Cats and Frankenstein - October 29

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Friday, October 29, 2021

Today is Frankenstein Friday, International Bandanna Day, and National Cat Day.

October is Apple Month, Chili Month, Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Dyslexia Awareness Month, Bullying Prevention Month, Country Music Month, National Arts & Humanities Month, Bat Appreciation Month, and Raptor Month.

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Cats and Frankenstein
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ON THIS DATE

• 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for conspiring against King James I.
• 1787 -  Mozart's opera Don Giovanni is performed for the first time in Prague.
• 1901 - Serial killer nurse Jane Toppan "Jolly Jane" is arrested in Amherst, Massachusetts for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
• 1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what became known as Black Tuesday.
• 1940 - The U.S. begins its first peacetime military draft.
• 1956 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
• 1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, which is the precursor to the internet.
• 1991 - The Galileo spacecraft becomes the first probe to visit an asteroid when it passes by 951 Gaspra on its way to Jupiter.
• 1998 - 77-year-old former astronaut and senator John Glenn becomes the oldest person to go into space when he blasts off on the Space Shuttle Discovery
• 2002 - Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 and leaving behind $70 billion in damages.
• 2015 - After 35 years, China announces the end of its One-child policy.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1837 - Folk artist and quilter Harriet Powers
• 1891 - Singer and actor Fanny Brice
• 1930 - Sculptor and painter Niki de Saint Phalle
• 1942 - Painter and TV host Bob Ross
• 1947 - Actor Richard Dreyfuss
• 1971 - Actor Winona Ryder

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut - LISTEN
• Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat - LISTEN
• The Crystals - Frankenstein Twist -LISTEN
• Bobby Pickett - Monster Mash -LISTEN

THEME: CATS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - C is for Counting Cats (1:28) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Peep in the Big Wide World - Cat Categories (1:28) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Peep in the Big Wide World - That's a Cat (8:50) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Simon's Cat and Elmo take a Nap! (2:55) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Peg + Cat - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5- NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cat Adaptations - Agility (3:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cat Adaptations - Super Senses (4:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cats (8:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS Learning Media - Untamed - The Case for Indoor Cats 926:46) -VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cats - Yesterday and Today (6:54) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Animal Adaptations - Fishing Cat (4:18) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature -  Super Cats:  Episode 1 - Extreme Lives (53:28) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Super Cats: Episode 2 - Cats in Every Corner 
• (53:29)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Super Cats: Episode 3 - Science and Secrets (53:28)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Cat Tales (53:41) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How We Domesticated Cats (Twice) (7:47) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats (7:31) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Windows to the Wild - Rico The Hiking Cat (26:45) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Film School Shorts - Trash Cat (2:06) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -  Monstrum - The Wicked Feline Murder Floof, a Yule Cat Story (9:50) -VIEW

THEME:  FRANKENSTEIN

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Back and Front Frankenstein - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum - I am Mary Shelley/I am Harry Houdini (Full Episode) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum - How Did Mary Shelley Write Scary Stories? - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum - Mary Shelley Reader - READ and DO
• Grades K-3 - Arthur - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Its Okey to Be Smart - The Real "Doctor Frankenstein" - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read - Frankenstein - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read - Allison Williams Explains Her Love for Frankenstein's Monster - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Monstrum - Rethinking Frankenstein's Monster - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Theater of the Mind Radio Drama - Frankenstein - LISTEN and VIEW
• Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Great American Read -  Frankenstein: Analyzing Creative Works of Fiction Lesson Plan - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read - Exploring the Drive to Create in Frankenstein Interactive - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read -Frankenstein: The Consequence of Creation Lesson Plan - VIEW, READ, DO

Watch 

NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Julia Child/I Am Neil Armstrong
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Arthur - Pick A Car, Any Car/Jenna's Bedtime Blues
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Molly of Denali - Sukis Bone/Brand New Flag
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Aqua Frog
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - Turtle Beach / Shine A Light On Me
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Alma's Way - No-Go Mofongo/Alma Vs. Eddie
• 9-9:30 am NHPBS - Alma's Way - Alma The Artist/Bomba Or Baseball
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Gaja's Birthday/Kabaddi
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS - Nature Cat - Snow Way To Keep Warm/So You Think You Know Nature
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - P.O.V. - Fruits Of Labor

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 12-1 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Great Performances - John Leguizamo's Road To Broadway
• 1-2:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - American Masters - Raul Julia: The World's A Stage
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Elinor Wonders Why - Bird Song/No Need To Shout
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Hero Elementary - Turtle Beach / Shine A Light On Me
• 3:30-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Pinkalicious & Peterrific - Mr. Socko/A Pinkapurrfect Pet
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - Cusco, Weave Got A Problem/Nice To Meet You, Machu Picchu
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Negative Town/License To Science
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Wild Kratts - Sea Horse Rodeo
• 5:30-6 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Molly of Denali - Hot Springs Eternal/Tooeys Hero

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Art in the Twenty-First Century - Johannesburg
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD - Art in the Twenty-First Century - Berlin
  
• 4-5  pm NH WORLD - Art in the Twenty-First Century - San Francisco Bay Area
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD -  The Book Makers
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Walter Tevis: A Writer's Gambit

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

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