Under the Microscope and Buffalo Soldiers - July 28

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Sunday, July 28, 2024

Today is Buffalo Soldiers Day, Milk Chocolate Day, National Waterpark Day, Parents Day, and World Hepatitis Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Under the Microscope and Buffalo Soldiers

ON THIS DATE

• 1794 - French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined.
• 1914 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, in a lead up to the beginning of WWI.
• 1932 - President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans from encampments in Washington, D.C.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1635 - English scientist Robert Hooke
• `879 - Activist and suffragist Lucy Burns
• 1932 - Children's author and illustrator Natalie Babbitt
• 1929 - Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier - LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Tall Grass Prairie Preserve, Kansas - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe - MAKE

THEME: UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - Microscopes for the Masses (3:13) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS learning Media - X-ray Microscope: Seeing Cells in 3D (10:22) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - See Microbes with This DIY Phone Microscope (2:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Our Hungry Planet - What's up with Your Gut Microbiome? (3:17) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Eons - What a Dinosaur Looks like under a Microscope (8:09) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Eons - How Two Microbes Changed History (7:39) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - The Half-Mile Long Microscope (7:27) - VIEW and DO

THEME: BUFFALO SOLDIERS

• Grades 5-12 - National Museum of African America History and Culture - Buffalo Soldiers - READ and VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - National Park Service - Charles Youg Buffalo Soldier Monument - READ
• Grades 5-12 - Yosemite National Park - Buffalo Soldiers - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Moments in Time - Buffalo Soldiers in New Mexico (9:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Buffalo Soldiers Fight Fires and Stereotypes (4:26) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 -  NHPBS Video - Untold Stories: Yosemite's Buffalo Soldiers (11:27) - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET - La Forza Del Destino 
Sunday, 7/27 from 11-2:30 pm NHPBS
Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts Verdi's grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendetta, and family strife, setting the scene in a contemporary world. GREAT PERFORMANCES Streaming Video

POETRY IN AMERICA - Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper?
Sunday, 7/28 from 6:30-7 pm NHPBS
Long before he won the National Book Award, Latinx poet Martín Espada worked after school in a factory making legal pads. Espada, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, economists Natasha Sarin, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers, historian Jill Lepore, and actor John Turturro join Elisa New to reflect on social mobility, and what connects manual labor with the raw materials of poetry and law. POETRY IN AMERICA Streaming Video

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RICK STEVES ART OF THE BAROQUE AGE 
Sunday, 7/28 from 2-3 pm NH EXPLORE
In the 1600s and 1700s, godlike royals clung to the old medieval order while new ideas bubbled beneath the surface. The art of "divine" kings and popes, and that of the revolutionaries and reformers who countered them, tells the story of a Europe in transition.

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

YOUTH V. GOV
Sunday, 7/28 from 10 pm -12 am NH WORLD
Armed with a wealth of evidence, twenty-one courageous leaders file a ground-breaking lawsuit against the U.S. government, asserting it has willfully acted over six decades to create the climate crisis, thus endangering their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property. If these young people are successful, they will not only make history, they will change the future.

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