 |
 |
| 
|
| | ||||
|
|
|
|
 for |
 |
|
NOVEMBER 22 |
|
|
 | ||||
| Teaching - there can be no finer calling requiring the clearest demonstration of moral and ethical behavior. Ira Shull, For the Love of Teaching |
||
| Why do you teach? Let Us Know. | 
| Tell Us about your most memorable teacher. |
 | ||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
    
|
   
|
|
   
|
     
|
|
Today's 5-Minute Quest
Good Luck! |
|
  Use all of these letters to spell the name of a book written by Jamie Lee Curtis (according to Kidsread):
WISH EWEL AT LINT |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book written by George Eliot (according to Literary Heritage):
MADE BEAD |
|
(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 song written by Hoagy Carmichael (according to the Indiana Historical Society):
TADS RUST |
 |
|
||
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Lebanon: Independence Day
(Commemoration of independence from France 11/22/1943) |
|
|
|
St. Lucia: Feast of St. Cecilia
(Celebration of the feast day of St. Cecilia, patron saint of music and musicians) |
|
|
|
United States: Stop the Violence Day
(Commemoration of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 11/22/1963) |
|
|
|
 | |
   | ||
| 1909 | Wilma Pitchford Hays (Nebraska-born Children's Author) |
|
| Samuel Epstein (Massachusetts-born Children's Science Author) |
|
|
| 1921 | Hilda Simon (California-born Children's Science Author, Illustrator) |
|
| 1950 | Linda Granfield (Massachusetts-born Children's Non-fiction Author) |
|
| 1958 | Jamie Lee Curtis (Los Angeles-born Actress, Children's Author) |
|
 | ||
| 1819 | George Eliot (English Author) |
|
| 1869 | André Gide (French Author: 1947 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
|
 | ||
| 1830 | Joseph Buchtel (Oregon Daguerrian Artist, Pioneer Photographer) |
|
 | ||
| 1899 | Hoagy Carmichael (Indiana-born Composer, Songwriter, Performer) |
|
| 1913 | Benjamin Britten (English Composer) |
|
| 1925 | Gunther Schuller (New York City-born Composer, Conductor, French Horn Player) |
|
 | ||
| 1917 | Andrew Fielding Huxley (English-born 1963 Nobel Laureate for Medicine) |
|
 | ||
| 1754 | Abraham Baldwin (Connecticut-born Signer of U.S. Constitution: Namesake of Baldwin County, Georgia) |
|
| 1846 | Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (Kentucky-born Member of the U.S. Congress from Arkansas) |
|
| 1890 | Charles de Gaulle (French World War II General; President of France) |
|
| 1906 | Elizabeth Hawkes (Wisconsin Attorney, Political Leader) |
|
| 1918 | Claiborne Pell (New York City-born U.S. Sentator from Rhode Island; Namesake of the Pell Education Grant) |
|
 | ||
| 1921 | Rodney Dangerfield (New York-born Comedian) |
|
| 1924 | Geraldine Page (Missouri-born Actress) |
|
| 1961 | Mariel Hemingway (California-born Actress) |
|
 | ||
| 1943 | Billie Jean King (California-born Member of the Tennis Hall of Fame) |
|
|
|
|
| 1718 | Edward Teach (English Criminal: Blackbeard the Pirate) |
|
| 1825 | Anne Bailey (English-American Pioneer) |
|
| 1828 | George Izard (English-American Governor of Arkansas) |
|
| 1902 | Walter Reed (Virginia-born Physician: Researcher of Yellow Fever) |
|
| 1916 | Jack London (San Francisco-born Author) |
|
| 1943 | Lorenz Hart (New York City-born Lyricist) |
|
| 1944 | Arthur Stanley Eddington (English Astronomer) |
|
| 1963 | John F. Kennedy (Massachusetts-born 35th U.S. President: Assassinated in Dallas, Texas) |
|
| Aldous Huxley (English Author) |
|
|
| C.S. Lewis (Irish Author) |
|
|
| 1980 | Mae West (New York City-born Actress) |
|
| 1981 | Hans Adolf Krebs (German Biologist: 1953 Nobel Laureate for Medicine) |
|
|
|
|
 | ||
| 1220 | Pope Honorius III Crowns Frederick II as Holy Roman Emperor |
|
 | ||
| 1497 | Vasco de Gama Is First Navigator to Sail Around the Cape of Good Hope |
|
 | ||
| 1518 | Faculty at Wittenberg Writes to Frederick III Affirming Their Complete Agreement with Luther |
|
 | ||
| 1718 | British Navy Kills Blackbeard the Pirate Off the Coast of North Carolina |
|
 | ||
| 1803 |
 Lewis: We set out at 6:15 this morning. The current that greeted us was rapid and difficult. We again saw some heath hens on the side of the river. One of my men went on shore and killed one. This made some great soup for our Captain Clark who has been indisposed since the 16th. We reached a Spanish settlement, where we were informed by a Mr. Findley, the owner, that there were 15 families here. We overtook two keels from Louisville owned by Mr. Bullet of Louisville , headed to Kaskaskias, loaded with dry goods and whiskey. Later we met two keeled boats loaded with furs that were headed for New Orleans. The land here does not appear to be overflowed because of the poplar and white oak timber. This is the first poplar and white oak that I have seen. Sand and scrubbing Rush on the banks, seem to grow thicker and at a greater heights from the bottoms of the river than any where else. I have been told that it is good food for cattle and horses in the winter. The soil here is of an inferior quality being a stiff white clay. There is a quarry of white freestone on the eastern bank. The stones near the river are hard and formed of the sand of the river. The river also petrifies plant and animal alike. I have also observed petrified wood.
For the night we stayed on a slate beach. One of me men, Nathaniel Pryor, went hunting and has not returned although we have sounded the horn. I saw some wood that seemed to be in a coal-state, but when it |
|
| 1804 |
Clark: a fine morning Dispatched a Perogue and 5 Men under the Derection of Sergeant Pryor to the 2nd Village for 100 bushels of Corn in ears which Mr. Jessomme, let us have did not get more than 80 bushels
— I was allarmed about 10 oClock by the Sentinal, who informed that an Indian was about to Kill his wife in the interpeters hut fire about 60 yards below the works, I went down and Spoke to the fellow about the rash act which he was
Some missunderstanding took place between this man & his fife about 8 days ago, and She came to this place, & Continued with the Squars of the The grand Chief stayed with ua all day a warm Day fair afternoon— many Indian anickdotes one Chief & his familey Stay all night.
Ordway:
pleasant & warm Sgt. Pryor & 5 men Sent with a pearogue to the 2nd village of the mandens for corn we completed building the backs of our chimneys. the pearogue returned towards evening with abt. 12 bushels of mixed coullourd corn in ears traied which the natives took out of the Ground where
|
|
| 1805 |
Clark: a moderate rain all the last night with wind, a little before Day light the wind which was from the S S. E. blew with Such violence that we were almost overwhelmned with water blown from the river, this Storm did not Sease at day but blew with nearly equal violence throughout the whole day accompaned with rain.
O! how horriable is the day waves brakeing with great violence against the Shore throwing the Water into our Camp
Several Indian men and women Crouding about the mens Shelters to day, we purchased a fiew wappato roots for The threat which I made to the men of this nation whome I first Saw, and an indifference towards them, is: I am fulley Convinced the Cause of their Conducting themselves with great propriety towards ourselves & Party.
|
|
| 1828 | Florida Legislature Approves an Act to Create a State Banking System |
|
| 1838 | The First Wedding Recorded within Minneapolis City Limits Binds Samuel W. Pond with Cordelia Eggleston |
|
| 1842 | Mount St. Helens Erupts |
|
| The First Shipment of California Gold Is Made |
|
|
| 1849 | Austin College (TX) Is Chartered |
|
| 1861 | Union and Confederate Ships Engage in 8-hr Artillery Exchange Near Florida's Ft. Pickens |
|
| 1864 | Sherman's Troops Easily Defeat Confederate Irregulars at the Battle of Griswoldville, Georgia |
|
| Confederate Troops Invade Tennessee in Attempt to Draw Sherman Out of Georgia |
|
|
| 1870 | Gas Light Arrives in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
|
| 1880 | Lillian Russell Makes Her Debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City |
|
| 1884 | The Ft. Myers News-Press Is Founded |
|
 | ||
| 1900 | In Milton, Delaware, the A. B. Robinson Canning Factory Is Destroyed by Fire |
|
| 1901 | Stetson Defeats the University of Florida 6-0 in Its First Intercollegiate Football Game |
|
| 1904 | George Gillespie Is Granted a Design Patent for the Congressional Medal of Honor |
|
| Mathias Pfatischer Receives First U.S. Patent for DC, Interpole, Electric Motor |
|
|
| 1906 | Berlin Convention Adopts S-O-S As International Telegraphic Distress Signal |
|
| 1910 | A.F. Knight of Schenectady, N.Y Receives First Patent for Steel Shaft Golf Club |
|
| 1927 | Carl J.E. Eliason of Saynor, Wisconsin Issued First Patent for a Snowmobile |
|
| 1928 | Ravel's "Bolero" Is Debuted in Paris |
|
| 1929 | Jack Kerouac's Prep School Football Achievements Are Featured in the Lowell Sun Newspaper |
|
| 1935 | Kid Chissell and Billie Boyd Win 62-day Dance Marathon in Wenatchee, WA |
|
| 1942 | Soviets Encircle the Germans at Stalingrad |
|
| The Alcan Highway, As It Was First Named, Is Dedicated Near Lake Kluane |
|
|
| 1943 | FDR, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek Begin 4-day Meeting in Cairo, Egypt |
|
| French Release Lebanese Political Prisoners from the Castle of Rashayya |
|
|
 | ||
| 1961 | Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii Premieres |
|
| 1963 | President John F. Kennedy Is Assassinated in Dallas, Texas |
|
| Wall Street Panics: Drops $13 Billion |
|
|
| 1965 | Muhammad Ali Defeats Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas for World Heavyweight Title |
|
| Man Of La Mancha Premieres at the Anta Washington Square Theatre in New York |
|
|
| 1966 | University of Florida's Steve Spurrier Wins the Heisman Trophy |
|
| 1967 | U.N. Resolution 242 Calls for the Formal Recognition of Israel by All Countries |
|
| 1974 | NASA's Launches Britain's Skynet 2B Communications Satellite |
|
| 1975 | Juan Carlos Is Proclaimed King of Spain |
|
| 1977 | Concord SST Begins Regular Passenger Service Between New York & Europe |
|
| NASA Launches Meteosat 1 Geostationary Spacecraft for the Global Atmospheric Research Program |
|
|
| 1983 | NASA's Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite Stops Functioning After 9 Months in Space |
|
| In Iowa, the Last Maytag Wringer Washer Is Produced |
|
|
| 1986 | 20-year-old Mike Tyson Is the Youngest Heavyweight Champion in History |
|
| George Branham Is First African American to Win Pro Bowler Association Event |
|
|
| 1988 | U.S. Military Unveils the Stealth Bomber Over Palmdale, California |
|
| Hurricane Keith Strikes Western Florida Between Tampa and Ft. Myers with 65 mph Winds |
|
|
| 1989 | Lebanon's Newly-elected President, Rene Muawad, Is Assassinated |
|
| NASA Launches Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-33) for Department of Defense |
|
|
| Kathryn Thornton Is The First Woman to Fly on a Military Space Mission |
|
|
| Construction Begins on the Georgia Dome |
|
|
| 1990 | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Announces Her Resignation |
|
| 1995 | 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 8 and Injures 30 in Egypt |
|
| Toy Story Is Released |
|
|
| 1998 | ''60 Minutes'' Airs Videotape of Dr. Jack Kevorkian Providing Lethal Drugs for Terminally Ill Patient |
|
 | ||
| 2002 | The Eric Carle Museum Opens in Amherst, Massachusetts |
|
| 2003 | England Defeats Australia for Rugby World Cup |
|
| 2005 | Angela Merkel Is Elected Germanys First Woman Chancellor |
|
 |
 |
|||||||
 |
 |
|||||||
 |
