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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
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  Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1988 Jan Brett book (according to James Madison University):
TED SHIRT FOG |
Use all of these letters to spell the name of an element discovered by Martin Klaproth:
MU RICE |
(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 1939 book by Rex Stout (according to the Authors' Calendar):
DRED HEARTS |
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World AIDS Day
(Observed annually on December 1 since 1988) |
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Eat a Red Apple Day
(Observed annually on December 1) |
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Central African Republic: National Day
(Commemoration of self-governance achieved 12/01/1958) |
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Panama: Teachers' Day
(Observed on this date since 1958 to commemorate the birth of Manuel José Hurtado, a reformer of Panamanian education) |
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Portugal: Restoration of Portuguese Independence
(Commemorates declaration of independence from Spain by proclaiming Joao IV, King of Portugal: 12/1/1640) |
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Romania: National Day (Union Day)
(Commemoration of the unification of Transylvania with Bessarabia and Bucovina 12/01/1918) |
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| 1939 | Polly Berends (Chicago-born Children's Author) |
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| 1949 | Jan Brett (Massachusetts-born Children's Author) |
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| 1886 | Rex Stout (Indiana-born Detective Story Writer) |
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| 1912 | Minoru Yamasaki (Washington-born Asian-American Architect of the New York World Trade Center) |
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| 1743 | Martin Heinrich Klaproth (German Chemist Who First Isolated Six Different Chemical Elements) |
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| 1925 | Martin Rodbell (Maryland-born Biochemist: 1994 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1872 | Gerard Swope (Missouri-born Engineer: President of General Electric) |
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| 1857 | Samuel M. Ralston (Ohio-born Governor of Indiana; U.S. Senator from Indiana) |
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| 1873 | Edward Voigt (German-born U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin) |
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| 1895 | Eurith Dickinson (Ed) Rivers (Georgia Governor) |
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| 1913 | Mary Martin (Texas-born Actress) |
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| 1935 | Woody Allen (New York City-born Actor) |
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| Lou Rawls (Chicago-born African-American Popular Musician) |
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| 1940 | Richard Pryor (Illinois-born African-American Comedian, Actor) |
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| 1945 | Bette Midler (Hawaiian-born Singer, Actress) |
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| 1961 | Jeremy Northam (English Actor) |
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| 1939 | Lee Trevino (Texas-born Latin-American Member of the Golf Hall of Fame) |
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| 1521 | Pope Leo X (Italian-born Catholic Pope) |
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| 1866 | George Everest (Welsh Geographer, Surveyor: Namesake of Mt. Everest) |
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| 1917 | Thomas Bowman (Maine-born Member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa) |
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| 1971 | Arthur Spingarn (New York City-born Civil Rights Activist, Attorney) |
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| 1973 | David Ben-Gurion (Polish-born Statesman: First Prime Minister of Israel) |
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| 1987 | James Baldwin (New York City-born African-American Author) |
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| 1989 | Alvin Ailey (Texas-born African-American Dancer, Choreographer) |
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| 1145 | Pope Eugene III Sends a Papal Bull to King Louis VII of France Proclaiming the Second Crusade |
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| 1640 | Portuguese Revolutionaries Murder Their Spanish Administrator and Name Dom Joäo IV King |
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| 1736 | Johann Sebastian Bach Gives an Organ Recital at the Frauenkirche in Dresden, Germany |
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| 1774 | The Continental Congress Prohibits Importation of Slaves |
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| 1783 | First Manned Hydrogen Balloon Climbs to 600m above Paris, Travels 43 km |
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| 1794 | The First Half-Dollar Coins Were Placed Into Circulation |
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| 1800 | The U.S. Capital Is Moved from Philadelphia to Washington, District of Columbia |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: wind from the N W. all hands ingaged in gitting pickets at 10 oClock the half brother of the man who was killed Came and informd. us that after my departure last night Six Chiens So Called by the french Shar ha Indians had arrived with a pipe and Said that their nation was at one days march and intended to Come & trade The mandans apprehended danger from the Shar has as they were at peace with the Seaux; and wished to Kill them and the Ricarees (or Panies) [Arikara Indians] but the Cheifs informed the nation "it was our wish that they Should not be hurt, and forbid being Killed &c." we gave a little Tobacco &c. & this man Departed well Satisfied with our councils and advice to him in the evening a Mr. G Henderson* in the imploy of the hudsons bay Company Sent to trade with the Gros ventre—or big bellies [Hidatsa or Gross Ventre Indians] So Called by the french traders
Ordway:
the morning fair. we commenced bringing the pickets & preparing to picket in our Garrison &.C. an Indian came from the Manden village to Inform us that a large nomber Sd. 300 lodge of the Shian nation had Come to their villages.
a Scotsman* who is tradeing at the Mandens came to visit us. he belonged to the hudson bay company he brought over Tobacco Beeds & other kinds of Goods & traded with the Mandens for their furs & buffalow Robes. they bring Some Guns to trade for horses &.C. this hudsons bay compy. lay Garrisoned near the N. W. Compy. Eight or 10 days travel by land a North course from this.
Gass:
The day was pleasent, and we began to cut and carry pickets to complete our fort. One of the traders from the North West Company came to the fort, and related that the Indians had been troublesome in his way through. An [*George Henderson was in charge of a party of Hudson's Bay Company men who had come from the Assiniboine River to compete with the North West Company traders.] |
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| 1805 |
Lewis: Cloudy morning wind from the S. E. sent out the men to hunt and examin the country, they soon returned all except Drewyer and informed me that the wood was so thick it was almost impenetrable and that there was but little appearance of game; they had seen the track of one deer only and a few small grey squirrels. — half after one oclock Drewyer not yet arrived. heard him shoot 5 times just above us and am in hopes he has fallen in with a gang of elk.
Clark:
A cloudy windey morning wind from the East,
dispatched two hunters, I deturmined to take a Canoe & a fiew men and hunt the marshey Islands above
began to rain hard at Sun Set and Continued. my hunters returned without any thing
haveing Seen 2 parcels of elk men all employed to day in mending their leather Clothes, Shoes &c. and Dressing leather.
The emence Seas and waves which breake on the rocks & Coasts to the S W. & N W roars like an emence fall at a distance, and this roaring has continued ever Since our arrival in the neighbourhood of the Sea Coast which has been 24 days
Since we arrived in Sight of the Great Western; (for I cannot Say Pacific) Ocian as I have not Seen one pacific day Since my arrival in its vicinity, and its waters are forming and perpetually breake with emence waves on the Sands and rockey Coasts, tempestous and horiable.
I have no account of Capt. Lewis Since he left me.
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| 1821 | Dominican Republic Proclaims Independence from Spain and Reunification with Colombia |
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| 1822 | 11 year-old Pianist Franz Liszt Performs for the First Time in Vienna, Austria's Town Hall |
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| 1824 | The Deadlocked Presidential Election Is Turned Over to House of Representatives |
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| 1826 | The Barnet Is the First Steamboat to Pass through Massachusetts' South Hadley Canal |
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| 1830 | Victor Hugo Misses Submission Date The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
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| 1832 | Felix Mendelssohn's Overture, "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage," Is First Performed in Berlin, Germany |
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| 1845 | Florida's First Two Senators Are Seated in the U.S. Senate |
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| 1850 | The U.S. Congress Passes the Donation Land Claim Act Granting Tracts of Public Land to Settlers of the Oregon Territory |
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| 1855 | At the Washington Navy Yard, the Steam Frigate Minnesota Is Christened with a Bottle of Minnesota Water |
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| 1859 | The French Opera House of New Orleans Opens with Rossini's William Tell |
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| 1860 | First Installment of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations Is Published |
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| 1862 | Abraham Lincoln's Delivers State of the Union Address to Congress |
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| Union Ships Capture Two Confederate Blockade Runners in Florida |
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| 1864 | Florida's Legislature Approves $60,000 for Care of the State's Sick and Wounded Soldiers |
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| 1866 | Construction Is Completed on the 1,619' Suspension Bridge Across the Ohio River Between Cincinnati, Ohio & Covington, Kentucky |
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| 1874 | T.J. Byrd Receives Patent# 157,370 for Railroad Car Couplings |
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| 1880 | The Missouri Pacific Railway Enters Texas by Leasing the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Line from Kansas to Texas |
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| 1883 | Yakima City, Washington Is Incorporated |
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| 1884 | Elfego Baca Survives the Attack of 80 Cowboys in New Mexico |
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| Fire Destroys Science Hall on the Campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison |
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| 1886 | Richard Wagner's Opera "Tristan und Isolde" Receives Its American Premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in New York |
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| 1887 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's First Story about Sherlock Holmes Is Published |
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| 1894 | The Yukon Order of Pioneers Is Organized at Fortymile on the Yukon River |
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| 1897 | Associate Justice Stephen J. Field Retires from the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1905 | Political Cartoonist John Francis Knott Begins 52-yr Career with the Dallas Morning News |
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| 1906 | Fred Beell, of Marshfield, Wisconsin, Wins the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in New Orleans |
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| 1913 | Ford Motor Introduces the Assembly Line to Complete a Car Every 2.5 Minutes |
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| Gulf Oil Opens the World's First Gas Station in Pittsburgh, PA |
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| 1918 | Transylvania Unites with Bessarabia and Bucovina to From Romania |
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| Iceland Becomes a Sovereign State Under the Danish Crown |
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| 1919 | Lady Astor Is Sworn in As the First Female Member of the British Parliament |
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| 1924 | George Gershwin's Musical, "Lady, Be Good," Is First Performed at the Liberty Theater in New York City |
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| 1925 | Locarno Treaties Are Signed Guaranteeing Peace and Frontiers in Europe |
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| Mr. Peanut Trademark Is Registered |
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| 1928 | 8.0 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 225 in Talca, Chile |
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| Pitcairn (Eastern) Airlines Initiate 15-hour Service Between Miami and New York |
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| 1934 | Benny Goodman Debuts As a Regular on Radio Variety Show Let's Dance |
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| Maurice Ravel's Last Work, "Don Quichotte ŕ Dulcinée," Is First Performed in Paris, France |
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| Stalin Collaborator, Sergei M. Kirov, Assassinated in Leningrad |
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| 1937 | Vaughan Williams' One-act Opera, "Riders to the Sea," Is First Performed in London, England |
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| 1941 | Japan's Imperial Conference Decides to Go to War with the United States |
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| In Minneapolis, Minnesota, 18 Members of the Socialist Workers Party are Found Guilty of Advocating the Overthrow of the U.S. Government |
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| 1942 | Nationwide Gasoline Rationing Goes into Effect in the United States |
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| British Government Unveils for Cradle-to-Grave Welfare Plan |
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| 1943 | Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin End Conference in Tehran |
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| 1944 | Bela Bartók's "Concerto for Orchestra" Is First Performed by the Boston Symphony |
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| 1951 | Eudora Welty's Story "The Bride of the Innisfallen" is Published by the New Yorker |
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| Benjamin Britten Conducts the First Performance of His Opera, "Billy Budd, " in London, at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden |
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| 1955 | Rosa Parks Is Arrested for Refusing to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Passenger |
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| 1956 | Leonard Bernstein's Musical, "Candide," Is First Performed at the Martin Beck Theater in New York City |
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| 1957 | New York City Ballet Debuts Agon, a Stravinsky/Balanchine Collaboration |
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| 1958 | France Grants Self-governance to the Central African Republic |
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| 1959 | Twelve Nations Sign Treaty Making Antarctica a Military-free Continent |
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| 1960 | Soviets Launch Sputnik 6 with Two Dogs and Television System Aboard |
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| 1965 | Airlift Begins to Bring Thousands of Cuban Refugees to the U.S. |
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| 1969 | U.S. Government Holds First Draft Lottery Since World War II |
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| 1978 | President Jimmy Carter Designates Over 55 Million Acres of Alaska as National Monuments |
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| 1989 | Jaguar Shareholders Approve Buyout by Ford |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev First Soviet Leader to Visit the Pope in the Vatican |
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| The East German Congress Strikes Requirement of Communist Leadership from Its Constitution |
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| 1990 | Channel Tunnel Construction Workers Open Rock Wall to Link Britain to France |
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| 1991 | Ukrainians Vote Overwhelmingly for Independence from the Soviet Union |
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| 1997 | All Planets of the Solar System and Crescent Moon Visible from Earth |
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| 1999 | Scientists Announce the Mapping of Virtually an Entire Human Chromosome |
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| 2000 | Vicente Fox Is Sworn in As President of Mexico |
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| 2001 | Two Suicide Bombers Kill 12 in Downtown Jerusalem Pedestrian Mall |
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