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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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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 born on this date:
SLIM CHAS YARN |
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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 recording by Fletcher Henderson (according to RedHotJazz)
CLUES BE HIM |
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Mexico: Las Posadas (Day 3 of 9)
(Commemoration of Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem) |
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Niger: Republic Day
(Celebration of autonomy from France: 12/18/1958) |
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Qatar: Founder's Day
(Observed annually on this date to celebrates Sheikh Jassem bin Mohamed bin Thani., the father of the Qatar state) |
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Republic of the Philippines: Misa de Gallo/Simbang Gabi/Misa de Aguinaldo
(Day 3 of 9 early morning Christmas masses) |
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| 1884 | Alison Uttley (English Children's Author) |
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| 1916 | Carla Greene (Minnesota-born Children's Author) |
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| 1927 | Marilyn Sachs (New York-born Children's Author) |
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| 1950 | Catherine Gourley (Pennsylvania-born non-Fiction Children's Author) |
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| 1826 | Orpheus Everts (Indiana-born Surgeon, Medical Writer, Poet, Painter) |
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| 1865 | Ephraim Douglass Adams (Iowa-born Historian) |
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| 1870 | H.H. Munro (Saki: Burma-born Scottish Short-Story Writer) |
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| 1910 | Abe Burrows (New York City-born Playwright) |
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| 1879 | Paul Klee (Swiss Painter) |
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| 1879 | Edward MacDowell (New York City-born Composer, Pianist) |
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| 1856 | J.J. Thomson (English-born 1906 Nobel Prize for Physics) |
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| 1890 | Edwin Howard Armstrong (New York City-born Electrical Engineer and Inventor) |
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| 1939 | Harold Varmus (New York-born 1989 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine) |
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| 1912 | Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (Washington, D.C.-born African-American 4-Star General in the U.S. Military) |
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| 1707 | Charles Wesley (English co-Founder of Methodism and a Hymnist) |
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| 1842 | Nathan Bay Scott (Ohio-born U.S. Senator from West Virginia) |
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| 1863 | Francis Ferdinand (Austrian Archduke Whose Assassination Ignited World War I) |
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| 1888 | Robert Moses (Connecticut-born Public Administrator Who helped Shape Modern-Day New York City) |
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| 1913 | Willy Brandt (West German Chancellor) |
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| 1946 | Steve Biko (South African Civil Rights Leader) |
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| 1779 | Joseph Grimaldi (London-born Comic Entertainer; First Clown to Wear White-face Make-up) |
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| 1888 | Gladys Cooper (London-born Actress) |
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| 1897 | Fletcher Henderson (Georgia-born African-American Jazz Bandleader, Arranger, Pianist) |
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| 1904 | George Stevens (California-born Filmmaker) |
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| 1916 | Betty Grable (Missouri-born Actress) |
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| 1917 | Ossie Davis (Georgia-born African-American Actor, Civil Rights Activist) |
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| Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (Texas-born African-American Blues Musician) |
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| 1946 | Steven Spielberg (Ohio-born Filmmaker; 1998 Academy Award for Directing Saving Private Ryan) |
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| 1943 | Keith Richards (English Popular Musician: "The Rolling Stones") |
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| 1955 | Ray Lotta (New Jersey-born Actor) |
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| 1963 | Brad Pitt (Oklahoma-born Actor) |
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| 1978 | Katie Holmes (Ohio-born Actress) |
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| 1980 | Christina Aguilera (New York City-born Popular Musician, Actress) |
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| 1886 | Ty Cobb (Georgia-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1964 | "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (Texas-born Professional Wrestler) |
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| 1971 | Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spanish Professional Tennis Player) |
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| 1773 | Antonio Stradivari (Italian Craftsman: Maker of Violins) |
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| 1832 | Philip Freneau (New York City-born Poet) |
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| 1901 | William Flank Perry (Georgia-born Confederate General) |
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| 1971 | Bobby Jones (Georgia-born Member of the Golf Hall of Fame) |
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| 1980 | Aleskey Nickolayevich Kosygin (Premier of the Soviet Union) |
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| 1984 | Santiago Jimenez Sr. (Texas-born Popular Conjunto Musician) |
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| 1995 | Konrad Zuse (German Inventor, Computing Pioneer) |
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| 2001 | Wang Ruowang (Chinese Dissident Writer) |
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| 2008 | Mark Felt (Idaho-born "Deep Throat" Informant of the Watergate Scandal) |
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| 1620 | Landing Party from The Mayflower Goes Ashore Seeking a Good Site for Settlement |
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| 1688 | James II Begins His Exile from England |
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| 1777 | U.S. Celebrates Its First National Day of Thanksgiving Commemorating Victory at the Battle of Saratoga |
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| 1787 | New Jersey Is the Third State to Ratify the U.S. Constitution |
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| 1803 |
 Clark: Sunday - Clear morning. |
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| 1805 |
Clark: rained and Snowd alternetly all the last night, and Spurts of Snow and Hail Continued untill 12 oClock, which has chilled the air which is Cool and disagreeable, the wind hard & unsettled— The men being thinly Dressed and mockersons without Soks is the reason that but little can be done at the Houses to day— at 12 the Hail & Snow Seased, and rain Suckceeded for the latter part of the day |
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| 1833 | Walker County Is Created as Georgia's 90th County |
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| 1834 | Emory College Is Chartered in Oxford, Georgia |
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| 1839 | New York University Professor John Draper Makes the First Photographic Image of a Celestial Body: A Daquerreotype of the Moon |
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| 1840 | Perry and Bradley Counties Are Created in Arkansas |
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| Burton's Gentleman's Magazine Publishes "The Man of the Crowd" by Edgar Allen Poe |
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| 1853 | Putnam's Monthly Magazine Publishes Second Part of "Bartleby the Scrivener..." by Herman Melville |
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| The Dalles Bridge Is Completed Across the Columbia River, Connecting Klickitat County, Washington, to The Dalles, Oregon |
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| 1855 | Curry County, Oregon Is Formed by the Territorial Legislature and Named in Honor of Governor George Law Curry |
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| 1857 | Pierce and Milton Counties Are Created As Georgia's 120th and 121st Counties |
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| 1860 | U.S. Senator John Crittenden (Kentucky) Proposes to Protect Slavery South of the Missouri Compromise Line |
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| Texas Rangers "Rescue" Cynthia Ann Parker in Raid on a Comanche Camp |
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| 1862 | Confederates Rout Union Troops at Lexington, Tennessee |
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| 1863 | Federal Soldiers Destroy Salt Works Around St. Andrews Bay, Florida |
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| 1865 | The 13th Amendment to the Constitution Abolishing Slavery Is Officially Adopted |
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| 1866 | Georgia Government Creates the Position of State Superintendent of Public Education |
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| 1878 | The Last of the Vigilante Molly Maguires Irish Secret Society Is Executed in Pennsylvania |
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| 1888 | The Ancient Mesa Verde Indian Ruins Are Discovered in Southwest Colorado |
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| 1890 | First Electrified Underground Railway System Officially Opens in London |
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| 1892 | Tchaikovsky's ''The Nutcracker Suite'' Premieres in St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1895 | The Anti-Saloon League of America Is Organized at Washington, D.C. |
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| 1898 | France's Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat Sets First Official World's Land-Speed Record: 39.245 mph |
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| 1900 | Elijah McCoy Receives Patent for a Lubricator |
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| 1901 | 5.9 Magnitude Earthquake Damages Hundreds of Houses in Turkey |
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| The Seaford, Delaware Volunteer Fire Department Fights Its First Fire |
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| 1912 | Piltdown Man Is Discovered in a Sussex, England Gravel Pit |
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| 1915 | President Woodrow Wilson Marries Edith Bolling Galt |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald's Play The Evil Eye, A Two-Act Musical Comedy, Opens at Princeton University |
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| Spokane, Washington's Division Street Bridge Collapses, Killing 5 People |
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| 1916 | Battle of Verdun Ends: Nearly 1,000,000 Dead |
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| 1917 | U.S. Congress Approves the 18th Amendment to the Constitution Prohibiting the Sale of Alcohol |
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| In Florida, the Key West Naval Air Station Is Commissioned into Service |
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| 1920 | Ty Cobb Becomes Manager of the Detroit Tigers Baseball Team |
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| 1927 | Michigan Is the First State to Mark "No Passing Zones" with Solid Yellow Lines on the Road |
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| 1930 | The University of Wisconsin Fieldhouse Is Dedicated with a 25-12 Basketball Victory over the University of Pennsylvania |
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| 1936 | The First Giant Panda in the U.S. Arrives in San Francisco |
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| 1940 | Adolf Hitler Signs Secret Directive Ordering Preparations for a Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union |
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| 1941 | Japanese Invade Hong Kong |
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| 1944 | U.S. Supreme Court Upholds the Wartime Relocation of Japanese-Americans |
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| 1946 | English Government Wins Vote on State Ownership, Leading to Nationalizing Railways, Ports, Mines, etc. |
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| 1947 | Occupying Commander Douglas MacArthur Orders the Breakup of Japan's Zaibatsu Industrial Conglomerates |
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| 1948 | WDSU TV Channel 6 in New Orleans Begins Broadcasting |
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| 1950 | Government Officials Inspect Lake Geneva, Wisconsin as a Possible Location for the U.S. Air Force Academy |
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| 1956 | Japan Is Admitted to the United Nations |
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| The Florida Board of Education Agrees to Locate the University of South Florida in North Tampa |
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| Television Game Show To Tell the Truth Premieres |
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| 1957 | First Public U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Opens in Shippingport, Pennsylvania |
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| 1958 | U.S. Department of Defense Broadcasts the First Voice Message from Space |
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| 1961 | Martin Luther King Is Released from the Albany, Georgia Jail, Agreeing to End Local Bus Boycott |
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| Capital Punishment Is Restored in Delaware by the General Assembly's Override of Governor Elbert Carvel's Veto |
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| 1965 | Gemini 7 Completes 14-day Mission with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell Aboard |
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| 1969 | England's Parliament Abolishes the Death Penalty for Murder |
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| 1971 | U.S. Congress Enacts the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Conveying over 40 Million Acres to Settle Alaska Native Land Claims |
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| 1972 | U.S. B-52 Bombers Begin "Operation Linebacker Two" the Largest Aerial Blitz of the Vietnam War |
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| 1985 | In Minneapolis, Mary Lund Is the First Woman to Receive a Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart |
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| 1987 | Ivan Boesky Sentenced to Two Years: Fined $100M |
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| 1988 | Minnesota-based Pillsbury Company Accepts a $5.7 Billion Buy-Out from British Conglomerate Grand Metropolitan PLC |
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| 1997 | Republic of Korea (South Korea) Voters Elected KIM Dae Jung President |
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| In Albany, Georgia, Ground Is Broken for the Mount Zion Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum |
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| 1999 | NASA Launches Terra Earth Observation System Satellite |
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