Sesame Street's format includes skits featuring Jim Henson's Muppets as well as animation and short films to help its preschool audience prepare for school. An American children's television program, it uses music, humor, and sustained action to capture young viewers' attention. Premiering in 1969, it was the first television show to base its contents and production values on laboratory and scientific research, and the first to base its curriculum on what its researchers termed "measurable outcomes". It was also the first to use an authentic inner- city street and neighborhood setting for a children's program. The producers switched in 1998 from a magazine-based structure to a more narrative format after the show's ratings dominance was challenged by programs such as Barney and Friends and Blue's Clues. The popular fifteen-minute segment "Elmo's World", hosted by the Muppet Elmo, was added the same year to make the show more accessible to a younger audience. The new format was expanded to the entire show in 2002.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1592:
During the first Japanese invasion of Korea, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Pyongyang, although they were ultimately unable to hold it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasions_of_Korea_(1592%E2%80%9398)
1779:
Tekle Giyorgis I began the first of his six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekle_Giyorgis_I
1936:
The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits was signed in Montreux, Switzerland, allowing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits
1976:
The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_1
2012:
Gunman James Eagan Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, US, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Aurora_shooting
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
Earth-grazing: 1. (astronomy) (About a meteoroid) Entering the Earth's atmosphere and leaving into space again. 2. (astronomy) Approaching the Earth closely. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Earth-grazing
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. --Edmund Hillary https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary
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