Farmers, and Chess - October 12
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Saturday, October 12, 2024
Today is Astronomy Day, African Penguin Awareness Day, Chess Day, Spanish Language Day, National Farmer's Day, World Arthritis Day, National Gumbo Day, Pulled Pork Day, and Migratory Bird Day.
Animal Cam of the Day: San Diego Zoo - Condor Cam
Dessert of the Day: The First Pumpkin Pie (sort of)
LGBT History Resource of the Day: The History of Gender Pronouns
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: FARMERS AND CHESS
- 539 - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, and ends the Babylonian empire.
- 1492 - Christopher Columbus' first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean.
- 1692 - The Salem witch trials end.
- 1810- The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest.
- 1901 - President Theodore Roosevelt officially changes the name of the Executive Mansion to the White House.
- 1918 - The Cloquet fire in northern Minnesota kills 453 people.
1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at a session of the U.N. General Assembly. - 2000 - An al-Qaeda suicide bombing kills 17 sailors on the Navy destroyer Cole in Aden, Yemen.
- 1908 - Writer Ann Petry. Her debut novel, The Street, was the 1st novel by a Black woman to sell more than a million copies.
- 1916 - Writer and actor Alice Childress
- 1932 - Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory
- 1935 - Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti
- Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma from Turandot - LISTEN
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo, Abby's, and Grover's Farm Party (25:58) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Monster On the Street (Farmer in the Dell) (1:49) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Big Bird Visits a Farm (3:48) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - From the Market to Your Table (4:05) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - NH PBS LearningMedia - Clifford - Farmer: Community Helper Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-1 - NH PBS LearningMedia - KidVision - Farmers Market (7:33) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NH PBS LearningMedia - Career Connections - Farmer (4:53) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Innovative Female Farmers (2:45) - VIEW, READ, DO
THEME: CHESS (AND CHECKERS)
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Monster Plays (Eats) Checkers - VIEW
- Grades K-3 - Arthur - Brain's Chess Club - VIEW
- Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cyberchase - Chess Wager - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Infinite Chess - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Can a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains? - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Are Robots Really Taking Over? - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Newshour - Fabiano Caruana helps usher in a new era for American chess - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - CheckMate: Growing a Community of Girls Who Play Chess - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Hip Hop Chess Club - VIEW
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