Sherlock Holmes and Mary Cassatt - May 22

Sunday, May 22, 2022

Today is Harvey Milk Day, International Day for Biological Diversity, National Maritime Day, National Solitaire Day, Sherlock Holmes Day, World Goth Day, and National Vanilla Pudding Day.

May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Sherlock Holmes and Mary Cassatt

ON THIS DATE

• 1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition begins.
• 1819 - SS Savannah leaves Savannah, Georgia on a journey that will make it the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1849 - Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.
• 1856 - Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate over a speech Sumner gave about slavery in the south. 
• 1900 - The Associated Press is formed.
• 1906 - The Wright brothers are granted a patent for their "Flying-Machine".
• 1927 - An 8.3 magnitude near Xining, China, kills 200,000.
• 1968 - The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard.
• 1992 - Johnny Carson hosts his last  Tonight Show.
• 2002 - A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
• 2011 -  An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158.
• 2017 - Twenty-two people are killed in a bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1813 - German composer Richard Wagner
• 1844 - Painter Mary Cassatt
• 1959 - Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1907 - English actor Laurence Olivier
• 1930 - Politician Harvey Milk
• 1950 - English songwriter Bernie Taupin
• 1959 - English singer-songwriter Morrissey
• 1960 - Japanese animator and director Hideaki Anno

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives - LISTEN
• The Monkees - Mary Mary - LISTEN
• Elton John - Tiny Dancer (Lyrics by Bernie Taupin) - LISTEN
• Morrisey - Everyday is Like Sunday -  LISTEN
• Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries - LISTEN

THEME: Sherlock Holmes

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Sherlock Hemlock Helps Maria (2:43) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ernlock Holmes (5:13) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ernie's Half-Eaten Sandwich (3:03) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Lakeshore Classic Movies - Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) (1:08:04) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Lakeshore Classic Movies - Terror By Night  (1946) (59:33) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Hound of the Baskervilles 1: Meet Sherlock Holmes (1:47) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -The Hound of the Baskervilles 2: The Mysterious Moor (2:05) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Hound of the Baskervilles 3: The Seance (1:54) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-8 - ReadWriteThink - Expository Escapade - Detective's Handbook Lesson Plan - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - ReadWriteThink - Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story Lesson Plan - READ and DO

THEME: Mary Cassatt

• Grades K-1 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Mary Cassatt (14:14) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - National Gallery of Art - Art Starters - Mary Cassatt - DO
• Grades 3-12 - National Gallery of Art - Mary Cassatt - READ and VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - National Gallery of Art - Mary Cassatt - READ and VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - PBS Learning Media - Kentucky Virtual Art Museum - L'Enfant 9The Child), 1905 - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - EDSITEment - Painting America: Cassatt and Sargent - VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades 7-12 - The Art Assignment - The Case of Impressionism (12:41) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - Mary Cassatt: A Brush with Independence (56:20) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

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