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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Today is Bastille Day, National Macaroni and Cheese Day, Shark Awareness Day, and Pandemonium Day.

July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Sharks
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ON THIS DATE

• 1789 - Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
• 1798 - The Sedition Act becomes law in the U.S.
• 1965 - Mariner 4 takes the first close-up picture of another planet on a  flyby of Mars

BIRTHDAYS

• 1834 - Artist James McNeill Whistler
• 1858 -  English suffragist  Emmeline Parkhurst
• 1862 - Artist Gustav Klimt
• 1912 - Musician Woody Guthrie
• 1913 - President Gerald Ford
• 1918 - Swedish producer and director Ingmar Bergman

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Woody Guthrie - This Land is Your Land  - LISTEN
• Jimmy Buffet - Fins - LISTEN
  
• Jaws Theme - LISTEN

THEME: SHARKS

• Grades PreK-12 - Monterey Bay Aquarium - Shark Cam - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Cookie Shark -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Splash and Bubbles - Shark Experts -VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Stuck on Sharks (Full Episode) - VIEW
• Grades K-4  - Wild Kratts - Sharks: Predator and Prey -  VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - Ocearch - Shark Tracker - TRACK
• Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - California Fish (Available in Spanish)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Shark Scientist (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
• GRades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - The Great White Shark - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Earth: A New Wild (Available in Spanish) - Sharks & Shorelines - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Chondrichthyes - Rays, Sharks, Skates, Chimaeras - READ
• GRades 6-8 - NHPBS LearmingMedia - Jonathan Bird's Blue World - The Shark and the Lamprey - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 -NHPBS LearningMedia - Shark Biology - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Nature - Collapse of Sharks (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ,  and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Nature - Secret World of Sharks and Rays: Shark and Turtle (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ,  and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Nature - Secret World of Sharks and Rays: Sharks in Our Future (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ,  and DO
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Nature - Secret World of Sharks and Rays: Unlikely Travel Companions (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ,  and DO
• Grades 6-12 -  NHPBS Video - Gross Science - Why Most Sand Tiger Sharks Die in the Womb -  VIEW
• Grades 6-12  - NHPBS Video - Great White Shark: New Perspectives On An Ancient Predator  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - EONS - Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - AutumnWatch New England - Great White Sharks -VIEW
• Grades 8-12 -  NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart -  What If There Were No Sharks? - VIEW

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NHPBS

• 7-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts: Cats and Dogs
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Louis Pasteur/I Am Rachel Carson
• 8-9 pm NHPBS - Nature - Super Hummingbirds
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Nova - Meteor Strike
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Wonders of Mexico - Burning North

NH WORLD

• 8-9:30 am NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Island Soldier
• 9:30-10 am NH WORLD - Fannie Lou Hamer: Stand Up
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - PBS American Portrait
• 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Changing Seas - Creatures Of The Deep
• 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - SciGirls - Horsing Around
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Apollo's Daring Mission
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Ozone Hole: How We Saved The Planet
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America
• 7:30-9 pm NH WORLD - P.O.V. - Landfall
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Frontline - The Power Of The Fed

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