Cephalopods

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Saturday, October 3, 2020

Today is Cephalopod Awareness Day, World Card Making Day, and National Soft Taco Day.

ON THIS DATE

• 1863 - President Lincoln establishes the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
• 1932 - Iraq gains independence from the UK.
• 1975 - The Cleveland Indians hire Frank Robinson as major league baseball's first black manager.
• 1990 - East Germany and West Germany reunite after 45 years of separation.
• 1995 - O. J. Simpson is declared not guilty in his murder case.
• 2008 - US House approves a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1873 - Etiquette expert Emily Post
• 1925 - Author Gore Vidal
• 1941 - Singer Chubby Checker
• 1949 - Musician Lindsey Buckingham
• 1951 - Musician Keb' Mo'
• 1951 - Astronaut and the first American woman to walk in space Kathryn D. Sullivan
• 1954 - Baseball player and announcer Dennis Eckersley
• 1954 - Activist and TV host Al Sharpton
• 1954 - Musician Stevie Ray Vaughan
• 1969 - Songer-songwriter Gwen Stefani
• 1975 - Singer-songwriter India Arie

SONGS OF THE DAY 
The Beatles - Octopus's Garden - LISTEN
Chubby Checker - The Twist - LISTEN
Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road - LISTEN
Keb' Mo' - Better Man - LISTEN
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy - LISTEN
Gwen Stefani - Cool - LISTEN
India Arie - I Am Not My Hair - LISTEN

THEME:  CEPHALOPODS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Brian Williams: Squid - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - A Squid Says the Alphabet - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - The Heaviest Catch - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - The Cat in the Hat - Coral Reef Camouflage - VIEW
• Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Whale of a Squid (Full Episode) - VIEW
• Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Octopus Power! - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Octo Explorer - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - All Tangled Up - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Octopus Trainer - VIEW
  
• Grades 4-5 - NHPBS NatureWorks - Squid and Octopus - READ
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Camouflaging Cuttlefish - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOAA -Octopus Moving Along the Ocean Floor - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - I Contain Multitudes - Nature's Cutest Symbiosis: The Bobtail Squid -VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Magical Land of Oz -Giant Cuttlefish in the Spencer Gulf - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Ocean Adventures -Spectacular Squid - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Inside Nature's Giants - The Giant Squid - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Big Pacific: Mysterious - Bioluminescent Firefly Squid - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Big Pacific: Mysterious (Full Episode) -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - The Fierce Humboldt Squid - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Shape of Life - Molluscs: Octopus Camouflage -  VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Shape of Life - Molluscs: Blue-Ringed Octopus Warning Coloration - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Shape of Life - Molluscs: Nautilus Regulates Its Buoyancy - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Okay to Be Smart - My Date with a Giant Pacific Octopus - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - It's Okay to Be Smart - Cuttlefish: Tentacles in Disguise - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova ScienceNow - The Cephalopod Brain - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Deep Look -You're Not Hallucinating. That's Just Squid Skin - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - MIT's Science Out Loud - Squid Skin with a Mind of Its Own - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - bioGraphic - Invisible Nature: The Glowing Squid - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Cool Critters: Dwarf Cuttlefish - (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Life on the Reef - The Amazing Cuttlefish - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video -  Nature -  Octopus: Making Contact (Full Episode, Passport members only) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - Nature - Octopus Dreaming - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video -  Nature -  Can a Teenager Befriend an Octopus - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video -  Nature -  Baby Cephalopods' First Moments - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video -  Nature -  An Octopus' Coconut Home - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - If Your Hands Could Smell, You’d Be an Octopus -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - SciTech Now - Living Like an Octopus - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Biology - Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, & Octopuses - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons - How the Squid Lost Its Shell - VIEW

Watch 

• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Rise of Broadcast News
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - American Experience - The Murder of Emmett Till
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Groveland Four
• 10-11 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Councilwoman

• UPCOMING EVENT - Saturday, June 7, 2025 - 2025 NH Makers Fest - More Information

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