Rabbits and the Korean War

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Today is National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, Walk on Stilts Day and Take Your Houseplant for a Walk Day (not at the same time.)

July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Rabbits and the Korean War
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ON THIS DATE

• 1929 - The Geneva Convention is signed by 53 nations.
• 1940 - Bugs Bunny is introduced in the animated short, "A Wild Hare."
• 1953 - Hostilities in Korea stop with the signing of an armistice by the United States, China, and North Korea.
• 1995 - The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
• 1996 - A pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1824 - French novelist  Alexandre Dumas
• 1922 - TV producer Norman Lear
• 1948 - Figure skater Peggy Fleming
• 1949 - Singer Maureen McGovern
• 1956 - Actor, writer, comedian Carol Leifer
• 1969 - Wrestler, actor  and Nashua, NH native Triple H
• 1972 - Actor Maya Rudolph

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit - LISTEN
• Bugs Bunny Opera - LISTEN
• Elton John - Jack Rabbit - LISTEN
• Cab Calloway - Run Little Rabbit - LISTEN
• Maureen McGovern - The Morning After - LISTEN

THEME: RABBITS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Mumford's Magic Rabbit - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo and Rabbit Discuss Practice - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Cookie Bunny is Coming to Town - VIEW
• Grades K-4 -  Wild Kratts - Rabbit vs. Hare - VIEW 
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature -  Rabbits vs. Hares - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LeaningMedia - Chinese Folktale: The Little Rabbits - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Remarkable Rabbits Clips - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Rabbits - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Leporidae - rabbits, hares - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nature - Remarkable Rabbits (Full Episode Passport Members) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Remarkable Rabbits - Snowshoe Hare Population Cycles -  VIEW and DO

THEME; KOREAN WAR

• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS LeearningMedia - The Korean War - VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Korean War in Pictures - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Korean War Brothers in Arms - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Why Peace on the Korean Peninsula Remains Elusive - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Retro Report - Korean War - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Korea: The Never-Ending War -  VIEW , READ, DO

Watch 

NHPBS

• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am Edmund Hillary/I Am Celia Cruz
• 8-9 pm NHPBS - In Their Own Words - Chuck Berry
• 9-10:30 pm NHPBS - American Masters - Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away

NH WORLD

• 11 am-12 pm NH WORLD - Hacking Your Mind - Us Vs. Them
• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Dead Sea Scroll Detectives
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Touching The Asteroid
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Awakening
• 3-4:30 pm NH WORLD - Letters from Baghdad
• 4:30-5 pm NH WORLD - The Future of America's Past - A Grave Injustice
• 7-8 pm NH WORLD - PBS American Portrait - I Rise
• 8-9 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Moroni For President
• 9-10 pm NH WORLD - Campaign of Miner Bo

Pressroom Contact

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