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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 Tamora Pierce work from her Protector of the Small series (according to her KidsReads list of titles):
KINGLY THAD |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work by James Wright
(according to the Academy of American Poets)
NEN THEIR PORK |
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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 work by Ángel Ganivet (according to the Authors' Calendar)
O DRAG LEAN BRAID |
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Malta: Republic Day
(Commemoration of declaration as a republic 12/13/1974) |
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St. Lucia: National Day
(Observance of the feast day for St. Lucia) |
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Sweden: St. Lucia Day
(Celebration of the festival of light - first day of Christmas celebrations) |
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| 1916 | Leonard Weisgard (Connecticut-born Children's Author, Illustrator: 1947 Caldecott Medal for Little Island |
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| 1954 | Tamora Pierce (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author) |
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| 1957 | Lucia M. Gonzalez (Cuban-born Latin-American Children's Author) |
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| 1720 | Carlo Gozzi (Italian Playwright) |
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| 1797 | Heinrich Heine (German Poet) |
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| 1804 | Joseph Howe (Canadian Journalist, Reformer, and Politician) |
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| 1871 | Emily Carr (Canadian Writer and Painter) |
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| 1865 | Ángel Ganivet (Spanish Essayist and Novelist) |
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| 1890 | Marc Connelly (Pennsylvania-born Playwright) |
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| 1897 | Drew Pearson (Illinois-born Journalist) |
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| 1911 | Kenneth Patchen (Ohio-born Poet, Novelist, and Painter) |
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| 1915 | Ross MacDonald (California-born Writer of Detective Novels) |
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| 1927 | James Wright (Ohio-born Writer Awarded the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Collected Poems) |
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| 1948 | Lester Bangs (California-born Rock and Roll Critic) |
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| 1950 | David Russell (California-born African-American Visual Storyboard Artist and Painter) |
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| 1835 | Phillips Brooks (Massachusetts-born Lyricist: "O Little Town of Bethlehem") |
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| 1798 | Joseph Walker (Virginia-born Trapper, Pioneer: First Euro-American to See the Yosemite Valley) |
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| 1780 | Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (German Chemist) |
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| 1844 | John Henry Patterson (Ohio-born Founder of the National Cash Register Company) |
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| 1860 | John J. Pershing (Missouri-born World War I Commander in Chief of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe) |
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| 1835 | Phillips Brooks (Massachusetts-born Religious Leader, Statesman, Scholar) |
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| 1818 | Mary Todd Lincoln (Kentucky-born Wife of President Abraham Lincoln) |
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| 1830 | James Walker (Kentucky-born U.S. Senator from Arkansas) |
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| 1859 | John Tillman (Missouri-born Member of the U.S. Congress from Arkansas) |
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| 1864 | Emil Seidel (Pennsylvania-born Socialist Leader in Wisconsin) |
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| 1882 | Jane Edna Hunter (South Carolina-born African-American Civil Rights and Women's Rights Activist) |
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| 1903 | Ella Josephine Baker (Virginia-born African-American Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 1923 | Wiley Branton (Arkansas-born African-American Attorney and Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 1902 | William Alexander "Sonny" Greer (New Jersey-born African-American Jazz Musician) |
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| 1903 | Carlos Montoya (Spanish-born Latin-American Flamenco Guitarist) |
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| 1925 | Dick Van Dyke (Illinois-born Actor) |
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| 1929 | Christopher Plummer (English Actor) |
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| 1948 | Ted Nugent (Detroit-born Popular Musician) |
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| 1957 | Steve Buscemi (New York City-born Actor) |
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| 1913 | Archie Moore (Mississippi-born African-American Member of the Boxing Hall of Fame) |
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| 1918 | Bill Vukovich (California-born Two-Time Winner of the Indianapolis 500) |
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| 1924 | Larry Doby (South Carolina-born African-American Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1943 | Ferguson Jenkins (Canadian-born African-American Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1952 | Cathy Rigby (California-born Member of the Gymnastics Hall of Fame) |
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| 1969 | Sergei Federov (Russian-born Ice Hockey Player) |
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| 1204 | Maimonides (Spanish Philosopher, Theologian) |
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| 1250 | Frederick II (German Emperor) |
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| 1934 | Thomas Watson (Massachusetts-born Associate of Alexander Graham Bell: "Watson, Come here. I need you/") |
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| 1961 | Grandma Moses (New York-born Painter: Age of 101) |
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| 1986 | Ella Josephine Baker (Virginia-born African-American Civil Rights Activist) |
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| 2006 | Lamar Hunt (Arkansas-born Founder of the American Football League: Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 2009 | Paul Samuelson (Indiana-born 1970 Nobel Laureate for Economics) |
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| 1294 | Pope Celestine V Resigns |
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| 1577 | Francis Drake Departs England on 3-year Global Voyage |
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| 1621 | The Ship Fortune Sets Sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts Laden with Goods for England |
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| 1642 | Dutch Navigator Abel Tasman Is First European to Discover New Zealand |
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| 1769 | Dartmouth College Receives Its Royal Charter from King George III |
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| 1775 | The Continental Congress Authorizes Construction of the First Warship to Bear the Name Delaware |
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| 1777 | Spanish Expedition Leaves New Orleans to Map the Texas Gulf Coast |
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| 1803 |
 Clark: Tuesday - Prepared a place to build huts. Set the men off to clear land and cut logs. A hard wind blew all day. Some Indians passed by. |
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| 1804 |
Clark: The last night was verry Clear & the frost which fell Covered the ice old Snow & thos parts which was naked of an inch, The Thermotr. Stands this morning at 20° below 0, a fine day. find it imposible to make an Observation with an artifical Horsison Joseph Fields kill a Cow and Calf to day one mile from the fort river falls Ordway: clear frosty morning but not So cold as it was yesterday. we had 2 Sleds ready provided for the purpose of halling in the meat. 2 men went out a Short time and killed 2 buffaloe one of them came in and 5 men were Sent out with him took a Sled with them and brought in the 2 buffaloe. they Saw a nomber of the Savvages returning from the prarie with their horses loaded with meat one of killed a Goat & brought it in to the fort & Gave it to our officers. 2 of my mess went up to the 1st village of the Mandans to day and bought Some corn and beans with a little paint and a fiew rings &.C. one of the men belonging to the N. W. Compy. came down from the Grovantares upper village to See us. |
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| 1804 | New Orleans' First English Language Newspaper, The Union, Begins Publication |
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| 1805 |
Clark: The Clatsops leave us to day after a brackfast on Elk which they appeared to be very fond of before they left us they Sold me two robes of the Skins of a Small animal about the Size of a Cat, and to Captain Lewis 2 Cat or Loucirva Skins for the purpose of makeing a Coat.
Drewyer & Shannon returned from hunting, haveing killed 18 Elk & left them boochered in the woods near the right — in the evining 3 Indians came in a Canoe, and offered to us for Sale roots & 2 Sea otter Skins, neither of which we Could purchase this evening. Some Showers of rain last night, and to day Several verry hard Showers— we Continue to put up the Streight butifull balsom pine on our houses—and we are much pleased to find that the timber Splits most butifully and to the width of 2 feet or more.
Whitehouse:
We had rain & Cloudy weather, during the whole of this day.
We raised another line of our Huts. they had 2 Rooms in each hut, & were 16 feet in the clear. We finished raising
the three lines composed 3 Squares, & the other square we intend picketting in, & to have 2 Gates at the two |
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| 1838 | Searcy County, Arkansas Is Created |
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| 1858 | Echols County Is Created As Georgia's 132nd County |
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| 1860 | Lewis Cass Resigns as Secretary of State Over Buchanan's Failure to Address Southern Secession |
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| 1861 | Confederate Troops Repel Union Attack from Their Summit Position at Allegheny Mountain, WV |
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| Polk County, Florida Is Created in Honor of President James K. Polk |
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| 1862 | Confederates Devastate Union Troops at Fredericksburg |
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| 1863 | Union's Roebuck Captures Confederate Sloop Carrying 16 Bags of Salt off Florida's Coast |
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| 1864 | Sherman's Troops Capture Georgia's Fort McAllister, Open Supply Lines |
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| The Confederacy Authorizes Impressment of Free Negroes and Slaves into the Confederate Army |
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| 1868 | Madison Is the First of Alabama's 67 Counties to be Created through Dec 30, 1868 |
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| Camille Saint-Saëns Is the Soloist for the Paris Premiere of His "Piano Concerto No. 2" |
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| 1882 | The Northwestern Telephone Exchange Begins Operating in Faribault, Minnesota with 40 Customers |
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| 1883 | The Custom House at Sitka, Alaska, a Log Building Constructed by the Russians, Is Gutted by Fire |
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| 1894 | Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope Is Demonstrated in Seattle, Washington |
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| 1895 | Gustav Mahler Conducts the Premiere of His Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection") by the Berlin Philharmonic |
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| 1902 | The Beck Theater Opens in Bellingham, Washington |
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| 1913 | Sergei Rachmaninov Conducts the Premiere of His Choral Symphonic Poem, "The Bells," in St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1918 | Woodrow Wilson Arrives in France for Peace Conference |
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| 1928 | George Gershwin's American in Paris Debuts at Carnegie Hall in New York City |
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| 1930 | Igor Stravinsky's "Symphony of Psalms" Is First Performed in Brussels at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Conducted by Ernest Ansermet |
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| 1935 | Bonnet Carre Spillway Is Dedicated as Part of the Mississippi Flood Control Project |
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| 1936 | Samuel Barber's "Symphony in One Movement" (No. 1), Op. 9, is Premiered at the Adriano Theater in Rome |
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| 1937 | Japanese Begin Slaughter of 200,000 Chinese in Nanking |
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| 1942 | Joseph Goebbels Complains Italy Too Lax With Jews |
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| 1944 | Japanese Kamikaze Strikes USS Nashville: 138 Killed |
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| First African-American Woman Admitted to WAVE Officer Training |
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| 1951 | Senator McCarthy's Accusations Lead to State Department Dismissals |
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| 1957 | 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 1,130 in Iran |
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| 1958 | U.S. Launches Bioflight 1 with a Live Squirrel Monkey to Monitor Body Sensors |
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| 1961 | 270 African-American Protesters Arrested at Albany, Georgia Trial of 11 Freedom Riders |
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| 1962 | NASA Launches Relay 1 Communications Satellite with Radiation Experiments |
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| 1967 | NASA Launches Pioneer 8 Solar-orbiting Satellite for Measuring Interplanetary Phenomena |
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| NASA Launches TETR 1 Satellite to Provide Training to Apollo Ground Stations |
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| 1968 | San Francisco State U. Begins Holidays Week Early Due to Student Protests |
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| 1970 | Dmitri Shostakovich's "String Quartet No. 13" Is First Performed in Leningrad, by the Beethoven Quartet |
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| 1972 | Vietnam Peace Negotiations Are Hopelessly Deadlocked |
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| The Intiman Theatre Launches Its Debut Season in Kirkland, Washington |
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| 1973 | U.S. Treasury Historical Association Is Formed |
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| 1974 | Malta Constitution Revised from Parliamentary Democracy to a Republic |
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| 1977 | Entire University of Evansville Basketball Team, Coaches and Staff Die in Chartered Plane Crash |
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| 1978 | First Susan B. Anthony One-dollar Coins Are Struck for Circulation |
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| 1979 | Canada's Government Defeated on No-confidence Vote |
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| 1981 | Polish Government Imposes Martial Law in a Crackdown on the Solidarity Labor Movement |
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| 1982 | 6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 2,800 in Yemen, Saudi Arabia |
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| 1988 | Yasser Arafat Addresses the United Nations in Geneva after U.S. Refuses Him a Visa |
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| 1989 | F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela Meet for First Time |
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| "Driving Miss Daisy" Is Released |
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| 1990 | 5.5 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 19 in Sicily |
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| 1991 | North & South Korea Sign Treaty of Reconciliation |
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| 1995 | Race Riots Break Out in South London |
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| 1996 | Kofi Annan of Ghana Is Chosen to be the United Nation's Seventh Secretary-General |
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| 1998 | The International Space Station Is Detached and Allowed to Orbit On Its Own for the First Time |
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| Puerto Rican Voters Reject U.S. Statehood |
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| 2000 | Al Gore Concedes Presidential Election to George W. Bush |
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| 2001 | Five Islamic Militants Attack India's Parliament, Killing 9 Before Being Killed |
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| President Bush Announces the U.S. Will No Longer Honor 1972 Missile Treaty with Russia |
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| 2003 | Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein Is Captured |
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