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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 work by Eve Bunting:
SLAIN WOVEN |
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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 book by Carter Woodson (according to the Chicago Public Library)
RUN THREE LOGAR |
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Anguilla: Separation Day
(Commemoration of 1980 separation from St. Kitts and Nevis) |
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Mexico: Las Posadas (Day 4 of 9)
(Celebration Commemorating the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem) |
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Republic of the Philippines: Misa de Gallo/Simbang Gabi/Misa de Aguinaldo
(Day 4 of 9 early morning Christmas masses) |
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| 1868 | Eleanor H. Porter (New Hampshire-born Children's Author) |
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| 1928 | Eve Bunting (Irish Children's Author) |
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| 1875 | Carter Woodson (Virginia-born African-American Historian, Educator) |
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| 1901 | Oliver LaFarge (New York City-born Anthropologist, Author Awarded the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Novel) |
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| 1910 | Jean Genet (French Dramatist) |
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| 1924 | Michel Tournier (French Novelist) |
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| 1926 | Abdal-Wahhab al-Bayyati (Iraqi Poet) |
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| 1929 | Howard Sackler (New York City-born Playwright) |
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| 1825 | George Frederick Bristow (New York City-born Composer) |
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| 1888 | Fritz Reiner (Hungarian-American Orchestral Conductor) |
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| 1790 | William Edward Parry (English Arctic Explorer) |
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| 1813 | Thomas Andrews (Irish Chemist) |
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| 1852 | A.A. (Albert) Michelson (German-born 1907 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1903 | George Davis Snell (Massachusetts-born 1980 Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology) |
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| 1944 | Richard Leakey (English Anthropologist, Archaeologist) |
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| 1817 | James Archer (Maryland-born Confederate General) |
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| 1849 | Henry Clay Frick (Pennsylvania-born Businessman; Benefactor of New York City's Frick Museum) |
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| 1836 | Maria Louise Sanford (Connecticut-born Educator Whose Likeness Represents the State of Minnesota in Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C.) |
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| 1813 | Nelson Dewey (Connecticut-born First Governor of the State of Wisconsin) |
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| 1814 | Edwin McMasters Stanton (Ohio-born U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of War) |
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| 1820 | Mary Ashton Livermore (Massachusetts-born advocate of Women's Rights, Women's Suffrage) |
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| 1897 | Martin Luther King, Sr. (Georgia-born African-American Religious Leaders: Father of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
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| 1906 | Leonid Brezhnev (Ukrainian-born Soviet Political Leader) |
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| 1915 | Edith Piaf (French Popular Singer) |
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| 1918 | Henry Byrd (Professor Longhair: Louisiana-born African-American Jazz Pianist) |
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| 1920 | David Susskind (Massachusetts-born Broadcast Journalist) |
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| 1933 | Cicely Tyson (New York City-born African-American Actress) |
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| 1946 | Robert Urich (Canadian Actor) |
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| 1972 | Alyssa Milano (New York City-born Actress) |
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| 1934 | Al Kaline (Maryland-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1957 | Kevin McHale (Minnesota-born Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) |
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| 1961 | Reggie White (Tennessee-born African-American Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
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| 1953 | Robert Millikan (Illinois-born 1923 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1982 | Frederick Emmons Terman (Indiana-born Pioneer in anti-Radar Technology) |
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| 2004 | Herbert C. Brown (English-born 1979 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
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| 1154 | Henry II Is Crowned King of England |
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| 1620 | Landing Party from The Mayflower Returns Ashore Seeking Site for Settlement |
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| 1732 | Ben Franklin First Publishes Poor Richard's Almanack |
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| 1776 | Thomas Paine Publishes His First "American Crisis" Paper |
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| 1777 | Continental Army Enters Winter Camp at Valley Forge |
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| 1793 | Georgia's Governor Signs Legislation Creating Five New Counties, Georgia's 16th-20th |
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| Georgia Legislation Places a £50 Tax on Any Slave Imported from Outside the State |
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| 1803 |
 Clark: Monday - Wagons came with the provisions this evening. Floyd returned with a letter from Captain Lewis. |
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| 1805 |
Clark: Some rain with intervales of fair weather last night, this morning Clear & the wind from the S, W. we dispatched Sjt. Pryor with 8 men in 2 Canoes across Meriwethers Bay for the boards of an old Indian house which is vacant, the residue of the men at work at their huts— the after part of the Day Cloudy with Hail and rain, Serjt. Pryor & party returned in the evening with a load of old boards which was found to be verry indifferent 2 Indians Cam and Stayed a Short time to day |
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| 1813 | British Capture New York's Fort Niagara |
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| 1819 | State Legislation Prohibits Free Blacks from Purchasing or Acquiring Real Estate in Georgia |
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| 1832 | San Antonio Submits Grievances Seeking to Separate Texas form the Mexican State of Coahuila |
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| 1837 | Colonel Zachary Taylor Leads a Force of 1,000 Men Against the Seminoles in Southern Florida |
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| Franklin County, Arkansas Is Created |
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| 1839 | The Georgia Historical Society Is Chartered |
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| 1842 | President Tyler Recognizes the Independence of Hawaii |
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| 1843 | Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Is First Published in England |
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| 1844 | Lincoln Attends Meeting Concerning Whig Party Future Following Formation of Republican Party |
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| 1852 | California's First Magazine, The Golden Era, Is Published in San Francisco |
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| 1857 | Georgia's Governor Signs Legislation Creating Glasscock County in Honor of General Thomas Glascock |
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| 1859 | Lincoln Sends Transcripts of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates to Ohio Republicans for Publication |
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| 1864 | President Lincoln Issues Proclamation Calling for 300,000 Volunteers |
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| Federal Troops Destroy a Supply Depot, Bridges and Miles of Railroad Track Near Pollard, Florida |
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| President Lincoln Attends Promenade Concert at Ford's Theatre |
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| Lincoln Declines Invitation to Participate in Commemoration of the Landing of the Pilgrims |
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| 1868 | Congress Investigates Threats, Intimidation, Murder of Georgia African-Americans Attempting to Vote |
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| Martial Law Is Revoked on Little River and Lafayette Counties Arkansas |
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| 1871 | Mark Twain Receives First of His Three Patents for Suspenders |
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| Alabama State Legislature Incorporates the City of Birmingham |
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| Albert Jones (New York City) Receives a Patent for Corrugated Paper (Cardboard) |
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| 1886 | Illinois and Indiana Are Connected with a New Bridge Across the Wabash River at Vincennes |
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| 1890 | The Texas Towns of Lubbock and Monterey Consolidate |
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| 1899 | Webster County, WV Approves Funds for Railroad Between Palmer Junction - Webster Springs |
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| 1903 | New York's Williamsburg Bridge Is 2nd of 3 Steel-frame Suspension Bridges to Span East River |
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| 1906 | Seattle's Carnegie Library Opens Its Doors |
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| Koochiching County Is Established, Named with the Cree Word for Rainy Lake |
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| 1907 | Pennsylvania Coal Mine Explosion Kills 239 |
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| 1910 | Edward White Is Sworn in As Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1914 | F. Scott Fitzgerald's Play Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi! Opens at Princeton University |
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| 1915 | Sir Douglas Haig Replaces Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of British Forces |
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| 1917 | National Hockey League (NHL) Plays Its First Games |
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| 1918 | Robert Ripley's Believe It or Not Is First Published as "Camps and Chumps" |
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| 1920 | A Carnation Holstein Cow Breaks World's Record Producing 37,361 Pounds of Milk in a Year |
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| 1930 | The Boston Symphony Performs the American Premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Symphony of Psalms" to Celebrate the Symphony's 50th Anniversary |
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| 1932 | The BBC Initiates Its Shortwave Service |
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| 1941 | Hitler Takes Command of the German Army |
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| 1950 | The Dalai Lama Flees Tibet Ahead of Invasion by Chinese Forces |
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| 1954 | Jack Kerouac Writes in His Journal, "At the lowest beatest ebb of my life." |
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| 1957 | British Airways Initiates Its First London - New York Scheduled Passenger Service |
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| In Minneapolis, L. Howard Bennett Is the First African American Judge Appointed in Minnesota |
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| Music Man Opens in New York City |
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| 1960 | Unmanned U.S. Mercury-Redstone Rocket Achieves Weightlessness for 5m 30s |
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| 1961 | The Last of the Civil Rights Workers Are Released from the Albany, Georgia Jail |
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| 1962 | In Alaska, a Fire Causes $300,000 Damage to the Cape Lisburne Air Force Station |
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| 1964 | John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn Is Released |
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| 1966 | The Asian Development Bank Begins Operations |
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| 1971 | NASA Launches Intelsat-4 Communications Satellite |
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| Workers Receive 37% Raise & Unions $1.5M Damages in Settlement of 9-yr Florida Railroad Strike |
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| A Clockwork Orange Premieres in the United States |
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| 1972 | Apollo 17 Returns to Earth Ending NASA's Lunar Landing Missions |
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| 1975 | John Paul Stevens Is Sworn in As Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 1977 | 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Destroys Entire Villages in Iran |
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| 1979 | Senate Approves $1.5B Bailout of Chrysler |
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| 1980 | Anguilla Separates from Saint Kitts & Nevis to Form a New British Territory |
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| The Albany, Texas Old Jail Reopens as an Art Center |
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| 9 to 5 Opens in Theaters |
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| 1981 | 7.6 Magnitude Earthquake Felt in Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria |
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| 1983 | Six-week Greyhound Bus Strike Is Settled |
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| 1984 | British Agree to Return Hong Kong to Chinese July 1, 1997 |
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| 1986 | Mikhail Gorbachev Releases Andrei Sakharov from Internal Exile |
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| 1994 | Boston-based Rock Band Aerosmith Opens the Mama Kin Music Hall |
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| 1997 | Titanic Opens in Theaters |
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| 1998 | House Impeaches Bill Clinton on Two Counts |
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| 1999 | NASA Launches Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-103) on 8-day Hubble Service Mission |
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| 2003 | Libya Announces It Will Destroy Its Arsenal of Weapons of Mass Destruction |
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| The University of Delaware Defeats Colgate University 40-0 to Become the NCAA I-AA National Football Champion |
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