Kangaroos - May 15

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Today is International Kangaroo Care Awareness Day, Bring Flowers to Someone Day, Buddha Day, International Day of Families, National Chocolate Chip Day, and Straw Hat Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Kangaroos
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ON THIS DATE

• 1911 - The Supreme Court rules that Standard Oil is a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders that it be broken up.
• 1941 - Joe DiMaggio begins a 56-game hitting streak.
• 1970 - President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington as the first female Army generals.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1567 - Italian composer and priest Claudio Monteverdi
• 1689 - English writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• 1856 - Wizard of Oz writer L. Frank Baum
• 1857 - Astronomer Williamina Fleming
• 1859 - French physicist Pierre Curie
• 1890 - Writer Katherine Anne Porter
• 1909 - English actor James Mason
• 1923 - Photographer Richard Avedon
• 1930 - Artist Jasper Johns
• 1936 - Playwright and novelist Paul Zindel
• 1937 - Politician and diplomat Madeleine Albright

SONG OF THE DAY 

Men At Work - I Come From a Land Down Under - LISTEN

ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Pacific Heartbeat

THEME:  Kangaroos

• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Paws for a Minute - Tree Kangaroo (1:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Five Kangaroos with Jessica Mauboy! (1:53) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Steet - Kangaroo Blues (1:52) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-12 - Sydney Zoo - Australian Wildlife Videos - VIEW
• Grades K-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Kicking It With the Roos (26:26) -VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Camp TV - Kangaroos (4:27) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Kickboxing Kangaroos (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Macropod Mania (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Cartoon Academy - Kangaroo and Joey Too (6:12) - VIEW And DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS Wildlife Journal Junior - Kangaroos and Wallabies - READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Kangaroo Island: Australian Bushfire Rescue (9:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Australia's First Four Billion Years - The Evolution of Kangaroos (3:43) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Gross Science - Could Kangaroo Farts Curb Global Warming? (2:26) - VIEW and DO

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

NATURE - Saving the Animals of Ukraine 
Wednesday, 5/15 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
In the midst of violence and war, Ukrainian citizens are coming together to rescue animals that have been left behind by those forced to flee. Witness a moving view into the effects of war on animals, and the humans who help them. NATURE Streaming Video

NOVA - Secrets in Your Data 
Wednesday, 5/15 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Find out who's using your personal data and what you - and a new kind of web - can do about it. NOVA Streaming Video

POMPEII: THE NEW DIG - The Bodies 
Wednesday, 5/15 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Archaeologists embark on the biggest dig in a generation at Pompeii. Told through the drama of the dig, imagine what life was like in Pompeii before the eruption and the horror faced by the residents as Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

P.O.V. - Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Became Dust 
Wednesday, 5/15 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
Three communities intersect, sharing histories of forced removal - Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the Manzanar WWII concentration camp, Native Americans who were forced from these lands, and ranchers turned environmentalists, who were bought out by the LA Department of Water and Power. How do they come together in the present moment to defend their land and water from Los Angeles? P.O.V. Streaming Video

CHINA FRAME BY FRAME 
Wednesday, 5/15 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Emmy-Award-winning filmmaker Bill Einreinhofer reflects on the time he spent in China, what he discovered, what he learned, and the dramatic changes he witnessed. His pictures include original interviews and scenes shot throughout China, as well as little-seen historical footage discovered in the most unlikely of places: America's National Archives and the Library of Congress.

Pressroom Contact

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