Antarctica and Ernest Hemingway - July 21

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Monday, July 21, 2025

Today is No Pet Store Puppies Day, National Junk Food Day, Take a Monkey to Lunch Day, Invite an Alien to Live With You Day, and Global Hug Your Kid 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

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
Cat Stevens - Father & Son - 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 LearningMedia - 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
Grade 8-12 - MHPBS Video - Destination Hemingway (25:45) - VIEW
Grades 8-12 - Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure - READ
Grades 8-12 - ReadWriteThink - Ernest Hemingway - READ and DO
Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Idaho's Hemingway (26:47) - VIEW
Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Lit - Unraveling the Myth of Ernest Hemingway (12:13) -VIEW

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