Ada Lovelace and Emily Dickinson - December 10
Ladies First Learning
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Today is Dewey Decimal System Day, Human Rights Day, Jane Addams Day, Day of Animal Rights, and Nobel Prize Day.
Winter Resource of the Day:
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Ada Lovelace and Emily Dickinson
ON THIS DATE
- 1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
- 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
- 1884 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
- 1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Russo-Japanese War.
- 1948 - The U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
- 1815 - English mathematician and computer scientist Ada Lovelace
- 1830 - Poet Emily Dickinson
- 1851 - Librarian Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification system
- Queen Latifah - Ladies First - LISTEN
- Grades 4-12 - BBC - Newsround - Who Was Ada Lovelace? - READ
- Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Visionaries: Ada Lovelace (1:21) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - Computer History Museum - Ada Lovelace - READ
THEME: EMILY DICKINSON
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry Everywhere - I started Early-Took my Dog (1:33) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12- PBS LearningMedia - American Passages - Gothic Undercurrents (28:23) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Finding Emily Dickinson in the Power of Her Poetry (6:15) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS Books - Trailblazing Women: Emily Dickinson and Poetry in America Panel Discussion (1:03:47) - VIEW
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