Claude Debussy and Ray Bradbury - August 22
Over the Moon Learning
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Today is National Eat a Peach Day, National Tooth Fairy Day, and National Bao Day.
- Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: Youth Mental Health Collection
- Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Peach Toasts
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poems of the Day
Art of the Day
Today's Theme: Claude Debussy and Ray Bradbury
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1777 – British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
ON THIS DATE
- 1485 - England's War of the Roses ends when King Richard III is killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
- 1851 -The yacht America wins the first America's Cup.
- 1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention.
- 1834 - Astronomer Samuel Pierpont Langley
- 1862 - French composer Claude Debussy
- 1893 - Writer and critic Dorothy Parker
- 1904 - Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping
- 1920 - Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury
- 1935 - Novelist Annie Proulx
- 1939 - Boston Red Sox great Carl Yastrzemski
- 1995 - Singer-songwriter Dua Lipa
- Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune - LISTEN
- Styx - Come Sail Away - LISTEN
- Christopher Cross - Sailing - LISTEN
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Southern Cross - LISTEN The Carl Yastrzemski Song - LISTEN- Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches - LISTEN
- Agnes Lee - Claude Debussy
- Maureen Seaton - Romancing Debussy
- Joe Hanson reads "If Only We Had Taller Been" by Ray Bradbury
- Auguste Renoir - Still Life with Peaches (1881)
- Grades 6-10 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Music Arts Toolkit - Introduction to Impressionism/Post-Impressionism (11:20) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - Debussy’s Piano Portraits (59:19) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Sound Tracks - Tom Harrell Performs "Passepied" (Debussy) (2:33) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Sound Tracks - Tom Harrell Performs "Beau Soir" (Debussy) (5:34) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Inland Sessions - Archie Chen: Petite Suite, Claude Debussy (3:52) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Utah Places - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (5:27) - VIEW
THEME: RAY BRADBURY
- Grades 7-12 - ReadWriteThink - Ray Bradbury - READ and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Blank on Blank - Ray Bradbury on Madmen (5:12) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Remembering Ray Bradbury and His 'Cautionary Tales' (6:20) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Remembering Ray Bradbury (4:25) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: Ray Bradbury Archive (3:52) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Okay to Be Smart - When Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact (7:36) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - University Place - The Life of Ray Bradbury (56:53) - VIEW
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