Antarctica and Ernest Hemingway - July 21

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Today is No Pet Store Puppies Day, National Junk Food Day, Take a Monkey to Lunch Day, and National Ice Cream 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: Antarctica and Ernest Hemingway
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ON THIS DATE

• 1861 - The  Confederate Army wins the First Battle of Bull Run.
• 1925 - High school biology teacher John Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and is fined $100.
• 1949 - The U.S. Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
• 1893 - The world's lowest temperature, -128.6 °F, is recorded in Antarctica.
• 2011 - The Space Shuttle Program ends when the Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1820 - French astronomer Jean Picard
• 1899 - Poet Hart Crane
• 1899 - Writer Ernest Hemingway
• 19i1 -  Media theorist  Marshall McLuhan
• 1920 - Violinist Isaac Stern
• 1924 - Actor Don Knotts
• 1948 - Musician Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
• 1951 - Actor Robin Williams

SONGS OF THE DAY 

•  Isaac Stern - Liebeslied - LISTEN
• Cat Stevens - Peace Train - LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Make Daniel Tiger Banana Swirl - MAKE

THEME: ANTARCTICA

• Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Penguin Power (2:52) - VIEW
• Grades 5-8 - Jonathan Bird's Blue World - Antarctica (16:35) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Antarctica Today (7:32) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- Antarctica's Climate Secrets Media Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia- Antarctica's Ice on the Move (7:34) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Antarctica: Sea Ice (2:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Antarctic Extremes Series - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Earth's Cryosphere: Antarctica (Available in Spanish) (2:34) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia  - Nova - Microbial Life in Antarctica (Available in Spanish) (1:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia  - Nova - Thriving on the Arctic Seafloor (Available in Spanish) (2:27) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - When Antarctica Was Green (11:04) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Reactions - Why Don’t Antarctic Fish Freeze to Death? (4:11) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Can Antarctica Remain a Refuge for Science and Peace? (9:37) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedai - Antarctica's Dry Valleys (4:33) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: ERNEST HEMINGWAY

• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Ken Burns in the Classroom - Hemingway Collection - READ, VIEW, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Hemingway (series and clips) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure - READ
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Hemingway: The Man versus The Image (1:43) - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - ReadWriteThink - Ernest Hemingway - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - American Masters - Hemingway Classroom Resources - READ

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

POETRY IN AMERICA - Emperor of Ice Cream, Motive for Metaphor
Sunday, 7/21 from 6:30-7 pm NHPBS
Modernist poet Wallace Stevens balanced his long career as an insurance executive with a thrilling life of the imagination. Joining host Elisa New are actor Murray Bartlett, ice cream maker Gus Rancatore, cognitive scientist Laurie Santos, scholar Al Filreis, poet David Baker, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Bob Rubin, and the 2021 National Student Poets. POETRY IN AMERICA Streaming Video

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

RICK STEVES ART - PREHISTORIC AND ANCIENT
Sunday, 7/21 from 2-3 pm NH EXPLORE
Rick invites viewers to marvel at prehistoric art: mysterious tombs, mighty megaliths, and vivid cave paintings. See how the Egyptians and the Greeks laid the foundations of Western art by creating a world of magical goddesses, massive pyramids, sun-splashed temples, and ever-more-lifelike statue.

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
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