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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:
BROKE BARB |
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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 an 1874 work by Gustav Flaubert
(according to the Authors' Calendar)
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Kenya: Jamhuri Day (Independence Day)
(Celebration of independence from Great Britain 12/12/1963) |
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Mexico: El Día de La Virgen de Guadalupe/Our Lady of Guadalupe
(Observance of the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe) |
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Russia: Constitution Day
(Observance of the adoption of the constitution of the Russian Federation: 12/12/1993) |
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Turkmenistan: Day of Neutrality
(Commemoration of the permanent neutrality granted by the United Nations 12/12/1965) |
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United States: National Poinsettia Day
(Established 1991 by an Act of Congress to commemorate the death of Joel Roberts Poinsett) |
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| 1896 | Ben Lucien Burman (Kentucky-born Journalist, Children's Author) |
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| 1932 | Barbara Emberley (Chicago-born Children's Author, Illustrator; 1968 Caldecott Award for Drummer Hoff) |
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| 1961 | Stéphane Poulin (Canadian Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1821 | Gustave Flaubert (French Novelist) |
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| 1864 | Arthur Brisbane (New York City-born Newspaper Editor and Writer) |
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| 1897 | Lillian Smith (Florida-born Author and Civil Rights Advocate) |
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| 1902 | Howard Koch (New York City-born Film Writer, Producer: Casablanca) |
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| 1905 | Mulk Raj Anand (Indian Novelist) |
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| 1914 | Patrick O'Brian (English Novelist) |
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| 1918 | Eugene Burdick (Iowa-born Author of "Fail-Safe" and "The Ugly American") |
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| 1929 | John Osborne (English Playwright) |
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| 1957 | Robert Lepage (Canadian Playwright) |
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| 1853 | Edvard Munch (Norwegian Painter) |
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| 1915 | Robert Jones Edmond (New Hampshire-born Stage Set Designer, Producer, and Director) |
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| 1774 | William Henry (English Chemist Known for Henry's Law of the Solubility of Gases in Liquids) |
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| 1927 | Robert Noyce (Iowa-born Inventor of the Integrated Circuit) |
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| 1805 | Henry Wells (Vermont-born Founder of Wells Fargo) |
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| 1880 | William E. Eubank (Virginia-born U.S. Army Commander of West Virginia National Guard) |
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| 1804 | Michael Frank (New York-born Educational Leader in Wisconsin) |
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| 1805 | Frederic Henry Hedge (Massachusetts-born Clergyman, Transcendentalist, and Translator of German Literature) |
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| 1745 | John Jay (New York-born First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
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| 1806 | Stand Watie (Georgia-born Leader of the Cherokee Indians and Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army) |
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| 1893 | Edward G. Robinson (Romanian-born American Actor) |
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| 1915 | Frank Sinatra (New Jersey-born Singer, Actor) |
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| 1918 | Joe Williams (Georgia-born African-American Blues Musician, Singer) |
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| 1923 | Bob Barker (Washington-born Television Games Show Host) |
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| 1938 | Connie Francis (New Jersey-born Popular Singer) |
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| 1940 | Dionne Warwick (New York-born African-American Popular Singer) |
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| 1943 | Grover Washington, Jr (New York-born African-American Jazz Saxophonist) |
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| 1945 | Tony Williams (Chicago-born African-American Jazz Drummer) |
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| 1970 | Jennifer Connelly (New York-born Actress) |
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| 1876 | Alvin Kraenzlein (Wisconsin-born Member of the Track and Field Hall of Fame) |
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| 1912 | Henry Armstrong (Mississippi-born African-American Member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame) |
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| 1932 | Bob Petit (Louisiana-born Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1851 | Dr. Joel Roberts Poinsett (South Carolina Statesman Who Developed the Modern Poinsettia from a Native Mexican Flower) |
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| 1929 | Charles Goodnight (Illinois-born Cattleman Responsible for Opening Trails from Texas to New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Kansas) |
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| 1968 | Tallulah Bankhead (Alabama-born Actress) |
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| 1971 | David Sarnoff (Russian-born Pioneer in Radio and Television Technology) |
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| 1999 | Joseph Heller (New York City-born Author of Catch 22) |
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| 1189 | King Richard I "the Lion Hearted" Leaves England on the Third Crusade to Retake Jerusalem |
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| 1545 | Council of Trent Opens |
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| 1787 | Pennsylvania Ratifies the U.S. Constitution to Become the Second State |
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| 1791 | First Bank of the United States Opens to Serve As Fiscal Agent for the U.S. Government |
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| 1803 |
 Clark: The wind did not let up last night. We left this morning at 7 o'clock. At the opposite end of the island where we camped last night is a settlement. Some time before two we passed a little river called Wood River. At about 2 we were pounded by a storm of hail, snow and wind. We were then approached by two canoes of Potowautomi Indians, they were all drunk. Astonishing enough that although they were drunk they had managed to keep the water out of their canoe. The hunters that I had sent out, came back with turkey and possums. They reported that the country was beautiful and calm. |
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| 1804 | The Georgia Medical Society Is Incorporated in Savannah |
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| 1805 |
Clark: All hands that are well employ'd in Cutting logs and raising our winter Cabins, detached two men to Split boards— Some rain at intervales all last night and to day— The flees were So troublesom last night that I made but a broken nights rest, we find great dificuelty in getting those trouble insects out of our robes and blankets— in the evening two Canoes of Clât Sops Visit us they brought with them Wap pa to, a black Swet root they Call Sha-na toe qua, and a Small Sea Otter Skin, all of which we purchased for a fiew fishing hooks and a Small Sack of Indian tobacco which was given by the Snake Inds. Those Indians appear well disposed we gave a Medal to the principal Chief named Con-ny-au or Com mo-wol and treated those with him with as much attention as we could— I can readily discover that they are Close deelers, & Stickle for a verry little, never close a bargin except they think they have the advantage Value Blue beeds highly, white they also prise but no other Colour do they Value in the least— the Wap pa to they Sell high, this root the purchase at a high price from the nativs above. |
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| 1813 | The British Take Command of Fort Astoria, Renaming It Fort George |
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| 1825 | Georgia's Governor George Troup Signs the Act Creating Baker County |
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| 1829 | Georgia's Governor Signs Act Making It Illegal to Teach a Slave or Free Black to Read or Write |
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| 1835 | The Red Rovers, a Volunteer Military Company, Leave Their Camp in Alabama to Join the Texas Revolution |
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| 1838 | Desha County, Arkansas Is Created |
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| 1846 | Pine Bluff, Arkansas Is Incorporated |
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| 1866 | Georgia's Governor Signs Legislation Creating a Common School System for the State |
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| 1870 | Joseph H. Rainey (SC), First African-American Member of U. S. House of Representatives |
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| 1880 | Billy the Kid Writes the Second of 6 Letters to New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace, Claiming His Innocence to Horse Thieving and Murder |
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| 1897 | Katzenjammer Kids Appear in the New York Journal as the First Comic Strip in a U.S. Newspaper |
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| 1899 | African-American Dentist, George F Grant, Applies for a Patent of the Wooden Golf Tee |
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| 1891 | Johannes Brahms' Clarinet Trio in a, Op. 114, and Clarinet Quintet in B, Op. 115 Are First Performed Publicly in Berlin, Germany |
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| 1900 | Charles Schwab Brokers Merger Between J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie to Form U.S. Steel |
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| 1901 | Guglielmo Marconi Receives the First Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal (Letter "S") |
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| George, Charles, and Edward Parker Incorporate the Parker Brothers Game Company |
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| 1910 | The "Toonerville Trolley" Streetcar Line Begins Operating Between Houston and the Suburban Community of Bellaire |
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| 1913 | Mona Lisa Is Recovered in Florence, Italy Two Years after Being Stolen |
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| 1915 | The Junkers J1 Is the First All-metal Aircraft |
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| 1917 | Father Flanagan Establishes Boys Town |
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| 1919 | The Boll Weevil Monument Is Dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama |
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| 1923 | The Foshay Tower, the Tallest Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Is Strung with Lights and Lit Up Like a Christmas Tree |
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| 1925 | The World's First Motel - the ''Motel Inn'' - Opens in San Luis Obispo, California |
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| 1926 | Dmitri Shostakovich Plays the Premiere Performance of His "Piano Sonata No. 1" in Leningrad |
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| 1930 | A Baptist Pastor and Editor of The Fundamentalist Denounces a West Texas Professor for Teaching Evolution |
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| 1932 | Benjamin Britten's "Phantasy Quartet" No. 2 for Oboe and Strings Is First Performed in London |
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| 1937 | U.S. Gunboat Panay Is Sunk by the Japanese |
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| 1941 | The U.S. Seizes the French Ocean Liner Normandie |
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| 1946 | United Nations Accepts Six-block Tract of Manhattan Real Estate from John D. Rockefeller Jr |
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| 1947 | United Mine Workers Withdraws from AFL |
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| First Meeting of NASCAR Held in Daytona Beach, FL |
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| 1953 | In Wisconsin, Eaton Chapel at Beloit College is Devastated by Fire |
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| 1961 | 300 African-American Students Protest Trial of 11 Freedom Riders Being Held in Albany, Georgia |
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| NASA Launches First Amateur Radio ("ham") Satellite |
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| 1963 | Kenya Gains Independence from Great Britain |
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| 1965 | NASA Launch of Gemini 6 Spacecraft Fails Due to Hardware Problem |
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| 1969 | Terrorist Bombs Kill 29 in Rome and Milan |
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| 1974 | Jimmy Carter Announces He Will Seek the Democratic Nomination for President |
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| 1975 | Suspect Pleads Guilty to Attempted Assassination of Gerald Ford |
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| National Association of Black Journalists Is Founded in Washington, D.C. |
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| NASA Launches RCA-A Communications Spacecraft for Voice, Data, Fax Support |
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| 1979 | 7.9 Magnitude Earthquake and Tsunami Kill 600 Along Coasts of Ecuador and Colombia |
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| 1980 | Computer Software Act Defines "Computer Program", Clarifies Patent & Trademark Protection |
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| 1981 | 4.6 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 6 in Pakistan |
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| 1985 | President Reagan Signs the Gramm-Rudman Deficit-Reduction Bill |
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| 1988 | 35 Die in Commuter Train Collision South of London |
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| 1992 | 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake and Tsunami Kills 2,200 in Indonesia |
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| 1993 | Constitution of the Russian Federation Is Ratified |
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| 1995 | Willie Brown Is Elected as the First African-American Mayor of San Francisco |
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| The United Nations Grants Turkmenistan Status of Permanent Neutrality |
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| Senate Fails to Muster the Two-Thirds Majority to Pass Flag Desecration Amendment |
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| 1997 | 14-year-old Kentucky Student Is Indicted as an Adult for Deaths Related to School Shooting |
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| 1998 | House Committee Approves Final Articles of Impeachment Against President Clinton |
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| Florida's Governor Lawton Chiles Dies of a Heart Attack While Exercising |
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| 2000 | Divided Supreme Court Rules Further Florida Presidential Recounts Unconstitutional |
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| Alex Rodriguez Signs 10-year $252M Contract |
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| 2001 | Henry Brant's Pulitzer Prize-Winning "Ice Field" for Orchestra Is First Performed by the San Francisco Symphony |
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| 2007 | Australia Ratifies the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change |
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