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December,
2001:
 "Yesterday,
December 7, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy
-- the United States of America was suddenly and
deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of
the Empire of Japan."
-- The first line of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's
address to Congress on December 8, 1941, referring
to the attack on Pearl Harbor. After this speech,
on December 8, the United States declared war against
Japan. On December 11, Germany and Italy declared
war against the United States. See the actual
text of FDR's address
to Congress. Read a book about Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
Photo: On
December 8, 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the
Declaration of War against Japan.
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November
26, 2001:
"United we stand, divided
we fall." -- Aesop, a Greek storyteller who
lived from 620 to 560 BC.
Read
a book about Aesop's fables.
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November
19, 2001:
"I am thankful for my
family and my friends. I like Thanksgiving because
I get to spend time with them."
-- Response from first grader, Ben, when his
class was asked what they are thankful for and why
they like Thanksgiving.
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November
12, 2001:
"Today's children are Tomorrow's
leaders. The passion they learn today will remain
with them for a lifetime." --
Anonymous
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November
5, 2001:
 "It
isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe
in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it; one
must work at it." Eleanor Roosevelt on a
radio broadcast, November 11, 1951. Eleanor Roosevelt
was the First Lady from 1933 to 1945 when her husband,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was the President. In
1945, she became a U.S. Delegate to the United Nations.
Read more about Eleanor
Roosevelt.
Photo: Eleanor
Roosevelt
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October
29, 2001:
 "The
doors of wisdom are never shut." --
Ben
Franklin. Ben Franklin was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, and he moved to Philadelphia when
he was seventeen years old. Ben was a Founding Father
of the United States. Read
a book about Ben.
Photo: Ben
Franklin.
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October
22, 2001:
"When
one door closes another door opens; but we so often
look so long and so regretfully upon the closed
door, that we do not see the ones which open for
us." Alexander
Graham Bell (1847-1922). Bell was a Scottish-born
U.S. inventor. He invented the telephone in 1876.
Read
a book about Bell.
Photo: Alexander
Graham Bell.
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October
15, 2001:
 "I
have more respect for the fellow with a single idea
who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand
ideas who does nothing." -- Thomas
Alva Edison. Did
you know Thomas Alva Edison held more
than 1,000 patents for his inventions? This is the
largest number of patents held by any one person.
Read
a book about Alva.
Photo: Thomas
Alva Edison.
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October
8, 2001:
 "Tierra!
Tierra!" -- Words shouted from a seaman aboard
the Pinta, on October 12, 1492, at 2:00 a.m.
It means "Land! Land!" Did
you know the Pinta was one of
the three ships Christopher
Columbus used during his first voyage
to the New World? The other two ships were named
the Niña and the Santa María.
Read a book about Christopher.
Photo: Christopher
Columbus.
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October
1, 2001:
"First,
I believe that this nation should commit itself
to achieving the goal, before this decade is out,
of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely
to the earth." President
John F. Kennedy's Special Message to Congress on
May 25, 1961. Read
the whole text of President Kennedy's speech.
Photo: President
John F. Kennedy
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September
24, 2001:
 "You
cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him
find it within himself." Galileo
Galilei. Read
a book about Galileo.
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September
10, 2001:
"Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood."
Marie Curie (1867-1934). Curie was a Polish Scientist
and Chemist who specialized in radiation. She worked
with her husband, Pierre Curie, and they discovered
radium and polonium. In 1903, Marie and Pierre Curie
and A.H. Becquerel won the Nobel Prize for physics.
Marie Curie won another Nobel Prize for chemistry
1935. Did you know
Marie Curie was the first person to be awarded a
second Nobel Prize?
Photo: Marie
Curie
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September
3, 2001:
"How important it is for us
to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"
-- Maya Angelou (1928 - ). Angelou is a U.S. writer
and editor.
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