Snakes, Ice Cream, and Mary Baker Eddy - July 16

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Today is  National Guinea Pig Day, World Snake Day, National Hot Dog Day, Fresh Spinach Day, and National Corn Fritters Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Snakes and Mary Baker Eddy

ON THIS DATE

• 1918 - Czar Nicholas II and his wife and five children are executed by the Bolsheviks.
• 1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye is published
• 1979 - Saddam Hussein becomes president of Iraq.
• 2004 - Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison for lying about a stock transaction.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1723 - English artist Sir Joshua Reynolds 
• 1821 - Religious leader Mary Baker Eddy 
• 1911 - Dancer and actor Ginger Rogers

SONGS (and DANCE) OF THE DAY 

• Jim Stafford - Spiders and Snakes  - LISTEN
• Duran Duran - Union of the Snake - LISTEN
• Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - Too Hot To Handle - VIEW
• Whitesnake - Here I Go Again - VIEW

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Craters of the Moon, Idaho - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

PBS Food - Sweet Corn Ice Cream - MAKE

THEME: SNAKES

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Ernie Sings "Do What I Do" with Sandy the Snake (4:14) - VIEW
• Gades PreK-2 - PBS Crafts for Kids - Paper Plate Snakes - DO
• Grades K-2 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Wild Kratts - Happy Birthday Baby Pythons (2:11) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-2 - Nature Cat - Snakes?! Why Does it Have to be Snakes?! (3:46) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Snake Super Sense! (2:27) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - King Cobra (1:10) - VIEW
• Grades K-4 - NHPBS Video - Up Close & Natural - Snakes (14:21) - VIEW
• Grades K-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Snakes Media Gallery - VIEW and DO
• Grades 1-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Snake Super Sense! (2:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 -  NHPBS learning Media - Untamed - Snakes (26:44) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-12 - NH Fish and Game - Snakes of New Hampshire - READ
• Grades 4-6 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Snakes (5:20) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS VIdeo - Nature - Carer Risks Life to Save One of Australia's Deadliest Snakes (3:26) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Outdoor Nevada - Rattlesnakes (Available in Spanish) (4:19) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Eons - The Great Snake Debate (6:28) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake (7:45) - VIEW

THEME: MARY BAKER EDDY

• Grades 7-12  - National Women's History Museum  - Mary Baker Eddy - READ
• Grades 7-12 - National Women's Hall of Fame - Mary Baker Eddy - READ
• Grades 7-12 - NHPR - Mary Baker Eddy: Founding a Faith Against the Odds (and the Haters) (50:26) - READ and LISTEN

Pressroom Contact

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