Flamingos - June 23

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Sunday, June 23, 2024

Today is National Pecan Sandies Day, National Hydration Day, Let It Go Day, Pink Flamingo Day (Lawn Ornament), Typewriting Day, and Public Service Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme:  Flamingos
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ON THIS DATE

• 1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for the typewriter.
• 1928 - The first SAT exam is administered.
• 1972 - Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination at educational institutions that receive federal aid.
• 1996 - The Nintendo 64 is released in Japan.
• 2016 - The UK votes to leave the European Union.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1912 - Mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing
• 1927 - Choreographer and director Bob Fosse 
• 1929 - Musician June Carter Cash
• 1948 - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
• 1984 - Singer Duffy

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon - Who's Got the Pain from Damn Yankees - LISTEN
• June Carter Cash - San Antonio Rose - LISTEN
• Manfred Mann - Pretty Flamingo - LISTEN
• The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You - LISTEN

OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Dragonfly TV - Rivers - VIEW

THEME: FLAMINGOS

• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Flamingo Gardens Field Trip (6:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Dances with Bird Videos - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Mystery of the Flamingo's Pink (26:48) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Pinkster (2:11) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - White Flamingo (2:20) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12- NHPBS  Video - Reactions - Why Flamingos Are Pink and HARDCORE (3:32) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Flamingos - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior -  American Flamingo - READ
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS VIdeo - Nature - Flamingos Feed After the Rains (1:57) - VIEW

WATCH

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POETRY IN AMERICA - Six Years Later, Epitaph for a Centaur
Sunday, 6/23 from 6:30-7 pm NHPBS
Russian-born poet Joseph Brodsky wrote about the centaur as a Cold War self-portrait: a divided global refugee, created by a geopolitics of shifting borders and cultures. Theater of War artistic director Bryan Doerries, writer Yelena Akhtiorskaya, and scholars Sven Birkerts, Zakhar Ishtov, Jonathan Brent, and Joseph Ellis read two poems by Brodsky: one about love; the other, exile. POETRY IN AMERICA Streaming Video

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