Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Learning
Monday, February 8, 2021
Today is National Boy Scout Day, and Clean Out Your Computer Day.
* indicates a resource or program highlighting Black history, culture, or an individual.
Today's Birthdays
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Today's Theme: Jules Verne
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ON THIS DATE
- 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots is executed for her suspected role in the Babington Plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I.
- 1904 - The Russo-Japanese War begins.
- 1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.
- 1922 - President Warren G. Harding installs a radio in the White House.
- 1968 - Three black students from South Carolina State University are killed by highway patrolmen in a civil rights protest over a whites-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, S.C. *
- 1677 - French astronomer Jacques Cassini
- 1700- Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli
- 1820 - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman
- 1828 - French author Jules Verne
- 1834 - Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev
- 1850 - Author Kate Chopin
- 1894 - Producer and director King Vidor
- 1899 - Guitarist and singer-songwriter Lonnie Johnson *
- 1911 - Poet and short story writer Elizabeth Bishop
- 1925 - Actor Jack Lemmon
- 1931 - Actor James Dean
- 1932 - Composer and conductor John Williams
- 1937 - Composer Joe Raposo, known for his works for Sesame Street
- 1955 - Author John Grisham
- 1974 - Actor, producer, and director Seth Green
Lonnie Johnson -
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Ancient Skies - Cannon Shot to the Moon - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - When Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS - University Place - Old Time Radio Drama: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - American Experience - Nellie Bly: Around the World in 72 Days - READ
- Grades 6-12 - Mental Floss - 15 Things You Might Not Know About Jules Verne - READ
- Grades 6-12 - The History of Sci-Fi - Jules Verne - Extra Sci-Fi - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - A Trip to the Moon - 1902 Film insir3d by Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and its sequel Around the Moon - VIEW
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- 11 am -12 pm NH WORLD - Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP *
- 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - SciGirls - Cartoon Coders
- 12:30 - 1 pm - SciGirl - Science Cooks!
- 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Blackbird: Legacy of Innovation
- 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Big Pacific - Mysterious
- 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Reconstruction: America After The Civil War *
- 4:30-5 pm NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Jesse Owens/I Am Ella Fitzgerald *
- 7-8:30 pm NH WORLD - Independent Lens - Hale County This Morning, This Evening *
- 8:30-9 pm NH WORLD - POV Shorts - The Changing Same *
- 9-10 pm NHPBS - American Experience - Goin' Back To T-Town *
- 10-11 pm NHPBS - Independent Lens - Women In Blue
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