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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:
AM JET SEAT |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book written by Marc Brown (according to "About the Author" Section at Random House):
A GAME SWORD ITCHY |
(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 1903 work by Upton Sinclair (according to the Authors' Calendar):
RUNG OAD |
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United Nations: International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women
(Observed per 11/25/1999 resolution of the United Nations General Assembly) |
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| Catholicism: St Catherine's Day (Catholic feast day of St. Catherine of Alexandria) |
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| Suriname: National Day (Celebration of 1975 independence from the Netherlands) |
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| 1807 | Joseph Ray (West Virginia-born Author of Math Textbooks) |
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| 1892 | James Stevens (Iowa-born Children's Author of Paul Bunyan) |
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| 1909 | P.D. Eastman (Massachusetts-born Children's Author) |
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| 1928 | Shirley Climo (Ohio-born Children's Author) |
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| 1931 | Bruce Clements (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1946 | Marc Brown (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1952 | Crescent Dragonwagon (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1953 | Stephen Krensky (Massachusetts-born Children's Author) |
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| 1562 | Lope de Vega (Spanish Dramatist) |
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| 1817 | John Bigelow (New York-born Diplomat, Author, Journalist, Editor of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography) |
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| 1878 | Georg Kaiser (German Dramatist) |
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| 1895 | Helen Hooven Santmyer (Ohio-born Author) |
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| 1912 | John Sengstacke (Georgia-born Editor, Publisher of the Chicago Defender and Other African-American Newspapers) |
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| 1913 | Lewis Thomas (New York-born Physician, Essayist) |
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| 1951 | Charlaine Harris (Mississippi-born Novelist) |
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| 1785 | Franz Gruber (Austrian Composer of the Christmas Carol "Silent Night") |
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| 1896 | Virgil Thomson (Missouri-born Composer, Critic) |
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| 1844 | Karl (Friedrich) Benz (German Engineer, Automotive Pioneer; co-Founder of Mercedes Benz) |
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| 1835 | Andrew Carnegie (Scottish-American Steel Magnate, Philanthropist) |
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| 1609 | Maria Henrietta (French Wife of King Charles I of England) |
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| 1846 | Carry Nation (Kentucky-born Temperance Advocate) |
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| 1847 | Benjamin Trueblood (Indiana-born Quaker Peace Advocate) |
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| 1864 | Al Schmedeman (Governor of Wisconsin) |
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| 1881 | Angelo Roncalli (Italian-born Pope John XXIII) |
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| 1897 | Willie "The Lion" Smith (New York City-born African-American Jazz Pianist, Composer) |
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| 1920 | Ricardo Montalban (Mexican-American Actor) |
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| 1924 | Paul Desmond (San Francisco-born Saxophonist; co-Author of the Jazz Classic "Take Five") |
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| 1928 | Etta James (South Carolina-born African-American Vocalist) |
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| 1931 | Nat Adderley (Florida-born African-American Trumpet Player) |
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| 1947 | John Larroquette (New Orleans-born Actor) |
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| 1960 | Amy Grant (Georgia-born Popular Singer, Songwriter) |
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| 1971 | Christina Applegate (Los Angeles-born Actress) |
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| 1874 | Joe Gans (Maryland-born African-American Member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame) |
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| 1903 | William DeHart Hubbard (Ohio-born African-American Member of the Track & Field Hall of Fame; First African-American to Win an Olympic Gold Medal) |
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| 1914 | Joe DiMaggio (California-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1626 | Edward Alleyn (English Actor) |
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| 1885 | King Alfonso XII of Spain |
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| 1890 | James Milton Smith (Governor of Georgia) |
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| 1944 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis (Ohio-born Judge; Commissioner of Major League Baseball: 1920-44) |
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| 1946 | Al Schmedeman (Governor of Wisconsin) |
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| 1957 | Ernest Oppenheimer (South African Financier, Diamond Mining and Industrial Magnate) |
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| 1958 | Charles Kettering (Ohio-born Inventor, Industrial Pioneer) |
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| 1968 | Upton Sinclair (Maryland-born Author) |
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| 1974 | U Thant (Burmese-born Secretary General of the United Nations) |
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| 1987 | Harold Washington (First African-American Mayor of Chicago) |
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| 1715 | Sebastián Vizcaíno Renames the California Island of Pimu to Santa Catalina, in Honor of Saint Catherine of Alexandria |
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| 1731 | Johann Sebastian Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 140, Is First Performed in Leipzig |
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| 1758 | British Capture Fort Duquesne at the Site of Present-day Pittsburgh |
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| 1783 | British Evacuate New York City |
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| 1803 |
 Lewis: A half after 6 o'clock we set out. The coast is higher today with the rock rising perpendicular and sometimes projecting from the water's edge. The rock is the same as yesterday with a larger amount of flint. All of the stone in this country seems to lie in horizontal stratas although forced or moved from there original place by the river. We passed several insignificant streams today. The country appears toe high with some low intervals, which appears to overflow in high water. We passed a small creek, just above this were some Shawnee huts and tents. From here we came to the Apple river, the most considerable stream yet. On this stream about 7 miles form its mouth was a small village of Shawnee. At the Cow River (Big Muddy River) there are many fine mines of pitt coal. Boats come here to transport it for use for blacksmiths and other artisans. On the high cliff rock of limestone are scattering pine, cedar and some oak Hickory. We arrived at the Grand Tower a little before sunset and went on shore for the night. This seems to be a place of the tropics or equinoxial line, those who are unfamiliar with it are always compelled to stop for a drink. |
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| 1805 |
Clark: The Wind being high rendered it impossible for us to Cross the river from our Camp, we deturmind to proceed on up where it was narrow, we Set out early accompanied by 7 Clât Sops for a fiew miles, they left us and Crossed the river through emence high waves; we Dined in the Shallow Bay on Dried pounded fish, after which we proceeded on near the North Side of the Columbia, and encamp a little after night near our Encampment of the 7th instant near a rock at Some distance in the river. evening Cloudy the Winds of to day is generally E. S. E which was a verry favourable point for us as the highlands kept it from us Mt. St. Hilians Can be Seen from the mouth of this river.
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| 1825 | Rensselaer Polytechnic, America's First Engineering College, Opens in Troy, NY |
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| 1835 | The Republic of Texas Establishes Its Navy |
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| 1846 | Prairie County, Arkansas Is Created |
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| 1850 | Texas Gives Up Its Claim to Disputed Land in New Mexico |
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| 1852 | Residents of Longview, Washington Declare Independence from the Oregon Territory |
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| 1863 | Grant Routs Confederates at Missionary Ridge, Breaks Siege of Chattanooga |
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| 1864 | In Georgia, a Mix of Confederate Forces Skirmish with Sherman's Union Army |
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| Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown Orders State Militia to Inspect Atlanta and Report on the City's Condition |
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| 1865 | Johannes Brahms' Variations on a Theme of Paganini," Op. 35, for Piano Is First Performed in Zürich, Switzerland |
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| 1876 | U.S. Troops Destroy the Village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife in Retaliation for the Massacre at Little Bighorn |
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| 1882 | Gilbert & Sullivan's Comic Operetta "Iolanthe" Opens at the Savoy Theater in London |
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| 1885 | Scottish Settlers Leave Glasgow Bound for Sarasota, Florida |
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| By a Margin of Just over 200 Votes, Atlanta and Fulton County Residents Approved a Referendum for Prohibition |
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| 1888 | "Storm Warriors" Save 29 Lives Off the Coast of Massachusetts |
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| 1898 | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Opera "Mozart and Salieri" Is First Performed in Moscow |
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| 1901 | Gustav Mahler Conducts the World Premiere of His "Fourth Symphony" in Munich, Germany |
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| 1905 | Scientific American Runs First Ad for a Radio Receiver |
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| 1911 | Texas Power Broker, Edward M. House, First Meets Presidential Candidate Woodrow Wilson |
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| 1913 | Lincoln Beachey Completes the First Airplane Loop-the-loop over San Diego Bay |
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| 1915 | University of Delaware Football Team Defeats William & Mary 93-0 |
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| 1918 | Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Surrenders His German Forces in East Africa Two Weeks After the Armistice Signing |
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| 1922 | Archaeologist Howard Carter Opens First Doorway to the King Tutankhamen Tomb |
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| The Alaska Electric Light & Power Company Installs a 20-watt Radio Broadcast Station at Juneau |
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| 1925 | Radio Station WFLA Is Founded in Dunedin as the First Licensed Commercial Radio Station in Florida |
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| 1936 | In Berlin, Japan & Germany Sign Anti-Comintern Pact to Oppose Spread of Communism |
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| 1941 | Warnings Are Issued of Possible Japanese Attack of U.S. Ships at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
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| German U-boat Sinks the British Battleship Barham, Killing 848 |
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| 1943 | South African Prime Minister, Jan Christiaan Smuts, Speaks Before to the British Parliament |
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| 1944 | German V-2 Rocket Kills 160 Shoppers at an English Woolworth Department Store |
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| 1946 | 1,165 St. Paul, Minnesota Schoolteachers Walk Out in the First Organized Teachers' Strike in the Nation |
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| 1947 | Foreign Minister from France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the U.S. Convene in London to Discuss the Future of Post-War Europe |
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| Film Industry Executives Announce the "Hollywood 10" Will Be Fired or Suspended |
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| 1948 | Ed Parsons of Astoria, Oregon Transmits the First Television Signal via Cable |
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| A High School Football Championship Game Is the First "Wide-Audience" Television Broadcast for Viewers in Washington's Puget Sound Area |
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| 1949 | Richmond, Virginia's Electric Streetcar System Makes Its Final Run |
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| 1950 | High Winds, Low Temperatures and Snow Cause 160 Deaths Across the Eastern United States |
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| 1952 | Agatha Christie's Play The Mousetrap Opens in London |
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| 1955 | The Interstate Commerce Commission Bans Racial Segregation on Interstate Trains and Buses |
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| 1957 | President Eisenhower Suffers Slight Stroke |
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| 1960 | Modest Mussorgsky's Opera "Khovanscchina" Is First Performed in Leningrad at the Kirov Theater |
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| 1963 | President Kennedy Is Buried with Military Honors at Arlington National Cemetery |
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| 1973 | The Government of Greek President George Papadopoulos Is Ousted in a Bloodless Military Coup After Weeks of Unrest |
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| 1974 | Christiaan Barnard Performs the World's First Double Heart Transplant |
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| Irish Republican Army Is Outlawed in Britain Following Deadly Pub Bombing |
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| 1975 | The Dutch Parliament Grants Suriname Its Independence |
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| Robert S. Ledleyfor Is Granted Patent #3,922,522 for a "Diagnostic X-ray Systems" Known as CAT-Scan |
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| 1984 | Band Aid Rock Stars Gather at Sarm Studios in London to Record "Do They Know It's Christmas" with All Proceeds to Ethiopian Famine Relief |
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| 1986 | Reagan Admits to Diverting Secret Iranian Arms Revenues to Nicaraguan Rebels |
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| 1988 | 5.9 Magnitude Earthquake Does Some Damage in Canada's Québec City Area |
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| 1990 | Washington's Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge Sinks into the Mud of Lake Washington |
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| 1992 | Czechoslovak Federal Assembly Passes a Constitutional Act Creating the Czech & Slovak Republics as of 01/01/1993 |
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| 1996 | Dow Jones Industrial Average Closes Above 6,500 for the First Time |
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| 1997 | Protests Erupt at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| 1998 | Chinese President Jiang Zemin Arrives in Tokyo for a State Visit |
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| A No-Confidence Vote of the Turkish Assembly Topples the Country's Government Amid Allegations of Corruption |
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| Explosion and Fire at Anacortes, Washington's Equilon Puget Sound Refinery Kills 6 Workers |
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| 1999 | The United Nations Passes a Resolution Designating November 25 the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women |
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| Sport Fishermen Rescue Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez off the Coast of Florida |
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| 2002 | The Baltimore Ravens Hire Ozzie Newsome as the First African-American General Manager in the National Football League |
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