Thursday, August 27, 2020

Today is National Burger Day.

ON THIS DATE.

• 1776 - General George Washinton and his troops are defeated by General William Howe at the Battle of Long Island (also known as the  Battle of Brooklyn.).
• 1859 - The first successful U.S. oil well is drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
• 1881 - The Georgia Hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, killing an estimated 700 people.
• 1883 - Krakatoa erupts leading to tidal waves that killed 36,000 on the islands of Java and Sumatra.
• 1893 - The Sea Islands Hurricane lands near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
• 1962 - NASA launches Mariner 2 space probe on a mission to Venus.
• 2008 - Senator Barack Obama is nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1861 - Novelist Theodore Dreiser
• 1890 - Photographer and artist Man Ray
• 1908 - President Lyndon B. Johnson

SONGS OF THE DAY 
Jimmie Buffett - Cheeseburger in Paradise - LISTEN
Shocking Blue - Venus - LISTEN
Gustav Holst  - Venus - LISTEN

THEME: VENUS

• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! -The Sun and the Four Inner Planets - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go! -  Goldilock or Not  - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Ask MIT - How Hot is the Core of Venus?- VIEW
• Grades 3-6 - NASA Space Place - Venus - READ
• Grades 3-12 - NASA - Venus - READ
• Grades 5-12- NHPBS Video - The Sky Guy - Venus - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Five Facts About Hot, Volcanic Venus- VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA Planetary Sciences- the 2012 Transit of Venus - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Venus - 
  VIEW
• Grades 11-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS Space Time -  Will Mars or Venus Kill You First? - VIEW

THEME: LYNDON B. jOHNSON

• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - 60-Second Presidents - Lyndon B. Johnson  - VIEW, READ, DO (Available in Spanish)
• Grades 5-12 - The White House - Lyndon Johnson - READ
• Grades 6-12 - LBJ Presidential Library - Educational Resources - DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Primary Source Set: Lyndon Johnson's Great Society - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -1964: "The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - "Passage of the Civil Rights Act"
  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - EDSITEment - The Great Society and the Case for the Humanities - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS Learning Media - American Experience - LBJ - A Young Leader - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS Learning Media - American Experience - LBJ - Kennedy vs. Johnson - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Bill Moyers -The Journal: LBJ's Road to War
  - VIEW
  
• Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - JFK, LBJ, and the Fight for Equal Opportunity in the 1960s - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - BackStory: Give Us the Ballot from "LBJ and the Great Society" - LISTEN
• Grades 9-12 - EDSITEment - BackStory: Legislation Impossible - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 - LISTEN

WATCH

• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Dead Sea Scroll Detectives
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Secrets Of The Shining Knight
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Decoding The Great Pyramid
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD - Secrets of the Dead - Scanning the Pyramids
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Nova Building The Great Cathedrals
  
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - Nova Wonders - What's Living In You?
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - Nova Wonders - What Are Animals Saying?
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Inside Animal Minds: Who's The Smartest?
• 8-11 pm NHPBS - PBS Newshour GOP Convention Coverage

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339