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.
- 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
Isaac Stern - Liebeslied - 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
- 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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