Asteroids and Marian Anderson - October 7

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Today is Chocolate Covered Pretzel Day, World Cotton Day, Frappe Day, and World Card-Making Day.

Animal Cam of the Day:  Maryland Zoo Giraffe Feeding Station Cam
Dessert of the Day: Franken Pops
LGBT History Resource of the Day: Ma Rainey

On This Date
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme:  Asteroids and Marian Anderson
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ON THIS DATE

• 1954 - Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by New York's Metropolitan Opera.
• 1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America adopts a film-rating system.
• 1982 - The musical "Cats" opens on Broadway.
• 1996 - Fox News Channel makes its debut.
• 1998 - Gay college student Matthew Shepard is beaten, robbed, and left tied to a wooden fence outside Laramie, Wyoming. He dies five days later.
• 2008 - Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected before its entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1879 - Communist revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky
• 1885 - Physicist Niels Bohr
• 1897 - American leader of the Black Muslim movement Elijah Muhammad
• 1931 - South African archbishop Desmond Tutu
• 1951 - Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp
• 1952 - Russian president Vladimir Putin
• 1955 - Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
• 1967 - Singer-songwriter Toni Braxton
• 1968 - British musician Thom Yorke
• 1992 - Baseball player Mookie Betts

SONG OF THE DAY 

• John Mellencamp - Small Town - LISTEN
• Toni Braxton - Un-break My Heart - LISTEN
  
• Yo-Yo Ma  - Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Prélude - LISTEN
• Radiohead - Lotus Flower - LISTEN
• Marian Anderson - Ave Maria - LISTEN

THEME: ASTEROIDS

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Letter A  Adventure (1:37) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-4 - Ready Jet Go! -  VIEW, READ and DO
• Grades PreK-4 - Ready Jet Go! - PBS LearningMedia  - Asteroids, Meteors, and Meteorites (3:07) - VIEW
  
• Grades 3-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Asteroids and Comets Collection - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - NHPBS LearningMedia - STEM in 30 - Asteroid Redirect Mission (28:39) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Touching the Asteroid (54:30) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NOVA: Asteroid; Doomsday or Payday? -  Mining Asteroids (4:59) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NOVA: Asteroid; Doomsday or Payday? -  Protecting Earth from Asteroids (5:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Asteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth? (5:16)  -VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - NASA - Asteroid Closely Passes Earth (Available in Spanish) (2:00) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Be Smart - Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets… OH MY!!! (7:08) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Can Humans Deflect an Asteroid? (6:08) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Asteroids Provide Hints About the "Ingredients" in Planets (4:30)  - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS Space Time - How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth (10:37) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Crash Course Astronomy - Asteroids (11:32) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Nova - Why Study Asteroids? (4:18) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: MARIAN ANDERSON

• Grades: 4-12 - "Marian Anderson Sings at the Lincoln Memorial" Newsreel Story (1:50) - VIEW
• Grades: 6-12 - NHPBS VIDEO - Echoes from Marian Anderson’s Defiant Performance (5:42) - VIEW
• Grades: 6-12 - NPR Morning Edition - Denied A Stage, She Sang For A Nation - READ, VIEW, and LISTEN
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The Voice of Freedom (1:40:16) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The Voice of Freedom: Chapter One (9:18) - VIEW
• Grades: 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Marian Anderson and the Concert that Challenged Racism (5:43) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - American Masters - Marian Anderson: The Whole World In Her Hands - READ,  VIEW, and LISTEN

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NHPBS EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (801) More Options

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS - Rodrigo Y Gabriela Featuring the Austin Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, 10/7 from 11 pm-12 am NHPBS EXPLORE
Innovative guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela teams with the Austin Symphony Orchestra to bring a wildly captivating sound to the ACL stage. AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 Comcast (965) More Options

AMERICAN MASTERS - Orozco: Man of Fire
Saturday, 10/7 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
Often thought of as the other Mexican muralist, beside his more flamboyant compatriot Diego Rivera, Orozco was a leader of the Mexican Renaissance. His bold, dynamic frescoes had a profound impact on American painters and inspired FDR to put artists to work during the Great Depression. His most famous U.S. murals - The Table of Universal Brotherhood, The Epic of American Civilization, and Prometheus - still convey their power in New York, New Hampshire (his mural The Epic of American Civilization is located in the Baker Library at Dartmouth) and California. AMERICAN MASTERS - Orozco Clips

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Director of Communications
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