembrance of those who serve and who have served in the military) |
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Maldives: Republic Days
(Commemoration of the change from Monarchy to a Republic 11/11/1968 (Day 1 of 3)) |
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St. Martin/St. Maarten Day
(Commemoration of the discovery of St Martin/St. Maarten by Columbus 11/11/1493) |
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United States: Veterans Day
(Recognizes the service of U.S. military veterans by commemorating Armistice Day: 11/11/1918) |
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Washington: Admission Day
(Commemoration of the admission of the State of Washington to the Union: 11/11/1889) |
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| 1836 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich (New Hampshire-born Poet, Children's Author) |
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| 1907 | Shirley Graham DuBois (Indiana-born African-American Composer, Artist, Children's Author) |
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| 1918 | Seymour Reit (New York City-born Artist, Children's Author) |
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| 1936 | Peg Kehret (Wisconsin-born Children's Author) |
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| 1942 | Diane Wolkstein (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1821 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russian Author) |
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| 1863 | Hudson Stuck (English Episcopal Priest; Author of Several Books on Alaska) |
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| 1897 | Gordon Allport (Indiana-born Psychologist) |
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| 1922 | Kurt Vonnegut (Indiana-born Author) |
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| 1928 | Carlos Fuentes (Mexican Author) |
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| 1895 | Beulah Woodard (Ohio-born African-American Artist) |
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| 1493 | Paracelsus (Swiss Doctor) |
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| 1875 | Vesto Slipher (Indiana-born Astronomer) |
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| 1897 | Gordon Allport (Indiana-born Psychologist) |
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| 1811 | Ben McCulloch (Tennessee-born Fighter for the Texas Revolution, Civil War General) |
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| 1885 | George Patton (California-born General in the U.S. Army) |
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| 1904 | Alger Hiss (Maryland-born Attorney Accused of Being a Communist by Vice-President Richard Nixon) |
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| 316 | St. Martin de Tours (Hungarian-born Roman Catholic Saint) |
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| 1744 | Abigail Smith Adams (Massachusetts-born Wife of U.S. President John Adams) |
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| 1798 | Edward Cross (Tennessee-born Member of the U.S. Congress from Arkansas) |
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| 1854 | William Y. Atkinson (Governor of Georgia - Namesake of Atkinson County, GA) |
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| 1914 | Daisy Bates (Arkansas-born African-American Civil Rights Leader) |
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| 1915 | William Proxmire (Illinois-born U.S. Senator from Wisconsin) |
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| 1955 | Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan |
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| 1901 | Sam Spiegel (Polish-American Filmmaker) |
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| 1925 | Jonathan Winters (Ohio-born Comedic Actor) |
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| 1929 | LaVerne Baker (Doris Williams: Chicago-born African-American Jazz Vocalist) |
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| 1962 | Demi Moore (New Mexico-born Actress) |
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| 1964 | Calista Flockhart (Illinois-born Actress) |
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| 1974 | Leonardo DiCaprio (Los Angeles-born Actor) |
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| 1831 | Nat Turner (Virginia-born African-American Slave, Revolutionary: Hanged) |
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| 1855 | Soeren Aabye Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher) |
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| 1880 | Lucretia Mott (Massachusetts-born African-American Abolitionist) |
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| 1930 | Coleman du Pont (Kentucky-born U.S. Senator from Delaware) |
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| 1938 | "Typhoid" Mary Mallon (Irish-American Cook Responsible for Initiating a New York City Typhoid Epidemic) |
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| 1945 | Jerome Kern (New York City-born Songwriter) |
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| 1951 | Herbert Seely Bigelow (Indiana-born Religious Leader; U.S. Congressman from Ohio) |
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| 1976 | Alexander Calder (Pennsylvania-born Artist) |
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| 1984 | Martin Luther King, Sr. (Georgia-born Father of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
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| 2004 | Yasser Arafat (Egyptian-born Leader of Palestinian Liberation Front Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for Peace) |
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| 1493 | Columbus Christens Newly Discovered Island for St. Martin de Tours |
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| 1572 | Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe First Observes Supernova Cassiopeia |
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| 1606 | Turks and Austrians Sign a Peace Treaty at Zeitva-Torok'' |
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| 1620 | 41 Pilgrims on The Mayflower, Anchored off MA, Sign the Mayflower Compact.'' |
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| 1727 | Handel's Opera "Riccardo Primo, re d'Inghilterra" (Richard the First, King of England) Is Premiered in London |
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| 1778 | Tories and Mohawk Indians Attack the Village of Cherry Valley, New York, Killing 47 |
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| British Forces Take St. Lucia, West Indies from the French |
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| 1803 |
 Lewis: Arrived at Massac and employed George Drouillard as an Indian interpreter. I contracted to pay him $25 a month for his services. I advanced Mr. Swan $30, an assistant military agent in charge of financial affairs at this post, on account of his pay. |
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| 1804 |
Clark: a Cold Day Continued at work at the Fort Two men Cut themselves with an ax, The large Ducks pass to the South an Indian gave me Several roles of parched meal two Squars of the Rock Mountain*, purchased from the Indians by a frenchmen Came down The Mandans out hunting the Buffalow—
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Observed Meridian altitude of 's U. L. with Sextant by the fore observation 51° 4' 52"
Latitude deduced from Ordway: a clear and pleasant morning. we commenced dobbing our huts & covering them &.C. a frenchmans Squaw* came to our camp who belonged to the Snake nation. She came with our Intreperters wife & brought with them 4 buffalow Robes and Gave them to our officers. they Gave them out to the party. I Got one fine one myself. chilly this evening &.c. [*It is likely one of these squaws was Sacagawea, but it is impossible to comfirm this.]
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| 1805 |
Clark: A hard rain all the last night, dureing the last tide the logs on which we lay was all on float Sent out Jo Fields to hunt, he Soon returned and informed us that the hills was So high & Steep, & thick with undergroth and fallen Timber that he could not get out any distance;
about 12 oClock 5 Indians came down in a canoe, the wind verry high from the S. W. with most tremendious waves brakeing with great violence against the Shores, rain falling in torrents, we are all wet as usial and our Situation is we purchased of the Indians 13 red charr which we found to be an excellent fish we have Seen those Indians above and are of a nation who reside above and on the opposit Side who call themselves Calt-har-mama] The Cathlamets, or Kathlamets, lived across the Columbia River from the Wahkiakums and both peoples spoke the Kathlamet language. The Cathlamets occupied settlements along the south shore of the Columbia River from the vicinity of Tongue Point upstream to the neighborhood of Puget Island in Clatsop County, Oregon. Some investigators extend Cathlamet territory farther upstream to Oak Point and beyond, but it is unclear if these writers are referring to the local group named the Cathlamets or to the distribution of the Kathlamet linguistic dialect. The village for which these people were named, galámat in the Upper Chinook language, was located on Aldrich Point (formerly called Cathlamet Head). About 1810 the Cathlamets moved across the Columbia and joined the Wahkiakums in a village at the present site of Cathlamet. they are badly clad & illy made, Small and Speak a language much resembling the last nation, one of those men had on a Salors Jacket and Pantiloons and made Signs that he got those Clothes from the white people who lived below the point &c. those people left us and Crossed the river (which is about 5 miles wide at this place) through the highest waves I ever Saw a Small vestles ride. Those Indians are Certainly the best Canoe navigaters I ever Saw. rained all day
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| 1811 | Colombia's Walled City of Cartagena Declares Independence from Spain |
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| 1831 | Nat Turner Is Hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia for Leading Violent Slave Insurrection |
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| 1833 | Van Buren County, Arkansas Is Created |
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| 1836 | Chile Declares War on Peru-Bolivia Federation |
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| 1839 | Virginia Military Institute (VMI) Musters in a Class of 23 as the Nation's First State-Supported Military School |
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| 1851 | Alvan Clark Patents Telescope Design with Improved Lenses |
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| 1852 | Saturday Evening Posts Publishes Louisa May Alcott's First Story |
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| 1859 | The Athenaeum, a Structure Dedicated to Educational Lectures and Social Events for Germans, Opens in St. Paul, Minnesota |
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| 1862 | U.S.S. Kensington Captures Confederate Schooner, Course, Off the Florida Coast |
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| 1864 | Sherman's Forces Complete the Burning of Rome, Georgia |
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| Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Exhibits Two of Her Early Pieces at the Colored Soldiers' Fair in Boston, Massachusetts |
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| 1865 | Little Six and Medicine Bottle, Leaders in the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862, Are Executed at Minnesota's Fort Snelling |
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| 1866 | Johannes Brahms' String Sextet in G, Op. 36, Is Premiered in Boston, Massachusetts |
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| 1873 | The Oregon Pioneer Association Holds Its First Annual Reunion in Butteville |
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| 1889 | Washington Admitted to the Union as the 42nd State |
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| Georgia Legislation Limits Work for Mill Workers to 11 Hrs/Day or 66 Hrs/Week |
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| 1890 | Pathfinder's Women's Literary Club Is Organized in Austin, Texas |
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| Johannes Brahms' String Quintet No. 2 in G, Op. 111, Is Premiered in Vienna, Austria |
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| 1901 | Statewide Vote Ratifies New Alabama Constitution with Hundreds of Amendments Primarily for Disenfranchising African Americans and Poor Whites |
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| NABISCO Trademark Is Registered |
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| 1911 | Jim Thorpe Kicks 4 Field Goals as Carlisle Indian School, PA Shocks Harvard 18-15 |
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| 1918 | Allies and Germany Sign an Armistice Ending World War I |
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| 1919 | The American Legion Holds Its First Convention, in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| 1920 | City of Altamonte Springs, Florida Is Incorporated |
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| 1921 | Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery |
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| 1922 | 8.0 Magnitude Earthquake Centers on the Chile-Argentina Border |
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| 1925 | Robert A. Millikan Coins Term "Cosmic Rays" Proving Their Origins from Space |
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| 1933 | Massive Dust Storm Sweeps through South Dakota |
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| 1935 | First Photo of Earth's Curvature Made From a Balloon 72,000' Above South Dakota |
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| 1938 | "God Bless America" Is First Performed by Kate Smith on Her Radio Program |
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| 1939 | 0-0 Tie, Texas Tech Totals Punts 39 Times and Centenary Punts 38 Times |
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| 1940 | British Aircraft Carry Out Torpedo Attack Against the Italian Fleet at Taranto |
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| Temperatures Drop From the 60's to Below Zero as a Deadly Blizzard Kills 49 in Minnesota, 150 Nationwide |
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| American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards Howells Medal for Fiction to Ellen Glasgow |
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| 1942 | U.S. Congress Lowers the Draft Age to 18 and Raises the Upper Limit to 37 |
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| Road to Morocco w/Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour Opens at Theaters |
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| 1945 | Glenn Seaborg Announces Discovery of Americium and Curium |
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| 1951 | Janet Collins Debuts as the First African-American Dancer with the New York Metropolitan Opera |
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| 1952 | Igor Stravinsky Conducts the Premiere of His "Cantata," by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra |
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| 1964 | The Rolling Stones First Perform in Wisconsin to a Crowd of 1,274 Fans at Milwaukee Auditorium |
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| 1965 | Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) Proclaims Its Independence from Britain |
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| 1966 | Gemini XII Is Launched for 94-hour Mission |
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| 1967 | Viet Cong Release Three U.S. Prisoners of War |
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| 1968 | Maldives Changes from Islamic Monarchy to Republic with Ibrahim Nasir as President |
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| 1971 | U.S. Senate Ratifies Treaty to Return the Island of Okinawa to Japan |
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| 1973 | Soviet Union Refuses to Play Chile in World Cup Soccer |
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| 1975 | Angola Gains Independence from Portugal Followed by Continual Civil War |
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| 1982 | Space Shuttle (STS-5) Is Launched: First to Deploy Commercial Satellites |
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| 1983 | President Reagan Speaks Before Japan's Diet in Tokyo |
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| 1986 | Sperry Rand and Burroughs Merge to Form Unisys |
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| 1987 | Vincent Van Gogh's Painting "Irises" Sells for $49 million at Auction |
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| Boris M. Yeltsin Is Removed as Moscow Communist Party Chief |
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| 1988 | Idaho's Hagerman Fossil Beds Is Established As a National Monument |
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| Georgia's Vietnam War Memorial Is Dedicated in Atlanta |
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| 1992 | The Church of England Votes to Ordain Women as Priests |
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| 1993 | Vietnam Women's Memorial Dedicated in Washington, D.C. |
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| 1994 | Bill Gates Anonymously Pays $30.8M at Auction for 72-page da Vinci Codex |
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| 1995 | The West Virginia Veterans Memorial Is Dedicated |
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| 1996 | Guatemalan Peace Agreement Ends 36 Years of Guerrilla Fighting |
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| 1997 | Georgia's World War I Monument Is Dedicated in Atlanta |
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| 1998 | Israel's Cabinet Narrowly Ratifies Land-for-peace Agreement with Palestinians |
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| 2000 | Republicans Seek Court Order Blocking Recounts of FL Presidential Ballots |
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| Austrian Cable Car Catches Fire: 155 Skiers Die |
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