Bond, James Bond and Espionage, and Whooping Cranes - May 28

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Sunday, May 28, 2023

Today is Amnesty International Day, National Hamburger Day, National Brisket Day, and Whooping Crane Day

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Bond, James Bond and Espionage, and Whooping Cranes
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ON THIS DATE

• 1830 - President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act.
• 1892 - John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
• 1940 - Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany 
• 1977 - 165 people die in the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire In Southgate, Kentucky. New Hampshire resident, singer John Davidson, was the headliner that night.
• 1999 - After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is put back on display in Milan, Italy.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1140 - Chines Poet and general Xin Qiji
• 1888 - Multi-sport athlete Jim Thorpe
• 1908 - English author Ian Fleming
• 1910 - Singer-songwriter and blues guitarist T-Bone Walker
• 1944 - Politician Rudy Giuliani
• 1944 - Singer-songwriter Gladys Knight
• 1945 - Singer-songwriter John Fogerty
• 1968 - Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Johnny Rivers - Secret Agent Man - LISTEN
• T-Bone Walker - Jazz at the Philharmonic - LISTEN
• Gladys Knight and the Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia - LISTEN
• John Fogerty - Centerfield - LISTEN
• Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion - LISTEN
• Billie Eilish - No Time to Die - LISTEN
• Paul McCartney and Wings - Live and Let Die - LISTEN
• Shirley Basey - Goldfinger - LISTEN

THEME: Bond, James Bond and Espionage

• Grades PreK-1 -  Sesame Street - The Spy Who Loved Cookies (007 Parody) (5:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Monsterpiece Theater - Dr. No (3:28) - VIEW
  
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Spy Planes: Eyes in the Sky (28:02) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - International Spy Museum - READ and VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - CIA - Spy Kids - READ, VIEW, and DO
• Grades 4-8 - NHPBS Learning Media - Cyberchase - Bianca the Spy (3:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - SciTech  Now - The Spy Penguins (5:55) - VIEW and Do
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Spy Techniques of the Revolutionary War: Culper Code Book - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Rebel: Loreta Velazquez Civil War Soldier and Spy (3:30) - VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Origins of Everything - How a Spy Changed Horror Movies (10:52) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - The James Bond Phenomenon (1:01:05) - VIEW

THEME: Whooping Cranes

• Grades 4-12 - Smithsonian's National Zoo - Whooping Cranes - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Discovering Alabama - Whooping Cranes (28:02) -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Local Routes - Behind the Scenes at the Saint Marks Whooping Crane Pen (4:49) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - In Wisconsin - Whooping Cranes (5:50) - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (802) Live Stream More Options

THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN RETURN TO RAMITELLI
Sunday, 5/28 from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm NHPBS
Narrated by musician Darius Rucker, this film returns to Ramitelli Airfield in Italy to share the history of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of Black military pilots who broke stereotypes and helped win World War II. THE TUSKEGEE AIRMAN RETURN TO RAMITELLI Streaming Video

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HACKING YOUR MIND - Us vs. Them
Sunday, 5/28 from 9-10 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Discover how the auto-pilot biases we all experience fuel our nation's divisions, see how authoritarians can hack them, and find out how to overcome them. HACKING YOUR MIND Streaming Video

HACKING YOUR MIND - Weapons of Influence
Sunday, 5/28 from 10-11 pm NHPBS EXPLORE
Find out why hacking for good may be the most important scientific discovery of this century, and learn how to hack your mind to improve your life and the lives of your family and friends. HACKING YOUR MIND Streaming Video

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ARMED WITH LANGUAGE
Sunday, 5/28 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
Minnesota was home to a little-known military intelligence school during WWII that trained Japanese Americans be to translators. Primarily recruited from concentration camps on the West Coast, these men and women, served while many of their families remained imprisoned. For their efforts, it is said that they “shortened the Pacific War by two years and saved possibly a million American lives.” ARMED WITH LANGUAGE Streaming Video

BETRAYED: SURVIVING AN AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP
Sunday, 5/28 from 10-11 pm NH WORLD
Discover the story of a group of Japanese Americans and their incarceration by the U.S. government during World War II. Through the compelling voices of survivors of Minidoka, a concentration camp in the Idaho desert, BETRATED tells a universal story about unjust internment and the loss of civil rights.  BETRAYED: SURVIVING AN AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP Streaming Video

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