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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 children's author/illustrator born on this date:
ARABIAN NOLL |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a book by Stanley Crouch (according to Columbia University):
STAIRWAY UNIPLUS |
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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 1932 work by Paul Éluard (according to Authors' Calendar):
FEAT CRITIC |
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Alabama: Admission Day
(Commemorates the admission of Alabama as the 22nd state: 12/14/1819) |
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| 1917 | Rhoda Blumberg (New York City-born Children's Author) |
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| 1920 | Rosemary Sutcliff (English Children's Author) |
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| 1929 | Lorna Balian (Wisconsin-born Children's Author, Illustrator) |
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| 1938 | John Neufeld (Chicago-born Children's Author) |
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| 1503 | Nostradamus (French Astrologer) |
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| 1895 | Paul Éluard (French Poet) |
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| 1919 | Shirley Jackson (San Francisco-born Author) |
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| 1929 | Raymond Patterson (New York City-born African-American Poet) |
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| 1945 | Stanley Crouch (California-born African-American Writer, Essayist) |
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| 1951 | Ann Hempel (Chicago-born Short Story Writer) |
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| 1730 | James Bruce (Scottish Explorer of Ethiopia: The First European Explorer of Tropical Africa) |
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| 1896 | Jimmy Doolittle (California-born World War I Flying Ace) |
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| 1546 | Tycho Brahe (Danish Astronomer) |
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| 1909 | Edward Tatum (Colorado-born 1958 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1922 | Nikolay Basov (Russian-born 1964 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1739 | Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (French Political Economist, Public Administrator, Reformer) |
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| 1855 | John Mercer Langston (Virginia-born First African-American Known to be Elected to a Political Position: Clerk, Ohio) |
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| 1895 | George VI (King of England) |
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| 1898 | Lillian Randolph (Kentucky-born African-American Actress) |
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| 1899 | Deford Baily (Tennessee-born African-American Musician) |
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| 1911 | Spike Jones (California-born Popular Musician) |
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| 1920 | Clark Terry (Missouri-born African-American Jazz Trumpeter) |
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| 1922 | Don Hewitt (New York City-born Creator of the Television News Show "60 Minutes") |
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| 1946 | Patty Duke (New York-born Actress) |
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| Michael Ovitz (Chicago-born Comedian) |
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| 1925 | Sam Jones (Ohio-born African-American Professional Baseball Player) |
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| 1939 | Ernie Davis (Pennsylvania-born African-American Winner of the 1961 Heisman Trophy) |
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| 1946 | Stan Smith (California-born Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame) |
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| 872 | Pope Adrian II (Hadrian II: Italian-born Roman Catholic Pope) |
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| 1799 | George Washington (First President of the United States) |
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| 1861 | Prince Albert (German-born Royal Consort to Queen Victoria of England) |
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| 1917 | William Waters (New York-born Architect) |
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| 1920 | George Gipp (Michigan-born University of Notre Dame Football Player: "Win One for the Gipper") |
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| 1921 | Henrietta Leavitt (Massachusetts-born Astronomer) |
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| 1943 | John Harvey Kellogg (Michigan-born Found of Kellogg) |
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| 1953 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Washington, D.C.-born Children's Author; Awarded the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Best Novel) |
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| 1963 | Dinah Washington (Alabama-born African-American Popular Singer) |
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| 1964 | William Bendix (New York City-born Actor) |
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| 1978 | Iola Bowden Chambers (Texas-born African-American Educator, Director of the Texas Negro Fine Arts School) |
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| 1980 | Elston Howard (Missouri-born First African-American to Play for the New York Yankees) |
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| 1985 | Roger Maris (Minnesota-born Professional Baseball Player Who Broke Babe Ruth's Record with 61 Home Runs in a Season) |
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| 1989 | Andrei D. Sakharov (Russian-born 1975 Nobel Laureate for Peace) |
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| 1993 | Myrna Loy (Montana-born Actress) |
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| 1790 | Alexander Hamilton Presents Proposal for Bank of the United States |
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| 1793 | Screven County, Georgia Is Created in Honor of Revolutionary War General James Screven |
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| 1798 | David Wilkinson (RI) Awarded First U.S. Patent for Nut & Bolt Machine |
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| 1804 |
 Clark: a fine morning. wind from the S. E. the murckerey Stood at '0' this morning I went with a party of men down the river 18 miles to hunt Buffalow, Saw two Bulls too pore to kill, the Cows and large gangues haveing left the River, we only killed two Deer & Camped all night with Some expectation of Seeing the Buffalow in the morning, a verry Cold night, Snowed Ordway: Cloudy & moderate this morning. Capt Clark Set out with 14 men to Go down the River a hunting. directly after it Set in to Snowing verry fast. a nomber of the Mandans came to See us. 14 of them eat in my Room at one time. the Big White dined with Capt Lewis. towards evening Several of the hunters came in & informed us that the Buffalow had left the river. they Saw but 2 they had killed 2 Deer. Capt Clark & 8 men camped in a Bottom of wood 8 or 10 ml. down the river from our Fort. Gass: This day was more moderate, and light snow showers fell. Captain Clarke and fourteen men went out to hunt; and took the three sleds with them. In the evening five of them returned. Captain Clarke and the other 9 encamped out, and killed two deer. The snow fell about three inches deep. |
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| 1805 |
Clark: The Day Cloudy and rained moderately all day we finish the log work of our building, the Indians leae us to day after Selling a Small Sea otter Skin and a roab,
all employd in finishing a house to put meat into. all our last Supply of Elk has Spoiled in the repeeted rains which |
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| 1807 | First Meteorite Recorded in the New World Creates 5' Crater in Connecticut |
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| 1809 | Twiggs County, Georgia Is Created in Honor of Revolutionary War General John Twiggs |
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| 1814 | British Capture Five American Gunboats at the Battle of Lake Borgne, Louisiana |
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| 1817 | In California, Mission San Rafael Arcángel Is Founded |
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| 1819 | Alabama Is Admitted as the 22nd State |
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| 1825 | Decemberists Fail in Attempt to Disrupt the Enthronement of Russian Tsar Nicholas I |
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| 1827 | Meriwether, Harris, Talbot, and Marion Are Created As Georgia Counties 71-74 |
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| 1835 | William Henry Harrison's Campaign for President of the United States Begins with a Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana |
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| 1836 | Michigan Approves Congressional Terms for Admission to the Union |
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| 1837 | Macon County, Georgia Is Created in Honor of U.S. Senator Nathaniel Macon |
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| Republic of Texas Establishes a Medical Licensing Board |
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| 1842 | Newton County, Arkansas Is Created |
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| 1849 | Alabama's State Capitol Is Destroyed by Fire |
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| 1859 | Georgia Law Prohibits Slave Owners Providing for the Freedom of Slaves in the Event of the Owner's Death |
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| 1863 | President Lincoln Pardons His Sister-in-law Emily Todd Helm |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Proclaims Ratification of Treaty with Tabeguache Band of Utah Indians |
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| 1868 | New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice John Slough Calls Colonel William Rynerson a Thief and a Coward. Rynerson Will Kill Slough the Next Day |
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| 1872 | Estimated 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Washington's Puget Sound Area |
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| 1880 | Justice William Strong Retires from the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1898 | President William McKinley Addresses a Joint Session of the Georgia General Assembly |
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| The First Steam Locomotive Pulls into the Eastern Oregon Town of Moro |
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| 1900 | Max Planck Introduces His Hypothesis of Light As Quantized Energy Packets |
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| 1902 | The S.S. Silvertown Leaves San Francisco Laying the Pacific Telegraph Cable to Connect Hawaii with the Continental United States |
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| 1911 | Norwegian Explorer Roald Amundsen Is First Person to Reach the South Pole |
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| 1914 | In Delaware, Wilmington's Avenue Theater Is Gutted by Fire |
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| 1918 | British Women Vote and Stand for Election for First Time |
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| Finland's King Frederick Renounces the Throne After Only Two Months |
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| 1922 | The Kellogg Company Is Incorporated |
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| 1926 | The TILT-A-WHIRL Trademark Is Registered |
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| 1933 | Federal Government Tells the State of West Virginia to Provide More Relief for Its Poor |
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| 1934 | San Antonio's School Defense League Is Founded for Education of Mexican-American Children |
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| Babes in Toyland Opens in Theaters |
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| 1939 | Soviet Union Is Expelled from League of Nations for Invasion of Finland |
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| 1940 | Research Team, Headed by Glenn Seaborg, Produces the First Plutonium |
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| In Alaska, the Valdez Federal Building, Housing the U. S. District Court and Marshal's Office, Burns |
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| 1944 | National Velvet Premieres in New York City with 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor |
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| 1946 | U.N. General Assembly Votes to Establish Its Headquarters in New York City |
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| 1947 | NASCAR Is Founded in Dayton Beach, Florida |
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| 1959 | Archbishop Makarios Elected First President of Future Cyprus Republic |
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| Motown Records Is Founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy |
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| 1961 | Kennedy Announces Intent to Increase Aid to South Vietnam |
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| 1962 | Venus Probe, Mariner II Transmits Earth's First Data From Another Planet, Venus |
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| 1964 | Parker Pen of Janesville, Wisconsin Begins Trading as a Public Stock |
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| 1966 | NASA Launches Biosatellite 1 to Determine Effects of Space Environment on Life Processes |
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| 1967 | British Lawn Tennis Assoc. Agrees to Allow Pros to Compete AT Wimbledon |
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| 1969 | 3,000 Protest in Seattle for Equal Rights for African-American Construction Workers |
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| 1970 | In the My Lai Massacre Trial, Testimony Indicates Orders Were Given to Exterminate the Village |
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| 1972 | Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt Commemorate Their Final Moon Walk with a Plaque |
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| 1978 | 6.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 76 in Iran |
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| 1980 | CIA Issues Warning About Soviet Arms Sales to Third World Nations |
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| 1981 | Israel Formally Annexes the Golan Heights |
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| 1985 | Wilma Mankiller First Woman to Lead Major Native-American Tribe |
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| UCLA's Men's Soccer Team Defeats American University 1-0 in 8 Overtimes |
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| 1986 | Voyager Aircraft Begins First Non-stop, Non-refueled Flight Around the World |
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| 1993 | Colorado Judge Declares State's Gay Rights Ban Unconstitutional |
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| 1995 | Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia Sign Dayton Accord to End Balkan Civil War |
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| Boeing Machinists End 69-day Strike |
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| 1997 | Fidel Castro Declares Christmas an Official Holiday in Ahead of Papal Visit |
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| 1999 | U.S., Germany Establish $5.2B Fund for Nazi-era Slaves - Forced Laborers |
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| Charles Schulz Announces His Retirement |
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| 2000 | Federal Trade Commission Approves $111B AOL & Time Warner Merger |
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