Rice - September 20 Theme

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Monday, September 20, 2021

Today is Fried Rice Day, String Cheese Day, and Sukkot (begins at sundown).

This is National Dog Week, Tolkien Week, and Sea Otter Awareness Week.

September is National Square Dancing Month, National Food Safety Education Month, Classical Music Month, Library Card Sign-up Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Save A Tiger Month, College Savings Month, and Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month.

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

• 1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
• 1962 - The University of Mississippi bars James Meredith from  entering becaue heis Black.
• 1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match.
• 1973 - Singer Jim Croce and five others die when their plane crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
• 2001 - President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror" in an adress to a joint session of Congress.
• 2011 - The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.
• 2017 -  Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico leading to close to 3,000 deaths and over 90  billion dollars in damages.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1898 - Writer Upton Sinclair
• 1917 - Basketball coach Red Auerbach
• 1928 - Poet and NH resident Donald Hall
• 1934 - Actor Sophia Loren
• 1948 - Writer George R. R. Martin
• 1951 - Hockey player Guy Lafleur

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle - LISTEN
  
• Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown - LISTEN

THEME: RICE

• Grades K-5 - PBS Parents - Let's Go Luna - Make Three Kid-Friendly Rice Dishes: Rice and Beans from Mexico (2:00) -  VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS Parents - Let's Go Luna - Make Three Kid-Friendly Rice Dishes: Jambalaya from New Orleans, USA (2:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - PBS Parents - Let's Go Luna - Make Three Kid-Friendly Rice Dishes: Onigiri Rice Balls from Japan (2:00)- VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-4 - Crayola - RIce is All Around Us - DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Fact or Fiction: Uncooked Rice is Bad for Birds (4:29) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Can New Rice Improve Health in the Philippines? (8:24) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Earth and Sky Podcast - Pamela Ronald Has Developed a More Flood-Tolerant Rice (1:30) - LISTEN
• Grades 7-12 - Nova - Miracle of Rice - READ
• Grades 7-12 - EDSITEment -BackStory: What’s Cooking? A History of Food in America PodCast - LISTEN (Rice:16:30-25:20 mark)
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - America's Heartland  - Harvesting Rice (2:57) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - A Chef's Life - Amber Waves of Grain - VIEW (24:40))

Watch 

NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Bugs Or Monkeys?
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - Sara Loses Her Snap / A Soupie Mystery
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Louis Pasteur/I Am Rachel Carson
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Me And My Elephant/Mukandi's Farm
• 3-3:30 pm NPBSS - Nature Cat - Onward And Songward/Why Did The Turtle Cross The Road?
• 8-10 pm NHPBS - Muhammad Ali - Round Two: What's My Name? (1964-1970)

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 12-2 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Muhammad Ali - Round One: The Greatest (1942-1964)
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - Story Of Smoothie/Andy The Giant
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Oona And The Oonabots/The Ninja Situation
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Wild Kratts - Little Howler

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 8-9:30  am NH WORLD - Raul Julia: American Masters
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - History Detectives Special Investigations - Civil War Sabotage?
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD -  History Detectives Special Investigations - The Disappearance Of Glenn Miller
  
• 4-5  pm NH WORLD - History Detectives Special Investigations - Texas Servant Girl Murders

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

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