Pasta and Picasso - October 25
Noodling Around with Learning
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Today is International Artists' Day, World Pasta Day, Punk for a Day Day, World Pizza Makers Day, and Greasy Foods Day.
Animal Cam of the Day: San Diego Zoo Penguin Cam
LGBT History Resource of the Day: American Masters - Julian Eltinge: Female Impersonator of the Vaudeville Era
Scary Resource of the Day: Xavier Riddle: I Am Mary Shelley/I Am Harry Houdini
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1774 - Penelope Barker hosts the Edenton Tea Party, and 51 women gather and draft a resolution to boycott British imports, which they sent to England.
On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Picasso and Pasta
- 1415 - Henry V of England defeats the French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.
- 1760 - King George III succeeds to the British throne following the death of his grandfather, George II.
- 1854 - The Battle of Balaclava, memorialized in the poem "Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, takes place during the Crimean War.
- 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes the first African American general in the United States Army.
- 1971 - The UN General Assembly votes to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
- 1983 - A U.S.-led force invades Grenada.
- 1986 - The Mets win Game 6 of the World Series in the 10th inning when a ground ball goes through Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner's legs. (Still not over it.)
- 1825 - Austrian composer Johann Strauss, Jr.
- 1838 - French composer Georges Bizet
- 1881 - Spanish artist Pablo Picasso
- 1891 - Radio commentator Father Charles Coughlin
- 1941 - Singer Helen Reddy
- 1969 - Comedian Samantha Bee
- 1984 - Singer Katy Perry
- Johann Strauss, Jr. -
Blue Danube Waltz - LISTEN - Georges Bizet -
"Les Toreadors" from Carmen Suite No. 1 - LISTEN - Helen Reddy - I Am Woman - LISTEN
- Katy Perry - Roar - LISTEN
- Grades 4-8 - Tate Museum - Who Is Pablo Picasso? - READ and VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - How Picasso Overturned the Rules of Sculpture (6:02) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Pablo Picasso Resources - READ ad VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: 1958 Pablo Picasso Drawings (4:03) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: 1960 Picasso "Gros Oiseau Vert" Pot (4:04) - VIEW
- Grades 11-12 - NHPBS Video - The Art Assignment - Art Cooking: PICASSO (16:23) - VIEW
- Grades Professional Development - NHPBS Video - Education Station: Teaching Ideas - History in a Bag, Primary/Secondary Sources, Pablo Picasso (28:56) - VIEW
THEME: PASTA
- Grades PreK-1- PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Kara Dioguardi: Pasta (1:23) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS Video - Kid Vision - How Pasta is Made (9:01) - VIEW
- Grades K-6 - NHPBS Video - Full-Time Kid - How to Make Rainbow Pasta (with an adult!) (2:38) - VIEW and DO
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