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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street_international_co-productions>
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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>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pooh-pooh:
(transitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pooh-pooh>
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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>
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