Under the Microscope and Buffalo Soldiers

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Today is Buffalo Soldiers Day, Milk Chocolate Day, National Waterpark Day, and World Hepatitis Day.

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

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Under the Microscope and Buffalo Soldiers
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ON THIS DATE

• 1794 - French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined.
• 1914 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, in a lead up to the beginning of WWI.
• 1932 - President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans from encampments in Washington, D.C.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1635 - English scientist Robert Hooke
• `879 - Activist and suffragist Lucy Burns
• 1932 - Children's author and illustrator Natalie Babbitt
• 1929 - Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier - LISTEN

THEME: UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Quest - Microscopes for the Masses - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS learning Media - X-ray Microscope: Seeing Cells in 3D - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Gross Science - See Microbes with This DIY Phone Microscope - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Our Hungry Planet - What's up with Your Gut Microbiome? - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Eons - What a Dinosaur Looks like under a Microscope - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Eons - How Two Microbes Changed History -VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - SciTech Now - The Half-Mile Long Microscope - VIEW and DO

THEME: BUFFALO SOLDIERS

• Grades 5-12 - National Museum of African America History and Culture - Buffalo Soldiers -READ and VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - National Park Service - Charles Youg Buffalo Soldier Monument - READ
• GRades 5-12 - Yosemite National Park - Buffalo Soldiers - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Moments in Time - Buffalo Soldiers in New Mexico - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Buffalo Soldiers Fight Fires and Stereotypes - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 -  NHPBS Video - Untold Stories: Yosemite's Buffalo Soldiers - VIEW

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NHPBS

• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am James Naismith/I Am Temple Grandin
• 8-9 pm NHPBS - Nature - Super Cats: Extreme Lives

  Words American Masters Beyond The Canvas Amanpour and Company Consuelo Mack WealthTrack Rick Steves' Europe Secrets of Royal Travel Unforgotten Season 4 On Masterpiece Professor T (UK) American Masters Beyond The Canvas Ready Jet Go!

  Ready Jet Go! Arthur Molly of Denali Wild Kratts Hero Elementary Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum Curious George Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Donkey Hodie Elinor Wonders Why Sesame Street Pinkalicious & Peterrific CAMP TV Sesame Street Donkey Hodie Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Let's Go Luna! Nature Cat Wild Kratts Molly of Denali Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum This Old House BBC World News America PBS NewsHour Greater Boston Windows to the Wild Nature

• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Nova - Creatures Of Light
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Secrets of the Dead - King Arthur's Lost Kingdom

NH WORLD

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Moroni For President
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Campaign of Miner Bo
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - PBS American Portrait - I Rise
• 11 am-12 pm NH WORLD - Fake: Searching for Truth in the Age of Misinformation
• 12-2 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Human Nature
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Life Explodes
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD - D-Day at Pointe-Du-Hoc
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Asian Americans - Breaking Ground
• 7-8:30 pm NH WORLD - Independent Lens - Represent
• 8:30-10 pm NH WORLD - P.O.V. - Mayor
  

Pressroom Contact

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