Extinct Birds - February 21
Lost Bird Learning
Thursday, February 21, 2024
Today is National Sticky Bun Day.
Black History Month Resource of the Day: NHPBS - Black Culture Connection
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Extinct Birds
ON THIS DATE
- 1848 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
- 1878 - The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
- 1885 - The Washington Monument is dedicated.
- 1916 - The Battle of Verdun begins in France.
- 1918 - The last Carolina parakeet dies at the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 1925 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
- 1965 - Malcolm X is assassinated while giving a talk at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
- 1972 - President Richard M. Nixon begins his historic visit to China.
- 1621 - Massachusetts colonist who was executed as a witch, Rebecca Nurse
- 1893 - Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia
- 1903 - Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey
- 1907 - Poet and playwright W. H. Auden
- 1933 - Singer-songwriter Nina Simone
- 1936 - Politician Barbara Jordan
- 1940 - Politician and civil rights activist John Lewis
- 1946 - English Actor Alan Rickman
- 1964 - Astronaut and politician Mark Kelly
- 1979 - Actor, producer, and screenwriter Jordan Peele
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Do You Know About the Dodo? (1:19) - VIEW
- Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Jump Back in Time (2:22) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Aviva's Latest Invention: Dodo Birds (1:33) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Smithsonian Science How - Bird Extinctions: Time Travel through Lava Tubes (29:14) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Reawakening Extinct Species (26:46) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Hiki No - Return of the Alala (26:02) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Eons - The Time Terror Birds Invaded (5:32) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place -The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon (55:05) - VIEW
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NATURE - Patrick and the Whale
Wednesday, 2/21 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
For years, Patrick Dykstra has traveled the globe following and diving with whales, learning how whales see, hear, and perceive other creatures in the water. In Dominica, Patrick has a life-changing experience - a close encounter with a sperm whale he names "Delores." Witness Patrick and the whale attempt to communicate with each other in extraordinary footage. NATURE Streaming Video
NOVA - Hunt for the Oldest DNA
Wednesday, 2/21 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
For decades, scientists have tried to unlock the secrets of ancient DNA. Follow the dramatic quest to recover DNA millions of years old and reveal a lost world from before the last Ice Age. NOVA Streaming Video
SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Leonardo: The Man Who Saved Science
Wednesday, 2/21 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks - some even 1,700 years before. Was Leonardo a copycat? SECRETS OF THE DEAD Streaming Video
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CIVILIZATIONS - What is Art (Good For)?
Wednesday, 2/21 from 11 am-12 pm NH EXPLORE
Survey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. Programs reveal the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduce viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity, and illumination across cultures. CIVILIZATIONS Streaming Video
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INDEPENDENT LENS - Soul Food Junkies
Wednesday, 2/21 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
Baffled by his dad's reluctance to change his traditional soul food diet in the face of a health crisis, filmmaker Byron Hurt sets out to learn more about this culinary tradition and its relevance to black cultural identity. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video
INDEPENDENT LENS - Ferguson Rises
Wednesday, 2/21 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Michael Brown Sr.'s son was killed in 2014 by white police officer Darren Wilson, an event that fueled the global Black Lives Matter movement. But his personal story of seeking justice and healing has not been told until now. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video
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