Mutts - December 2

Saturday, December 2, 2023

Today is Special Education Day, Earmuffs Day, National Fritters Day, National Mutt Day, and Play Basketball Day.

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

• 1697 - St Paul's Cathedral is consecrated in London.
• 1763 - Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in the colonial states.
• 1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
• 1809 - In what is now known as the Monroe Doctrine, President James Monroe in a State of the Union message, states that America will be neutral in future European conflicts and will not tolerate European interference in American affairs.
• 1859 - Abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
• 1942 -  As part of the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
• 1954 - The U.S. Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
• 1961 - In a radio speech, Fidel Castro declares that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
• 1988 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, and becomes the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1859 - French artist Georges Seurat
• 1923 - Opera singer Maria Callas
• 1946 - Fashion designer Gianni Versace
• 1952 - NH politician Carol Shea-Porter
• 1981 - Singer Britney Spears

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Britney Spears - Oops! I Did It Again - LISTEN
• Maria Callas - Puccini - O Mio Babbino Cara - LISTEN
• Pete Seeger - John Brown's Body - LISTEN

THEME: Mutts

• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Clifford the Big Red Dog Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street  - It's a Doggy World (3:16)  - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street  - Walking the Dog Song (1:27) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Has Anybody Seen My Dog? (3:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Gina Explains Service Dogs (3:01) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Meet Digby the Dog (1:15) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - How to Be a Good Dog (2:54) - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Molly of Denali -Tooey’s Hero (25:25)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Social and Cultural Perspectives of Dogs (8:53) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - The Historic Relationships Between Dogs and Humans (7:53)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature -The Herding Dogs of the United Kingdom (7:44)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature -The Sled Dogs of the Arctic Circle (7:17) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature -The Hunting Dogs of Papua New Guinea (3:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Sled Dogs (9:40) - VIEW
  
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Colorblind Dogs (4:54)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Scientist Profile: Dog Handler (2:13) - VIEW 
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Dog Tales (54:11) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12- PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Driftwood the Dog (5:36) - VIEW, READ, DO
  
• Grades 6-12- PBS LearningMedia - Nova Science Now - Do Dogs Understand Fairness? (Available in Spanish) (2:56) - VIEW and DO 
  
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Five Dogs with Crazy Resumes Collection - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Deep Look - How Your Dog's Nose Knows So Much (3:34) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Can Dogs Smell Cancer? (9:41) -  VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Eons -The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends (9:21)  - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Why Dog Food STINKS! (5:37) - VIEW

Watch 

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (965) More Options

THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG - Part Two
Saturday, 12/02 from 7-10 pm NH WORLD
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of African American religion beginning with the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the extraordinary ways enslaved Africans preserved and adapted faith practices from the brutality of slavery to emancipation. THE BLACK CHURCH Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
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