Halloween - October 31

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Sunday, October 31, 2021

Today is Visit A Cemetery Day, Girl Scout Founder's Day, Halloween, Magic Day, and National Knock-Knock Jokes 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:  Halloween
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ON THIS DATE

• 1517 - Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church.
• 1913 - Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across the U.S. It ran 3,389 miles from Times Square in New York City west to Lincoln Park in San Francisco.
• 1984 -  Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1632 -  Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer
• 1711 - Italian physician and physicist and world's first woman university professor Laura Bassi
• 1795 - English poet John Keats
• 1860 -  Founder of Girl Scouts of America Juliette Gordon Low
• 1896 - Singer and actress Ethel Waters
• 1930 - Astronaut Michael Collins
• 1931 - Journalist Dan Rather
• 1950 - Journalist Jane Pauley
• 1966 - New Hampshire actor Mike O'Malley

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather - LISTEN
• Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London - LISTEN
• Michael Jackson - Thriller - LISTEN
• The Nightmare Before Christmas - This is Halloween - LISTEN

THEME: HALLOWEEN

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Happy Halloween! - Halloween Compilation (19:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Happy Halloween! - Halloween Compilation 2 (15:19) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street: Happy Halloween! - Halloween Parodies (13:40) - VIEW 
• Grades PreK-1 -  Peg + Cat - The Parade Problem/The Halloween Problem - (25:33)- VIEW
• Grades PreK-2- SuperWhy - The Ghost Who Was Afraid of Halloween - (25:48) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 -  Pinkalicious & Peterrific - Pink or Treat / Berry Scary - (25:18) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Sid the Science Kid - Halloween Spooky Science Special - (26:38)- VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS Learning Media - KidVision - Costume Shop (6:48) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Halloween Games - DO
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Halloween Compilation (1:23:56)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS Kids - Halloween Compilation 2 (37:25)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Halloween Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-6 - PBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays (0:53) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Sharing Halloween Candy (2:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12- NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Kooky & Spooky (52:30)  - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Origin of Everything - Is Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth? (6:36) - VIEW

Watch 

NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Kindness
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Molly of Denali - The Whole Mitten Kaboodle/Eagle Tale
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Nature Calls/Story Story
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Arthur -Fernkenstein's Monster/D.W., Dancing Queen
• 8-9 am NHPBS - Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest
• 9-9:30 am NHPBS - SciGirls - High Tech Tide
• 9:30 - 10 am NHPBS - Cyberchase - The Halloween Howl
• 10-10:30 am NHPBS - Odd Squad - Haunt Squad/Safe House In The Woods
  
• 2-3 pm NHPBS - Nova - NOVA Universe Revealed: Age Of Stars
• 3-4 pm NHPBS - Nature - Season Of The Osprey
• 4-5 pm NHPBS -  Secrets of the Dead - Lady Sapiens
• 6-8 pm NHPBS - Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 9-10 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Nova - NOVA Universe Revealed: Age Of Stars
• 10-11 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - EXHUMED: A History of Zombies

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 9-10:30 am NH WORLD -America ReFramed - Bring It Home
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Nature - Season Of The Osprey

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

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