Today is Dick Tracy Day, National Golf Day, National Taco Day, National Ship in a Bottle Day, and World Animal Day.
October is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month, Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Dyslexia Awareness Month, Health Literacy Month, Pizza Month, National Dessert Month, National AIDS Awareness Month, Country Music Month, LGBT History Month, Bat Appreciation Month, World Animal Month, Bullying Prevention Month, and Raptor Month.
Animal Cam of the Day: San Diego Zoo Platypus Cam
Dessert of the Day: Chocolate Tacos Filled with Hazelnut-Chocolate Mousse
LGBT History Resource of the Day: The LGBTQ Movement and Stonewall Uprising
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Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Golf, Sputnik, and Calendars
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THEME: SPUTNIK
THEME: CALENDARS
MAKING BLACK AMERICA: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE - Building Black America
Tuesday, 10/04 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Free Black people, in the North and South, built towns, established schools, and held conventions - creating robust networks to address the political, economic, and social needs of the entire Black community. MAKING BLACK AMERICA Streaming Video
HARRIET TUBMAN; VISIONS OF FREEDOM
Tuesday, 10/04 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Go beyond the legend and meet the woman who repeatedly risked her own life and freedom to liberate others from slavery. HARRIET TUBMAN: VISIONS OF FREEDOM Streaming Video
CIVILIZATIONS - Encounters
Tuesday, 10/4 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
See how advances in seafaring and a thirst for trade and exploration sent human beings around the planet. Distant and disparate cultures met for the first time, and art became the great interface by which civilizations understood each other. . CIVILIZATIONS Streaming Video
CIVILIZATIONS - Renaissances
Tuesday, 10/4 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
Travel east and west to explore the connections and rivalries between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic empires that experienced their own cultural flowering in the 15th and 16th centuries. Both spheres were open to influences flowing both ways. CIVILIZATIONS Streaming Video
CIVILIZATIONS - Paradise on Earth
Tuesday, 10/4 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Explore one of humanity's deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature. But landscape painting is seldom a straightforward portrayal of observed nature; it's a projection of dreams, idylls, escapes, and refuges of the elusive paradise on earth. CIVILIZATIONS Streaming Video
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