Whale Sharks - August 30

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

• Today is International Cabernet Sauvignon Day, International Whale Shark Day, National Beach Day, National Grief Awareness Day, National Toasted Marshmallow Day, and Slinky 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: Environmental Public Health Collection
  
  
• Sandwich of the Day: Scrambled Egg Salad Sandwich

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  WHALE SHARKS
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ON THIS DATE

• 1963 - A hotline communication link is established between the White Houe and the Kremlin.
• 1965 - Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited is released.
• 1967 - The U.S.Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
• 1983 - Guion S. Bluford Jr. becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1748 - French artist Jacques-Louis David
• 1797 - Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• 1871 - English Physicist Ernest Rutherford 
• 1893 - Politician Huey P. Long
• 1918 - Red Sox great Ted Williams

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife - LISTEN
• Jimmy Buffet - FIns - LISTEN
• Dickie Goodman - Mr. Jaws - LISTEN
• Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone - LISTEN

THEME: WHALE SHARKS

• Grades K-3 - Splash and Bubbles - Get Your Feet Wet: Whale Sharks (1:43) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal, Junior - Rhincodontidae - Whale Sharks - READ
• Grades 4-12 - NOAA & the Octonauts Podcast - Whale Sharks - LISTEN and READ
• Grades 5-12 - Florida Museum of Natural History - Whale Shark - READ
• Grades 5-12- NHPBS Video - Changing Seas - Biggest Fish in the Sea (26:53) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - Nova - The Secret Lives of Whale Sharks - READ
• Grades 6-12- PBS LearningMedia - Kip Evans - Whale Sharks (3:15) - VIEW

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XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM M-F 6 am and 4:30 pm NHPBS
8/30 - I Am Jigonsaseh/I Am Sacagawea - VIEW
XAVIER RIDDLE Streaming Video, Games, and Activities

WILD KRATTS M-F 7:30 am and 3:30 pm NHPBS
8/30 - Elephant Brains - VIEW
WILD KRATTS Streaming Video, Games, and Activities

HERO ELEMENTARY M-F 8 am and 3 pm NHPBS
8/30 - Hatching A Plan/The Invisible Force - VIEW
HERO ELEMENTARY Streaming Video, Games, and Activities

LET"S GO LUNA M-F 2:30 pm NHPBS
8/30 - The Ghost Piper Of Edinburgh Castle/Make 'Em Laugh (Edinburgh, Scotland)
LET"S GO LUNA Streaming Video, Games, and Activities

NATURE: SUPER CATS - Extreme Lives
Tuesday, 8/30 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
Meet the planet's ultimate cats. Cheetahs are the fastest animal on land. A snow leopard searches for a mate in the Himalayas. The Canada lynx lives farther north than any cat. An African leopard fights to raise a cub in the worst drought in decades. NATURE Streaming Video

NATURE: SUPER CATS - Cat in Every Corner
Tuesday, 8/30 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
Discover how cats have conquered the world, thriving in almost every landscape on Earth, from fishing cats in the wetlands of Asia to a pregnant jaguar in Costa Rica, to margays in Central American treetops, to a swamp tiger on the Indian shore. NATURE Streaming Video

NATURE: SUPER CATS - Science and Secrets
Tuesday, 8/30 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
See how new technologies help uncover some cats' most intimate secrets, including the cheetah's gymnastic abilities and why lions are able to hunt cooperatively. Conservationists are fighting to protect the most endangered species around the globe. NATURE Streaming Video

NOVA - Operation Lighthouse Rescue
Tuesday, 8/30 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
The Gay Head Lighthouse, a historic landmark perched high on the cliffs of Martha's Vineyard, is soon to become the next victim of the ocean's relentless erosion of the island's cliffs. Join engineers as they race to rescue this national treasure. NOVA Streaming Video

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Fatal Flood
Tuesday, 8/30 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people, and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys -- and the Percys against themselves. A story of greed, power, and race during one of America's greatest natural disasters. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

NOVA - Butterfly Blueprints
Tuesday, 8/30 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
Investigate the hidden scientific secrets of butterflies that reveal them as more inventive and resilient than we imagined, and explore how they're inspiring cutting-edge technical innovations. NOVA Streaming Video

RISE OF THE BOLSONAROS
Tuesday, 8/30 from 9-11 pm NHPBS
The Bolsonaros, the world's newest political dynasty, and for many in and outside of Brazil they are extremely dangerous. This program unpicks the Bolsonaros' meteoric rise to power and the scandals that accompanied it. RISE OF THE BOLSONAROS Streaming Video

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