Panama - December 31

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Friday, December 31, 2021

Today is New Year’s Eve and National Champagne Day.

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

• 1907 - The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.
• 1946 - President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
• 1951 - The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.
• 1857 - Queen Victoria makes the logging town of Ottawa the capital of Canada.
• 1862 - President Abraham Lincoln signed an act admitting West Virginia to the Union.
• 1999 - First President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President,
• 1999 - The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal to Panama. 

BIRTHDAYS

• 1491 - French explorer Jacques Cartier
• 1869 - French artist Henri Matisse
• 1880 - Politician and General George Marshall
• 1930 - Singer-songwriter Odetta
• 1937 - Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins
• 1943 - Singer-songwriter John Denver
• 1948 - Singer Donna Summer

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• VanHalen - Panama - LISTEN
  
• Odetta - Hit or Miss - LISTEN
• John Denver - Take Me Hoem Country Roads - LISTEN
• Donna Summer - Last Dance - LISTEN

THEME:  Panama

• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Bat Woman of Panama - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Bush Presidency - Invasion of Panama (2:51) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Teaching with Primary Sources - Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific: Building the Panama Canal - READ and DO
• Grades 7-12 - American Experience - Panama Canal - READ and VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Age of Nature - Building the Panama Canal (1:58) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Panama Canal: Prized Possession (57:23) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Dictator's Playbook - Manuel Noriega (54:11) - VIEW

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NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Ibn Batutta/I Am Beulah Louise Henry
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS - Arthur - Arthur's First Sleepover/Arthur's New Year's Eve
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS - Molly of Denali - By Sled Or Snowshoe/The Shortest Birthday
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - Snow Runners
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - When Fur Flies / Pumpkin Palooza
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Alma's Way - Beatbox Big Time/Super Sisters
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - What A T-Wreck!/Way Of The Gaucho
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS - Nature Cat - The Legend Of Gold Gardens/Winter Dance Party
• 9-10:30 pm NHPBS - United In Song: Celebrating The American Dream
• 10:30 pm-12 am - NHPBS - Great Performances at the Met - New Year's Eve Gala

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 12-2 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Miles Davis: American Masters
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Elinor Wonders Why - The House That Ants Built/Special Places
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Hero Elementary - When Fur Flies / Pumpkin Palooza
• 3:30-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Pinkalicious & Peterrific - Indoor Camp-In/The Flutterbugs
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - Totally Totem/Glacier Or Bust
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Extreme Cakeover/A Job Well Undone
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Wild Kratts - Lemur Legs
• 5:30-6 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Molly of Denali - King Run/The Native Youth Olympics
• 9:30-10:30 NHPBS EXPLORE - Frontline - Opioids, Inc.

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - Nova - Secrets Of The Forbidden City
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Climate Change - The Facts
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Extinction: The Facts
• 3-4:30 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Jack & Yaya
• 8-10 pm NH WORLD - Ornament of the World

NH KIDS - 11.5  Schedule   Live Stream   More Options

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