Deer and Lucy Stone - August 13
Learning Potpourri
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Today is International Lefthanders Day, Filet Mignon Day, and National Prosecco Day.
- Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: Sesame Street: Hurray for Broccoli Song
- Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Soul Food Sandwich by Chef Gerald Klass
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day
Art of the Day
Today's Theme: Deer and Lucy Stone
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1779 – Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition.
ON THIS DATE
- 1521 - Hernando Cortés captures what is now Mexico City from the Aztecs
- 1918 - Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps.
- 1941 - The Disney film Bambi premieres at Radio City Music Hall.
- 1961 - East Germany seals the border between East and West Berlin.
- 1818 - Abolitionist and suffragist Lucy Stone
- 1860 - Sharpshooter Annie Oakley
- 1899 - Director and producer Alfred Hitchcock
- 1926 - Cuban politician Fidel Castro
- 1948 - Opera singer Kathleen Battle
- 1951 - Musician Dan Fogelberg
Annie Get Your Gun - Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better - LISTEN- Dan Fogelberg - Leader of the Band - LISTEN
- Kathleen Battle -
Rossini: Una voce poco fa - LISTEN
Humberto Ak’abal - Deer
Unknown Chinese Artist - Recumbent Deer (18th Century)
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Deer Power (2:10) - VIEW
- Grades K-4 - Wild Kratts - Not All Deer Are Reindeer (1:04) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS NatureWorks - Cervidae - Deer, Elk, Moose - READ
- Grades 4-12 - NHPBS NatureWorks - White-tails in Winter (7:43) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Mule Deer Migration (2:52) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nature - Living with Mule Deer (4:24) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - RARE: How Humans Impact the Key Deer Population (3:37) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia (6:53) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Georgia Outdoors - Oh Deer! (26:57) - VIEW
THEME: LUCY STONE
- Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Know Ohio - Lucy Stone and Oberlin College (3:17) - VIEW
- Grades 4-12 - American Experience - The Vote - The Early Suffragists (1:29) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - National Women's History Museum - Lucy Stone - READ
- Grades 6-12 - WGBH - History At Play - I Now Pronounce You Lucy Stone (48:41) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - National Park Service - Women's Rights National Historical Park - Lucy Stone - READ
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