Louis Armstrong and Anne Frank - August 4

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

• Today is Coast Guard Day, Single Working Woman's Day, and National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.
  
  
• August is National Wellness Month, National Sandwich Month, National Golf Month, National Water Quality Month, Black Business Month, International Pirate Month, and National Crayon Collection Month
  
  
• Health and Wellness Resource of the Day:  Environmental Public Health Collection
  
  
• Sandwich of the Day: Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Mango Chutney

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND ANNE FRANK
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ON THIS DATE

• 1693 - Cheers, Benedictine monk Dom Perignon created champagne.
• 1790 - The forerunner of the Coast Guard, the Revenue Cutter Service, is created.
• 1944 - The Gestapo finds and arrests Anne Frank, her family, and four others in Amsterdam.
• 1964 - U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy falsely report they came under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam.
• 1987 - The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1732 - English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 1821 - French Fashion designer Louis Vuitton
• 1834 - English mathematician John Venn
• 1901 - Musician Louis Armstrong
• 1920 - Journalist Helen Thomas
• 1961 - President Barack Obama
• 1962 - Baseball player Roger Clemens
• 1983 - Actress and filmmaker Greta Gerwig

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World - LISTEN
  

THEME: LOUIS ARMSTRONG

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - John Legend and Hoots (3:00) - VIEW
  Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - It Takes A Street Song with Hoots (2:39) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - Introduction  to Jazz - What a Wonderful World (8:05) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns' Jazz - Louis Armstrong Returns to Europe (2:12) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Jazz Ambassadors - Louis Armstrong and the Civil Rights Movement (5:37) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Louis Armstrong Archive Brings His Influence Into a New Era (11:28) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - One-On-One - 50 Years of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" (8:18) - VIEW
  
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Blank on Blank - Louis Armstrong on His Chops (4:56) - VIEW

THEME: ANNE FRANK

• Grades 5-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Character Change: The Diary of Anne Frank - Inspiring Middle School Literacy - DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Freedom Writers Discuss Anne Frank’s Diary (3:06) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Dialogue - Honoring Anne Frank (28:54) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS VIdeo - Anne Frank Remembered (28:52) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece - The Diary of Anne Frank 1: A Difficult Situation (1:21) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece -T he Diary of Anne Frank 2: Annes Birthday (1:32) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece -The Diary of Anne Frank 3: The Suffering of Millions (1:53) - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece -The Diary of Anne Frank - Life in Hiding Media Gallery - READ, VIEW, DO

Watch 

SPY IN THE WILD- A NATURE MINISERIES - The Islands
Thursday, 8/4 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
Explore the islands of the South Pacific with creatures like the spy koala, who captures breeding behavior in Australia, or the spy crab, who joins an army of red crabs on their march to the sea to deposit their eggs. NATURE Streaming Video

SPY IN THE WILD- A NATURE MINISERIES - The Poles
Thursday, 8/4 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
From penguin chicks to elephant seals, and wolf cubs to polar bears, the spy creatures meet and observe the hardiest and most charismatic animals in the Arctic and Antarctic circles. NATURE Streaming Video

INDIA - NATURE'S WONDERLAND - Episode One
Thursday, 8/4 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Continue exploring India and meet a man who spent 30 years planting his own rainforest. On the way, encounter demoiselle cranes, tahr goats, one-horned rhinos, the tiny pika, and lion-tailed macaques. Witness the mass hatching of olive ridley turtles. INDIA - NATURE'S WONDERLAND Streaming Video

ANDES: KINGDOM OF THE SKY
Thursday, 8/4 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Experience the astonishing natural life found in the world's longest mountain range, where pumas hunt guanaco, shape-shifting frogs hide in remote cloud forests and descendants of the Inca build bridges of grass. KINGDOMS OF THE SKY Streaming Video
AMERICA REFRAMED - Where the Pavement Ends
Thursday, 8/4 from 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD
Transporting viewers to Missouri towns - then all-Black Kinloch and the all-white community of Ferguson, examining the shared histories and deep racial divides affecting both. Through recordings, photographs, and recollections, WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDS draws parallels between a 1960s dispute over a physical barricade erected between the towns and the 2014 shooting death by police of Michael Brown. AMERICA REFRAMED Streaming Video

ICON: MUSIC THROUGH THE LENS - On the Wall
Thursday, 8/4 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Trace the journey of music photography from a niche pastime to a highly collectible art form with stories from gallerists, art experts, and photographers whose work hangs in some of the world's most revered institutions. ICON: MUSIC THROUGH THE LENS Streaming Video

ICON: MUSIC THROUGH THE LENS - On the Net
Thursday, 8/4 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Tune in to how music photography fits into the contemporary, popular culture landscape alongside the rise and influence of social media. ICON: MUSIC THROUGH THE LENS Streaming Video

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