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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 children's author/illustrator born on this date:
NINTH LEMON SEASCAPE |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a Nancy Mitford novel (according to Literary Encyclopedia):
DISCARD UMP THINGS |
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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 name of an artist who recorded for Berry Gordy's Motown Records (according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame):
DESERVE IT NOW |
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Bahá'í Faith: Ascension of Abdu'l-Bahá
(Commemorates the death of Abdu'l-Bahá, eldest son of Bahá'u'lláh and successor to him as leader of the Bahá'í Faith): 11/28/1921) |
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Albania: Independence Day
(Commemorates Albania's Vlorë Proclamation of independence: 11/28/1912) |
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Chad: Proclamation of the Republic
(Commemorates Chad becoming an autonomous republic within the French community : 11/28/1958) |
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Mauritania: National Day
(Commemorates Mauritania's independence from France: 11/28/1960) |
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Panamá: Independence Day from Spain
(Commemorates Panamá's independence from Spain: 11/28/1821 [observed on Monday if 28th falls on a weekend]) |
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| 1901 | Walter Havighurst (Wisconsin-born Children's Author) |
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| 1909 | Sonia Bleeker (Russian Children's Author) |
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| 1931 | Ed Young (Chinese-born Children's Author, Illustrator Awarded 1990 Caldecott Medal for Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China) |
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| Tomi Ungerer (French Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1947 | Mary E. Lyons (Georgia-born Children's Author) |
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| 1952 | Stephanie Calmenson (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1757 | William Blake (English Poet) |
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| 1805 | John Lloyd Stephens (New Jersey-born Traveler, writer, and Promoter) |
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| 1880 | Aleksandr Blok (Russian Poet, Playwright) |
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| 1881 | Stefan Zweig (Austrian Author) |
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| 1894 | Brooks Atkinson (Massachusetts-born Theater Critic) |
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| 1904 | Nancy Mitford (English Author) |
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| 1907 | Alberto Moravia (Italian Journalist, Short-Story Writer, Novelist) |
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| 1944 | Rita Mae Brown (Mississippi-born Author) |
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| 1866 | Henry Bacon (Illinois-born Architect of the Lincoln Memorial) |
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| 1907 | Charles Alston (North Carolina-born African-American Artist and Teacher) |
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| 1829 | Anton G. Rubenstein (Russian Composer, Pianist) |
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| 1943 | Randy Newman (Los Angeles-born Songwriter, Film Composer) |
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| 1949 | Alexander Godunov (Russian Ballet Dancer) |
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| 1700 | Nathaniel Bliss (English Astronomer, Mathematician) |
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| 1837 | John Wesley Hyatt (New York Born Inventor of Celluloid, Pioneer of the Plastics Industry) |
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| 1929 | Berry Gordy, Jr. (Detroit-born African-American Founder of Mo-town Record: Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) |
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| 1820 | Friedrich Engels (German Revolutionist and Social Theorist; Cofounder with Karl Marx of Modern Socialism) |
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| 1853 | Helen Magill White (Rhode Island-born First American Woman to Earn a Ph.D. Degree) |
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| 1936 | Gary Hart (Kansas-born Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1910 | Kinuyo Tanaka (Japanese Actress; Japan's First Woman Director) |
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| 1931 | Hope Lange (Connecticut-born Actress) |
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| 1949 | Paul Shaffer (Canadian Popular Musician; Bandleader for David Letterman) |
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| 1950 | Ed Harris (New Jersey-born Actor) |
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| 1784 | Gideon Lincecum (Georgia-born Frontier Physician, Naturalist) |
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| 1882 | Alexander Faribault (Wisconsin-born Indian Trader; Namesake of Faribault, Minnesota) |
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| 1921 | Abdu'l-Bahá (Iranian-born Eldest Son of Bahá'u'lláh and Successor to Him as Leader of the Bahá'í Faith) |
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| 1954 | Enrico Fermi (Italian Physicist; 1938 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1960 | Richard Wright (Mississippi-born African-American Author) |
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| 1976 | Rosalind Russell (Connecticut-born Actress) |
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| 1520 | Ferdinand Magellan Reaches the Pacific Ocean on His Circumnavigation of the Earth |
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| 1582 | The Bishop of Worcester Issues a Marriage Bond for William Shakespeare and Ann Hathaway of Stratford |
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| 1659 | Christian Huygens Is First to Record Markings on the Face of Mars |
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| 1684 | New Mexico Loses Any Claim to the El Paso Area in Boundary Dispute Settlement with Nueva Vizcaya (northern Mexico) |
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| 1723 | Johann Sebastian Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 61 Is First Performed in Leipzig, Germany |
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| 1729 | Natchez Indians Attack the French Outpost of Fort Rosalie, Killing 200+ |
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| 1785 | John Rice Jones Is Appointed as the First Mail Carrier in Indiana for Deliveries Between Louisville and Vincennes |
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| 1797 | New York's New State Prison Opens in Greenwich Village |
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| 1799 | The "Treaty of Hopewell" Is Signed Reaffirming the Boundary Between the Cherokee and Georgia |
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| 1805 |
 Clark: Wind Shifted about to the S. W. and blew hard accompanied with hard rain. rained all the last night we are all wet our bedding and stores are also wet, we haveing nothing which is Sufficient to keep ourselves bedding or Stores dry Several men in the point hunting deer without Suckcess, the Swan and brant which are abundant Cannot be approached Sufficently near to be killed, and the wind and waves too high to proceed on to the place we expect to find Elk, & we have nothing to eate except pounded fish which we brought from the Great falls,
this is our present Situation; truly disagreeable. about 12 oClock the wind Shifted around to the N W. and blew with Such violence that I expected every moment to See trees taken up by the roots, maney were blown down. This wind and rain Continued with Short intervales all the latter part of the night. O! how disagreeable is our Situation dureing
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| 1811 | Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 Is First Performed by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra |
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| 1821 | Panamá's Gains Its Independence from Spain |
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| 1826 | King William IV Grants the Charter of the University of London |
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| 1827 | The Southern Portion of the Miami and Erie Canal Opens |
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| 1843 | In Delaware, Edgar Allen Poe Reads Poetry at Wilmington's Lyceum Theater |
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| John Martin HenniI Is Appointed Bishop of the Newly Created Diocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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| 1849 | The First Issue of the "Santa Fe New Mexican" Rolls Off the Press |
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| 1853 | Olympia Is Selected As Capital of the Washington Territory |
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| 1862 | At Cane Hill, Union Troops Drive the Confederates Back into Arkansas' Boston Mountains |
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| 1863 | Thanksgiving Is First Observed as an Official U.S. Holiday |
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| 1864 | Sherman's Troops Advance 15 Miles through Georgia (Tennille for Louisville) |
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| 1872 | In Northeastern California, War Breaks Out Between the Modocs and the US Army, Continuing to June 1, 1873. |
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| Associate Justice Samuel Nelson Retires From the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1882 | Screwmen's Benevolent Association Protests the Hiring of African Americans in Texas |
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| 1884 | Northern Pacific Railroad Establishes the Town of Pasco, Washington |
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| Texas Charters Home for Confederate Veterans |
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| 1895 | J. Frank Duryea Wins the First Auto Race in America: Chicago to Evanston and Back |
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| Rimsky-Korsakov's Opera "Christmas Eve" Is First Performed in St. Petersburg |
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| 1896 | Mussorgsky's Opera "Boris Godunov" Is First Performed in St. Petersburg |
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| 1901 | The University of Wisconsin Defeats the University of Chicago, 35-0, to Finish a 9-0 Undefeated Football Season |
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| 1905 | Irish Nationalist Arthur Griffith Founds the Sinn Féin Political Party for Irish Independence |
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| The Freighter Mataafa Wrecks in the Duluth, Minnesota Harbor During a Storm; 9 Crew Members Freeze to Death |
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| The ARM & HAMMER Baking Soda Trademark Is Registered |
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| 1909 | Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 Is First Performed in Carnegie Hall by the New York Symphony Society Orchestra |
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| 1912 | Albania's Vlorë Proclamation Declares the Country's Independence |
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| 1916 | German Seaplane Conducts First Air Raid of Britain by a Fixed-winged Aircraft |
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| 1919 | American-born Nancy Astor Is Elected as Britain's First Female Member of Parliament |
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| 1922 | Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota Is Established |
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| 1924 | West Virginia Academy of Science Is Organized in Morgantown |
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| 1925 | The Grand Ole Opry Debuts in Nashville, Tennessee as "The WSM Barn Dance" |
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| The City of Hollywood, Florida Is Chartered |
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| 1931 | The Passenger Steamer Alameda of the Alaska Steamship Company Is Gutted by Fire at Seattle, Washington |
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| 1942 | Fire Destroys the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub in Boston, Killing Nearly 500 People |
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| 1943 | Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Meet in Tehran |
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| Ernie Nevers Is the First Professional Football Player to Score 6 TDs in One Game |
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| 1948 | The Metropolitan Opera Is Televised for the First Time As the Season Opens with "Othello" |
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| 1951 | 14 Athletes Are the First Inductees into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame |
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| 1957 | A Theatre Adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel Opens on Broadway |
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| 1960 | Mauritania Gains Its Independence from France |
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| A "Nor'easter" Produces 20-40' Waves Flooding the Streets in Grand Marais, Minnesota; Washing Thousands of Cords of Pulpwood into Lake Superior. |
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| 1961 | Ernie Davis Is the First African American Selected for the Heisman Trophy |
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| 1964 | NASA Launches Mariner 4 the First Successful Mars Flyby Mission |
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| 1965 | NASA Launches Explorer 31 to Collect Ionosphere Measurements |
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| Arlo Guthrie Is Arrested for Littering in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Inspiring His Song "Alice's Restaurant" |
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| 1975 | President Gerald Ford Nominates Federal Judge John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1983 | Space Shuttle (STS-9) Carries the First Spacelab Module into Orbit |
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| 1989 | Czechoslovakia's Communist Party Gives Up Its Political Monopoly |
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| 1990 | Margaret Thatcher Formally Tenders Her Resignation to the Queen and Leaves Downing Street |
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| 1991 | 5.6 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 1 in Western Iran |
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| 1994 | Norway Rejects Membership in the European Union for a Second Time |
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| 1995 | President Clinton Signs Bill Ending the Federal 55 mph Speed Limit. |
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