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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 book written by William Joyce (according to Readers Read):
A SLATS CLAN |
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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 1966 work by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(according to the Authors' Calendar)
CHINA IS IN EO |
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Burkina Faso: Proclamation of Independence Day
(Celebration of achieving status as an autonomous republic within the French Community: 12/11/1958) |
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| 1957 | William Joyce (Louisiana-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1810 | Alfred de Musset (French Poet, Playwright) |
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| 1864 | Maurice Leblanc (French Author of Crime Novels) |
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| 1906 | Birago Diop (Senegalese Author of West African Folktales) |
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| 1918 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russian-born 1970 Nobel Laureate for Literature) |
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| 1922 | Grace Paley (New York City-born Short Story Writer) |
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| 1937 | Jim Harrison (Michigan-born Novelist) |
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| 1939 | Thomas McGuane (Michigan-born Novelist, Poet) |
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| 1947 | Patrick Creevy (Chicago-born Novelist) |
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| 1948 | Mark Rudman (New York City-born Poet) |
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| 1904 | Marjorie H. Buell (Pennsylvania-born Cartoonist; Creator of "Little Lulu") |
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| 1803 | Louis-Hector Berlioz (French Romantic Composer) |
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| 1908 | Elliott Carter (New York City-born Composer) |
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| 1929 | Kenneth MacMillan (English Ballet Dancer, Choreographer) |
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| 1781 | David Brewster (Scottish Physicist Who Invented the Kaleidoscope) |
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| 1819 | Jerome Increase Case (New York-born Inventor of the First Steam Engine for Agricultural Use) |
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| 1843 | Robert Koch (German-born 1905 Nobel Laureate for Medicine; Discovered the Tuberculosis Bacillus) |
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| 1863 | Annie Jump Cannon (Delaware-born Astronomer) |
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| 1882 | Max Born (Polish-born 1954 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1475 | Giovani de Medici (Italian-born Pope Leo X (1513-1521) Who Excommunicated Martin Luther) |
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| 1792 | Joseph Mohr (Austrian-born Roman Catholic Priest and Hymnist, Author of "Stille Nacht" - "Silent Night") |
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| 1876 | Ada Louise Comstock (Minnesota-born Educator; President of Radcliffe College, 1923-1943) |
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| 1725 | George Mason (Drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights) |
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| 1868 | Kate Hamilton Pier (Wisconsin-born Attorney; First Woman to Argue Before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago) |
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| 1882 | Fiorello La Guardia (Mayor of New York City, U.S. Congressman) |
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| 1905 | Erskine (Hamilton) Childers (Fourth President of Ireland: 1973-74) |
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| 1887 | Carlos Gardel (Argentinian Tango Maestro) |
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| 1926 | Big Mama Thornton (Alabama-born African-American Blues Singer, Harmonica Player) |
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| 1932 | Rita Moreno (Puerto Rican Actress, Singer, Dancer Awarded 1961 Academy Award for Supporting Actress) |
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| 1938 | McCoy Tyner (Pennsylvania-born African-American Jazz Pianist) |
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| 1944 | Brenda Lee (Atlanta-born Country Singer) |
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| 1949 | Teri Garr (Los Angeles-born Actress) |
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| 1854 | Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn (New York-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1924 | Felix "Doc" Blanchard (South Carolina-born 1945 Heisman Trophy Winner) |
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| 1941 | Emile Picard (French Mathematician) |
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| 1949 | Fiddlin' John Carson (Georgia-born Country Singer) |
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| 1737 | Lipan Apache Chief, Cabellos Colorados (Red Hair), Is Captured by Spanish Forces |
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| 1777 | British Delay Washington's March to Valley Forge |
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| 1792 | French King Louis XVI Is Charged with Treason |
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| 1803 |
 Clark: It was a very windy, rainy morning when we crossed the river to St. Louis. Capt. Lewis was detained to acquire information of the country and to sent dispatches to the government. At 11 o'clock I proceeded on, after a mile I passed two creeks. The wind changed at 3 o'clock to north-west. I passed several large sand bars in the middle of the river and camped on a large island. The rain came down until 3 today which threatens to over flow the banks of the river. The banks are falling where there is no rock. |
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| 1805 |
Clark: rained all the last night moderately we are all employed putting up huts or Cabins for our winters quarters. Sergeant Pryor unwell from a dislocation of his Sholder, Gibson with the disentary, Jo. Fields with biles on his legs, & Werner with a Strained Knee. The rained Continued moderately all day. |
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| 1816 | Indiana Becomes the 19th State of the United States of America |
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| 1833 | The Green Bay Intelligencer, Wisconsin's First Newspaper, Begins Publication |
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| 1839 | Diplomatic Agent James Treat Arrives in Mexico City to Negotiate Recognition for the Republic of Texas |
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| 1844 | In Hartford, Connecticut, Nitrous Oxide Is First Used in as a Medical Anesthetic to Extract a Tooth |
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| Camden, Arkansas Is Incorporated as a Town |
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| 1851 | The Schooner Robert Bruce Burns in Washington's Willapa Bay |
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| 1856 | The Delaware Railroad Is Opened in Seaford |
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| 1858 | Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown Signs Legislation Creating Banks, Johnson and Brooks Counties |
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| 1862 | Union Troops Occupy Fredericksburg, Virginia |
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| The Only California Battalion to Fight in the Civil War Sets Sail from San Francisco for Boston |
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| 1863 | Union Ships Shell Confederate Salt Works in the Area of St. Andrews, Florida |
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| 1872 | Buffalo Bill Cody Makes His First Stage Appearance |
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| Acting Governor of Louisiana, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, Is America's First African-American Governor. |
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| 1873 | Johannes Brahms' String Quartet in c, Op. 51, no. 1 Is First Performed in Vienna, Austria by the Hellmesberger Quartet |
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| 1882 | Boston's Bijou Theater Opens as the First to be Illuminated with Electric Lights |
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| 1886 | The Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union Is Formed in Houston County, Texas |
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| 1889 | Jefferson Davis' Funeral Is Held in New Orleans |
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| 1906 | Addressing Puerto Rico's Congress Theodore Roosevelt Recommends Citizenship for Puerto Ricans |
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| 1911 | The Detroit Zoological Society Is Founded |
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| 1915 | Yuan Shih-kai Accepts the Chinese throne |
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| 1919 | The Residents of Enterprise, Alabama Erect a Monument to the Boll Weevil |
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| 1928 | Buenos Aires Police Thwart Attempted Assassination of U.S. President Herbert Hoover |
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| 1929 | California's Central Union High School District Approves Construction of a High School for African-American Students |
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| 1930 | Germany Bans the Film "All Quiet On The Western Front" |
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| 1934 | Fire Destroys the Kern Hotel in Lansing, Michigan, Killing 32 |
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| 1936 | England's King Edward VIII Abdicates the Throne |
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| 1937 | Italy Withdraws from the League of Nations |
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| 1938 | In Alaska, the M/V Patterson Runs Ashore 8 Miles West of Cape Fairweather, a Total Loss |
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| 1939 | Marlene Dietrich Records "Falling in Love Again" |
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| 1941 | Germany and Italy Declare War on the United States |
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| 1946 | UNICEF Is Founded |
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| Washington's Green River Valley Floods |
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| 1951 | Joe DiMaggio Announces His Retirement from Baseball |
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| 1956 | The Hays Code Governing Film Content Is Eased |
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| The Dwellings in St. Paul, Minnesota's Swede Hollow Immigrant Neighborhood Are Burned on Order of the City Health Department |
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| 1958 | Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) Becomes an Autonomous Republic within the French Community |
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| 1960 | 8,000 African-Americans Gather in Atlanta to Demonstrate Support for Boycott of the City's Stores |
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| 1961 | First Direct U.S. Military Support Arrives in Vietnam |
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| Albert Luthuli, President of the African National Congress, Receives the Nobel Prize for Peace |
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| 1964 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway |
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| NASA Launches Atlas Centaur 4 Development Rocket |
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| 1967 | England and Wales Restrict Movement of Farm Animals to Curb Spread of Foot-and-Mouth Disease |
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| A Prototype of the Concorde Jet Is Displayed in Toulouse, France |
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| 1970 | NASA Launches NOAA 1 Satellite for Weather Analysis and Forecasting |
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| 1972 | NASA Launches Nimbus 5 Satellite for Collection of Global Meteorological and Geological Data |
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| 1980 | President Jimmy Carter Signs Environmental Superfund Bill |
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| 1981 | Muhammad Ali Loses Final Fight to Trevor Berbick |
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| Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar Is Chosen to be the Fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations |
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| 1983 | Michael Frayn's Noises Off Makes Its Broadway Debut at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre |
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| 1985 | GE Proposes to Buy RCA, Including NBC Radio & TV |
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| The Unabomber Kills His First Victim |
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| 1987 | Charlie Chaplin's Trademark Cane & Bowler Are Sold at Auction in London |
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| 27 People Die in a Fire at Central London's King's Cross Station |
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| 1989 | 50,000 Protesters Take to the Streets in Sofia to Demand Political Reform in Bulgaria |
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| Cy Coleman's City of Angels Makes Its Broadway Debut at the Virginia Theatre |
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| 1991 | Indian Author Salman Rushdie Emerges from Hiding for First Time Following Death Threats by Islamic Extremists |
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| 1994 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin Orders Thousands of Troops into Breakaway Republic of Chechnya |
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| 1995 | Fire Destroys Malden Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts |
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| 1997 | 11-day Meeting in Japan Concludes with Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change |
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| 1998 | U.S. House Committee Approves Clinton Articles of Impeachment |
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| 5.7 Magnitude Earthquake Kills Five and Injures Seven in Kabul, Afghanistan |
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| Scientists Translate Entire Genetic Code of a Worm |
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| NASA Launches Mars Climate Orbiter |
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| 1999 | Paul Molitor Retires From Baseball |
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| Four Oak Trees Sacred to the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community Are Cut Down for a Minneapolis Highway |
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| 2000 | Shortstop Alex Rodriguez Signs Most Lucrative Contract in Sports History: $252M with the Texas Rangers |
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| 2003 | U.S. President George W. Bush Arrives in London for State Visit |
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