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

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Today is National Ice Cream Day, National Guinea Pig Day, World Snake Day, Fresh Spinach Day, National Corn Fritters Day, and the MLB All-Star Game.

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
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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: Ice Cream

• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Ice Cream Parlour Fieldtrip (7:15)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1  - Sesame Street - Ernie's Ice Cream Cone (3:05) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Homemade Ice Cream (12:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Learn - Making Non-Dairy Ice Cream (10:52) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-3 - Arthur - An Ice Cream Experiment (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-5 - PBS LearningMedia - 60 Second Science - Making Ice Cream (1:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Martha Speaks - Operation Ice Cream Game - DO
• Grades 3-6 - NHPBS Video - DIY Science Time - Thermal Energy (23:39) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Delishtory - We All Scream for Ice Cream (5:30) - 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

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

PBS NEWS SPECIAL - THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
Tuesday, 7/16 from 8-10 pm NHPBS
 Live coverage of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, co-anchored by News Hour's Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett.

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

FRONTLINE - Democracy on Trial
Tuesday, 7/16 from 2-4:30 pm NH WORLD
The roots of the criminal cases against former President Trump stemming from his 2020 election loss. Amid the presidential race, examining the House Jan. 6 committee's evidence, the threat to democracy, and the historic charges against Trump. FRONTLINE Streaming Video

NOVA - Ancient Builders of the Amazon
Tuesday, 7/16 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
Recent discoveries in archaeology are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of ancient civilizations that flourished for centuries, with prehistoric populations numbering in the millions. NOVA Streaming Video

NOVA - Emperor's Ghost Army
Tuesday, 7/16 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
With exclusive access to groundbreaking new research, NOVA investigates the secrets of how and why the astonishing figures were made and the technology behind the still lethal and highly advanced weapons carried by the clay warriors. NOVA Streaming Video

IMPOSSIBLE BUILDS - Skinny Skyscraper
Tuesday, 7/16 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
In Manhattan, architects and engineers are redefining just how much land it takes to support a skyscraper. In a city where the only direction to build is up, they've designed a needle-thin tower 82 stories high, built on the construction equivalent of a postage stamp. IMPOSSIBLE BUILDS Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

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