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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:
MOLD SOON SKY RAM |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book by Alison Lester (according to Houghton-Mifflin's All Books by Author):
I IN GAME |
(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 novel by Annie Proulx (according to Oxford University):
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Homemade Bread Day
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Azerbaijan: Day of Renaissance
(Commemorates the beginning of the Topkhana demonstrations: 11/17/1988) |
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Czech Republic, Slovakia: Struggle for Freedom Day
(Commemorates student freedom demonstrations of 1939 and 1989) |
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Marshall Islands: President's Day
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Turkmenistan: Student Youth Day
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| 1909 | Osmond Molarsky (Massachusetts-born Children's Author) |
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| 1944 | Andrea Spalding (English Children's Author) |
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| 1950 | Marilyn Sadler (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author) |
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| 1952 | Alison Lester (Australian-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1962 | Jules Hermes (Minnesota-born Children's Author) |
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| 1587 | Joost van den Vondel (Dutch Poet) |
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| 1895 | Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes (Mexican Author) |
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| 1916 | Shelby Foote (Mississippi-born American Civil War Historian, Author) |
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| 1936 | Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rican Latin-American Author) |
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| 1503 | Angelo Bronzino (Italian Artist) |
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| 1799 | Titian Ramsay Peale (Pennsylvania-born Artist) |
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| 1904 | Isamu Noguchi (Los Angeles-born Asian-American Artist)/td> |
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| 1790 | August Möbius (German Mathematician: Namesake of the Möbius Strip) |
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| 1902 | Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Physicist: 1963 Nobel Laureate in Physics) |
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| 1922 | Stanley Cohen (New York City-born 1986 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology) |
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| 1906 | Soichiro Honda (Japanese Founder of Honda Motors) |
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| 1685 | Pierre Gaultier La Verendrye (Canadian Explorer Who Unsuccessfully Sought a Westward Passage to the Pacific) |
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| 1887 | Bernard Law Montgomery (World War II British Commander) |
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| 1736 | David Kinnison (Maine-born Patriot Who Fought in the Revolutionary War & War of 1812; Last Surviving Member of the Boston Tea Party) |
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| 1755 | Louis XVIII, King of France |
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| 1764 | Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. (Connecticut-born Fourth Governor of Ohio; U.S. Senator from Ohio) |
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| 1776 | Robert Trimble (Virginia-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1829 | David Jerome (First Governor of Michigan to be Born in Michigan) |
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| 1863 | Winfield Scott Hammond (Massachusetts-born Educator; 18th Governor of Minnesota) |
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| 1878 | Grace Abbott (Nebraska-born Activist for Children's Rights and Immigrant Rights) |
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| 1904 | William H. Hastie (Tennessee-born African-American Judge and Government Official) |
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| 1901 | Lee Strasberg (Ukrainian Actor and Dramatics Educator) |
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| 1912 | Harry S. Ackerman (New York City-born Filmmaker) |
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| 1925 | Rock Hudson (Illinois-born Actor) |
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| 1942 | Martin Scorsese (New York City-born Film Director) |
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| 1943 | Lauren Hutton (South Carolina-born Actress) |
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| 1944 | Lorne Michaels (Canadian Creator of Saturday Night Live) |
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| Danny DeVito (New Jersey-born Actor) |
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| 1958 | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Illinois-born Actress) |
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| 1966 | Daisy Fuentes (Cuban-born Latin-American Television Personality) |
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| Sophie Marceau (Parisian Actress) |
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| 1944 | Tom Seaver (California-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1945 | Elvin Hayes (Louisiana-born African-American Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1558 | May Tudor (Queen of England) |
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| 1917 | Auguste Rodin (Parisian Sculptor) |
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| 1856 | John Henry Eaton (North Carolina-born Attorney; Second Territorial Governor of Florida) |
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| 1992 | Audre Lorde (New York City-born African-American Poet) |
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| 2002 | Abba Eban (South African-born Israeli Statesman) |
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| 2006 | Bo Schembechler (Ohio-born Hall of Fame Football Coach at the University of Michigan) |
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| 1558 | Elizabeth I Ascends the English Throne upon the Death of Her Sister Queen Mary |
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| 1698 | The First Units of a Spanish Expedition Arrives in Pensacola Bay to Thwart French Colonization in West Florida |
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| 1732 | James Oglethorpe and 114 Colonists Set Sail from England to Settle the New Colony of Georgia |
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| 1734 | Newspaper Editor John Peter Zenger Arrested for Libel Against NY Governor |
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| 1800 | Senate of 6th Congress Convenes in Capitol Building for First Time |
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| 1803 |
 Lewis: The wind in its fury blew all last night and through today. The canoes were flung in the arms of the torrential waters, driven also by the wind, and filled water. I measured the bank of the river to be 36 ft and 8 inches. The water level seemed very low. |
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| 1804 |
Clark: a fine morning, last night was Cold, the ice thicker than yesterday, Several Indians visit us, one Chief Stayed all day we are much engaged about our huts. Ordway: a cold clear morning. the frost fell from the trees by the Sun Shineing upon them. at 11 o.C. the frenchman arived with a fat Elk from our pearogue.
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| 1805 |
Clark: a fair cool morning wind from the East. The tide rises at this place 8 feet 6 inches and comes in with great waves brakeing on the Sand beech on which we lay with great fury Six hunters out this morning in serch of Deer & fowl. At half past 1 oClock Capt Lewis returned haveing travesed Haleys Bay to Cape Disappointment and the Sea Coast to the North for Some distance. Several Chinnook Indians followed Capt L— and a Canoe came up with roots mats &c. to Sell. those Chinnooks made us a present of a rute boiled much resembling the common liquorice in taste and Size: in return for this root we gave more than double the value to Satisfy their craveing dispostn. It is a bad practice to receive a present from those Indians as they are never Satisfied for that they reive in return if ten time the value of the articles they gave.
This Chin nook Nation is about 400 Souls inhabid the Countrey on the Small rivrs which run into the bay below our hunters killed to day 3 Deer, 4 brant and 2 Ducks, and inform me they Saw Some Elk Sign. I directed all the men who wished to See more of the main Ocian to prepare themselves to Set out with me early on tomorrow morning. The principal Chief of the Chinnooks & his familey came up to See us this evening—
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| 1829 | In Florida, the Bank of Marianna Is Chartered |
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| 1832 | The First School Day West of the Rocky Mountains Takes Place at Fort Vancouver in the Oregon Territory |
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| 1835 | Davey Crockett Arrives in Little Rock, Arkansas en Route to Texas |
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| 1839 | Verdi's First Opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio, Debuts at Milan's La Scala |
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| 1856 | U.S. Establishes Fort Buchanan in Southern Arizona |
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| 1860 | Georgia Legislature Schedules Jan 16 Convention to Consider Secession |
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| 1863 | Confederate General James Longstreet Begins the Siege of Knoxville, TN |
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| 1869 | After 10 Years of Construction, the 101-mile Long Suez Canal Opens |
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| 1871 | National Rifle Association Is Chartered by the State of New York |
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| 1873 | Budapest Town Council Assumes Full Responsibility for the Union of the Towns of Buda, Pest and Obuda |
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| 1891 | Emile Berliner Is Issued a Patent for a Combined Telegraph and Telephone |
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| 1916 | A 40-Man Detachment from the U.S. Infantry Arrives to Take Station at Anchorage, Alaska |
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| 1931 | The Delta Drilling Company Is Founded in Longview, Texas |
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| 1932 | The First Louisiana State Fair Is Held in Shreveport |
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| 1934 | Lyndon B. Johnson Marries Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor |
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| 1938 | 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Hits the Alaska Peninsula |
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| 1939 | Czech Student Funeral Spawns Spontaneous Anti-NAZI Demonstration |
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| 1950 | Jack Kerouac Marries Joan Haverty in Greenwich Village, New York |
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| 1953 | 20 Italian Sailors Die When Two Boats Collide in the English Channel |
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| 1955 | Chartered Airliner Carrying Korean War Servicemen Crashes Outside Seattle: 27 Die |
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| Ernest Hemingway Is Awarded "The Order of San Cristobal" by the Batista Government in Cuba |
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| 1956 | Jim Brown Scores 43 Points in His Final Game for Syracuse |
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| 1957 | The Kaiser Aluminum Plant in Ravenswood, West Virginia Produces Its First Aluminum in the Ohio River Valley |
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| 1958 | Ibrahim Abboud Leads Military Overthrows Sudan's Civilian Government |
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| 1960 | New Orleans School Board Asks Judge to Suspend School Desegregation Order |
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| 1962 | President John F. Kennedy Dedicates D.C.'s Dulles International Airport |
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| 1967 | U.S. Achieves First Lunar Lift-off with Surveyor 6 |
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| In Delaware High School Football, Newark Ends Middletown's 53-game Win Streak (1962-67), with a 19-6 Victory |
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| 1969 | Soviets and U.S. Begin SALT I Negotiations in Helsinki, Finland |
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| 1970 | Soviet Luna 17 Lands Unmanned Vehicle on the Moon, the Lunokhod 1 |
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| U.S. Patent Is Issued to Douglas Engelbart for the Computer Mouse |
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| 1972 | Argentina's Ex-president Juan Peron Ends 17-year Exile |
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| 1973 | Richard Nixon: "I am not a crook." |
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| 1974 | First Greek General Election in 10 Yrs Elects Party of Constantine Karamanlis |
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| 1980 | Howard University's WHUT Is First African-American owned PBS Station (as WHMM) |
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| 1986 | Head of Renault Car Company, Georges Besse, Is Assassinated in Paris |
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| 1987 | 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake Hits the Gulf of Alaska |
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| 1988 | 1000s of Azerbaijanis Protest Cutting of Trees in Topkhana State Preserves |
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| 1989 | Czech Students Demonstrate for Political Reform |
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| 1991 | Croatia's Vukovar Falls to Serb-dominated Federal Army, after 86-day Siege |
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| The Assembly of Macedonia Adopts a Constitution |
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| Khmer Rouge Leader, Son Sen, Returns to Phnom Penh |
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| 1993 | Judges from 11 Nations Sworn in for U.N. Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal |
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| U.S. House Passes North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) |
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| Annie Proulx Wins the National Book Award for Shipping News |
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| 1997 | Six Militants Kill 62 at Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt |
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| 1998 | Israel's Parliament Approves Palestinian Wye River Peace Accord |
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| 2000 | Florida's Supreme Court Freezes Presidential Tally, Forbidding Results Certification |
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