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NOVEMBER 24 |
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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 a work by Ben Mikaelsen:
DRAT ENDS |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by Scott Joplin (according to the African American Registry):
STAIN THEE RENTER |
(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 work by Garson Kanin (according to the Writer's Almanac):
DAN PIKE MAT |
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| 1826 | Carlo Collodi (Carlo Lorenzini: Italian Journalist, Author of "Pinocchio") |
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| 1849 | Frances Hodgson Burnett (English Children's Author) |
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| 1907 | James Ramsey Ullman (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1921 | Yoshiko Uchida (California-born Asian-American Children's Author) |
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| 1933 | Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Los Angeles-born Children's Author) |
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| 1935 | Mordicai Gerstein (Los Angeles-born Children's Author, Illustrator Awarded the 2004 Caldecott Medal) |
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| 1940 | Gloria Houston (North Carolina-born Children's Author) |
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| 1951 | Ruth Sanderson (Massachusetts-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1952 | Ben Mikaelsen (American Children's Author) |
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| 1713 | Laurence Sterne (Irish Writer, Novelist) |
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| 1747 | Elizabeth Porter Phelps (Massachusetts-born Diarist of 54 Years) |
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| 1847 | Fay Hempstead (Arkansas Historian) |
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| 1878 | Raymond Cyrus Hoiles (Ohio-born Texas Antisocialist Newspaper Publisher) |
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| 1886 | Margaret Anderson (Indiana-born Editor of The Little Review Magazine) |
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| 1888 | Dale Carnegie (Missouri-born Author, Public Speaker) |
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| 1908 | Harry Kemelman (Massachusetts-born Author) |
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| 1912 | Garson Kanin (New York-born Playwright, Screenwriter, Stage and Film Director, Writer) |
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| 1925 | William F. Buckley, Jr.(New York City-born Author, Political Commentator) |
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| 1932 | Judith Paige Mitchell (Louisiana-born Novelist, Screenwriter) |
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| 1946 | Michael B. Ballard (Mississippi-born Historian) |
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| 1859 | Cass Gilbert (Ohio-born Architect Who Designed the Building for the United State Supreme Court) |
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| 1864 | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French Artist) |
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| 1868 | Scott Joplin (Texas-born African-American Ragtime Composer, Songwriter) |
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| 1927 | Emma Lou Diemer (Missouri-born Composer) |
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| 1953 | Tod Machover (New York City-born Cellist, Conductor, Composer) |
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| 1960 | Edgar Meyer (Oklahoma-born Composer, Double-bass Virtuoso) |
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| 1911 | Bessie Blout Griffin (Virginia-born African-American Physical Therapist, Inventor, Forensic Scientist) |
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| 1925 | Simon van der Meer (Dutch Nuclear Physicist; 1984 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1926 | Tsung-Dao Lee (Chinese-American Particle Physicist; 1957 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1780 | Farish Carter (South Carolina-born Georgia Planter, Entrepreneur) |
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| 1878 | Leonard Chadwick (Delaware-born Recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor) |
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| 1632 | Benedictus de Spinoza (Dutch Philosopher) |
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| 1888 | Margaret Davis Cate (Georgia-born Educator, Historian) |
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| 1655 | Charles XI (King of Sweden) |
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| 1713 | Junípero Serra (Spanish Missionary) |
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| 1783 | Allen Trimble (Virginia-born Governor of Ohio) |
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| 1784 | Zachary Taylor (Virginia-born 12th President of the United States) |
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| 1796 | John M. Clayton (U.S. Senator from Delaware; U.S. Secretary of State) |
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| 1822 | James Ashley (Pennsylvania-born Abolitionist, Member of the U.S. Congress from Ohio, Governor of the Montana Territory) |
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| 1877 | Alben Barkley (Kentucky-born U.S. Congressman, Vice-President for President Harry Truman) |
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| 1884 | Itzhak Ben-Zvi (Ukrainian-born Second President of Israel) |
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| 1920 | Percy Sutton (Texas-born African-American Attorney, Civil Rights Activist, Government Official, Media Executive ) |
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| 1921 | John Lindsay (Mayor of New York City) |
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| 1931 | Jean Harris (Virginia-born African-American Physician, Mayor of Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
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| 1935 | Ron Dellums (California-born African-American Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1912 | Teddy Wilson (Texas-born African-American Jazz Pianist) |
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| 1913 | Geraldine Fitzgerald (Irish Actress) |
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| 1938 | Oscar Robertson (Tennessee-born African-American member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1572 | John Knox (Scottish Reformer) |
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| 1807 | Thayendanegea "Joseph Brant" (Mohawk Chief) |
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| 1929 | Georges Clemenceau (French Statesman; Twice Premier of France: 1906-1909, 1917-1919) |
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| 1957 | Diego Rivera (Mexican Artist) |
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| 1963 | Lee Harvey Oswald (Louisiana-born Assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy) |
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| 1988 | Harris B. McDowell (U.S. Congressman from Delaware) |
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| 1991 | Freddie Mercury (Tanzanian-born English Lead Singer of the Rock Group Queen) |
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| 2003 | Warren Spahn (New York-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 2004 | Larry Brown (Mississippi-born Author) |
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| 2006 | William Diehl (Georgia-born Novelist) |
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| 1642 | Abel Tasman Discovers Van Diemen's Land, Later Renamed Tasmania |
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| 1726 | Johann Sebastian Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 52, Is First Performed in Leipzig |
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| 1781 | In Alderson, (West) Virginia, Greenbrier Baptist Church Is Founded |
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| 1803 |
 Lewis: We set out at 7 o'clock this morning and as we were leaving we saw Pryor, the man who didn't return form hunting, and we took him into the boat. He was very fatigued and somewhat indisposed. My observations today were somewhat obscured because of clouds flying in front of the sun. This constant changing of the lighting had me taking my colored glasses on and off in order to make an accurate observation. The rock which makes up the cliffs here is not uncommon to this part of the country. It is limestone, a rock yellowish-brown in color. I am told that at Cape Jeradeau the same rock appears. |
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| 1804 |
Clark: a warm Day Several men with bad Coalds we continue to Cover our Huts with hewed punchens [split logs with one side roughly flattened] finishd. a Cord to draw our boat out on the bank, this is made 9 Strans of Elk Skin,— the wind from the S. E.— Ordway: warm & pleasant. the work continued on as usal. the Guard reduced to a Sgt. & 3 men. a nomber of the natives visits us everry day.
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| 1805 |
Clark: A fair morning Sent out 6 hunters a Chief and Several men of the Chin nook nation Came to Smoke with us this evening one of the men brought a Small Sea otter Skin for which we gave Some blue beads — this day proved fair which gave us an oppertunity of drying our wet articles, bedding &c. &c. nothing killed to day except one Brant. being now determined to go into Winter quarters as Soon as possible, as a convenient Situation to precure the Wild animals of the forest which must be our dependance for Subsisting this Winter, we have every reason to believe that the nativs have not provisions Suffient for our Consumption, and if they had, their price's are So high that it would take ten times as much to purchase their roots & Dried fish as we have in our possesion, encluding our Small remains of merchindz and Clothes &c. This Certinly enduces every individual of the party to make diligient enquiries of the naivs the part of the Countrey in which the wild Animals are most plenty. They generaly agree that the most Elk is on the opposit Shore, and that the greatest numbers of Deer is up the river at Some distance above— The Elk being an animal much larger than Deer, easier to kiled better meat (in the winter when pore) and Skins better for the Clothes of our party: added to—, a convenient Situation to the Sea coast where we Could make Salt, and a probibility of vessels Comeing into the mouth of Columbia ("which the Indians inform us would return to trade with them in 3 months["]) from whome we might precure a fresh Supply of Indian trinkets to purchase provisions on our return home: together with the Solicitations of every individual, except one of our party induced us Conclude to Cross the river and examine the opposit Side, and if a Sufficent quantity of Elk could probebly be precured to fix on a Situation as convenient to the Elk & Sea Coast as we Could find — added to the above advantagies in being near the Sea Coast one most Strikeing one ocurs to me i'e, the Climate which must be from every appearance must be much milder than that above the 1st range of Mountains, The Indians are Slighly Clothed and give an account of but little Snow, and the weather which we have experiened Since we arrived in the neighbourhood of the Sea Coast has been verry warm, and maney of the fiew days past disagreeably So. if this Should be the Case it will most Certainly be the best Situation of our naked party dressed as they are altogether in leather.
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| 1835 | Republic of Texas Lawmakers Institute a Special Force Known as the Texas Rangers |
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| 1837 | Arkansas' First State Bar Association Is Organized |
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| 1839 | Hector Berlioz' Dramatic Symphony, "Romeo and Juliet," Is First Performed at the Paris Conservatory |
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| 1859 | Darwin's Origin of Species Is Published: All 1,250 Copies Sell on First Day |
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| 1863 | Union Troops Capture Lookout Mountain Southwest of Chattanooga, Tennessee |
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| 1864 | Sherman's Army Departs Milledgeville, Georgia |
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| Minnesota Governor Stephen Miller Declares a Thanksgiving Holiday, in Accordance with President Abraham Lincoln's Recommendation |
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| 1865 | Mississippi Is the First State to Establish "Black Codes" to Limit Rights of Freed Blacks |
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| 1869 | By Joint Resolution, the Alabama Legislature Ratifies the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Guaranteeing Former Slaves the Right to Vote |
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| 1874 | Joseph Farwell Glidden Receives a Patent for Barbed Wire |
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| Antonin Dvorák's Opera, "King and Collier," Is First Performed in Prague |
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| George Smith Houston Is Inaugurated as Governor of Alabama |
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| 1876 | Tchaikovsky's Opera, "Vakula the Blacksmith," Is First Performed in St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1879 | Squire's Opera House Opens as Seattle, Washington's First Theater |
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| 1882 | An Expedition to Explore South Florida, Financed by the New Orleans Times-Democrat, Departs Palatka Via Steam Boat |
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| 1883 | Rail Service Between Portland, Oregon and the Eastern United States is Celebrated with a Ceremony in Huntington, Oregon |
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| 1886 | Johannes Brahms' Cello Sonata No. 2 in F, Op. 99, Is First Performed in Vienna, Austria |
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| 1888 | Tchaikovsky's Symphonic Fantasy Overture "Hamlet" Is First Performed in Moscow |
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| 1903 | Clyde J. Coleman Receives First U.S. Patent for Electric Automobile Ignition |
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| 1908 | Lieutenant Governor William Garst Becomes the Governor of Iowa |
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| 1913 | The Seeley Theatre Opens in Pomeroy, Washington |
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| 1918 | Enrico Caruso's First Film, My Cousin, Premieres in New York |
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| 1922 | The Colorado River Compact Provides for Equal Apportionment of Water from the River System Among the 7 Signing States |
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| The Mack Theatre Opens in Port Angeles, Washington |
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| 1924 | In Texas, the Boles Children's Home Opens to Its First 10 Orphans |
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| 1927 | 1,200 Prisoners Riot at California's Folsom State Prison |
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| 1932 | FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory Officially Opens in Washington, D.C. |
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| 1935 | King George II of Greece Ends 12 years of Exile and Is Restored to the Throne |
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| 1941 | U.S. Intelligence Message Sent Warning of Japanese "aggressive movement" |
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| 1942 | U.S. War Labor Board Orders Equal Pay for Equal Work for Women |
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| 1944 | 111 U.S. B-29 Superfortress Bombers Raid Tokyo, Japan |
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| 1947 | "Hollywood 10" Cited for Contempt of Congress |
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| John Steinbeck's The Pearl Is Published by Viking |
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| The Freighter Clarksdale Victory Is Wrecked on Hippa Island in British Columbia |
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| 1950 | Frank Loesser's Guys And Dolls Premieres at the 46th Street Theatre in New York |
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| 1951 | Gigi Opens on Broadway Starring Audrey Hepburn |
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| 1959 | In Wisconsin, Interstate 90 Opens to Traffic Between Janesville and Beloit |
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| 1960 | Wilt Chamberlain Grabs 55 Rebounds in One NBA Game |
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| 1963 | Jack Ruby Shoots and Mortally Wounds Lee Harvey Oswald |
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| Leonard Bernstein Conducts the New York Philharmonic in a Memorial Concert to President John Kennedy |
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| Lyndon Johnson Continues Military and Economic Support to South Vietnam |
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| 1965 | U.S. Vietnam Casualty Rates Hit New Highs: 710 Dead over Past Two Weeks |
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| 1966 | The Beatles Record "Strawberry Fields" |
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| 1969 | U.S. Army Announces Lt. William Calley Will Be Tried for My Lai Massacre |
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| 1971 | Hijacker D.B. Cooper Parachutes over Washington State with $200,000 Ransom |
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| Henry Ford II Announces Plans to Build a $340M Renaissance Center in Downtown Detroit, Michigan |
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| 1974 | Six Charged for Bombing a Birmingham, England Pub |
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| 1976 | 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Destroys the Town of Muradiye, Turkey: 5,291 Die |
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| 1978 | David Letterman Makes His First Guest Appearance on The Tonight Show |
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| 1979 | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Marries His Long-Time Friend, Author and Photographer Jill Krementz |
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| 1985 | Egyptian Commandos Storm Hijacked Egyptair Jetliner in Malta: 60 die |
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| 1987 | U.S. & Soviet Union Agree to Eliminate Short & Medium-range Missiles |
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| 1989 | Czechoslovakia's Hard-line Party Leadership Resigns |
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| 1991 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on a 6-day Unclassified Defense Department Mission |
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| 1992 | Former Defense Secretary Weinberger Pleads Innocent to Iran-Contra Charges |
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| 1997 | NY Stock Exchange Invokes "Circuit Breaker" for First Time after 554.26 pt Drop |
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| 1998 | America Online Confirms It Is Buying Netscape for $10 billion |
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| 2000 | U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Review Florida Hand Recount of Presidential Ballots in Bush v. Gore |
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