Friday the 13th and Eggs - October 13

Friday, October 13, 2023

Today is Friday the 13^th,  Navy Birthday, Silly Sayings Day, World Egg Day, M&M Day, and Yorkshire Pudding Day.

Animal Cam of the Day: Monterey Bay Jelly Cam
Dessert of the Day: Yorkshire Tapas Pudding
LGBT History Resource of the Day: Educator Explains What It Means to Be Transgender

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Friday the 13th and Eggs
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ON THIS DATE

• 1775 - The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy.
• 1792 - The cornerstone of the White House is laid.
• 1884 - The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
• 1903 - The Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox) win the first World Series.
• 1908 - Suffragist and journalist Margaret Travers Symons sneaks into the UK parliament and becomes the first woman to speak there.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1754 - Revolutionary War figure Molly Pitcher
• 1909 - Editorial cartoonist Herblock
• 1925 - UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
• 1925 - Comedian Lenny Bruce
• 1941 - Musician Paul Simon
• 1961 - Basketball coach Doc Rivers
• 1989 - U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al - LISTEN
• Paul Simon - Sesame Street - Me and Julio Down by the School Yard - LISTEN
  
• The Beatles - I Am the Walrus - LISTEN
• Stevie Wonder - Superstition - LISTEN

THEME:  Friday the 13th

• Grades PreK-1 - Peg + Cat - Friday the 13th (1:19)  - VIEW
  
• Grades 3-6 - CBC (Canadian Broadcasting) Kids - Who's Afraid of Friday the 13th? - READ
• Grades 5-12 - PBS NewsHour - It's Friday the 13th - READ
• Grades 6-12 - Nature - Guilt by Association? How Cats Became Steeped in Superstition - READ

THEME:  EGGS

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Rotten Eggs and Jam (1:54)  - VIEW
  
• PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Sesame Street - Stone Barns Egg Chore (2:19) - VIEW 
• PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Everyday Learning -What Comes from an Egg? (1:39) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Mystic Egg Pizza (11:00) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Laying Eggs (2:24) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Create Egg Carton Turtles (1:12) - VIEW and DO
• Grade K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts -The Great Crocodile Hatching! (2:30) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Zoom - Making Eggs Float (3:03) - VIEW and DO
  
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Science-U - How Do You Drop an Egg Without Breaking It? (2:51) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Warmer Water Kills Salmon Eggs (3:05) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 -  PBS LearningMedia - NC Science Now - Nest Egg Science (5:20) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature  - American Eagle: Challenges of Incubation (3:19) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Why Don't Birds Lay Square Eggs (7:21)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 -  NHPBS Video - Eons - How the Egg Came First (8:44) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 -  NHPBS Video - Eons - The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief (7:28) - VIEW

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NEXT AT THE KENNEDY CENTER - Robert Glasper's Black Radio
Friday, 10/13 from 10:30-11:30 pm NHPBS
Robert Glasper, five-time Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, and producer, invites his tightly knit community of collaborators to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his iconic, award-winning, and cross-genre revolutionary album - Black Radio. Accompanied by Lalah Hathaway, Meshell Ndegeocello, Bilal, and many more, Glasper reimagines his seminal album and reflects on how the album has profoundly transformed black music in the decade since its conception. NEXT AT THE KENNEDY CENTER Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (965) More Options

Free to Speak is a three-part PBS documentary series that explores the power and controversy of free speech. The series is hosted by Nadine Strossen, who is also the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law School. Strossen is joined by journalists, scholars, and activists.

FREE TO SPEAK - Thought Police
Friday, 10/13 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Thought Police examines the long history of governments suppressing speech - with clear echoes of George Orwell's warning of a world without free speech. The program weaves personal stories from Hong Kong, North Korea, and Peru, whose governments tried to suppress free speech, one of them resulting in a monumental - and avoidable - human tragedy. FREE TO SPEAK Streaming Video

FREE TO SPEAK - The One True Faith
Friday, 10/13 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
Challenging either religious or scientific dogma can prove explosive. The One True Faith looks at the once-sacrilegious beliefs of Galileo and shows the uproar caused by the Scopes Monkey Trial. The program also examines the work of Nobel Laureate Barry Marshall, who proved that ulcers were caused by bacteria and explores the cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo that led to a horrifying massacre. FREE TO SPEAK Streaming Video

FREE TO SPEAK - The Speech We Hate
Friday, 10/13 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
The Speech We Hate features a Kenyan filmmaker whose love story of two women garnered a nationwide ban. Viewers also meet a Turkish political artist who was censored for his provocative work in the U.S., a hip-hop historian who recalls the arrest of members of 2 Live Crew for obscenity, and a student who took a lawsuit over banned books in his school all the way to the Supreme Court. FREE TO SPEAK Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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