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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 an early work by Claude Monet (according to Webmuseum):
PEI MAP |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1950 work by Astrid Lindgren (according to Authors' Calendar):
JAVA KA TASK |
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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 ballet by Aaron Copeland (according to The Classical Music Website):
DOREO |
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World Diabetes Day
(Commemorates birth date of Canadian scientist Frederick Banting: 11/14/1891, co-discoverer of insulin) |
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British Commonwealth: Prince of Wales' Birthday
(Commemoration of Prince Charles' birthday: 11/14/1948) |
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Guinea-Bissau: Movement of Readjustment Day
(Commemoration of 11/14/1980 coup d'état) |
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India: Children's Day
(Celebration of Jawaharlal Nehru's birthday: 11/14/1889) |
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| 1907 | William Steig (New York City-born Cartoonist, Children's Author & Illustrator) |
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| 1917 | Astrid Lindgren (Swedish Children's Author: Pippi Longstocking) |
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| 1861 | Frederick Jackson Turner (Wisconsin-born Historian, Author) |
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| 1893 | Carlo Emilio Gadda (Italian Author) |
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| 1908 | Harrison Salisbury (Minnesota-born Journalist, Correspondent and Editor Awarded the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for International Correspondence) |
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| 1910 | Norman Alexander MacCaig (Scottish Poet) |
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| 1840 | Claude Monet (French Impressionist Painter)t |
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| 1900 | Aaron Copland (New York City-born Composer" "Fanfare to the Common Man") |
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| 1765 | Robert Fulton (Pennsylvania-born Inventor, Engineer Who Popularized the Steamboat) |
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| 1891 | Frederick G. Banting (Canadian Co-discoverer of Insulin: 1923 Nobel Laureate for Physiology of Medicine) |
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| 1930 | Edward H. White (Texas-born Astronaut) |
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| 1933 | Fred Haise (Mississippi-born Astronaut) |
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| 1650 | William III, King of England |
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| 1889 | Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister of India) |
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| 1895 | Frank John Lausche (5-time Governor of Ohio; U.S. Senator from Ohio) |
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| 1909 | Joseph McCarthy (Wisconsin-born U.S. Senator: Namesake of the Cold War Term "McCarthyism") |
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| 1922 | Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egyptian-born Secretary General of the United Nations) |
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| 1935 | King Hussein of Jordan |
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| 1948 | Charles, Prince of Wales |
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| 1954 | Condoleezza Rice (Alabama-born African-American Secretary of State of the George W. Bush Administration) |
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| 1934 | Ellis Marsalis (New Orleans-born African-American Jazz Musician) |
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| 1906 | Louise Brooks (Kansas-born Actress) |
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| 1919 | Veronica Lake (New York City-born Actress) |
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| 1947 | Buckwheat Zydeco (Louisiana-born African-American Accordionist, Pianist, Singer ) |
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| 1959 | Valerie Wellington (Chicago-born African-American Blues Singer) |
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| 1915 | Mabel Fairbanks (New York City-born African-American Member of the World Skating Hall of Fame) |
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| 1716 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (German Philosopher, Mathematician: Inventor of Differential and Integral Calculus) |
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| 1831 | Georg Hegel (German Philosopher) |
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| 1915 | Booker T. Washington (Washington, D.C.-born African-American Educator and Rights Advocate) |
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| 1972 | Martin Dies (Texas-born Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1996 | Meridel Le Sueur (Iowa-born Author) |
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| 1501 | Arthur Tudor of England Marries Catherine of Aragon |
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| 1665 | The First Newspaper, The London Gazette, Is Published |
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| 1723 | Johann Sebastian Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 90 Is First Performed in Leipzig, Germany |
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| 1732 | The Library Company of Philadelphia Signs a Contract with Its First Librarian |
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| 1754 | Massachusetts Author, Playwright, Historian; Mercy Otis, Marries James Warren |
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| 1766 | Englishman Jonathan Carver First Enters the Minnesota Cave Called Naudowessies by the Dakota |
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| 1802 | Beethoven's String Quintet, Op. 29, Is First Performed at Beethoven's Apartment in Vienna, Austria |
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| 1803 |
 Lewis: At first light we set out. I took a dose of Rush's pills (a strong laxative) which helped out a lot. By night my fever was gone. At about 12 o'clock we passed Wilkinson-ville, here was a great chain of rocks stretching its arm across the Ohio. We landed this evening where the Ohio and Mississippi meet. I feel much better now yet very weak. |
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| 1805 |
Clark: rained all the last night without intermition, and this morning. wind blows verry hard but our Situation is Such that we Cannot tell from what point it comes— one of our Canoes is much broken by the waves dashing it against the rocks—
5 Indians Came up in a Canoe, thro' the waves, which is verry high and role with great fury— They made Signs to us that they Saw the 3 men we Sent down yesterday. only 3 of those Indians landed, the other 2 which was women at this time one of the men Colter returnd by land and informed us that those Indians had taken his Gigg & basket, I called to the Squars to land and give back the gigg, which they would not doe untill a man run with a gun, as if he intended to Shute them when they landed, and Colter got his gig & basket I then ordered those fellows off, and they verry readily Cleared out they are of the War-ci-a-cum N.
Colter informed us that "it was but a Short distance from where we lay around the point to a butifull Sand beech, Capt Lewis concluded to proceed on by land & find if possible the white people the Indians Say is below and examine if a Bay is Situated near the mouth of this river as laid down by Vancouver in which we expect, if there is white traders to find them &c. at 3 oClock he Set out with 4 men Drewyer Jos. & Reu. Fields & R. Frasure, in one of our large canoes and 5 men to Set them around the point on the Sand beech. this canoe returned nearly filled with water at Dark which it receved by the waves dashing into it on its return, haveing landed Capt Lewis & his party Safe on the Sand beech. The rain Continues all day all wet. The rain &c. which has continued without a longer intermition than 2 hours at a time for ten days past had distroyd. the robes and rotted a great maney nearly one half of the fiew Clothes the party has, perticularley the leather Clothes,— fortunately for us we have no very Cold weather as yet and if we have Cold weather before we Can kill & Dress Skins for Clothing the bulk of the party will Suffer verry much.
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| 1806 |
Lewis: This morning I took all the men who could be spared from the Fort and set out in quest of the flesh of the seven Elk that were killed yesterday, we found it in good order being untouched by the wolves, of which indeed there are but few in this country; at 1 P. M. we returned having gotten all the meat to the fort. this evening we exhausted the last four candles, but fortunately had taken the precaution to bring with us moulds and wick, by means of which and some Elk's tallow in our possession we do not yet consider ourselves destitute of this necessary article; the Elk we have killed have a very small portion of tallow. The traders usually arrive in this quarter, as has been before observed, in the month of April, and remain untill October; when here they lay at anchor in a bay within Cape Disappointment on the N. side of the river; here they are visited by the natives in their canoes who run along side and barter their comodities with them, their being no houses or fortification on shore for that purpose. The bay in which this trade is carryed on is spacious and commodious, and perfectly secure from all except the S. and S. E. winds, these however are the most prevalent and strong winds in the Winter season fresh water and wood are very convenient and excellent timber for refiting and reparing vessels.— |
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| 1805 | Georgia Authorities and Creek Chiefs Sign Treaty Expanding Georgia Westward |
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| 1832 | New York City's First Horse-Drawn Streetcar Is Put into Service |
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| 1851 | Herman Melville's Moby Dick Is Published |
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| 1860 | The First Telegraph Service Reaches Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| 1862 | Lincoln Approves Burnside's Plan to Take Richmond |
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| 1863 | Confederate Ships Capture Two Union Coal Schooners Near Florida, Destroy One by Fire |
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| 1864 | Sherman Returns to Atlanta to Prepare Forces for March to the Sea |
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| Oregon's Governor Addison Proclaims the 24th of November as a Day of Thanksgiving |
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| 1866 | Carleton College Is Founded in Northfield by the Minnesota Conference of Congregational Churches |
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| 1868 | In Lake County, California Land Owners Dismantle a Dam on Cache Creek That Had Flooded Their Farms |
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| 1879 | The First Bicycle in the Washington Territory Arrives in Seattle |
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| 1881 | Guiteau Trial Begins for Assassination of President Garfield |
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| 1887 | Tchaikovsky's Suite No. 4 ("Mozartiana") Is First Performed in Moscow |
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| 1889 | Nellie Bly Sets Record Circling the World in 72 Days |
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| 1896 | Antonin Dvorák's Symphonic Poem "The Water Goblin," Op. 107, Is First Performed in London |
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| 1901 | The Seaford, Delaware Volunteer Fire Department Is First Organized |
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| 1906 | In Washington, Flooding Covers Pierce County and South King County |
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| 1910 | Eugene Ely Pilots First Plane to Take Off from a Ship |
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| 1914 | The First Dodge Is Produced |
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| 1917 | Mike O'Dowd, "The Cyclone of St. Paul, Minnesota," Defeats Al McCoy to Win Boxing's Middleweight Title |
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| 1922 | British Broadcasting Corporation Makes Its First Daily Radio Broadcast |
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| 1935 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt Proclaims the Philippine Islands a Free Commonwealth |
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| Thomas Wolfe's Collection of Stories From Death to Morning Is Published |
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| 1936 | William Faulkner Publishes "The Unvanquished" in the Saturday Evening Post |
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| 1937 | Leonard Bernstein Meets Aaron Copland in New York City |
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| 1938 | In Alaska, the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad Discontinues Operations from Cordova to Kennecott |
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| 1940 | German Bombers Begin 10-Hour Raid That Decimates Coventry, England |
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| 1942 | U.S.S. Washington Sinks the Japanese Battleship Kirishima Near Guadalcanal |
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| 1943 | Leonard Bernstein Makes a Surprise Debut as Conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Substituting for the Ailing Bruno Walter |
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| 1944 | Shostakovich First Performs His Piano Trio No. 2, in Leningrad, Followed by the Premiere of His String Quartet No. 2 by the Beethoven Quartet |
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| 1945 | Tony Hulman Buys Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
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| 1951 | President Truman Asks Congress to Aid Yugoslavia |
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| 1954 | In Texas, the Cuero Record Publishes an Article Revealing Fraud and Bribery in the Veterans' Land Program, Leading to Indictments for 20 People |
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| 1960 | New Orleans Integrates Two All-White Schools |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Is Created |
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| 1963 | Volcano Creates Surtsey Island South of Iceland |
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| 1969 | Lightning Strikes Launch of Apollo 12: Second Manned Lunar Expedition |
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| 1970 | Marshall University Football Team Players and Coaches Perish in Plane Crash |
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| 1972 | Dow Jones Industrial Average Closes above 1,000 for First Time |
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| 1973 | IRA Gang Convicted of London Bombings |
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| Britain's Princess Anne Marries Commoner, Captain. Mark Phillip |
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| Patent Is Granted for Scotchguard Carpet Treatment |
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| 1979 | President Carter Issues Executive Order Freezing Iranian Assets in U.S. Banks |
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| President Carter Appoints Alcee Hastings As First African-American Federal Judge in Florida |
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| 1982 | Polish Authorities Release Labor Leader, Lech Walesa, After 11 Months of Internment |
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| 1985 | Aaron Copland's "Proclamation" for Orchestra" Is First Performed by the New York Philharmonic Conducted by Zubin Mehta |
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| 1986 | 7.8 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 15 in Taiwan |
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| Ivan Boesky Confesses to Illegal Stock Trading Activity |
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| 1991 | Two Libyans Indicted for Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing |
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| Prince Norodom Sihanouk Returns to Cambodia, Ending 13 Years of Exile |
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| 1993 | Residents of Puerto Rico Vote Against Statehood in Plebiscite |
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| 1994 | 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 78 in the Philippines |
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| 1996 | Michael Jackson Gets Married |
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| 2000 | Florida's Secretary of State Certifies George W. Bush's 300-vote Win over Al Gore |
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| 2007 | 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Leaves 15,000 Homeless in Chile |
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