Puzzles - January 29

Sunday, January 29, 2024

Today is National Puzzle Day, Seeing Eye Dog Day, and Curmudgeons Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Puzzles
Watch

ON THIS DATE

• 1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th  state.
• 1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator. He later became the 31st vice president under Herbert Hoover.
• 1936 -Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, and Christy Mathewson are revealed as the first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 1963 - NH poet Robert Frost dies in Boston.
• 1980 - The Rubik's Cube makes its international debut in London.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1737 - Political activist Thomas Paine
• 1843 - 25th President of the U.S. William McKinley
• 1860 - Russian playwright Anton Chekhov
• 1861 - Civil rights activist, educator, and writer Florida Ruffin Ridley
• 1880 - Actor and screenwriter W. C. Fields
• 1881 - Microbiologist Alice Catherine Evans
• 1923 - Writer Paddy Chayefsky
• 1954 Talk show host and producer Oprah Winfrey

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Rolling Stones - Jigsaw Puzzle - LISTEN

THEME:  Puzzles

• Grade PreK-1 - Daniel Tiger - It's a Puzzle World (0:58) - VIEW
• Grades 5-7 - PBS LearningMedia - The Belly Buster Pizza Puzzle (1:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Raising an Obelisk: An Engineering Puzzle (5:52) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - FoldIt: A Protein Puzzle Game (Available in Spanish) (3:07) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl - Can You Solve This Pier Puzzle? (4:58) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Light Falls - What Puzzles You? (3:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -  Infinite Series - The Assassin Puzzle (9:12) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -  Infinite Series - Instant Insanity Puzzle (9:32) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Physics Girl - Can You Solve the Bowl Riddle? (6:11)  - VIEW 

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

INDEPENDENT LENS - Razing Liberty Square
Monday, 1/29 from 10-11:30 pm NHPBS
Liberty City, Miami, is home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. With rising sea levels, the neighborhood's higher ground has become something else: real estate gold. Wealthy property owners push inland to higher ground, creating a speculators' market in the historically Black neighborhood previously ignored by developers and policy-makers alike. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

NH EXPLORE- 11.2 Comcast (11/801) More Options

GREAT PERFORMANCES - Anything Goes
Monday, 1/29 from 12-2:30 pm NH EXPLORE
Enjoy this London production of Cole Porter's classic musical led by Tony winner Sutton Foster who reprises her Tony-winning role as Reno Sweeney directed by Kathleen Marshall with favorite songs like "I Get A Kick Out of You" and "You're the Top." GREAT PERFORMANCES Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (956) More Options

AMERICAN MASTERS - Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story
Monday, 1/29 from 2-3:30 pm NH WORLD
Explore the groundbreaking career of master trumpeter Doc Severinsen, from his three decades as the colorful bandleader to "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" to his relentless schedule of touring and performing into his nineties. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video

AMERICAN MASTERS - Buddy Guy: Chase the Blues Away
Monday, 1/29 from 3:30-5 pm NH WORLD
Dive into the career of the legendary blues guitarist, a pioneer of Chicago's West Side sound and a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Featuring new performances and interviews with Carlos Santana and more. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video

P.O.V. - Winter's Yearning
Monday, 1/29 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
In Maniitsoq, Greenland, the US aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. With the promise of economic renewal, Winter's Yearning follows the lives of the area's loyal aging population and its stymied youth. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first step towards sovereignty. P.O.V. Streaming Video

P.O.V. - Let the Little Light Shine
Monday, 1/29 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
National Teachers Academy (NTA) is a top-ranked, high-performing elementary school in a growing south-side Chicago neighborhood. As the neighborhood gentrifies, a wealthy parents group seeks to close NTA and replace it with a high school campus. P.O.V. Streaming Video

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