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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Today is National Park Service Day and National Whiskey Sour Day.

August is National Wellness Month, National Sandwich Month, National Golf Month, National Water Quality Month, Black Business Month, International Pirate Month, and National Crayon Collection Month.

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Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  National Parks
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ON THIS DATE

• 1916 - The National Park Service is created.
• 1944 - Paris is liberated by the Allies.
• 1950 - President Truman orders the Army to seize control of the railroads to avert a strike.
• 1975 - Bruce Springsteen's album Born to Run is released.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1530 - Russian tsar Ivan lV (You may know him as Ivan the Terrible.)
• 1918 - Conductor and pianist Leonard Bernstein
• 1919 - Segregationist, governor of Alabama, and 1968 third-party candidate for president. George Wallace
• 1927 - Tennis player Althea Gibson
• 1930 - Actor Sean Connery
• 1954 - Musician Elvis Costello
• 1958 - Director and producer Tim Burton
  
• 1959 - Olivia series author and illustrator Ian Falconer
• 1987 - Actor Blake Lively

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen - This Land Is Your Land - LISTEN
• Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run - LISTEN
• Elvis Costello - Everyday I Write the Book - LISTEN

THEME: NATIONAL PARKS

• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street and National Parks Service - Nature Journal - DO
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Biscayne National Park Field Trip (8:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - San Diego Zoo Kids - Yellowstone National Park (4:45) - VIEW
• Grades 2-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The National Parks of Texas Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Know It All - Redwoods at Redwood National Park (Available in Spanish) (4:02)  - VIEW 
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Zoom - A Visit to Yellowstone (2:31) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - EARTH A New Wild - Wolves of Yellowstone (5:19) (Available in Spanish) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - National Park Service - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - The National Parks: America's Best Idea Collection from Ken Burns - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Before There Were Parks: Yellowstone & Glacier through Native Eyes Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - National Parks Progress and Preservation (26:47) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Volcanism at Yellowstone (5:45) (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - How Art Saved Yellowstone (10:43) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - The National Parks: America's Best Idea - Advertising a National Park (7:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
  
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - The National Parks: America's Best Idea - National Parks: Emblems of Democracy (6:41) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - The National Parks: America's Best Idea - Wolves in the National Parks: Threat or Necessity? (8:25) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - The National Parks: America's Best Idea - Latin American Contributions to the National Parks Collection - VIEW, READ, DO

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NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Kickin' It With The Roos
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - AJ's Extra Superpower
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Cesar Chavez/I Am Dolores Heurta
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Stinky Fruit/Kick It Good
• 3-3:30 pm NPBSS - Nature Cat - The Glow Games/Have A Grape Day

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - She Is The Moon Of Moons/Beats Of Beijing
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Hold The Door/Flatastrophe
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Wild Kratts - Tazzy Chris

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 10-11 am NH WORLD - India - Nature's Wonderland
• 11 am-12 pm NH WORLD - Borneo: Islands of Wonder
• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - History Detectives
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Earth's Natural Wonders - Extreme Wonders
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Climate Change - The Facts
• 3-3:30 pm NH WORLD - Changing Seas - Corals In Crisis
• 3:30-4 pm NH WORLD - SciGirls - High Tech Tide
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Asian Americans - Breaking Through
• 7-8:30 pm NH WORLD - Nature - Equus: Story Of The Horse: Chasing The Wind
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Hawaii: Islands of Wonder

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