Mail and Aldous Huxley - July 26
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Today is Aunts and Uncles Day and Americans With Disabilities Day
July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.
National Natural Wonder of the Day - Idaho - Hagerman Fossil Beds
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Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Mail and Aldous Huxley
ON THIS DATE
- 1775 - The Second Continental Congress establishes the first post office and names Benjamin Franklin Postmaster General.
- 1948 - President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the U.S. military.
- 1990 - President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- 2016 - Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman selected as the presidential candidate of a major party.
- 1856 - Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw
- 1875 - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung
- 1894 - English writer Aldous Huxley
- 1923 - Author and illustrator Jan Berenstain
- 1943 - Musician Mick Jagger
- 1945 - Actor Helen Mirren
- 1956 - Figure skater Dorothy Hamill
- 1964 - Actor Sandra Bullock
- The Marvelettes - Please Mister Postman - LISTEN
- Elvis Presley - Return to Sender - LISTEN
- Wilco - Box Full of Letters - LISTEN
- Fats Waller - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter - LISTEN
- Rolling Stones - Start Me Up - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Mailman in Appalachia (2:15) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - M is for Mail (0:16) - VIEW
- Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Post Office Field Trip (7:14) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearnijgMedia- Blossom and Snappy Go to the Post Office (26:41) - VIEW and DO
- Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Arthur - Post Office Activity - DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - John Held Jr.: Mail Art (9:06) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - KQED Art School - Mail Art with David Wilson (5:06)- VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Teaching with Primary Sources - The Pony Express - READ and DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Japanese 233 - At the Post Office (26:43) - VIEW, READ and DO
THEME: ALDOUS HUXLEY
- Grades 7-12- NHPBS Video - Blank on Blank - Aldous Huxley on Technodictators (6:04) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - National Endowment for the Humanities - The Talented Mr. Huxley - READ
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