May 16 -30

GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE - AND THEN THERE WERE TWO

It's Pinkerton Academy vs Bishop Guertin for the GSC championship!

GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE
Airs Saturdays from 6-6:30 p.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>
SuperChallenge Championship Game
5/17 Pinkerton Academy vs. Bishop Guertin

GAMES ON THE WEB
Concord High vs. Portsmouth Christian Academy
Academy for Science and Design vs. Kennett High
Bow High School vs. Bedford High School
Bishop Guertin vs. Merrimack High School
Hanover High School vs. Pinkerton Academy
Dover High School vs. Salem High School
Keene High vs. Fall Mountain Regional High School
Plymouth High vs. Newfound Regional High
Portsmouth Christian vs. Academy for Science and Design
Pinkerton Academy vs. Dover High
Keene High vs. Plymouth
Portsmouth Christian vs. Bishop Guertin
Pinkerton Academy vs. Keene

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WHERE IN THE WORLD?

Educational Programming from NHPTV

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Programs for Educators and Parents

TEACHING CHANNEL PRESENTS
5/18 Middle School Math & Science
We'll immerse ourselves in Middle School math and science-from using your whole body to graph linear equations to going on a pond water safari-these classes are engaging and inventive. Airs from 1-2 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/18 Celebrating Science
Some things run on batteries, some bubble over, some throw sparks-anything can happen in science class as students study everything from Robotics to Physics to Boyle's Law. Airs from 5-6 a.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>

5/25 Elementary School Basics
Follow along for a full hour with eager-to-learn elementary school students. Airs from 5-6 a.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>

LITERATURE/THE ARTS

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS
5/18 Vampire Weekend/Grizzly Bear
ACL presents indie rock with Vampire Weekend and Grizzly Bear. Airs from 12-1 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/25 Mumford And Sons/Flogging Molly
Contemporary folk rock takes the stage with Mumford & Sons and Flogging Molly. Airs from 12-1 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE
5/23 Women of Soul
From the East Room of the White House, the President and Mrs. Obama welcome Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Janelle Monae, Jill Scott, Melissa Etheridge, Tessanne Chin and Ariana Grande to perform the songs made famous by generations of those remarkable women of soul that overcame adversity through the power and passion of their music. Airs from 9-10 p.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>

5/23 Memphis Soul
President and Mrs. Obama host a celebration of the timeless classics of "Memphis Soul" in this special taped in the East Room of the White House. Airs from 10-11 p.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>

NH AUTHORS
5/31 Sharon Olds
Author Rebecca Rule interviews contemporary American poet Sharon Olds. Airs from 3:30-4 a.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>

WELL READ
5/16 Rebecca Eaton, Making Masterpiece
The Emmy-winning producer of PBS's MASTERPIECE reveals the secrets to Downton Abbey, Sherlock and other hit programs. Airs from 6-6:30 p.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/19 Laurie King, The Bones Of Paris
Real bones and real chills in King's latest thriller featuring Inspector Harris Stuyvesant. Airs from 6-6:30 p.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/20 Bob Shacochis, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
A spy thriller with innumerable twists and turns, where nobody is quite who they seem to be. Airs from 6-6:30 p.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/21 Paul Harding, Enon
Pulitzer-winning author Harding takes us back to the town of Enon, where a grieving father struggles to come to grips with his teenage daughters' death. Airs from 6-6:30 p.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/23 Elizabeth George, Just One Evil Act
Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sgt. Barbara Havers pursue a case of child abduction and murder from England to Italy and back.
Airs from 6-6:30 p.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/26 Langdon Cook, The Mushroom Hunters
They take to the woods in droves, after mushrooms and money. Airs from 6-6:30 p.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/27 Mark Helprin, In Sunlight And In Shadow
Helprin's novel is a powerful love story and battle against the mafia, played out on the grand stage of post-WWII New York City. Airs from 6-6:30 p.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/28 Debbie Macomber, Starry Night
Big-city society columnist Carrie Slayton journeys to the Alaskan wilderness for the story of a lifetime, and also finds love. Airs from 6-6:30 p.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/30 Amy Tan, The Valley Of Amazemen Airs from 6-6:30 p.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

SOCIAL STUDIES

5/26 Death and the Civil War

AMERICA REFRAMED
5/17 Mothers Of Bedford
Eighty percent of women in US prisons today are mothers of school-age children. Filmmaker Jenifer McShane spent four years visiting Bedford Hills and following the women and their families. Airs from 10-11:35 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>

5/20 Dignity Harbor
Follow the story of a year's time at Dignity Harbor; a homeless encampment along the Mississippi River, north of the St. Louis Arch. Airs from 8-9 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>

5/27 Reserved To Fight
In May 2003, Fox Company of Marine Reserve Unit 2/23 returned home from combat on the front line in Iraq. Reserved To Fight follows four Marines of Fox Company through their post-war minefield of social and psychological reintegration into civilian life. The return home and into their communities proves as formidable a battle as the more literal firefights of previous months.  Airs from 8-9:30 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>

AMERICAN MASTERS
5/16 Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton As Himself
American Masters showcases the remarkable life of famed participatory journalist George Plimpton: writer, editor, amateur sportsman, actor and friend to many. Airs from 9-10:30 p.m. on PRIME Additional Airdates >>

FRONTLINE
5/18 United States Of Secrets, Part One
Last year, Edward Snowden downloaded tens of thousands of top-secret documents from a highly secure government computer network. Airs from 2-3 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/20 United States Of Secrets, Part Two
In the second part of "United States of Secrets," FRONTLINE explores the role of Silicon Valley in the National Security Agency's dragnet. Airs from 10-11 p.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>

5/27 Battle Zones: Ukraine & Syria
FRONTLINE goes inside the raging battle zones of Ukraine and Syria. Airs from 10-11 p.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>

GLOBAL VOICES
5/18 Putin's Kiss
Nashi is an increasingly popular political youth organization with direct ties to The Kremlin. Airs from 10-11:30 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>

5/25 Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
How far would you go to stay alive? The survivors of the well-known 1972 Andes plane crash recall what it took to live in the mountains for over 60 days with no food, water, or supplies. Airs from 10 p.m.-12 a.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>

INDEPENDENT LENS
5/12 Left By the Ship
Three young adults born to Filipino mothers by U.S. servicemen battle against racial discrimination and questions about their own identities 20 years after Subic Bay Naval Base closed and their fathers left them behind. Airs from 6-7 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>

5/19 God Loves Uganda
This film explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in fueling Uganda's terrifying turn towards the proposed death penalty for homosexuality. Airs from 10-11:30 p.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>

LOOKING OVER JORDAN: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE WAR
The Civil War began as a means of preserving the Union. However, to nearly four million African Americans, it held a much more personal promise. LOOKING OVER JORDAN: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE WAR chronicles the black experience in the South before, during and after the war. Airs from 11:30 p.m.-12 a.m. on NHPTV PRIME

SECRETS OF THE DEAD
5/16 Bugging Hitler's Soldiers
Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POW's revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that helped the Allies win WWII. Airs from 4-5 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>

SCIENCE/MATH

NATURE
5/17 Leave It To Beavers
A growing number of scientists, conservationists and grass-roots environmentalists have come to regard beavers as overlooked tools when it comes to reversing the disastrous effects of global warming and world-wide water shortages. Airs from 1-2 p.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/21 The Gathering Swarms
This program looks at some of the most extraordinary swarms on the planet, including a view from inside a locust swarm, mayflies along the Mississippi, 17-year cicadas, and brine fly hatches over Lake Victoria. Airs from 8-9 p.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>

5/28 American Eagle
Unique to North America, the bald eagle is the continent's most recognizable aerial predator, with a shocking white head, electric yellow beak and penetrating eyes. Airs from 8-9 p.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>

NOVA
5/17 Escape From Nazi Alcatraz
Colditz Castle, a notorious prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany, was supposed to be escape-proof. But in the dark days at the end of World War II, a group of British officers dreamt up the ultimate escape plan. Airs from 2-3 p.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>

5/21 Bombing Hitler's Dams
In 1943 a squadron of Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in history -- destroying two gigantic dams in Germany's industrial heartland and cutting the water supply to arms factories -- with a revolutionary bouncing bomb invented by British engineer Barnes Wallis. Airs from 9-10 p.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>

5/28 D-Day's Sunken Secrets
On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the biggest armada in history to invade the Normandy beaches and liberate Europe from the Nazis. Airs from 9-10 p.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>

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DOCUMENTARY FILMS IN THE CLASSROOM

NEW HAMPSHIRE DIGITAL INNOVATOR
Congratulations to Michelle Raflowski, Biology teacher at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro. She was chosen as one of 100 digital innovators from around the country by PBS LearningMedia. More>>

CATCHER IN THE RYE

WHAT'S UP THIS WEEK

5/16 Endangered Species Day, National Sea Monkey Day, National Pizza Party Day
1770 - 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste
1868 - President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in impeachment trial by one vote in US Senate.
1918 - Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress
1920 - Joan of Arc canonized
1929 -First Academy Awards
1966 - "Pet Sounds" by Beach Boys released
Birthdays
1804 – Educator Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
1905 – Actor Henry Fonda
1912 – Writer Studs Terkel

5/17 National Learn To Swim Day
1792 - New York Stock Exchange formed
1946 - President Truman seizes control of the nation's railroads
1954 - US Supreme Court hands down unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education
1973 - Senate begins hearings into the Watergate scandal
2004 - Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same- sex marriage
Birthdays
1749 - English physician and scientist Edward Jenner
1939 - Author Gary Paulsen

5/18 International Museum Day, Neighbor Day, Visit Your Relatives Day
1652 - Rhode Island passes first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France
1860 - Lincoln wins Republican Party presidential nomination over William H Seward
1896 - US Supreme Court rules in Plessy v Ferguson that "separate but equal" doctrine constitutional
1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting Venice, California beach
1927 - Forty-five people killed by bombs planted at the Bath School in Michigan by disgruntled school-board member
1933 - President Roosevelt signs act creating Tennessee Valley Authority
1953 - Jackie Cochran becomes first woman to break sound barrier
1980- Mount St Helens erupts killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage
2012 - Facebook, Inc begins selling stock to the public and trading on NASDAQ
Birthdays
1048 - Persian mathematician, poet, and philosopher Omar Khayyam
1822 - Photographer Mathew Brady
1846 – Russian jeweler Peter Carl Faberge
1868 - Nicholas II of Russia
1897 - Producer/director Frank Capra
1919 - English dancer Dame Margot Fonteyn
1920 - Pope John Paul II
1930 - Former US Senator Warren Rudman

5/19 Boys Club Day
1536 - Anne Boleyn beheaded
1780 - New England's Dark Day
2001-Apple, Inc. opens first retail stores
Birthdays
1925 - Malcom X
1934 - Jim Lehrer
1941 - Nora Ephron
1945 - Pete Townshend
1976 - Kevin Garnett

5/20 Eliza Doolittle Day
1862 - Lincoln signs Homestead Act
1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans with copper rivets
1902 - Cuba gains independence from U.S.
1927-Charles Lindbergh takes off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y.
1932-Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland for Ireland
1993-Final first-run episode of "Cheers" airs on NBC
Birthdays
1768 - Dolley Madison
1799 - Writer Honore de Balzac
1908 - Jimmy Stewart
1946 - Cher

5/21 National Strawberries and Cream Day
1927- Charles A. Lindbergh lands Spirit of St. Louis near Paris
1980 - "The Empire Strikes Back," the second movie in the "Star Wars" series, released
Birthdays
1471 - German artist Albrecht Durer
1688 - English poet Alexander Pope
1799 - English paleontologist Mary Anning
1844 - French painter Henri Rousseau
1904 – Musician Fats Waller
1921 – Soviet scientist and dissident  Andrei Sakharov
1944 – 7th president of Ireland Mary Robinson
1951 – Senator Al Franken
1952 - Mr. T

5/22 Canadian Immigrants Day/Harvey Milk Day
1856 - Congressman Preston Brooks beats Senator Charles Sumner with cane on Senate floor
1906 - Wright brothers granted patent for "Flying-Machine"
1942 - Ted Williams enlists in USMC as flight instructor
1947-Truman Doctrine enacted when Congress appropriates military/ economic aid for Greece and Turkey
1964 - LBJ announces the goals of his Great Society
1980 - Namco releases Pac-Man
1992 - Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for last time
2011- Tornado devastates Joplin, MO, killing 159 and destroying 8,000 homes and businesses
Birthdays
1813 - German composer Richard Wagner
1844 - Artist Mary Cassatt
1859 - Writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1907 - Actor Laurence Olivier
1930 - Politician and activist Harvey Milk

5/23 World Turtle Day/National Taffy Day
1788-South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify Constitution
1701-Captain William Kidd hanged in London
1934- Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La.
1939 - USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians
2010-Final episode of "Lost" airs
Birthdays
1707 - Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus
1810 - Journalist Margaret Fuller
1898 - Writer Scott O'Dell
1910 - Writer Margaret Wise Brown
1928 - Singer/Actress Rosemary Clooney

5/24 International Jazz Day
1607 - 100 English settlers disembark in Jamestown
1830 - “Mary Had a Little Lamb” by Sarah Josepha Hale is published
1856 - John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
1883 - Brooklyn Bridge in New York City opened to traffic after 14 years of construction
1935 - First night game in MLB history played in Cincinnati
1961 - Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, MS
Birthdays
1819 - Queen Victoria of the UK
1941 - Bob Dylan

5/25 Cookie Monster's Birthday/National Tap Dance Day/Towel Day/Geek Pride Day
1787 - Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia
1935 - Babe Ruth hits last home run
1953 - KUHT becomes the first public television station to broadcast in US
1977 - "Star Wars" released
Birthdays
1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
1878 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
1944 - Muppeteer Frank Oz

5/26 World Lindy Hop Day
1521 - Martin Luther declared an outlaw and his writings were banned by Edict of Worms
1896 - Dow Jones Industrial Average first published
1972 - US and and Soviet Union sign Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Birthdays
1799 - Russian writer Aleksandr Pushkin
1877 - Dancer Isadora Duncan 
1886 – Al Jolson
1895 – photographer Dorothea Lange
1907 - John Wayne
1951 – astronaut Sally Ride

5/27 Cellophane Tape Day/National Grape Popsicle Day
1647 - Alse Young is first person executed for witchcraft in colonies
1937 - Golden Gate Bridge opens
1941 - British navy sinks German battleship Bismarck off coast of France
Birthdays
1818 - Reformer Amelia Bloomer
1819 - Reformer Julia Ward Howe
1894 - Author Dashiell Hammett
1907 - Biologist Rachel Carson
1912 - Author John Cheever
1923 - Henry Kissinger

5/28 Sierra Club Day/World MS Day
1533-England's Archbishop declares marriage of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid
1892-John Muir organizes Sierra Club in San Francisco
Birthdays
1887-Athlete Jim Thorpe
1908-Author Ian Fleming
1944 - Rudolph Giuliani

5/29 National Coq Au Vin Day
1790-Rhode Island becomes the last of the original colonies to ratify Constitution
1848-Wisconsin admitted as 30th state
1913-Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring receives premiere performance in Paris and starts a riot
1953-Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become first people to reach summit of Mount Everest
1999-Space shuttle Discovery completes s first docking with International Space Station
Birthdays
1736-Politician Patrick Henry
1903-Actor Bob Hope
1917-President John F. Kennedy
1947-Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson

5/30 Mint Julep Day
1431 -Joan of Arc burned at stake in Rouen, France
1539-Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto lands in Florida
1854-Territories of Nebraska and Kansas established
1868-Decoration Day observed in the US for first time
1911-Indianapolis 500 run for first time
1922-Lincoln Memorial dedicated
Birthdays
1896-Director Howard Hawks
1908-Voice actor Mel Blanc
1909-Musician Benny Goodman
1971 - Idina Menzel
1972 - Manny Ramirez

5/31 National Macaroon Day/Hug Your Cat Day
1790-US enacts first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790
1889-Over 2,200 people die in the Johnstown Flood after a dam breaks
1990-"Seinfeld" premieres on NBC
2005-Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat
Birthdays
1819-Poet Walt Whitman
1894-Humorist Fred Allen
1924-Ambassador Patricia Roberts Harris

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