Vaccines - February 23
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022
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Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Vaccines
ON THIS DATE
- 1455 - The Gutenberg Bible was first printed.
- 1836 - The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
- 1903 - Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity"
- 1954 - The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins at an elementary school in Pittsburgh.
- 1997 - Scientists in Scotland announce they have cloned an adult mammal, a lamb named Dolly.
- 2000 - Carlos Santana wins eight Grammy Awards for his album "Supernatural."
- 1633 - English diarist Samuel Pepys
- 1685 - Composer George Frideric Handel
- 1868 - Sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois *
- 1889 - Director and producer Victor Fleming
- 1923 - Fighter pilot Clarence D. Lester*
- 1983 - Actor ad comedian Aziz Ansari
- 1983 - English actor Emily Blunt
- 1994 - Actor Dakota Fanning
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Science Trek - Viruses: SmallPox (1:05) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Videos - Nova - Vaccines - Calling the Shots (53:10) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA - Vaccines: Calling the Shots: Autism & Vaccines (4:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - Nova - U.S. Polio Vaccines: Then and Now (13:47) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA - Vaccines: Calling the Shots: The Smallpox Vaccine (4:40) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA - Vaccines: Calling the Shots: Immunity & Vaccines (3:37) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA - Vaccines: Calling the Shots: Herd Immunity (3:41))- VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The Polio Crusade (52:28) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The Polio Crusade Chapter One (9:37))- VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Polio Crusade Picture Gallery - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Frontline -The Vaccine War - The Growing Debate Over Vaccine Safety (10:11) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Could the Polio Vaccine Save the World (...Again) (5:26) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - The Future of America's Past - Polio on Trial (5:00) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -A Very Short History of Vaccines in America (3:11) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Jonas Salk: Personally Speaking (26:47) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - The Importance of Vaccines Throughout History (2:20) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Building Vaccines (4:37) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 -NH PBS Video - Vaccine Ingredient Misconceptions, Debunked (6:16) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Vaccines: What’s Inside Them and Are They Safe? (5:56)- VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - Inside the Lab That Invented the COVID-19 Vaccine (11:20)- VIEW
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