Mahatma Gandhi - March 12

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Today is Girl Scouts Day, Alfred Hitchcock Day, and Plant a Flower Day.

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Mahatma Gandhi
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ON THIS DATE

• 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March.
• 1987 -  "Les Miserables" opens on Broadway.
• 1993 - Janet Reno becomes the first female Attorney General of the U.S. 
• 2020 - The U.S. suspends travel from Europe due to COVID-19.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1806 - First Lady and Hampton, New Hampshire native  Jane Pierce
• 1889 - Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky
• 1918 - Painter Elaine de Kooning
• 1922 - Beat poet Jack Kerouac
• 1928 - Playwright Edward Albee
• 1936 -Children's author Virginia Hamilton
• 1940 - Singer Al Jarreau
• 1946 - Actor and singer Liza Minnelli
• 1947 - Politician Mitt Romney
• 1968 - Politician Tammy Duckworth

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Liz Minnelli - Life is a Cabaret -  LISTEN
Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace a Chance - LISTEN
Al Jarreau - Mornin' - LISTEN

THEME:  Mahatma Gandhi

• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots - Kal Penn: Gandhi's Salt March (4:02)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearingMedia -  American Experience - Freedom Riders: The Inspiration (3:21)  - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - EDSITEment - Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, and the Power of Nonviolence Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Is Gandhi Relevant Today? (47:54) - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - The Sun Queen
Tuesday, 3/12 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
For nearly 50 years, chemical engineer and inventor Maria Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to harnessing the power of the sun. She designed and built the world's first successfully solar-heated modern residence and identified a promising new chemical that, for the first time, could store solar heat like a battery. And yet, along the way, she was undercut and thwarted by her boss and colleagues - all men - at MIT. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

FRONTLINE - Boeing's Fatal Flaw
Tuesday, 3/12 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
New questions about Boeing's troubled 737 Max jet, years after two crashes that killed 346 people. An update of the award-winning investigation with The New York Times into the design, oversight, and production of Boeing's fastest-selling plane. FRONTLINE Streaming Video

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

P.O.V. - We Are the Radical Monarchs
Tuesday, 3/12 from 12-1:30 pm NH EXPLORE
Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice. Follow the group as they earn badges for completing units on such subjects as being an LGBTQ ally, preserving the environment, and disability justice. P.O.V. Streaming Video

P.O.V. - Softie
Tuesday, 3/12 from 12-1:30-3 pm NH EXPLORE
After years of fighting injustice in Kenya, daring and audacious activist Boniface "Softie" Mwangi decides to run for political office. But running a clean campaign against corrupt opponents with idealism as his only weapon proves challenging. P.O.V. Streaming Video

LITTLE WOMEN ON MASTERPIECE - Parts 1-3
Tuesday, 3/12 from 8-11 pm NH EXPLORE
Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, the story follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother, Marmee -- and while their father is away at war -- the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman: from sibling rivalry and first love to loss and marriage LITTLE WOMEN Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

AMERICAN MASTERS: Flannery
Tuesday, 3/12 from 2-3:30 pm NH WORLD
Explore the life of Flannery O'Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, newly discovered journals, and interviews with Mary Karr, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilton Als, and more. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video

NOVA - Picture a Scientist
Wednesday, 3/13 from 8-10 pm NH WORLD
Women make up less than a quarter of STEM professionals in the United States, and numbers are even lower for women of color. But a growing group of researchers is exposing longstanding discrimination and making science more inclusive. NOVA Streaming Video

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