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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 sports figure born on this date:
AIR MAY TONK |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by Marilyn French (according to the Authors' Calendar):
FOUR HEART |
(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 1954 Coleman Hawkins album (according to his AllMusic.com discography):
SHAW THEN RETURK |
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United Nations: World Television Day
(Observed in commemoration of the first UN World Television Forum: 11/21/1996) |
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World Hello Day
(Observed annually on November 21 since 1973) |
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| 1908 | Elizabeth George Speare (Massachusetts-born Children's Author: Newbery Award Winner in 1959 & 1962) |
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| Leo Politi (California-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1929 | Marilyn French (New York City-born Author) |
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| 1933 | Beryl Bainbridge (English Author) |
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| 1965 | Megan Whalen Turner (Oklahoma-born Author) |
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| 1898 | René Magritte (Belgian Surrealist Painter) |
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| 1694 | Voltaire (French Philosopher) |
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| 1936 | James DePriest (Pennsylvania-born African-American Conductor) |
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| 1891 | Alfred Henry Sturtevant (Illinois-born Geneticist) |
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| 1834 | Hetty Robinson Green (Massachusetts-born Investor: "The Richest Woman in America") |
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| 1969 | Amanda America Dickson (Georgia-born African-American Daughter of a Plantation Owner) |
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| 1860 | Tom Horn (Missouri-born Outlaw) |
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| 1933 | Coleman Hawkins (Missouri-born African-American Jazz Saxophonist) |
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| 1938 | Marlo Thomas (Michigan-born Actress: Daughter of Danny Thomas) |
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| 1940 | Dr. John (New Orleans-born Jazz Musician) |
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| 1945 | Goldie Hawn (Washington, D.C.-born Actress) |
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| 1952 | Lorna Luft (California-born Actress: Daughter of Judy Garland) |
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| 1965 | Björk (Icelandic Popular Singer) |
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| 1916 | Sid Luckman (new York City-born Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1920 | Stan Musial (Pennsylvania-born Member of the Baseball Hal of Fame) |
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| 1944 | Earl Monroe (Pennsylvania-born African-American Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1966 | Troy Aikman (California-born Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1969 | Ken Griffey, Jr. (Ohio-born African-American Professional Baseball Player) |
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| 1695 | Henry Purcell (English Organist, Composer ) |
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| 1782 | Jacques de Vaucanson (French Inventor: Pioneer in Robotics) |
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| 1924 | Florence Harding (Ohio-born Wife of Former U.S. President Warren Harding) |
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| 1926 | Joseph McKenna (Pennsylvania-born Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1945 | Ellen Glasgow (Virginia-born Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author) |
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| 1954 | William S. Beardsley (Governor of Iowa: Killed in an Automobile Accident) |
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| 1963 | Robert Stroud (Seattle-born Inmate of Alcatraz Prisoner: Ornithologist, Birdman of Alcatraz) |
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| 235 | Anterus Is Elected Pope |
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| 1733 | Trustees of the Georgia Colony Ban the Consumption of Rum |
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| 1783 | First Free-Flight Balloon Lifts First Two Men 500' Above Paris |
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| 1789 | North Carolina Becomes the 12th State by Ratifying the Constitution |
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| 1800 | Congress Meets with a Quorum for the First Time in the Capitol |
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| 1803 |
 Lewis: We set out at 7 o'clock this morning. Having traveled 7 miles I observed a great amount of misseltoe on the trees which border the river. I first observed this plant at the Muskingum river (which is where I got sick). I saw a number of black and white pided ducks (bufflehead duck) and I shot at one and crippled it but I could not find it then. Two deer came to the river to drink, we took advantage of the opportunity and shot at them. We didn't get either of them although one was wounded badly. About 50 miles below the mouth of the Ohio is Tanslagrass, from there is four islands. We stayed all night on the small island. |
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Clark: a cloudy morning most of the Chinnooks leave our Camp and return home, great numbers of the dark brant passing to the South, the white Brant have not yet commenced their flight. The wind blew hard from the S. E. which with the addition of the flood tide raised verry high waves which broke with great violence against the Shore throwing water into our Camp— the fore part of this day Cloudy at 12 oClock it began to rain and Continued all day moderately,
Several Indians Visit us to day of different nations or Bands Some of the Chiltz Nation who reside on the Sea An old woman & wife to a Cheif of the Chinnooks came and made a Camp near ours She brought with her 6 young Squars I believe for the purpose of gratifying the passions of the men of our party and receving for those indulgiences Such Small as She (the old woman) thought proper to accept of, Those people appear to view Sensuality as a Necessary evel, and do not appear to abhor it as a Crime in the unmarried State— The young females are fond of the attention of our men and appear to meet the sincere approbation of their friends and connections, for thus obtaining their favours; the womin of the Chinnook Nation have handsom faces low and badly made with large legs & thighs which are generally Swelled from a Stopage of the circulation in the feet (which are Small) by maney Strands of Beeds or curious Strings which are drawn tight around the leg above the anckle, their leges are also picked with different figures, I Saw on the left arm of a Squar the following letters J. Bowmon, all those are Considered by the natives of this quarter as handsom deckerations, and a woman without those deckorations is Considered as among the lower Class
they ware their hair lose hanging over their back and Sholders maney have blue beeds threaded & hung from different parts of their ears and about their neck and around their wrists, their dress other wise is prosisely like that of the Nation of Wa ci a cum as already discribed. a Short roab, and tissue or kind of peticoat of the bark of [A 2˝ point blanket would be 5 feet 4 inches by 4 feet 3 inches] they also have robes of Sea Otter, Beaver, Elk, Deer, fox and Cat common to this countrey, which I have never Seen in the U States. They also precure a roabe from the nativs above, which is made of the Skins of a Small animal about the Size of a Cat, which is light and dureable and highly prized by those people— the greater numbers of the men of the Chinnooks have Guns and powder and Ball—
The Men are low homely and badly made, Small Crooked legs
The food of this nation is principally fish & roots the fish they precure from the river by the means of nets and gigs, and the Salmon which run up the Small branches together with what they collect drifted up on the Shores of the Sea coast near to where they live—
The roots which they use are Several different kinds, the Wappato which they precure from the nativs above, a black root which they call Shaw-na tâh que & the wild licquorish is the most Common, they also kill a fiew Elk Deer & fowl— maney of the Chinnooks appear to have venerious and pustelus disorders. one woman whome I saw at the beech appeared all over in Scabs and ulsers &c.
we gave to the men each a pece of ribin We purchased Cramberies Mats verry netely made of flags and rushes, Some roots, Salmon and I purchased a hat made of Splits & Strong grass, which is made in the fashion which was common in the U States two years ago also Small baskets to hold Water made of Split and Straw, for those articles we gave high prices—.
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| 1814 | Indiana's First Theatrical Production Is Presented in Vincennes |
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| 1818 | Cahaba Is Designated As the Capital of the Alabama Territory |
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| 1842 | African-American Sisters of the Holy Family Parish Is Founded in New Orleans |
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| 1843 | In Philadelphia, Edgar Allan Poe Delivers His First Lecture on American Poetry |
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| 1846 | Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Coins the Word "Anesthesia" |
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| 1849 | The St. Anthony, Minnesota Library Association Is Formed |
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| 1850 | Oregon's Fourth Newspaper, The Western Star, Makes Its Appearance in Milwaukie |
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| 1853 | San Francisco, California Experiences a Second Sizable Earthquake in Two Days |
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| 1861 | Judah Benjamin Appointed Confederate Secretary of War |
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| 1864 | Sherman's Union Troops Burn Factories and Mills in Griswoldville, Georgia |
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| 1865 | Shaw University Is Founded |
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| 1870 | Arkansas' First State Medical Society Is Organized |
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| 1877 | Thomas Edison Announces His Invention of the Phonograph |
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| 1896 | Antonin Dvorák's Symphonic Poem "The Noonday Witch," Op. 108, Is First Performed in London |
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| 1899 | The Florence Crittenton Home for Unwed Mothers Opens in Dunlap, Washington |
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| 1900 | Baseball's American League to Expand East and Compete with the National League |
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| A U.S. Post Office Is Established in Uyak, Alaska |
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| 1901 | Richard Strauss' Opera "Feuersnot" (Fire Famine) Is First Performed in Dresden, Germany |
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| 1902 | The Steamer Bannockburn Leaves Duluth, Minnesota with 20 Crew Members and Disappears on Lake Superior |
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| 1907 | Cunard liner Mauritania Steams Record 624 Nautical Miles in a Day |
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| 1918 | Germany's High Seas Fleet Surrenders at Scotland's Firth of Forth in Scotland |
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| 1919 | Meeting in Dover's Presbyterian Church, Delaware Teachers Form the First Statewide Education Association |
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| 1920 | Members of the Irish Republican Army Shoot and Kill 14 British Soldiers |
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| 1921 | McMurry University in Abilene, Texas Is Chartered |
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| 1922 | Georgia's 87-yr-old Rebecca Felton Is First Woman to Serve in the U.S. Senate |
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| 1924 | The Steamer Merton E. Farr Strikes and Heavily Damages the Duluth-Superior Bridge |
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| 1925 | The Davis Family, Founders of Winn-Dixie, Open Their First Store in Miami, Florida |
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| 1927 | 6 Striking Mine Workers Are Killed in Confrontation with Columbine, Colorado Police |
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| 1934 | Cole Porter's Anything Goes Opens on Broadway |
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| 1935 | Boeing's China Clipper Is the First Commercial Aircraft to Cross the Pacific |
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| 1937 | Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 Is First Performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic |
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| 1939 | Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6 Is First Performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic |
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| 1940 | Ernest Hemingway Marries His Fourth Wife in a Wyoming Union Pacific Dining Room |
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| 1941 | Eithel Leta Juanita Spinelli Is the First Woman to be Executed in California |
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| 1942 | The Alcan Highway Opens |
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| Tweety Bird Debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties" |
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| 1945 | 200,000 United Auto Workers Begin 119-day Strike Against General Motors |
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| Town of Thin Gravy, Texas Changes Its Name to Truman in Honor of the New President |
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| 1954 | Iowa's Governor, William S. Beardsley, Is Killed in an Automobile Accident |
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| 1960 | U.S. Redstone Booster Rocket Blows Up on Launch Pad |
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| 1963 | President Kennedy Dedicates the Aerospace Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas |
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| 1964 | New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge Opens |
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| 1967 | President Lyndon B. Johnson Signs The Air Quality Act |
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| British Slaughter to Control Curb Foot and Mouth Disease Reaches 134,000 |
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| 1968 | A Bomb Explodes in the Physical Education at West Virginia's Bluefield State College |
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| 1969 | First Permanent ARPANET (Internet) Link Is Established Between UCLA and Stanford |
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| 1973 | Richard Nixon White House Discloses 18 1/2 Minute Gap in Watergate Tapes |
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| 1974 | NASA Places Intelset-4 F8 Communications Satellite in Orbit |
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| 1975 | Senate Report Implicates U.S. in Assassinations |
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| 1979 | U.S. Embassy in Pakistan Attacked & Set Afire |
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| 1980 | 87 Die in MGM Grand Hotel Fire Las Vegas |
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| Over 80 Million Viewers Tune In to Dallas to See Who Shot JR? |
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| 1984 | Americans Protest of Apartheid Outside South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. |
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| 1985 | Reagan and Gorbachev Conclude Summit in Geneva, Switzerland |
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| Hurricane Kate Causes $300M Damage Along Florida Panhandle |
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| 1986 | Oliver North Begins Shredding Iran-Contra Documents |
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| John Harbison's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cantata, "The Flight into Egypt," Is First Performed at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music |
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| 1987 | Hispanic Women's Network of Texas Is Founded |
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| 1989 | Britain's House of Commons Proceedings Are First Televised |
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| 1991 | U.N. Security Council Chooses Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali As New Secretary-General |
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| New Republic of Macedonia Ratifies Its Constitution |
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| 1993 | U.S. House Defeats Bill to Make Washington, D.C. the 51st State |
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| 1995 | In Dayton, Ohio, a Peace Settlement Is Reached for Bosnia Herzegovina |
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| France Detonates Underground Nuclear Test |
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| Dow Jones Industrial Average Closes Above 5000 for the First Time |
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| 1997 | 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 23 Along the India-Bangladesh Border |
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| 2000 | Florida Supreme Court Grants Democrats' Request to Continue Recounting Presidential Ballots |
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| 2002 | NATO Invites Seven Former Soviet Bloc Countries to Join the Alliance |
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| 2005 | General Motors Announces It Will Cut 30,000 U.S. Jobs |
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