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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 name of a performing artist born on this date:
RAP OX HARM |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by Thomas Hardy (according to Project Gutenberg):
FATHER ROUTINE VENT |
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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 work by Christopher Logue (according to Writer's Almanac):
LIGHTERS |
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Georgia: Giorgoba (St George's Day: Orthodox Calendar)
(Orthodox Christian holiday observed annually on November 23 to celebrate the patron saint of Georgia) |
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Japan: Kinro Kansha no Hi/Niinamesai (Labor Thanksgiving Day/Harvest Festival)
(Day of thanksgiving observed since 1948 on November 23 - date of ancient Harvest Festival) |
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Maryland: Repudiation Day
(Commemorates Frederick County's repudiation of the Stamp Act: 11/23/1765) |
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| 1913 | Dorothy Sterling (New York-born Children's Author of African-American History) |
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| 1915 | Marc Simont (French Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1923 | Gloria Whelan (Detroit-born Children's Author) |
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| 1936 | Lois Johnson (Minnesota-born Children's Author) |
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| 1884 | Guy Reginald Bolton (English Playwright, Screenwriter) |
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| 1912 | Shaun Herron (Irish Novelist) |
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| 1920 | Paul Celan (Romanian Poet) |
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| 1926 | Christopher Logue (English Poet) |
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| 1927 | Guy Davenport (South Carolina-born Writer and Critic) |
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| 1936 | Robert Barnard (English Mystery Writer, Critic, Lecturer) |
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| 1883 | José Clemente Orozco (Mexican Artist) |
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| 1892 | Erté (Russian Art Deco Artist, Fashion Illustrator, Stage Set Designer) |
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| 1876 | Manuel de Falla (Spanish Composer) |
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| 1925 | Johnny Mandel (New York City-born Academy Award & Grammy-Winning Composer of M*A*S*H Theme Song) |
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| 1928 | Jerry Bock (Connecticut-born Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer of Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello) |
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| 1935 | Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov (Russian-born Soviet Cosmonaut) |
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| 1616 | John Wallis (English Mathematician and Founding Member of the Royal Society) |
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| 1837 | Johannes Diderik van der Waals (Dutch Nuclear Scientist; 1910 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1869 | Valdemar Poulsen (Danish Engineer Who Invented the Magnetic Recorder) |
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| 1919 | Josiah Dwight Whitney (Massachusetts-born Geologist; Namesake of California's Mount Whitney) |
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| 1926 | Colin Macmillan Turnbull (English Anthropologist) |
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| 1819 | Benjamin Prentiss (Virginia-born Union General) |
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| 912 | Otto I (German king and Holy Roman emperor) |
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| 1804 | Franklin Pierce (New Hampshire-born 14th President of the United States) |
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| 1815 | William Dennison, Jr. (Governor of Ohio) |
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| 1860 | Karl Hjalmar Branting (Father of Socialism in Sweden) |
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| 1925 | José Napoleón Duarte (President of El Salvador) |
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| 1859 | Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney; New York City-born Outlaw) |
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| 1887 | Boris Karloff (English Actor) |
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| 1888 | Harpo Marx (New York City-born Comedian; Member of the Marx Brothers) |
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| 1926 | R. L. Burnside (Mississippi-born African-American Jazz Musician) |
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| 1930 | Robert Easton (Wisconsin-born Actor) |
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| 1939 | Betty Everett (Mississippi-born African-American Vocalist) |
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| 1954 | Bruce Hornsby (Virginia-born Popular Musician) |
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| 1959 | Maxwell Caufield (Scottish Actor) |
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| 1883 | James Emilius Broome (South Carolina-born Third Governor of Florida) |
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| 1910 | Octave Chanute (French Aviation Pioneer) |
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| 1916 | Franz Josef (Emperor, Austro-Hungarian Empire) |
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| 1945 | William Thomas Anderson (Georgia-born Journalist, Civil Rights Advocate) |
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| 1948 | Hack Wilson (Pennsylvania-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1621 | English Poet/Cleric John Donne Is Elected Dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London |
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| 1654 | French Scientist/Mathematician Blaise Pascal Converts to Christianity |
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| 1733 | Rebellious Slaves Kill Many Masters, Take Control of Danish Island of St. John |
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| 1765 | 12 Judges in Frederick County, Maryland Repudiate the Stamp Act of 1765 |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: a fair warm Day, wind from the S. E. Send after Stone Several men with bad Colds, one man Sheilds with the Rhumitism the river on a Stand haveing rose 4 Inches in all Ordway: pleasant & warm the pearogue Sent for Stone. Rope works fixed. Several hands employed makeing a large Rope for the purpose of drawing the Barge up the Bank &.C.
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| 1805 |
Clark: A calm Cloudy morning, a moderate rain the greater part of the last night, Capt Lewis Branded a tree with his name Date &c. I marked my name the Day & year on a Alder tree, the party all Cut the first letters of their names on different trees in the bottom. our hunters killed 3 Bucks, 4 Brant & 3 Ducks to day. in the evening Seven indians of the Clot Sop Nation Came over in a Canoe, they brought with them 2 Sea otter Skins for which they asked blue beads &c. and Such high pricies that we were unable to purchase them without reducing our Small Stock of merchendize, on which we depended for Subcistance on our return up this river— mearly to try the Indian who had one of those Skins, I offered him my Watch, handerchief a bunch of red beads and a dollar of the American Coin, all of which he refused and demanded "ti-â, co-mo-shack which is Chief beads and the most common blue beads, but fiew of which we happen to have at this time This nation is the remains of a large nation destroyed by the Small pox or Some other which those people were not aquainted with, they Speak the Same language of the Chinnooks and resemble them in every respect except that of Stealing, which we have not Cought them at as yet.
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| 1810 | Indiana's Territorial Legislature Votes to Form Jefferson County with Madison as the County Seat |
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| 1811 | Maryland's Gabriel Duvall Sworn In as Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1823 | The Bank of Florida Is Founded in Tallahassee |
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| 1835 | Henry Burden Receives First U.S. Patent for Horseshoe Manufacturing Machine |
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| 1846 | Georgia's Augusta Canal System Begins Operation |
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| 1858 | Oregon's First Theatre Opens, Presenting the Comedy "Honeymoon" and the Farce "Betsy Baker" |
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| 1862 | The Second (West) Virginia Cavalry Raids a Confederate Camp in the Sinking Creek Valley |
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| 1863 | The Three-day Battle of Chattanooga Begins |
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| 1864 | Sherman's Troops Occupy Milledgeville, Georgia on the "March to the Sea" |
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| 1869 | William and John Murkland Receive U.S. Patent #97,106 for Carpet Power-Loom |
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| 1874 | Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd Is Published |
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| 1876 | "Boss" Tweed Is Delivered to Authorities |
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| 1889 | The First Jukebox Is Installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco |
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| University of Wisconsin Plays Its First Football Game, Losing 27-0 to the Calumet Club of Milwaukee |
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| 1897 | A.J. Beard Receives Patent for "Jenny Coupler", a Lifesaving Railroad Coupler |
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| African American Inventor, J.L. Love, Patents (#594,114) a Pencil Sharpener |
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| 1903 | Italian Tenor Enrico Caruso Debuts at New York's Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's "Rigoletto |
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| Colorado Governor Sends Militia to Crush Cripple Creek Gold Miners' Strike |
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| 1909 | A Janesville, Wisconsin Man Is Put on Trial for Falsely Selling Oleo as Butter |
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| 1910 | A Statue of Georgia Founder James Oglethorpe Is Dedicated in Savannah |
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| Pennington County, Minnesota Is Created in Honor of Edmund Pennington, President of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Soo Railroad |
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| 1916 | The First Original Boeing Airplane Is Tested on Washington's Lake Union |
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| 1921 | Willis-Campbell Act Prohibits Doctors from Prescribing Liquor for Medicinal Purposes |
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| 1924 | Geraldine Farrar Performs Carmen at Seattle's Metropolitan Theatre |
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| 1929 | Charles Lindbergh Visits Robert Goddard |
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| 1936 | First Issue of Life Magazine Hits the Newsstands |
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| 1937 | John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men Opens in New York for 207 Performances |
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| 1940 | Romania Joins the Axis Powers: Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan |
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| William Faulkner Publishes Tomorrow |
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| 1941 | Two Business Blocks in Seward, Alaska Are Destroyed by Fire |
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| 1943 | U.S. Forces Seize the Tarawa and Makin Atolls from the Japanese |
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| 1945 | U.S. Ends Most Wartime Food Rationing, of Meat, Butter, and Other Foods |
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| 1947 | 6.25 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Southwest Montana |
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| 1948 | F.G. Black Receives U.S. Patent #2,454,686 for the First Zoom Lens |
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| Mexico's Jaime Torres Bodet Takes Office as Director-General of UNESCO |
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| William Faulkner Is Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters |
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| 1950 | Laurel, Delaware High School Football Player, Ronnie Waller, Sets a State Record of 33 Touchdowns, and 33 Extra Points in 8 Games |
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| 1957 | Monahans Sandhills State Park Opens in Texas |
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| 1959 | The Birdman of Alcatraz Is Released from Solitary for First Time Since 1916 |
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| Fiorello! Premieres at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway |
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| 1960 | NASA Launches Tiros 2 Weather Satellite to Test Experimental Television Techniques |
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| 1963 | Lyndon Johnson Begins First Full Day as President of the United States |
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| Representative Herman M. Holloway, Sr. of Wilmington Is Sworn in as Delaware's First African-American State Senator |
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| 1964 | Houston's Michael DeBakey Performs World's First Successful Coronary Bypass Surgery |
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| 1971 | People's Republic of China Is Seated at the UN Security Council |
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| 1972 | Vietnam Peace Talks Stalled in Paris |
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| 1976 | Tennessee Williams' The Eccentricities of a Nightingale Opens on Broadway |
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| 1977 | 7.4 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 70 in Argentina |
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| 1979 | Members of the IRA Are Sentenced for the Assassination of Lord Mountbatten |
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| 1980 | A Series of Earthquakes Devastates Southern Italy: 4,800 Die |
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| 1981 | President Reagan Gives CIA Authority to Establish the Contras |
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| 1982 | The Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art Opens in Fort Worth, Texas |
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| 1984 | Boston College Defeats National Champion Miami 47-45 on Doug Flutie's "Hail Mary" Pass |
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| 1987 | Chicago Board of Trade Places Limits on Stocks Following October Crash |
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| 1993 | Angels in America: Perestroika Premieres at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway |
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| 1996 | Hijacked Ethiopian Airliner Runs Out of Fuel, Crashes into Indian Ocean: 125 Die |
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| 1998 | U.S. States, Territories and Posssessions Reach a Master Settlement Agreement with American Tobacco Companies |
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| 2000 | Miami-Dade County officials Stop the Hand Recount of Presidential Ballots |
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| 2001 | Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic Indicted for Bosnia Genocide |
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| Israeli Helicopter Kills Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, Leader of Islamic Hamas Militants |
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| 2002 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Endeavor (STS-113) on 11-day ISS Mission |
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