Unicorns - April 9

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Today is Appomattox Day, Chinese Almond Cookie Day, Jenkins Ear Day, Name Yourself Day, Chicken Little Awareness Day, Gin and Tonic Day, Library Day, Unicorn Day, and Winston Churchill Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Unicorns
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ON THIS DATE

• 1784 - The Treaty of Paris is ratified by King George III ending the Revolutionary War.
• 1865 - Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
• 1939 - Singer Marian Anderson gives a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let her sing at Constitution Hall because she was Black.
• 1959 - NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, known as the "Mercury Seven".

BIRTHDAYS

• 1898 - Singer and actor Paul Robeson
• 1921 - Mathematician Mary Jackson
• 1925 - Photographer Art Kane
• 1954 - Actor Dennis Quaid
• 1990 - Actor Kristen Stewart
• 1998 - Actor Elle Fanning

SONGS OF THE DAY

Paul Robeson - Ol' Man River LISTEN
Shel Silverstein - The Unicorn - LISTEN
America - The Last Unicorn - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY
Stanley Plumly - White Rhino

THEME: Unicorns

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Uni the Unicorn (5:23) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS LearningMedia - Pinkalicious and Peteriffic - Great Unicorn Challenge (2:10) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-1 - Pinkalicious and Peteriffic - That Unicorn Feeling (1:49) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - Pinkalicious and Peteriffic - Picture a Unicorn (3:10) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-1 - PBS Parents - Make a Galloping Unicorn - DO
• Grades PreK-2 - PBS LearningMedia - Let's Share a Story: "It's Okay to be a Unicorn" (9:59) - VIEW
• Grades PreK
• Grades PreK-2 - NHPBS Video - Reading Explorers - Unicorn Thinks he's Pretty Great (26:37) - VIEW
  
• Grades PreK-3 - NHPBS Video - Camp TV - Unicorn Day (28:46) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Ask MIT - Could You Make a Unicorn by Crossing DNA? (2:46) - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

JULIUS CAESAR; THE MAKING OF THE DICTATOR - Veni Vidi Vici
Tuesday, 4/09 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Events beyond Caesar's control threaten to unravel his plans and leave him isolated. Pushed into a corner, he makes a decision that will change the course of the Republic - and Western history - forever. JULIUS CAESAR: THE MAKING OF A DICTATOR Streaming Video

The Invisible Shield - Follow the Data
Tuesday, 4/09 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Learn how data collection has been an essential public health tool for centuries. Increasing understanding and mitigating the spread of disease, data has helped make sense of the threats to collective health. THE INVISIBLE SHIELD Streaming Video

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INDEPENDENT LENS - Matter of Mind: My Parkinsons
Tuesday, 4/09 from 12-1 pm NH EXPLORE
Navigate the lives of three people in the face of Parkinson's disease. An optician pursues deep brain stimulation surgery; a mother becomes an advocate for exercise; and a cartoonist contemplates continuing to draw as his motor control declines. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

P.O.V. - He's My Brother
Tuesday, 4/09 from 1-2 pm NH EXPLORE
Explore how Christine works to assure dignified lives for herself and her brother Peter, born with multiple disabilities, while she faces uncertainties about becoming his primary caregiver. P.O.V. Streaming Video

P.O.V. - Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Became Dust
Tuesday, 4/09 from 2-3 pm NH EXPLORE
Three communities intersect, sharing histories of forced removal - Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the Manzanar WWII concentration camp, Native Americans who were forced from these lands, and ranchers turned environmentalists, who were bought out by the LA Department of Water and Power. How do they come together in the present moment to defend their land and water from Los Angeles? P.O.V. Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

GRETA THUNBERG: A YEAR TO SAVE THE PLANET
Tuesday, 4/09 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
Follow Greta as she sees the impacts of climate change at three locations: melting glaciers and dying trees in Canada, and fire devastation in California. When a UN conference moves to Madrid, she sails across the ocean during life-threatening storms. GRETA THUNBERG: A YEAR TO SAVE THE PLANET  Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339