Grand Canyon - February 26

Monday, February 26, 2024

Today is Carpe Diem Day, Bacon Day, Pistachio Day, and Fairy Tale Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Say African American?

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: The Grand Canyon
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ON THIS DATE

• 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
• 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
• 1970 - National Public Radio is incorporated.
• 1993 - A  bomb explodes in the garage of the World Trade Center in New York, killing six and injuring over 1,000.
• 2012 - Travon Martin, 17, is shot to death in Sanford, Florida by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1564 - English playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe
• 1802 - French writer Victor Hugo
• 1829 - Businessman and jean designer Levi Strauss
• 1846 - Showman Buffalo Bill
• 1908 - Animator Tex Avery
• 1928 - Singer-songwriter Fats Domino
• 1932 - Singer-songwriter Johnny Cash
• 1950 - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark
• 1953 - Singer-songwriter Michael Bolton
• 1971 - Singer-songwriter Erykah Badu
• 1973 - Swimmer and former Dover, NH resident Jenny Thompson

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill - LISTEN
• Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line - LISTEN

THEME:  The Grand Canyon

• Grades PreK-12 - National Park Service - Grand Canyon Web Cams - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - Behold the Grand Canyon (3:20) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - Nature Cat - How Did the Grand Canyon Get so Grand (3:33) - VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - National Park Service - Grand Canyon Learning Resources - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon - How It Formed (Available in Spanish) (3:41) -VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova -The Top Two Rock Layers (1:28) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Uncovering Layers of the Grand Canyon (4:51) (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 4-12 - National Park Service - Grand Canyon National Park - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon: Ancient Mountains (Available in Spanish) (1:46) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon: Evidence of Earth's Past (2:51) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - The Grand Canyon: Its Youngest Rocks (Available in Spanish) (2:01) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video -  Beyond-the-Rim-100-Years-Grand-Canyon (40:31)- VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - How Does A Canyon Become Grand? (4:03) - VIEW

WATCH

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INDEPENDENT LENS - Down a Dark Stairwell
Monday, 2/26 from 2-3:30 am NH WORLD
A Chinese American cop shoots and kills an innocent Black man in the dark stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project. Suddenly, two marginalized communities must navigate an uneven criminal justice system together. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

POV SHORTS - Shut Up and Paint
Monday, 2/26 from 3:30-4 pm NH WORLD
Painter Titus Kaphar uses film as a medium while grappling with an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism. POV Streaming Video

FIGHT THE POWER: HOW HIP-HOP CHANGED THE WORLD - The Foundation
Monday, 2/26 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Discover the factors that led to the birth of Hip Hop and its first socially conscious hit The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in 1982. FIGHT THE POWER: HOW HIP-HOP CHANGED THE WORLD Streaming Video

HARRIET TUBMAN: VISIONS OF FREEDOM
Monday, 2/26 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Go beyond the legend and meet the woman who repeatedly risked her own life and freedom to liberate others from slavery. One of the greatest freedom fighters in U.S. history, Tubman was an Underground Railroad conductor, a Civil War scout, and a spy. HARRIET TUBMAN: VISIONS OF FREEDOM Streaming Video

BECOMING FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Monday, 2/26 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
Discover how a man born into slavery became one of the most influential voices for democracy in American history. BECOMING FREDERICK DOUGLASS Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339