Statue of Liberty and Spoonerisms - July 22
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Friday, July 22, 2022
Today is Mango Day, Pi Approximation Day, National Hammock Day, Rat-catchers Day, and Spoonerism Day.
July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.
National Natural Wonder: Nebraska: Agate Fossil Beds
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Statue of Liberty and Spoonerisms
ON THIS DATE
- 1587 - An English colony is established on Roanoke Island off the coast of what is now North Carolina. The colony became known as the Lost Colony. when the colonists disappeared.
- 1893 - Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful."
- 1937 - The U.S. Senate votes down FDR's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
- 1844 - Scholar William Archibald Spooner
- 1849 - Poet Emma Lazarus
- 1882 - Painter Edward Hopper
- 1887 - Physicist Gustav Hertz
- 1898 - Sculptor Alexander Calder
- 1898 - Poet Stephen Vincent Benet
- 1923 - Politician Bob Dole
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns in the Classroom - The Statue of Liberty Collection -VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Explore It - The Statue of Liberty - READ and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - The New Colossus (5:22) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - National Park Service - Statue of Liberty - READ
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Field Trip: Statue of Liberty Sculptures (2:37) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - 10 Monuments That Changed America (54:56) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Ken Burns - The Statue of Liberty - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Why is the Statue of Liberty Green? (3:45) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - Funding the Statue of Liberty - Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (3:04) - VIEW and DO
THEME: SPOONERISMS
- Grades K-4 - Minds In Bloom - Fun With Spoonerisms -DO
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Decoding and Writing a Play Using Spoonerisms - The Tale of Beeping Sleauty - DO
- Grades 6-12 - Indiana Public Media - Moment of Science - Spoonerism: "Darn Boor" (2;01)- LISTEN
- Grades Adult - NPR - Shel Silverstein's 'Runny Babbit' Tales Review (8:10) - LISTEN
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