Chocolate
Sweet, Sweet Learning
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Today is National Chocolate Day
ON THIS DATE
- 1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which later becomes Harvard University.
- 1726 - Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels is published.
- 1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent for the cotton gin.
- 1886 - President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- 1919 - Congress enacts the Volstead Act, which provides for enforcement of Prohibition, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
- 1922 - Benito Mussolini takes control of the government of Italy.
- 1956 - Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV.
- 1962 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
- 2006 - Boston Celtics basketball coach Red Auerbach dies at age 89.
- 2007 - Cristina Fernandez is elected as Argentina's first woman president.
BIRTHDAYS
- 1754 - Revolutionary war soldier John Laurens
- 1846 - French chef Georges Auguste Escoffier
- 1897 - Costume designer Edith Head
- 1914 - Biologist and physician Jonas Salk
- 1955 - Businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates
- 1967 - Actor Julia Roberts
- 1974 - Actor Joaquin Phoenix
- 1982 - English actor Matt Smith
SONGS OF THE DAY
Bee Gees -
THEME: CHOCOLATE
- Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Sesame Street: Professor Cookie Subtracts - VIEW
- Grades PreK-1 - KidVision - How Chocolate is Made - VIEW
- Grade 3 - PBS Learningmedia - Melty Chocolate - READ, VIEW, and DO
- Grades 4-8 - Curious Crew - Chocolate Chemistry - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Reactions - Gum + Chocolate = ???- VIEW and READ
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Earth and Sky Podcast - Lyndel Meinhardt Is Searching for Heartier Chocholate int he Rainforest - LISTEN
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Is White Chocolate Actually White Chocolate? - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Serving Up Science - 100% Dark Chocolate: Bitter or Best Ever? - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Native America - Chaco Chocolate - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - How Does It Grow - White Chocolate or White LIE? - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS NewsHour - Rita Dove - Chocolate - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Is Chocolate Facing Extinction? - VIEW
Watch
- 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Amazing Human Body - Survive
- 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Apollo's Daring Mission
- 2-4 pm NH WORLD - Reconstruction: America After The Civil War
- 4-5 pm NH WORLD - In Their Own words - Muhammad Ali
- 7:30-8:30 pm NH WORLD - Not Done: Women Remaking America
- 8-9 pm NHPBS - Nature - Australian Bushfire Rescue
- 8:30-10 pm NH WORLD - Independent Lens - Represent
- 9-10 pm NHPBS - Nova - Can We Cool The Planet?
- 10-11 pm NHPBS - Age of Nature - Changing
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