Ada Lovelace and Emily Dickinson - December 10

Friday, December 10, 2021

Today is Dewey Decimal System Day, Human Rights Day, Jane Addams Day, and Nobel Prize Day

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ada Lovelace and Emily DickinsonToday's Theme: Time Travel
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ON THIS DATE

• 1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
• 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
• 1884 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
• 1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Russo-Japanese War.
• 1948 - The U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1815 - English mathematician and computer scientist Ada Lovelace
• 1830 - Poet Emily Dickinson
• 1851 - Librarian Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification system

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Queen Latifah - Ladies First - LISTEN

THEME:  ADA LOVELACE

• Grades 4-12 - BBC  - Newsround - Who Was Ada Lovelace? - READ
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Visionaries: Ada Lovelace (1:21) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - Computer History Museum - Ada Lovelace - READ 
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Victoria, Season 2 - A Woman Mathematician (1:10) - VIEW and DO

THEME:  EMILY DICKINSON

• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry Everywhere - I started Early-Took my Dog (1:33) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12- PBS LearningMedia - American Passages - Gothic Undercurrents (28:23) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS  NewsHour - Finding Emily Dickinson in the Power of Her Poetry -VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS Books - Trailblazing Women: Emily Dickinson and Poetry in America Panel Discussion - VIEW

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NHPBS  - 11.1   Comcast (802)   Live Stream   More Options

• 6-6:30 am NHPBS - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - I Am George Washington/I Am Susan B. Anthony
• 6:30-7 am NHPBS -  Arthur - So Funny I Forgot To Laugh/The Best Day Ever
• 7-7:30 am NHPBS -  Molly of Denali - Spring Carnival/Tooey's Hole-I-Day Sweater
• 7:30-8 am NHPBS - Wild Kratts - The Amazing Creature Race
• 8-8:30 am NHPBS - Hero Elementary - All Over The Map / Lights Go Down In City Town
• 8:30-9 am NHPBS - Alma's Way - Basketball Birds/Looking For Litter
• 10-11 am NHPBS - Nature Cat: A Nature Carol
• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS - Let's Go Luna! - Hola Mariachi/Loco For Cocoa
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS - Nature Cat - A Prickly Problem/A Shedtime Story

NHPBS EXPLORE  - 11.2   Comcast (801)   More Options

• 2:30-3 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Elinor Wonders Why - Leave It To Ari/Snow Friend
• 3-3:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Hero Elementary - All Over The Map / Lights Go Down In City Town
• 3:30-4 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Pinkalicious & Peterrific - Paintbrush Boy And Pencil Girl/Save A Tree
• 4-4:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Let's Go Luna! - Viva La Pasta/Arrievederci Acqua!
• 4:30-5 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Odd Squad - Olympia's Day/Otis's Day
• 5-5:30 pm NHPBS EXPLORE -  Wild Kratts - The Mystery Of The Two Horned Narwhal
• 5:30-6 pm NHPBS EXPLORE - Molly of Denali - Rocky Rescue/Canoe Journey

NH WORLD - 11.3   Comcast (965)  More Options

• 8-9 am NH WORLD - Nova - Rise Of The Mammals
• 9-10 am NH WORLD - Nova - Secrets Of Noah's Ark
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - Impossible Builds - Ice World
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - Hamtramck, USA
• 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Independent Lens - My Country No More
• 7-8:30 pm NH WORLD - Guru Nanak: The Founder of Sikhism
• 8:30-10 pm NH WORLD - Same God

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