Sesame Street international co-productions are educational children's television series based on the American Sesame Street but tailored to the countries in which they are produced. Shortly after the debut of Sesame Street in the US in 1969, television producers, teachers, and officials of several countries approached the show's producers and the executives of Children's Television Workshop (CTW) about the possibility of airing international versions of the show. Creator Joan Ganz Cooney hired former CBS executive Mike Dann to field offers to produce versions of the show in other countries, with original sets, characters, and curriculum goals. CTW's new shows included both dubbed versions of the American show and versions created, developed, and produced to reflect each country's needs, educational priorities, and culture. For example, the first HIV-positive Muppet, Kami, from the South African co- production Takalani Sesame, was created in 2003 to address the epidemic of AIDS. In 2001, there were more than 120 million viewers of all international versions of Sesame Street, and by the US show's 40th anniversary in 2009, they were being seen in more than 140 countries.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1535:
Conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes, present-day Lima, Peru, as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish Crown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lima
1871:
A number of independent German states unified into the German Empire, with Prussian King Wilhelm I being proclaimed as its first Emperor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Germany
1919:
World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opened, to set the peace terms for the Central Powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Conference,_1919
1958:
African Canadian Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, breaking the colour barrier in professional ice hockey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_O%27Ree
1977:
The mysterious Legionnaires' disease was found to be caused by a previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_disease
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
pooh-pooh: (transitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pooh-pooh
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show a truly staggering ability to "ignore" certain kinds of information — that which does not "fit" their imprinted/conditioned reality-tunnel. We generally call this "conservatism" or "stupidity", but it appears in all parts of the political spectrum, and in learned societies as well as in the Ku Klux Klan. --Robert Anton Wilson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson