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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 an artist, architect or designer born on this date:
FLORA MILDEW |
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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 a novel by Charles' Dickens:
HEAK BLOUSE |
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United Nations: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
(Observed December 2 in accordance with U.N. resolution 317 (IV): 12/2/1949) |
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Burma: National Higher Education Day
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Laos: Republic Day
(Celebration of the creation of the Peoples' Republic of Laos: 12/02/1975) |
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United Arab Emirates: Independence Day
(Celebration of independence from Great Britain 12/02/1971) |
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| 1946 | David Macaulay (English-American Children's Author) |
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| 1885 | Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek Author, Journalist, Statesman) |
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| 1891 | Charles Wesley (Kentucky-born African-American Historian, Educator) |
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| 1902 | Howard Koch (New York City-born Academy Award-Winning Screeenwriter for "Casablanca") |
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| 1948 | T(homas) C(oraghessan) Boyle (New York-born Novelist, Short Story Writer) |
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| 1958 | George Saunders (Texas-born Author) |
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| 1963 | Ann Patchett (Los Angeles-born Novelist) |
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| 1859 | Georges Seurat (French Artist) |
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| 1902 | Wilfredo Lam (Cuban Artist) |
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| 1946 | Gianni Versace (Italian Fashion Designer) |
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| 1866 | Harry Thacker. Burleigh (Pennsylvania-born African-American Baritone, Composer) |
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| 1879 | Rudolf Friml (Czech-American Operetta Composer) |
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| 1920 | Robert Moevs (Wisconsin-born Composer and Pianist) |
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| 1923 | Maria Callas (New York City-born Operatic Soprano) |
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| 1906 | Peter Goldmark (Hungarian-American Physicist, Engineer, Inventor) |
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| 1930 | Gary Becker (Pennsylvania-born Economist; 1992 Nobel Laureate for Economics) |
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| 1904 | Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski (Wisconsin-born Member of the United States Congress) |
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| 1922 | Charles Diggs (Detroit-born African-American Member of the U.S. Congress) |
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| 1924 | Alexander Haig (Pennsylvania-born U.S. Military Leader, Secretary of State) |
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| 1925 | Julie Harris (Michigan-born Actress) |
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| 1967 | Lucy Liu (New York City-born Asian-American Actress) |
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| 1981 | Britney Spears (Louisiana-born Popular Musician) |
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| 1973 | Monica Seles (Yugoslavian Professional Tennis Player) |
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| 1547 | Hernán Cortés (Spanish Conqueror of Mexico) |
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| 1594 | Gerardus Mercator (Flemish Cartographer) |
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| 1859 | John Brown (Virginia-born Abolitionist: Hanged) |
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| Alfred Kelley (Connecticut-born Political Proponent of Ohio's Canal System) |
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| 1864 | Archibald Gracie (New York City-born Confederate General Killed in Action) |
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| 1892 | Jay Gould (New York-born Financier, Robber Baron) |
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| 1967 | Cardinal Francis Spellman (New York City-born Roman Catholic Cardinal) |
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| 1990 | Aaron Copland (New York City-born Composer) |
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| 2008 | Odetta (Alabama-born African-American Folk Musician) |
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| 1254 | Manfred, King of Sicily, Defeats Papal Armies at Foggia and Retains Kingdom |
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| 1620 | First English Newspaper, New Tydings Out of Italie, Is Published In Amsterdam |
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| 1697 | London's St. Paul's Cathedral Is Opened |
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| 1717 | J.S. Bach Is Released from Custody of the Duke of Weimar Who Imprisoned Him for Accepting a New Post at Prince Leopold's Court |
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| 1737 | John Wesley Sails from Georgia to Charleston and on to England |
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| 1763 | Newport, Rhode Island Touro Synagogue Is First Synagogue Dedicated in America |
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| 1793 | Fleeing Debtors, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Enlists in the English Cavalry |
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| 1804 | Napoleon Crowned First French Emperor in Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: The latter part of last night was verry warm and Continued to thaw untill the wind Shifted to the North at 11 oClock this morning the Chiefs of the Lower village of the Mandans with maney of theire young men and 4 of the Shar-ha's who had come to Smoke with the pipe of Peace with the Mandans, we explained to them our intentions our views and advised them to be at peace, Gave them a flag for theire nation, Some Tobacco with a Speech to Deliver to their nation on theire return,
also Sent by them a letter to Mrs. Tabbo & Gravoline, at the Ricares [Arikara Indians] Village, to interseid in
Ordway:
a pleasant thawy morning the work continued on. a nomber of the
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The day was pleasant, and the Snow melted fast. A party of the Chien Indians with some of the Mandans came to the fort: they appeared civil and |
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Clark: Cloudy with Some rain this morning I Send out three men to hunt & 2 & my man york in a Canoe up the Ke-ke-mar-que Creek in Serch of fish and fowl— I feel verry unwell, and have entirely lost my appetite for the Dried pounded fish which is in fact the cause of my disorder at present— The men are generally Complaining of a lax and gripeing— In the evening Joseph Field came in with the Marrow bones of a elk which he killed at 6 miles distant, this welcome news to us. I dispatched Six men in a empty Canoe with Jo: mediately for the elk which he Said was about 3 miles from the water this is the first Elk which has been killd. on this Side of the rockey mountains— Jo Fields givs me an account of a great deel of Elk Sign & Says he Saw 2 Gangs of those Animals in his rout, but it rained So hard that he could not Shoot them— The party up the Creek returned without any thing and informs me they could not See any fish in the Creek to kill and the fowls were too wild to be killed, this must be owing to their being much hunted and pursued by the Indians in their Canoes.
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| 1805 | Napoleon Bonaparte Defeats Russian and Austrian Armies at Austerlitz |
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| 1816 | Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Opens As First U.S. Savings Bank |
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| The Family of 7-year-old Abraham Lincoln Settles on 160 Acres Along Pigeon Creek in Southern Indiana |
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| 1823 | President Monroe Presents His Monroe Doctrine to Congress |
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| 1830 | In Lenawee County, Michigan, Elizabeth Chandler Organizes the State's First Antislavery Society |
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| 1845 | Polk Reasserts 1823 Monroe Doctrine and Aggressive Westward Expansion |
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| 1852 | Louis Napoleon, Stages a Coup d'etat and Proclaims the Second Empire |
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| 1857 | The First Minnesota State Legislature Convenes, Five Months Before the State Is Admitted to the Union |
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| 1858 | In Minnesota, the St. Anthony Falls' Falls Evening News First Applies the Term "Land of Lakes" to the State |
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| 1859 | Abolitionist John Brown Is Hanged in Virginia (West Virginia) for His Raid on Harper's Ferry |
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| Governor Joseph E. Brown Signs Legislation Incorporating the Lucy Cobb Institute for the Education of Young Ladies in Athens, Georgia |
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| 1863 | Statue of Freedom Is Placed Atop the U.S. Capitol Building |
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| General Braxton Bragg Turns Over Command of the Army of Tennessee to General William Hardee at Dalton, Georgia |
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| Federal Troops Destroy Three Separate Salt Works in Lake Ocala, Florida |
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| 1864 | Confederate General Archibald Gracie, Jr., Killed at Petersburg, Virginia |
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| 1865 | Alabama's Legislature Ratifies the 13th Amendment Abolishing Slavery with Provision |
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| 1867 | Charles Dickens Begins His Second Reading Tour of America in Boston |
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| 1877 | Camille Saint-Saëns' Opera "Samson et Dalila" Is First Performed at the Hoftheater in Weimar |
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| 1883 | Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 3 is First Performed Publicly with the Vienna Philharmonic |
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| 1884 | Granville T. Woods Receives His First Patent for a Telephone Transmitter |
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| 1886 | Johannes Brahms' Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 100 is First Performed in Vienna |
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| 1901 | Gillette Patents First Safety Razor with Double-edged Disposable Blade |
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| 1902 | Meeting in Washington, D.C., 11 Nations Form the Pan American Health Organization |
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| The First V-8 Engine Is Patented |
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| 1903 | Residents Evacuate Greenwood, Delaware, When Two Trains Collide During a Snowstorm - Detonating Explosives Aboard One |
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| 1907 | The Texas Town of Peck Is Renamed Tomball in Honor of Thomas Henry Ball |
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| 1917 | Russia Reaches Armistice with the Central Powers |
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| 1922 | In Astoria, Oregon, Fire Destroys 32 City Blocks of Buildings, Including the City's Entire Business District |
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| 1927 | Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey Is Deported to Jamaica |
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| Fox Movietone Newsreel Is First Sound Movie Shown in Seattle, Washington |
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| 1932 | Bing Crosby and Bob Hope First Perform Together |
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| 1933 | A Horse Racing Track Opens at Charles Town, West Virginia |
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| 1934 | Pyrex Glass Poured for First 200" Telescope Mirror (Mt. Palomar Observatory) |
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| 1939 | New York City's LaGuardia Airport Begins Operation as an Airliner from Chicago Arrives and Then Returns to Chicago |
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| 1942 | First Controlled Self-sustaining Nuclear Chain Reaction: University of Chicago |
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| 1948 | Whittaker Chambers Leads Investigators to the Pumpkin Papers |
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| 1949 | Belá Bartók's Viola Concerto Is Posthumously Premiered by Violist William Primrose and the Minneapolis Symphony |
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| 1950 | Navy's Football Team Upsets Army 14-2 Before 102,000 Fans in Philadelphia |
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| 1954 | The U.S. Senate Censures Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy for Dishonor and Disrepute |
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| President Eisenhower Announces Pact of Mutual Security with the Nationalist Chinese |
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| 1956 | Bill Russell Paces U.S. Basketball Team to Olympic Gold Medal in Melbourne |
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| 1957 | First Consumer Electricity Generated from Nuclear Power (Shippingport, PA) |
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| Raymond Carver's First Child, Christine LaRae Carver, Is Born in Yakima, Washington |
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| Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" Deposes Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" as #1 Song in America |
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| 1960 | Archbishop of Canterbury Meets Pope John XXIII (First Such Visit Since 1397) |
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| 1961 | Fidel Castro Publicly Announces He Is a Marxist-Leninist |
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| 1969 | First Commercial 747 Jumbo Jet Flight Made from Seattle to New York City |
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| 1970 | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Begins Operation |
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| 1971 | Unmanned Soviet Spacecraft Mars 3 Lands on Mars |
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| United Arab Emirates Gains Independence from Great Britain |
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| 1975 | King Resigns and Peoples' Democratic Republic of Laos Is Established |
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| 1977 | South African Police Are Cleared in the Death of Steve Biko |
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| 1979 | Iranians Begin 2-day Constitutional Referendum Giving Absolute Power to Ayatollah Khomeini |
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| 1980 | Three American Nuns and a Lay Churchwoman Are Killed by Death Squads in El Salvador |
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| The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act Converts Massive Tracts Across Alaska into National Parks & Wildlife Refuges |
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| 1982 | First Permanent Artificial Heart Successfully Implanted in Patient Barney Clark |
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| 1983 | Michael Jackson's Thriller Video Is Released |
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| 1988 | Cyclone Kills 140,000 People in Bangladesh |
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| Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-27) Is Launched for 4-day Department of Defense Mission |
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| 1989 | NASA's Solar Max Mission (SMM) Satellite Re-enters the Earth's Atmosphere |
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| 1990 | Helmut Kohl's Coalition Wins First Free All-German Elections Since 1932 |
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| Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-35) Is Launched for 8-day Astronomical Mission |
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| 1991 | 5.6 Magnitude Earthquake Leaves 4,500 Homeless in Romania |
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| U.S. Hostage Joseph Cicippio Released in Lebanon After 1,906 Days Captive |
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| 1992 | Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-53) Is Launched for 7-day Department of Defense Mission |
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| 1993 | Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-61) Is Launched for 11-day Hubble Servicing Mission |
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| Drug Lord Pablo Escobar Is Shot to Death by Medellin Security Forces |
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| 1995 | The SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) Is Launched into Orbit |
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| 1996 | 6.7 Magnitude Earthquake and Tsunami Strike Kyushu, Japan |
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| 1998 | Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Donates $100M to Immunize Children in Developing Countries |
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| 1999 | Northern Ireland Cabinet of Protestants & Catholics Meets for First Time |
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| 2001 | The Enron Corporation Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy |
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| 2007 | Hurricane Force Winds and Heavy Rains Pound the Pacific Northwest for Two Days, Killing 5, Causing Severe Damage and Flooding |
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