Friends and Cuba - October 19

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Saturday, October 19, 2024

Today is National Seafood Bisque Day, Gin and Tonic Day, National Fetch Day, National New Friends Day, and Rainforest Day.

Wild Animal Month Animal Cam of the Day:  Sealion Cam at Hanson Island, British Columbia, Canada
Spooky Dessert of the Day: Candy Corn Cookies

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Friends and Cuba

ON THIS DATE

• 1781 - British General Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War.
• 1953 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is published.
• 1960 - Bobby Orr makes his NHL regular-season debut for the Boston Bruins.
• 1960 - The U.S. places an embargo on exports to Cuba.
• 1975 -  A Chorus Line premieres on Broadway.
• 1983 - US Senate votes to establish a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. by a vote of 78–22. (In 1999, New Hampshire became the last state to name a holiday after King.)
• 1987 -  Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 508 points, a 22%, drop in what is known as Black Monday.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1850 - Mountaineer Annie Smith Peck
• 1862 - French inventor Auguste Lumiere 
• 1910 - Indian astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• 1944 - Jamaican musician Peter Tosh
• 1945 - Actor Divine 
• 1960 - Actor and singer Jennifer Holliday

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Jennifer Holliday - And I am Telling You - LISTEN
• Peter Tosh - Get Up Stand Up - LISTEN
• James Taylor - You've Got a Friend - LISTEN
• Randy Neuman - You've Got a Friend in Me - LISTEN
• Queen - You're My Best Friend - LISTEN
• The Beatles - With a Little Help From My Friends - LISTEN
• War - Why Can't We Be Friends - LISTEN

THEME: FRIENDS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Be a Good Friend (with Gwen Stefani) (1:39) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - What is a Friend (2:28) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Because We're Friends (2:07) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Muslim Youth Voices - Friends in Time (4:21) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature  Unlikely Friends (6:14) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends (9:21) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Open Mind - The Science and Necessity of Friendship (28:07) - VIEW

THEME:  CUBA

• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cuba's Wild Revolution -The World's Smallest Bird (4:44) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Cuba: The Accidental Eden - Sea Turtles (5:20) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cuba's Wild Revolution - Marine Conservation in Cuba (3:34) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - The Legacy of Cuba’s Fidel Castro (9:52) -  VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Cuba's Wild Revolution (53:13) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - Cuba: The Latin Beat (9:04) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Cuban Crab Migration (4:09)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour -Striking a Balance Between New and Old in Havana (7:29) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour -Why Cuba is Home to a Bounty of Rare Species (7:49) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - We'll Meet Again - Escape from Cuba (55:00) - VIEW 
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Hemingway - Hemingway, the Sea, and Cuba (1:01:07) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - The Sounds of Cuba (26:47) - VIEW

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