Black Cats and Hurricanes - August 17

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

• Today is National #2 Pencil Day, National Thrift Shop Day, Black Cat Appreciation Day, National Nonprofit Day, and Baby Boomer's Recognition Day.
  
  
• August is National Wellness Month, National Sandwich Month, National Golf Month, National Water Quality Month, Black Business Month, International Pirate Month, and National Crayon Collection Month.
  
  
• Health and Wellness Resource of the Day: Sesame Street: My Cute Little Heartbeat
  
  
• Sandwich of the Day: Egg Salad Sandwich

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Black Cats and Hurricanes
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ON THIS DATE

• 1955 - Hurricane Diane makes landfall near Wilmington, NC causing widespread damage and flooding, killing more than 184 people.
• 1969 - Hurricane Camille hits the Gulf Coast as a category 5 storm, killing 248 people.
• 1998 - In grand jury testimony, President Bill Clinton admits he had an improper relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky.
• 2008 - Michael Phelps breaks the record for gold medals in a single Olympics when he wins his 8th gold in the 400-meter medley relay at the Beijing Olympics.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1786 - Soldier and politician Davey Crockett
• 1887 - Jamaican journalist and political activist Marcus Garvey
• 1893 - Actor Mae West
• 1913 - Deputy Director of the FBI and Watergate source, Deepthroat, Mark Felt
• 1943 - Actor Robert De Niro
• 1960 - Actor Sean Penn
• 1960 - Singer and actor Donnie Wahlberg
• 1983 - Baseball player Dustin Pedroia

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Janet Jackson - Black Cat - LISTEN
• Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut - LISTEN

THEME: BLACK (and a FEW OTHER COLORED) CATS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street  - Elmo and Simon's Cat Take a Nap (2:56) -VIEW
• Grades 3-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cats (8:28) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 3-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Cats: Yesterday and Today (6:54) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - EONS - How We Domesticated Cats (7:47) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - Mental Floss - Black Cat Facts - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video Theater of the Mind  Radio Drama - The Black Cat (23:25) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Le Chat Noir Collection - READ and VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - Van Gogh Museum - Le Chat Noir - READ and VIEW

Theme: HURRICANES

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street -  Sesame Street Gets Through a Storm (55:55) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Daniel Tiger - The Storm is Coming (1:40) - VIEW
• Grades K-3  - Arthur - Shelter from the Storm (26:14) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Hurricane Researcher (2:29) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Water Vapor Fuels Hurricanes (4:57) (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Learning Media - Physics Girls - How to Make a Hurricane on a Bubble (3:28) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - UNC-TV Science - Hurricane Hunters (5:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Killer Hurricanes - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Killer Hurricanes: Hurricane Paths Over Time (5:36) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Killer Hurricanes: Hurricane Frequency Over Time (5:49) - VIEW, READ, DO
  
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia -  Seasonal Science - Hurricane (3:46) - VIEW, READ, DO

Watch 

• BIG PACIFIC- Mysterious
  Wednesday, 8/17 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
  Explore the mysterious Pacific-whose depths we are just beginning to explore. There are many unanswered questions we yearn to unravel, but the ocean doesn't give up it's secrets willingly. BIG PACIFIC Streaming Video
• BIG PACIFIC- Violent
  Wednesday, 8/17 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
  Understand how the Pacific, surrounded by the Ring of Fire, is the epicenter of natural mayhem. Violence is part of life in the great ocean, and creatures that live there must choose whether to avoid conflict-or rise to meet it. BIG PACIFIC Streaming Video
  
  
• COLOMBIA: WILD AND FREE- Two Rivers
  Wednesday, 8/17 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
  Explore the magnificent eastern region of Colombia, a land defined by two powerful rivers: the Orinoco and the Amazon. Along the way, meet amazing wildlife, including jaguars, capybaras, anacondas, and pygmy marmosets, the world's smallest monkeys. COLOMBIA: WILD AND FREE Streaming Video
  
  
• KEN BURNS: THE NATIONAL PARKS
  Wednesday, 8/17 from 7:30-9 pm NHPBS
  Explore the beauty and grandeur of our nation's magnificent parks, from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon. Filmmakers Burns and Dayton Duncan vividly reveal fascinating behind-the-scenes stories about the making of the series. NATIONAL PARKS Streaming Video
  
  
• P.O.V. - Farmsteaders
  Wednesday, 8/17 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
  This film follows Nick Nolan and his young family on a journey to resurrect his late grandfather's dairy farm as agriculture moves toward large-scale farming. A study of place and persistence, it points an honest and tender lens at everyday life in rural America, offering an unexpected voice for a forsaken people: those who grow the food that sustains us. P.O.V Streaming Video
  
  
• P.O.V. - Portraits and Dreams
  Wednesday, 8/17 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
  Portraits and Dreams revisits photographs created by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald, who guided the students in making their visionary photographs, returns to Kentucky and learns how the lives and visions of her former students have changed. The film combines the new narratives and insights of the now adult students. P.O.V Streaming Video
  
  
• NOVA - Mysteries of Sleep
  Wednesday, 8/17 from 9-10:30 pm NHPBS
  Like virtually every other animal, humans need sleep to survive. But why? Scientists peer into the brain to see what happens while we snooze and understand the powerful role that sleep - or lack of it - plays in memory, trauma and emotion regulation. NOVA Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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