Friends and Cuba

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Monday, October 19, 2020

Today is National Seafood Bisque Day and National New Friends Day.

ON THIS DATE

• 1781 - British General Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War.
• 1953 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is published.
• 1960 - Bobby Orr makes his NHL regular-season debut for the Boston Bruins.
• 1960 - The U.S. places an embargo on exports to Cuba.
• 1975 -  A Chorus Line premieres on Broadway.
• 1983 - US Senate votes to establish a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. by a vote of 78–22. (In 1999, New Hampshire became the last state to name a holiday after King.)
• 1987 -  Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 508 points, a 22%, drop in what is known as Black Monday.
• 2003 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1850 - Mountaineer Annie Smith Peck
• 1862 - French inventor Auguste Lumiere 
• 1910 - Indian astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• 1944 - Jamaican musician Peter Tosh
• 1945 - Actor Divine 
• 1960 - Actor and singer Jennifer Holliday

SONGS OF THE DAY 
Jennifer Holliday - And I am Telling You - LISTEN
James Taylor - You've Got a Friend - LISTEN

THEME:  Friends

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Be a Good Friend (with Gwen Stefani)
  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - What is a Friend - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Because We're Friends - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Gullah Tales - What a Friend - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Muslim Youth Voices - Friends in Time - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature  Unlikely Friends - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends -VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Open Mind - The Science and Necessity of Friendship - VIEW

THEME:  Cuba

• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cuba's Wild Revolution -The World's Smallest Bird - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Cuba: The Accidental Eden - Sea Turtles -  VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cuba's Wild Revolution - Marine Conservation in Cuba - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - The Legacy of Cuba’s Fidel Castro -  VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Cuba's Wild Revolution - Full Program - VIEW (Passport Members)
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - Cuba: The Latin Beat - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Cuban Crab Migration - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour -Striking a Balance Between New and Old in Havana - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour -Why Cuba is Home to a Bounty of Rare Species - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - We'll Meet Again - Escape from Cuba - VIEW (Passport Members)

Watch 

• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Life from Above - Moving Planet
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Nature - Undercover In The Jungle
• 2-4:30 pm NH WORLD - The War A World Without War
• 4:30-5 pm NH WORLD - The Future of America's Past - Transcontinental
• 10-11:30 pm NHPBS - Independent Lens - Feels Good Man

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