Beethoven and Jane Austen - December 16
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Today is National Chocolate-Covered Anything Day, Stupid Toy Day, and Boston Tea Party Day.
Winter Resource of the Day: Cartoon Academy - Winter Wonderland: That's Snow Business
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: BEETHOVEN AND JANE AUSTEN
- 1773 – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston Harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
- 1777 – Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
ON THIS DATE
- 1653 - Oliver Cromwell becomes lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
- 1773 - Colonists dump over 300 crates of tea into Boston Harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
- 1777 - Virginia is the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
- 1811 - The first of the New Madrid earthquakes, with an estimated magnitude of 7.7, strikes the central Mississippi Valley
- 1944 - The Battle of the Bulge begins when German forces launch a surprise attack against Allied forces in Belgium.
- 1770 - German composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1775 - English author Jane Austen
- 1863 - Spanish philosopher and writer George Santayana
- 1866 - Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky
- 1901 - Anthropologist Margaret Mead
- 1941 - Journalist Lesley Stahl
Ludwig van Beethoven's - Fur Elise - LISTENLudwig van Beethoven's - Moonlight Sonata - LISTEN- Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven - LISTEN
- Grades 1-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - FM Symphony Orchestra Young People's Concert: Symphony No. 9 (3:51) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit -The Classical Period: “Storm Movement” from Beethoven’s 6th Symphony (5:41) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - The Genius of Beethoven (9:20) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - Beethoven's Emperor Concerto (10:50) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Juliek's Violin: Part 3 - Beethoven and Night (12:12) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NET 360° - The Chiara Quartet Plays Beethoven by Heart (8:28) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - In Concert With CMS: Beethoven and Mozart (56:56) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - Sound Bites - Celebrating 250 Years of Beethoven (57:48) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - The Philadelphia Orchestra - Beethoven NOW (1:26:13) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - Great Performances - Scott Yoo Performs Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata (3:51) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12- NHPBS Video - Live From Lincoln Center - Beethoven's Humor (1:46) - VIEW
- Grade 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read - Pride and Prejudice (5:55) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater - Sense and Sensibility 1: Dinner at Norland Park (2:13) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater - Sense and Sensibility 2: Barton Cottage (1:35) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater - Sense and Sensibility 3: The Proposal (2:15) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater - Sanditon: An Opinionated Woman (2:32) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater - Sanditon: An Independent Heiress (2:23) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Masterpiece Theater - Sanditon: Slavery and Its Legacy in England (1:27) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Endures (5:37) - VIEW
- Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Unspoken (5:31) - VIEW
- Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Untamed (5:29) - VIEW
- Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Unwritten (5:44) - VIEW
- Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Lessons (5:25) - VIEW
- Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Aspirations (5:28) - VIEW
- Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Heroines (6:09) - VIEW
- Grade 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Sanditon - Jane Austen Love Stories (6:15) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - On Story - Deconstructing Jane Austen (26:47) - VIEW
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