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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Fibber McGee And Molly Complete Radio Series MP3 DVD, Download, USB
Today, January 22, 2025

January 22: National Hot Sauce Day: -- A day to tingle your tastebuds with this spicy condiment, sample sauces from all over the world or challenge your friends to try the hotter varieties. Are you more of a Tabasco person, or are the spicy chili peppers of Southeast Asia the ones that get your mouth watering? Should hotness be combined with salty flavors or rather sweet ones? Whatever you believe and whatever your preferences, if you are one of those people who feels that "spicy" is never quite spicy enough, National Hot Sauce Day is the perfect day for you! Humans started using chili peppers and other such spices thousands of years ago, with many historians believing that chili peppers were one of the earliest plants harvested by humans. Back in this era, historians believe the recipe was a simple mixture of peppers and water mixed into a liquid or thick paste. In South and Central America, there is evidence of chili peppers being used for cooking as early as 6,000 years ago, but they did not reach Europe until the 16th century when Portuguese and Spanish explorers began sending all sorts of unusual foods from the New World back home. The first hot sauce to be available in a bottle appeared in shops in the state of Massachusetts in the year 1807, and then suddenly, hot sauce was everywhere and being added to everything. Tabasco sauce is one of the earliest brands to have come into existence that still exists today, being bottled and sold for the first time in 1868. Today's recipes contain a wide variety of peppers, and many food enthusiasts argue passionately about which pepper makes the best sauce. Some of the most commonly used peppers are jalapenos, reapers, Thai chilies, cayenne peppers, serranos, and ghost peppers. The hottest pepper in the world is often considered to be the Carolina Reaper, with a Scoville rating of 2,000,000 (the average jalapeno pepper ranking at only 3,500 Scoville Heat Units)! National Hot Sauce Day was founded to get people excited about the amazing accessory that hot sauce is to any meal! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/fibber-mcgee-and-molly-mp3-dvd-complete-radio-serie3.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1788: #BOTD: #HBD! George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron FRS, most well known as Lord Byron, English nobleman, soldier, poet, peer, politician, playwright and leading figure in the Romantic movement (d. April 19, 1824) is #born George Gordon Byron on Holles Street in London, England, now supposedly occupied by a branch of the department store John Lewis. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold' Pilgrimage as well as the short lyric poem "She Walks in Beauty". He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years in the cities of Venice, Ravenna and Pisa. During his stay in Italy he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Often described as the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, Byron was both celebrated and castigated in his life for his aristocratic excesses, including huge debts, numerous love affairs with both men and women, as well as rumors of a scandalous liaison with his half-sister. His only legitimate child, Ada Lovelace, is regarded as the first computer programmer based on her notes for Charles Babbage' Analytical Engine. Byron' illegitimate children include Allegra Byron, who died in childhood, and possibly Elizabeth Medora Leigh. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece, while serving as an officer in the Greek War Of Independence against the Ottoman Empire, aged 36. As of 2008, the anniversary of Byron's death has been honoured in Greece as "Byron Day". Upon his death, the barony passed to Byron's cousin George Anson Byron, a career naval officer. Alfred Tennyson would later recall the shocked reaction in Britain when word was received of Byron's death. The Greeks mourned Lord Byron deeply, and he became a hero. The national poet of Greece, Dionysios Solomos, wrote a poem about the unexpected loss, named To the Death of Lord Byron. "Vyron", the Greek form of "Byron", continues in popularity as a masculine name in Greece, and a suburb of Athens is called Vyronas in his honour. Byron's body was embalmed, but the Greeks wanted some part of their hero to stay with them. According to some sources, his heart remained at Missolonghi. His other remains were sent to England (accompanied by his faithful manservant, "Tita") for burial in Westminster Abbey, but the Abbey refused for reason of "questionable morality". Huge crowds viewed his coffin as he lay in state for two days at number 25 Great George Street, Westminster. He is buried at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. A marble slab given by the King of Greece is laid directly above Byron's grave. His daughter Ada Lovelace was later buried beside him. Byron's friends raised 1K PS to commission a statue of the writer; Thorvaldsen offered to sculpt it for that amount. However, after the statue was completed in 1834, for ten years, British institutions turned it down and it remained in storage. It was refused by the British Museum, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and the National Gallery before Trinity College, Cambridge finally placed the statue of Byron in its library. In 1969, 145 years after Byron's death, a memorial to him was finally placed in Westminster Abbey. As of 1907, The New York Times wrote, "People are beginning to ask whether this ignoring of Byron is not a thing of which England should be ashamed ... a bust or a tablet might be put in the Poets' Corner and England be relieved of ingratitude toward one of her really great sons." Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, television show, and radio show, which feature odd facts from around the world, had drawn a picture of the grave of Lord Byron's Landseer dog Boatswain, whom Byron reportedly nursed him without any fear of becoming bitten and infected by the rabies that killed him, and of whom Byron wrote the poem "Epitaph To A Dog" (also known as "Inscription On The Monument To A Newfoundland Dog"). Riply captioned his drawing with the words "Lord Byron's dog has a magnificent tomb while Lord Byron himself has none". This came as a shock to the English, particularly schoolchildren, who, Ripley said, raised funds of their own accord to provide the poet with a suitable memorial. After arriving in Missolonghi, Byron moved to the second floor of a two-story house there and joined forces with Alexandros Mavrokordatos, a Greek politician with military power. Mavrokordatos and Byron planned to attack the Turkish-held fortress of Lepanto, at the mouth of the Gulf of Corinth. Byron employed a fire master to prepare artillery, and he took part of the rebel army under his own command despite his lack of military experience. Before the expedition could sail, on February 15, 1824, he fell ill, and bloodletting weakened him further. He made a partial recovery, but in early April he caught a violent cold; the therapeutic bleeding insisted on by his doctors exacerbated it. He thereby contracted a violent fever and died. His physician at the time, Julius van Millingen, son of Dutch-English archaeologist James Millingen, was unable to prevent his death. It has been said that if Byron had lived and had gone on to defeat the Ottomans, he might have been declared King of Greece. However, modern scholars have found such an outcome unlikely. The British historian David Brewer wrote that in one sense, Byron failed to persuade the rival Greek factions to unite, won no victories and was successful only in the humanitarian sphere, using his great wealth to help the victims of the war, Christian and Muslim, but this did not affect the outcome of the Greek war of independence. Close to the centre of Athens, Greece, outside the National Garden, is a statue depicting Greece in the form of a woman crowning Byron. The statue is by the French sculptors Henri-Michel Chapu and Alexandre Falguiere. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-bad-lord-byron-19491949.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Birth Of A Nation (1915) D. W. Griffith DVD, MP4 Download, USB Stick
Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1875: #BOTD: #HBD! D. W. Griffith, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter and Freemason, one of the most important figures in the history of film who pioneered modern cinematic techniques and popularized the use of the close-up shot, co-founder of United Artists, and co-founder of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences; most remembered for The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), the former making use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and whose popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film in the United States and sparked significant controversy surrounding racism in the United States, focusing on its negative depiction of black people and the glorification of the Ku Klux Klan (d. July 23, 1948) is #born David Wark Griffith on a farm in Oldham County, Kentucky, the son of Jacob Wark "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a Confederate Army colonel in the American Civil War who was elected as a Kentucky state legislator, and Mary Perkins (nee Oglesby). The Birth of a Nation is both acclaimed for its radical technique and condemned for its inherently racist philosophy. The film was subject to boycotts by the NAACP; screenings caused riots at several theaters and it was censored in many cities, including New York City. Intolerance was an answer to his critics. Several of Griffith's later films were also successful, including Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), and Orphans of the Storm (1921), but his high costs for production, promotion, and roadshow often made his ventures commercial failures. He made roughly 500 films by the time of his final feature The Struggle (1931). D. W. Griffith died unconscious at 3:42 PM in the lobby at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Los Angeles, California here he had been living alone of a cerebral hemorrhage on the way to a Hollywood hospital. A public memorial service was held in his honor at the Hollywood Masonic Temple. He is buried at Mount Tabor Methodist Church Graveyard in Centerfield, Kentucky. In 1950, The Directors Guild of America provided a stone and bronze monument for his grave site. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/birth-of-a-nation-dvd-d-w-griffith-civil-war-movie.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1898: #BOTD: #HBD! Sergei Eisenstein, Latvian Soviet film director (d. February 11, 1948) is #born Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein in Riga, Latvia. Sergei Eisenstein was a film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan The Terrible (1944, 1958). He developed a new way of film making utilizing artistic montages (a series of arbitrary images) to deliver an emotional impact. Prior to him, most film makers showed scenes in strictly chronological sequences. Eisenstein died of a heart attack in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union at the age of 50. His body lay in state in the Hall of the Cinema Workers before being cremated on February 13, and his ashes were buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-secret-life-of-sergei-eisenstein-documentary-dvd.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1901: #DOTD: #RIP: The Victorian Era of British history ends as Queen Victoria Of England, Queen Of The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland from June 20, 1837 and Empress of India from May 1, 1876 until her death (b. May 24, 1819) #dies at half past six in the evening at the age of 81 at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, England, after having reigned for 64 years, the longest reign in British history until that time. She is buried at The Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore on the Frogmore estate within the Home Park at Windsor in Berkshire, England. She was born Alexandrina Victoria Hanover, the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. Both the Duke of Kent and King George III died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her German-born mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She inherited the throne at the age of 18, after her father' three elder brothers had all died, leaving no surviving legitimate children. The United Kingdom was already an established constitutional monarchy, in which the sovereign held relatively little direct political power. Privately, Victoria attempted to influence government policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality. Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert Of Saxe-Coburg And Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe". After Albert' death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, republicanism temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign her popularity recovered. Her Golden and Diamond Jubilees were times of public celebration. Her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors, and is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. She was the last British monarch of the House Of Hanover. Her son and successor, Edward VII, initiated the House Of Saxe-Coburg And Gotha, the line of his father. #QueenVictoria #QueenOfTheUnitedKingdom #QueenOfGreatBritain #QueenOfIreland #MonarchyOfTheUnitedKingdom #MonarchyOfTheUK #HouseOfHanover #UnitedKingdom #India #Pakistan #EmpressOfIndia #BritishMonarchy #BritishNobility #UKMonarchy #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-monarchy-3-part-british-royal-family-tv-series-dvd-mp4-u34.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1901: The History Of The United Kingdom: Governments Of The United Kingdom: Royal Accessions: Successions To The British Throne: -- The Edwardian Era of British history begins as Albert Edward Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, son of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, becomes King Of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor Of India (and, in an innovation at the time, King of the British Dominions) upon the death of his mother Queen Victoria, and reigns under the name of Edward VII, instead of Albert Edward, the name his mother had intended for him to use, declaring that he did not wish to "undervalue the name of Albert" and diminish the status of his father with whom the "name should stand alone". The numeral VII was occasionally omitted in Scotland, even by the national church, in deference to protests that the previous Edwards were English kings who had "been excluded from Scotland by battle". J. B. Priestley recalled, "I was only a child when he succeeded Victoria in 1901, but I can testify to his extraordinary popularity. He was in fact the most popular king England had known since the earlier 1660s." Edward donated his parents' house, Osborne on the Isle of Wight, to the state and continued to live at Sandringham. He could afford to be magnanimous; his private secretary, Sir Francis Knollys, claimed that he was the first heir to succeed to the throne in credit. Edward's finances had been ably managed by Sir Dighton Probyn, Comptroller of the Household, and had benefited from advice from Edward's financier friends, some of whom were Jewish, such as Ernest Cassel, Maurice de Hirsch and the Rothschild family. At a time of widespread anti-Semitism, Edward attracted criticism for openly socialising with Jews. Edward's coronation had originally been scheduled for June 26, 1902. However, two days before, he was diagnosed with appendicitis. The disease was generally not treated operatively. It carried a high mortality rate, but developments in anaesthesia and antisepsis in the preceding 50 years made life-saving surgery possible. Sir Frederick Treves, with the support of Lord Lister, performed a then-radical operation of draining a pint of pus from the infected abscess through a small incision (through 4+1/2-inch thickness of belly fat and abdomen wall); this outcome showed that the cause was not cancer. The next day, Edward was sitting up in bed, smoking a cigar. Two weeks later, it was announced that he was out of danger. Treves was honoured with a baronetcy (which the King had arranged before the operation) and appendix surgery entered the medical mainstream. Edward was crowned at Westminster Abbey on August 9, 1902 by the 80-year-old Archbishop of Canterbury, Frederick Temple, who died only four months later. Edward refurbished the royal palaces, reintroduced the traditional ceremonies, such as the State Opening of Parliament, that his mother had foregone, and founded new honours, such as the Order of Merit, to recognise contributions to the arts and sciences. In 1902, the Shah of Persia, Mozzafar-al-Din, visited England expecting to receive the Order of the Garter. The King refused to bestow the honour on the Shah because the order was meant to be in his personal gift and the Foreign Secretary, Lord Lansdowne, had promised it without his consent. He also objected to inducting a Muslim into a Christian order of chivalry. His refusal threatened to damage British attempts to gain influence in Persia, but Edward resented his ministers' attempts to reduce his traditional powers. Eventually, he relented and Britain sent a special embassy to the Shah with a full Order of the Garter the following year. Edward VII, King Of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor Of India, from January 22 1901 until his death (d. May 6, 1910) was born Albert Edward Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on November 9, 1841 at Buckingham Palace, London, England. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and nicknamed "Bertie", Edward was related to royalty throughout Europe. He was Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British throne for almost 60 years. During the long reign of his mother, he was largely excluded from political influence and came to personify the fashionable, leisured elite. He travelled throughout Britain performing ceremonial public duties and represented Britain on visits abroad. His tours of North America in 1860 and of the Indian subcontinent in 1875 proved popular successes, but despite public approval, his reputation as a playboy prince soured his relationship with his mother. As king, Edward played a role in the modernisation of the British Home Fleet and the reorganisation of the British Army after the Second Boer War of 1899-1902. He re-instituted traditional ceremonies as public displays and broadened the range of people with whom royalty socialised. He fostered good relations between Britain and other European countries, especially France, for which he was popularly called "Peacemaker", but his relationship with his nephew, the German Emperor Wilhelm II, was poor. The Edwardian era, which covered Edward's reign and was named after him, coincided with the start of a new century and heralded significant changes in technology and society, including steam turbine propulsion and the rise of socialism. A heavy smoker who suffered from chronic bronchitis, he suffered several heart attacks in a single day, but refused to go to bed to recuperate, saying, "No, I shall not give in; I shall go on; I shall work to the end." Between moments of faintness, his son the Prince of Wales (shortly to be King George V) told him that his horse, Witch of the Air, had won at Kempton Park that afternoon. The King replied, "Yes, I have heard of it. I am very glad": his final words. At 11:30 p.m. he lost consciousness for the last time and was put to bed. He died 15 minutes later. Alexandra refused to allow Edward's body to be moved for eight days afterwards, though she allowed small groups of visitors to enter his room. On May 11, the late king was dressed in his uniform and placed in a massive oak coffin, which was moved on May 14 to the throne room, where it was sealed and lay in state, with a guardsman standing at each corner of the bier. Despite the time that had elapsed since his death, Alexandra noted the King's body remained "wonderfully preserved". On the morning of May 17, the coffin was placed on a gun carriage and drawn by black horses to Westminster Hall, with the new king, his family and Edward's favourite dog, Caesar, walking behind. Following a brief service, the royal family left, and the hall was opened to the public; over 400,000 people filed past the coffin over the next two days. As Barbara Tuchman noted in The Guns of August, his funeral, held on 20 May 1910, marked "the greatest assemblage of royalty and rank ever gathered in one place and, of its kind, the last." A royal train conveyed the King's coffin from London to Windsor Castle, where Edward was buried at St George's Chapel. Edward was succeeded by his only surviving son, George V. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/la-belle-epoque-18901914-western-high-society-cul18901914.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1931: #BOTD: #HBD! Sam Cooke, nicknamed "The King Of Soul" for his distinctive vocals and importance within popular music, influential African American singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur (d. December 11, 1964) is #born Samuel Cook in Clarksdale, Mississippi; he added the "e" to his last name in 1957 to signify a new start to his life. He began singing as a child and joined The Soul Stirrers before moving to a solo career where he scored a string of hit songs like "You Send Me", "Wonderful World", "Chain Gang", and "Twistin' the Night Away". His pioneering contributions to soul music contributed to the rise of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Billy Preston, and popularized the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown. AllMusic biographer Bruce Eder wrote that Cooke was "the inventor of soul music", and possessed "an incredible natural singing voice and a smooth, effortless delivery that has never been surpassed". Sam Cooke died at the age of 33, shot and killed by Bertha Franklin, the manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, California. After an inquest, the courts ruled Cooke's death to be a justifiable homicide. Since that time, the circumstances of his death have been called into question by Cooke's family. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-6-shindig-dv6.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1934: #BOTD: #HBD! Bill Bixby, American actor, director, producer, and frequent game-show panelist (d. November 21, 1993) is #born Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III, a fourth-generation Californian of English descent, on January 22, 1934, in San Francisco, California. His father, Wilfred Everett Bixby II, was a store clerk and his mother, Jane (nee McFarland) Bixby, was a senior manager at I. Magnin & Company, a San Francisco, California-based high fashion and specialty goods luxury department store. Bill Bixby's career spanned more than three decades, including appearances on stage, in films, and on television series. He is known for his roles as Tim O'Hara in the CBS sitcom My Favorite Martian, Tom Corbett in the ABC sitcom The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and stage illusionist Anthony Blake in the NBC crime drama series The Magician, but is perhaps best known for his role as scientist Dr. David Banner in the CBS science-fiction drama series The Incredible Hulk. Bixby died in 1993 of complications from prostate cancer in Century City, Los Angeles at the age of 59. His remains were cremated, and the ashes given to his widow Judith Kliban, who scattered them in the Pacific Ocean. #BillBixby #Actors #Directors #Producers #GameShowPanelists #TV #Television #TVShows #TelevisionShows #MyFavoriteMartian #TheCourtshipOfEddiesFather #TheMagicianAmericanTVSeries #TheIncredibleHulk1978TVSeries #MP3 #CD #AudioDownload On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-theme-song-mp3-cd-classic-old-time-televisio3.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1941: World War II: The Battle Of Tobruk (1941): British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass. Operation Compass was the first large Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940-1943) during the Second World War. British and other Commonwealth forces attacked Italian forces in western Egypt and Cyrenaica, the eastern province of Libya, from December 1940 to February 1941, with great success. The Western Desert Force (Lieutenant-General Richard O'Connor) with about 30,000 men, advanced from Mersa Matruh in Egypt on a five-day raid against the Italian positions of the 10th Army (Marshal Rodolfo Graziani), which had about 150,000 men in fortified posts around Sidi Barrani and in Cyrenaica. The 10th Army was swiftly defeated and the British continued the operation, to pursue the remnants of the 10th Army to Beda Fomm and El Agheila on the Gulf of Sirte. The British took 138,000 Italian and Libyan prisoners, hundreds of tanks and over 1,000 guns and aircraft for a loss of 1,900 men killed and wounded, about 10 percent of their infantry. The British were unable to continue beyond El Agheila, due to broken down and worn out vehicles and the diversion, beginning in March 1941, of the best-equipped units to the Greek Campaign in Operation Lustre. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/world-war-ii-the-war-years-17-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-174.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1943: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The North African Campaign: The Western Desert Campaign (The Desert War): The Battle Of Tripoli: -- On the first day of the two-day battle, the British 8th Army, a Commonwealth force commanded by Sir Bernard Montgomery attack Der Deutsch-Italienische Panzerarmee (The German-Italian Panzer Army), a combination of the German Afrika Korps with Italian units commanded by Erwin Rommel of Germany and Ettore Bastico of Italy, who held the town of Tripoli in Italian Libya. After a short siege, the Italian and German forces withdrew from Tripoli on January 23, 1943, and the Allies entered the town to great worldwide fanfare. Tripoli was from then on governed by the British until independence in 1951. Under the terms of the 1947 peace treaty with the Allies, Italy relinquished all claims to Libya. Tripoli had been controlled by Italy from 1911 until the provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica were captured by Allied forces. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/axis-armor-tanks-of-nazi-germany-japan-amp-italy-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1944: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World War II: The Italian Campaign Of World War II (The Liberation Of Italy): The Winter Line: The Battle Of Rome (The Liberation Of Rome): The Battle Of Anzio (Operation Shingle): -- An Allied amphibious landing assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy commence Operation Shingle (The Battle of Anzio), a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that lasted until June 5, 1944, ending with the capture of Rome. The operation was opposed by German forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno. The operation was initially commanded by Major General John P. Lucas, of the U.S. Army, commanding U.S. VI Corps with the intention being to outflank German forces at the Winter Line and enable an attack on Rome. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/battleline-wwii-tv-documentary-series-5-dual-layer-dvd5.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1946: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Global Surveillance: The United States Department Of Defense (DoD, USDOD, DOD): Intelligence Agencies: -- The Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, is created. The success of the British Commandos during World War II prompted U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to authorize the creation of an intelligence service modeled after the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), and Special Operations Executive. This led to the creation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) established by a Presidential military order issued by President Roosevelt on June 13, 1942. On September 20, 1945, shortly after the end of World War II, Harry S. Truman signed an executive order dissolving the OSS, and by October 1945 its functions had been divided between the Departments of State and War. The division lasted only a few months. The first public mention of the "Central Intelligence Agency" appeared on a command-restructuring proposal presented by Jim Forrestal and Arthur Radford to the U.S. Senate Military Affairs Committee at the end of 1945. Army Intelligence agent Colonel Sidney Mashbir and Commander Ellis M. Zacharias worked together for four months at the direction of Fleet Admiral Joseph Ernest King, and prepared the first draft and implementing directives for the creation of what would become the Central Intelligence Agency. Despite opposition from the military establishment, the United States Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Truman established the National Intelligence Authority in January 1946. Its operational extension was known as the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), which was the direct predecessor of the CIA. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/secret-intelligence-us-espionage-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1947: Premieres: Television Premieres: -- KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood. KTLA, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 31), is a CW-affiliated television station located in Los Angeles, California, United States. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media. KTLA maintains studio facilities located at the Sunset Bronson Studios (formerly The Old Warner Brothers Studio, KTLA Studios and Tribune Studios, where the first talking feature film, The Jazz Singer was filmed in 1927) on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson, located within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/ktla-the-first-35-years-tv-channel-5-la-355.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1959: #BOTD: #HBD! Linda Blair, American actress, animal rights activist and beauty, is #born Linda Denise Blair in St. Louis, Missouri. She played Regan MacNeil in the horror film The Exorcist (1973), for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for an Academy Award. The film established her as a horror icon and scream queen; she reprised the role in the sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), for which she earned a nomination for a Saturn Award. Blair went on to star in numerous television films, such as Born Innocent (1974), Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975), and Stranger in Our House (1978), before establishing herself as a sex symbol in the musical film Roller Boogie (1979). The 1980s had her starring in numerous horror and exploitation films, including the slasher Hell Night (1981), the prison drama Chained Heat (1983), and the grindhouse cult thriller Savage Streets (1984). Throughout the 1990s, Blair appeared in various independent films and B movies, as well as several television credits. She was the host of the Fox Family reality series Scariest Places on Earth (2000-2006) and had regular appearances on the Animal Planet series Pit Boss (2010-2012). Blair is a prominent activist for the animal rights movement. In 2004, she founded the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation, a nonprofit organization that serves to rehabilitate and adopt rescue animals. A vegan, she co-authored the book Going Vegan! in 2001. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-exorcism-1991-history39s-first-tv-broadcast-of-possessed-pers199139.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1963: France: The History Of France: The Modern History Of France: The Presidency Of Charles De Gaulle: Treaties Of Friendship (Friendship Treaties): France-Germany Relations (Franco-German Relations): The Elysee Treaty: -- French President Charles de Gaulle and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sign The Elysee Treaty, a treaty of friendship and cooperation between France and Germany, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. With the signing of this treaty, Germany and France established a new foundation for relations that ended centuries of rivalry between them. Franco-German relations were long dominated by the idea of French-German enmity, which asserted that there was a natural rivalry between the two nations. Germany started World War II by invading Poland in 1939. France then declared war on Germany, which prompted the German invasion and occupation of France from 1940 to 1944. Afterwards, France participated in the Allied occupation of Germany from 1945 to 1949. The post-war West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer made rapprochement between the historic rivals one of his priorities. The treaty called for regular consultations between France and West Germany on all important questions concerning defense, education and youth issues. It also requires regular summits between high-level officials, which implies that the Heads of State and Government have to meet at least twice a year and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs every three months, to ensure close collaboration between the two states. The first meeting between the two heads of state took place at the private home of General de Gaulle at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises in September 1958. Since then, French and German heads of state have kept up the strong relationship, often considered as the engine of European integration. Additionally, an interministerial commission was established to coordinate and oversee the Franco-German collaboration. It consisted of high-ranked officials of every involved ministry. Just two months after the signing of the friendship treaty, a new controversy between France and West Germany occurred. President de Gaulle intended the treaty to make West Germany distance itself and eventually separate itself from its American protector. He saw West Germany (and the other member states of the European Economic Community) as vassalized by Washington. The treaty was notable in that it made no mention of the United States, United Kingdom, NATO, or the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). However, after US President John F. Kennedy expressed his displeasure about this to the West German ambassador to the United States, the Bundestag ratified the treaty with a preamble which called on France and West Germany to pursue tight cooperation with the United States; the eventual admission of the United Kingdom to the EEC; the achievement of a free trade accord in the framework of the GATT; and for the West's military integration in NATO under US leadership. This effectively emptied the Treaty of any sense (in Gaullist understanding) and put end to General de Gaulle's hopes of building the EEC into a counterweight to the US and the USSR. "The Germans are behaving like pigs. They are putting themselves completely at the Americans' service. They're betraying the spirit of the Franco-German Treaty. And they're betraying Europe." Later, in 1965, the General told his closest aides behind closed doors: "The Germans had been my greatest hope; they are my greatest disappointment." Among the direct consequences of the Treaty are the creation of the Franco-German Youth Office (l'Office Franco-allemande pour la jeunesse/Deutsch-Franzosisches Jugendwerk), the creation of Franco-German high schools, and the twinning between numerous French and German towns, schools and regions. Another outcome of the Treaty was the Franco-German military brigade, which was established in 1987 and is still intact. In January 2003, the Assemblee Nationale and the Deutsche Bundestag met in Versailles to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Treaty. The choice of location was high in symbolism, as the palace had been the site of humiliation for each country, in 1871 and 1919. New forms of bilateral coordination between the two countries were created in the course of the 40th anniversary celebration, such as the Franco-German Ministerial Council, which meets twice a year. The celebration also led to the creation for the first time of a common Franco-German History Coursebook to be used in both countries and foster a shared vision of history. The Franco-German University enables students to attain international double degrees from both countries. Additionally, a so-called Elysee-Fond was established to promote Franco-German culture projects in third countries. Also, double citizenships for French and German citizens in the opposite country are now easier to obtain, or in some cases finally possible. Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron, along with lawmakers from both countries, called for a "new Elysee Treaty" in January 2018 on the occasion of its 55th anniversary. The so-called Aachen Treaty was signed on the 56th anniversary of the Elysee Treaty on January 22, 2019. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/de-gaulle-and-france-3-part-tv-documentary-series-2-disc-dvd-s32.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1968: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: Space Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: Project Apollo: Apollo 5 (AS-204): Maiden Flights: -- The Apollo Lunar Module, simply known as the Lunar Module (LM) and originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), makes its first flight on the unmanned Apollo 5 mission. This uncrewed first flight of the LEM would later carry astronauts to the lunar surface. The Saturn IB rocket bearing the LM lifted off from Cape Kennedy on January 22, 1968. The mission was successful, though due to programming problems an alternate mission to that originally planned was executed. Like Apollo 4, this flight was long-delayed, due in part to setbacks in development of the LM at Grumman, the manufacturer. The original Saturn IB rocket that was to take the first LM (LM-1) to space was taken down during the delays and replaced with the Saturn IB atop which the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts had taken place. LM-1 arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in June 1967; the following months were occupied in testing and placing the LM atop the Saturn IB. After final delays due to equipment trouble, the countdown began on January 21, 1968, and the space vehicle was launched the following day. Once the craft reached orbit and the LM separated from the S-IVB booster, the program of orbital testing began, but a planned burn was aborted automatically when the Apollo Guidance Computer detected the craft was not going as fast as planned. Flight Director Gene Kranz and his team at Mission Control in Houston quickly decided on an alternate mission, during which the mission's goals of testing LM-1 were accomplished. The mission was successful enough that a contemplated second uncrewed mission to test the LM was cancelled, advancing NASA's plans to land an astronaut on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, with a safe return to Earth. The Apollo Lunar Module was the Lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface during the United States' Apollo program. It was the first crewed spacecraft to operate exclusively in the airless vacuum of space, and remains the only crewed vehicle to land anywhere beyond Earth. Structurally and aerodynamically incapable of flight through Earth's atmosphere, the two-stage lunar module was ferried to lunar orbit attached to the Apollo command and service module (CSM), about twice its mass. Its crew of two flew the complete lunar module from lunar orbit to the Moon's surface. During takeoff, the spent descent stage was used as a launch pad for the ascent stage which then flew back to the command module, after which it was also discarded. Overseen by Grumman, the LM's development was plagued with problems that delayed its first uncrewed flight by about ten months and its first crewed flight by about three months. Still, the LM became the most reliable component of the Apollo-Saturn space vehicle. The total cost of the LM for development and the units produced was 21.3B USD in 2016 dollars, adjusting from a nominal total of 2.2B USD using the NASA New Start Inflation Indices. Ten lunar modules were launched into space. Of these, six were landed by humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. The first two launched were test flights in low Earth orbit-the first without a crew, the second with one. Another was used by Apollo 10 for a dress rehearsal flight in low lunar orbit, without landing. One lunar module functioned as a lifeboat for the crew of Apollo 13, providing life support and propulsion when their CSM was disabled by an oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, forcing the crew to abandon plans for a lunar landing. The six landed descent stages remain at their landing sites; their corresponding ascent stages crashed into the Moon following use. One ascent stage (Apollo 10's Snoopy) was discarded in a heliocentric orbit after its descent stage was discarded in lunar orbit. The other three LMs were burned up in the Earth's atmosphere: the four stages of Apollo 5 and Apollo 9 each re-entered separately, while Apollo 13's Aquarius re-entered complete, following emergency maneuvers. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-strangest-planes-in-the-world-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1970: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Civil Aviation: Aircraft Service Entries: -- The Boeing 747, the world' first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport. The Boeing 747 is an American wide-body commercial jet airliner and cargo aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname, "Jumbo Jet". Its distinctive "hump" upper deck along the forward part of the aircraft makes it among the world' most recognizable aircraft, and it was the first wide-body produced. First flown commercially in 1970, the 747 held the passenger capacity record for 37 years. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/civil-jets-the-boeing-747-jumbo-jet-747.html

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Today, January 22, 2025

January 22, 1991: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I): Operation Desert Storm: The Kuwaiti Oil Fires: -- Iraqi military forces begin to ignite the Kuwaiti oil fields, setting about 600 oil wells on fire. Ultimately, as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 due to advancing Coalition military forces, about 605 to 732 oil wells were set on fire, along with an unspecified number of oil filled low-lying areas, such as oil lakes and fire trenches, between January and February 1991. The first oil well fires were extinguished in early April 1991, with the last well capped on November 6, 1991. The Gulf War (August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (August 2, 1990 - January 17, 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia, and Operation Desert Storm (January 17, 1991 - February 28, 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The war is also known under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War, Gulf War I, Kuwait War, First Iraq War or Iraq War, before the term "Iraq War" became identified instead with the 2003 Iraq War. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hell-on-earth-the-kuwaiti-oil-fires-dvd-mp4-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

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Today, January 22, 2025
January 22: Answer Your Cat's Questions Day: -- Your kitty has questions, and today is the day to answer them! What child hasn't promised their cat that if they just reveal they can speak, they'll keep the secret? On this special day, we're listening to each meow and trying to understand just what that cat is getting at - we just wish they had speech bubbles above their head like Garfield! Though there is some discrepancy over when the first wildcats were domesticated, people in the Near East were definitely living with housecats by 7500 BC, and by the 19th century, we were developing different breeds of cats. In Ancient Egypt, cats were more than just friends - they were used for social and religious practices, and considered beloved and holy housepets. Cats were so revered they were mummified with the same dignity as humans. Besides that, many of the Egyptian gods had heads of cats and bodies of humans - you can't get much closer than that! While the Ancient Egyptians highly valued cats for their ability to kill venomous snakes, Europeans valued them for their rat and other pest control skills. Cats were passed along by traders from the Romans to the British to the Vikings, where they eventually stamped their passports and headed out to the "New World" with the explorers. The Middle Ages were a dark mark on cats' collective record, with rulers at the time believing cats to be the cause of the Black Death that ravaged Europe. Little did they know, cats were more likely to keep the population of rats and fleas in check. Nevertheless, the damage to their reputation was done, and cats wouldn't restore their public image until the 15th and 16th centuries when they were welcomed aboard ships to keep pests away. It's often speculated that cats were aboard Christopher Columbus' ship, and our feline friends disembarked and flourished in America. Today, we love cats for so much more than their ability to reduce the rat population - so much so that we dedicate a whole day just to pondering what each meow and purr might mean. By 1993, cats outnumbered dogs as the most popular house pets in the nation, and they're appreciated today for their curiosity, independence, intelligence - and for all their many, many questions. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-iii-dvd.html

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Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1973: #DOTD: #RIP: Lyndon B. Johnson, American lieutenant and politician, 36th President of the United States (b. August 27, 1908) #dies at approximately 3:39 p.m. Central Time of a massive heart attack in his bedroom in Stonewall, Texas, aged 64. He managed to telephone the Secret Service agents on the ranch, who found him still holding the telephone receiver, unconscious and not breathing. Johnson was airlifted in one of his planes to San Antonio and taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, where cardiologist and Army colonel Dr. George McGranahan pronounced him dead on arrival. Ten days earlier, Johnson recorded an hour-long television interview with newsman Walter Cronkite at his ranch on January 12, 1973, in which he discussed his legacy, particularly about the civil rights movement. He was still smoking heavily at the time, and told Cronkite that it was better for his heart "to smoke than to be nervous". Accordingly, shortly after Johnson's death, his press secretary Tom Johnson telephoned the newsroom at CBS. Cronkite was live on the air with CBS Evening News at the time, and a report on Vietnam was airing. The call was patched through to Cronkite, and while Johnson relayed the information the director cut out of the report to return to the news desk. Cronkite, still on the phone, kept Johnson on the call while he gathered whatever available relevant information, then repeated it to his viewers. Johnson's death came two days after Richard Nixon's second inauguration, which followed Nixon's landslide victory in the 1972 election. After lying in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Johnson was honored with a state funeral in which Texas Congressman J. J. Pickle and former Secretary Of State Dean Rusk eulogized him at the Capitol. The final services took place on January 25. The funeral was held at the National City Christian Church in Washington, D.C., where he had often worshiped as president. The service was presided over by President Richard Nixon and attended by foreign dignitaries, led by former Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato, who served as Japanese prime minister during Johnson's presidency. Eulogies were given by the Rev. Dr. George Davis, the church's pastor, and W. Marvin Watson, former postmaster general. Nixon did not speak, though he attended, as is customary for presidents during state funerals, but the eulogists turned to him and lauded him for his tributes, as Rusk did the day before, as Nixon mentioned Johnson's death in a speech he gave the day after Johnson died, announcing the peace agreement to end the Vietnam War. Johnson was buried in his family's private cemetery a few yards from the house in which he was born. Eulogies were given by former Texas governor John Connally and the Reverend Billy Graham, the minister who officiated at the burial rites. The state funeral, the last for a president until Richard Nixon's in 1994, was part of an unexpectedly busy week in Washington, as the Military District of Washington (MDW) dealt with its second major task in less than a week, beginning with Nixon's second inauguration. The inauguration affected the state funeral in various ways, because Johnson died only two days after the inauguration. The MDW and the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee canceled the remainder of the ceremonies surrounding the inauguration, to allow for a full state funeral, and many of the military men who participated in the inauguration took part in the funeral. It also meant that Johnson's casket traveled the entire length of the Capitol, entering through the Senate wing when taken into the rotunda to lie in state and exiting through the House wing steps due to inauguration construction on the East Front steps. Lyndon B. Johnson was born Lyndon Baines Johnson near Stonewall, Texas. Often referred to as LBJ, he was an American politician who served as both congressman and senator of state of Texas, 37th vice president of the United States from 1961 to 1963, and 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969, was born in a farmhouse in Stonewall, Texas to a local political family. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson was also a United States representative and later a very powerful majority leader in the United States Senate. Johnson worked as a high school teacher and a congressional aide before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1937. Johnson won election to the United States Senate from Texas in 1948 after narrowly winning the Democratic Party's nomination. He was appointed to the position of Senate Majority Whip in 1951. He became the Senate leader of the Democrats in 1953. He became known for his domineering personality and the "Johnson treatment", his aggressive coercion of powerful politicians to advance legislation. Johnson ran for the Democratic nomination in the 1960 presidential election. Although unsuccessful, he became the running mate of the nominee Senator John F. Kennedy and they went on to win a close election. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson succeeded him as president. In the 1964 Presidential election, Johnson won in a landslide, defeating Senator Barry Goldwater. With 61.1 percent of the popular vote, Johnson won the largest share of the popular vote of any candidate since 1820. In domestic policy, Johnson's "Great Society" and "War On Poverty" programs led to legislation to expand civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, aid to education and the arts, urban and rural development, and public services. Assisted by a strong economy, the War On Poverty helped millions of Americans rise above the poverty line during his administration. In foreign policy, Johnson escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1964, Congress passed the Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution, which granted Johnson the power to use military force in Southeast Asia without having to ask for an official declaration of war. The number of American military personnel in Vietnam increased dramatically, from 16,000 advisors in non-combat roles in 1963 to 525,000 in 1967, many in combat roles. American casualties soared and the peace process stagnated. Growing unease with the war stimulated a large, angry anti-war movement based chiefly among draft-age students on university campuses. Unlike the majority of southern politicians, he opposed racial segregation, signing civil rights bills to ban racial discrimination in public facilities, interstate commerce, the workplace and housing. The Voting Rights Act ended the mass disenfranchisement of African Americans in the South, and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 permitted greater immigration from regions other than Europe. Johnson's presidency marked the peak of modern liberalism in the United States. Johnson faced further troubles when summer riots began in major cities in 1965 and crime rates soared, as his political opponents raised demands for "law and order" policies. While Johnson began his presidency with widespread approval, support for him declined as the public became frustrated with both the war and social unrest. In 1968, he ended his bid for renomination after a disappointing result in the New Hampshire primary. He was succeeded by Richard Nixon in January 1969. Johnson returned to his Texas ranch, where he died of a heart attack four years later, at approximately 3:39 p.m. on January 22, 1973, of a massive heart attack in his bedroom in Stonewall, Texas, the town of his birth, aged 64. He managed to telephone the Secret Service agents on the ranch, who found him still holding the telephone receiver, unconscious and not breathing. Johnson was airlifted in one of his planes to San Antonio and taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, where cardiologist and Army colonel Dr. George McGranahan pronounced him dead on arrival. Ten days earlier, Johnson recorded an hour-long television interview with newsman Walter Cronkite at his ranch on January 12, 1973, in which he discussed his legacy, particularly about the civil rights movement. He was still smoking heavily at the time, and told Cronkite that it was better for his heart "to smoke than to be nervous". Accordingly, shortly after Johnson's death, his press secretary Tom Johnson telephoned the newsroom at CBS. Cronkite was live on the air with CBS Evening News at the time, and a report on Vietnam was airing. The call was patched through to Cronkite, and while Johnson relayed the information the director cut out of the report to return to the news desk. Cronkite, still on the phone, kept Johnson on the call while he gathered whatever available relevant information, then repeated it to his viewers. Johnson's death came two days after Richard Nixon's second inauguration, which followed Nixon's landslide victory in the 1972 election. After lying in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Johnson was honored with a state funeral in which Texas Congressman J. J. Pickle and former Secretary Of State Dean Rusk eulogized him at the Capitol. The final services took place on January 25. The funeral was held at the National City Christian Church in Washington, D.C., where he had often worshiped as president. The service was presided over by President Richard Nixon and attended by foreign dignitaries, led by former Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato, who served as Japanese prime minister during Johnson's presidency. Eulogies were given by the Rev. Dr. George Davis, the church's pastor, and W. Marvin Watson, former postmaster general. Nixon did not speak, though he attended, as is customary for presidents during state funerals, but the eulogists turned to him and lauded him for his tributes, as Rusk did the day before, as Nixon mentioned Johnson's death in a speech he gave the day after Johnson died, announcing the peace agreement to end the Vietnam War. Johnson was buried in his family's private cemetery a few yards from the house in which he was born. Eulogies were given by former Texas governor John Connally and the Reverend Billy Graham, the minister who officiated at the burial rites. The state funeral, the last for a president until Richard Nixon's in 1994, was part of an unexpectedly busy week in Washington, as the Military District of Washington (MDW) dealt with its second major task in less than a week, beginning with Nixon's second inauguration. The inauguration affected the state funeral in various ways, because Johnson died only two days after the inauguration. The MDW and the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee canceled the remainder of the ceremonies surrounding the inauguration, to allow for a full state funeral, and many of the military men who participated in the inauguration took part in the funeral. It also meant that Johnson's casket traveled the entire length of the Capitol, entering through the Senate wing when taken into the rotunda to lie in state and exiting through the House wing steps due to inauguration construction on the East Front steps. Johnson is ranked favorably by many historians because of his domestic policies and the passage of many major laws that affected civil rights, gun control, wilderness preservation, and Social Security, although he has also drawn heavy criticism for his policies in the Vietnam War, and conservative criticism for the growth of the federal government and Great Society programs. https://store.earthstation1.com/lbj-1991-tv-documentary-series-lyndon-johnson-dvd-download-usb-d1991.html

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Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 2003: #DOTD: #RIP: Bill Mauldin, American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes For Editorial Cartooning for his work (b. October 29, 1921) #dies from complications of Alzheimer's disease and a bathtub scalding, aged 81. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery on January 29, 2003. Bill Mauldin was born William Henry Mauldin in Mountain Park, New Mexico, into a family with a tradition of military service. He is most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field of the sort he served with as a sergeant of the 45th Infantry Division's press corp. He landed with the division in the invasion of Sicily and later in the Italian campaign. Mauldin began working for Stars And Stripes, the American soldiers' newspaper; as well as the 45th Division News, until he was officially transferred to the Stars And Stripes in February 1944. His cartoons were popular with soldiers throughout Europe, and with civilians in the United States as well. In 1945, at the age of 23, Mauldin won a Pulitzer Prize for his wartime body of work, exemplified by a cartoon depicting exhausted infantrymen slogging through the rain, its caption mocking a typical late-war headline: "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners". Mauldin was not without his detractors. His images - which often parodied the Army's spit-shine and obedience-to-orders-without-question policy - offended some officers. After a Mauldin cartoon ridiculed Third Army commander General George Patton's decree that all soldiers be clean-shaven at all times - even in combat - Patton called Mauldin an "unpatriotic anarchist" and threatened to "throw [his] ass in jail" and ban Stars And Stripes from his command. General Dwight Eisenhower, Patton's superior, told Patton to leave Mauldin alone; he felt the cartoons gave the soldiers an outlet for their frustrations. "Stars And Stripes is the soldiers' paper," he told him, "and we won't interfere." Mauldin's cartoons made him a hero to the common soldier. GIs often credited him with helping them to get through the rigors of the war. His credibility with the common soldier increased in September 1943, when he was wounded in the shoulder by a German mortar while visiting a machine gun crew near Monte Cassino. By the end of the war, he received the Legion of Merit for his cartoons. Mauldin wanted Willie and Joe to be killed on the last day of combat, but Stars And Stripes dissuaded him. In 1959, Mauldin won a second Pulitzer Prize, while working at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for a cartoon depicting Soviet author Boris Pasternak in a Gulag, asking another prisoner, "I won the Nobel Prize for literature. What was your crime?" (Pasternak had won the Nobel Prize for his novel Doctor Zhivago, but was not allowed to travel to Sweden to accept it.) Possibly his best-known cartoon was published in 1963, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It depicted the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, with his head in his hands. https://store.earthstation1.com/soldiers-a-history-of-men-in-battle-4-dvds-all-13-sh413.html

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Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1924: The United Kingdom: The History Of The United Kingdom: Governments Of The United Kingdom: -- Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist, orator, pamphleteer, author and British politician (1866-1937), becomes the first Labour Party member to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, thereafter leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and then from 1929-31. James Ramsay MacDonald FRS was born at Gregory Place, Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland, the illegitimate son of John MacDonald, a farm labourer, and Anne Ramsay, a housemaid. Registered at birth as James McDonald (sic) Ramsay, he was known as Jaimie MacDonald. Illegitimacy could be a serious handicap in 19th-century Presbyterian Scotland, but in the north and northeast farming communities this was less of a problem; in 1868 a report of the Royal Commission on the Employment of Children, Young Persons and Women in Agriculture noted that the illegitimacy rate was around 15% -- nearly every sixth person was born out of wedlock. He headed a National Government dominated by the Conservative Party from 1931 to 1935 with the support of only a few Labour members. MacDonald was expelled from the Labour Party as a result. MacDonald, along with Keir Hardie and Arthur Henderson, was one of the three principal founders of the Labour Party in 1900. He was chairman of the Labour MPs before 1914 and, after an eclipse in his career caused by his opposition to the First World War, he was Leader of the Labour Party from 1922. The second Labour Government (1929-31) was dominated by the Great Depression. He formed the National Government to carry out spending cuts to defend the gold standard, but it had to be abandoned after the Invergordon Mutiny, an industrial action by around 1,000 sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet that took place on September 15-16 1931, when ships of the Royal Navy at Invergordon were in open mutiny, in one of the few military strikes in British history. The mutiny caused a panic on the London Stock Exchange and a run on the pound, bringing Britain's economic troubles to a head and forcing it off the Gold Standard on September 21. 1931. MacDonald called a general election in 1931 seeking a "doctor's mandate" to fix the economy. The National coalition won an overwhelming landslide and the Labour Party was reduced to a rump of around 50 seats in the House Of Commons. His health deteriorated and he stood down as Prime Minister in 1935, remaining as Lord President of the Council until retiring in 1937. He died later that year. MacDonald's speeches, pamphlets and books made him an important theoretician. Historian John Shepherd states that "MacDonald's natural gifts of an imposing presence, handsome features and a persuasive oratory delivered with an arresting Highlands accent made him the iconic Labour leader". After 1931, MacDonald was repeatedly and bitterly denounced by the Labour movement as a traitor to its cause. Since the 1960s, historians have defended his reputation, emphasising his earlier role in building up the Labour Party, dealing with the Great Depression, and as a putative forerunner of the political realignments of the 1990s and 2000s. He died on board the liner MV Reina del Pacifico at sea at the age of 71 with his youngest daughter Sheila at his side. His funeral was in Westminster Abbey on November 26. After cremation, his ashes were buried alongside his wife Margaret at Spynie in his native Morayshire. https://store.earthstation1.com/winston-churchill-the-wilderness-years-tv-series-dvd-set-4-disc4.html

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Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1931: #DOTD: #RIP: Alfred Maudslay, British diplomat, explorer, and archaeologist (b. March 18, 1850) #dies aged 80 in Hereford, England. He is buried in the crypt of Hereford Cathedral next to his first wife, Anne Cary Morris. Alfred Maudslay was born at Lower Norwood Lodge, near London, England into a wealthy engineering family descended from Henry Maudslay, English machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor considered a founding father of machine tool technology, whose iinventions were an important foundation for the Industrial Revolution. Alfred Percival Maudslay FRAI was one of the first Europeans to study Maya ruins. He also fully translated and annotated the best version of Bernal Diaz del Castillo's Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana from the only original manuscript in 1908 for the Hakluyt Society, which was abridged in 1928. Maudslay was educated at Royal Tunbridge Wells and Harrow School, and studied natural sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1868-72, where he was acquainted with John Willis Clark, then Secretary of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. After graduation, Maudslay enrolled in medical school but left because of acute bronchitis. After leaving Medical School, he moved to Trinidad, becoming private secretary to Governor William Cairns, and transferred with Cairns to Queensland. He subsequently moved to Fiji to work with Sir Arthur Gordon, its governor, and helped campaign against rebellious local tribes. Later he served as British consul in Tonga and Samoa. In February 1880, Maudslay resigned from the colonial service to pursue his own interests, having spent six years in the British Pacific colonies. He then joined his siblings in Calcutta during their round-the-world trip, returned to Britain in December, and then set out for Guatemala via British Honduras. In Guatemala, Maudslay began the major archaeological work for which he is now best remembered. He started at the Maya ruins of Quirigua and Copan where, with the help of Frank Sarg, he hired labourers to help clear and survey the remaining structures and artefacts. Sarg also introduced Maudslay to the newly found ruins in Tikal and to reliable guide Gorgonio Lopez. Maudslay was the first to describe the site of Yaxchilan. With Teobert Maler, Alfred Maudslay explored Chichen in the 1880s and both spent several weeks at the site and took extensive photographs. Maudslay published the first long-form description of Chichen Itza in his book, "Biologia Centrali-Americana". In the course of his surveys, Maudslay pioneered many of the later archaeological techniques. He hired Italian expert Lorenzo Giuntini and technicians to make plaster casts of the carvings, while Gorgonio Lopez made casts of papier-mache. Artist Annie Hunter drew impressions of the casts before they were shipped to museums in England and the United States. Maudslay also took numerous detailed photographs - dry plate photography was then a new technique - and made copies of the inscriptions. All told, Maudslay made a total of six expeditions to Maya ruins. After 13 years of preparation, he published his findings in 1902 as a 5-volume compendium entitled Biologia Centrali-Americana, which contained numerous excellent drawings and photographs of Maya ruins, Maudslay's commentary, and an appendix on archaic calendars by Joseph Thompson Goodman. Maudslay also applied for permission to make a survey of Monte Alban in Oaxaca but when he finally received permission in 1902, he could no longer finance the work with his own money. The firm of Maudslay, Sons and Field had gone bankrupt and reduced Maudslay's income. He unsuccessfully applied for funding from the Carnegie Institution. The Maudslays moved to San Angel near Mexico City for two years. In 1905, Maudslay began to translate the memoirs of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, who had been a soldier in the troops of the conquistadors; he completed it in 1912. In 1907 the Maudslays moved permanently back to Britain. Maudslay become a President of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1911-12. He also chaired the 18th International Congress of Americanists in London in 1912. In 1892, Maudslay married US-born Anne Cary Morris, a granddaughter of Gouverneur Morris. For their honeymoon, the couple sailed to Guatemala via New York and San Francisco. There the Maudslays worked for two weeks on behalf of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Their account was published in 1899 as A Glimpse at Guatemala. Annie Maudslay died in 1926. In 1928, Maudslay married widow Alice Purdon. In the following years he finished his memoirs, Life in the Pacific Fifty Years Ago. Materials he collected are currently stored at Harvard and the British Museum. https://store.earthstation1.com/pyramids-in-the-jungle-alfred-maudslay-in-central-america-dvd-download.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Valley Of The Kilns: Reginald Le May In Thailand DVD Video Download
Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1972: #DOTD: #RIP: Dr. Reginald S. Le May, English diplomat, author and explorer, known for his service in and writings on Southeast Asian culture and especially Thai art (b. January 6, 1885) #dies at the age of 87. Reginald S. Le May was born in Kent, England. He attended Framlingham College 1898-1902, where he won the school's Modern Languages prize. He then to Kings College, London. He worked as a confidential clerk to the British Consulate-General in Zurich, later as an assistant master at Framlingham. In Sept 1906 he came eleventh in the examination for student interpretership in HBM's Far East Consular Service (serving China, Japan, Siam). Le May joined the British Legation in Bangkok in February 1908, and served as Vice-Consul in Chiang Mai from March 1913, then transferred to similar post in Lampang. He served in the British Consular Service in Siam from 1908 to 1922, and from 1922 to 1933 be was Economic Adviser to the Thai Government. For twenty- five years he lived and worked in Siam, as well as during his long and fruitful retirement. Dr. Le May's publications, from 1920 to 1954, varied from specialised monographs to more general popular works. Starting in 1920, with the assistance of two other members of the Siam Philatelic Society, Le May published The Standard Catalogue of Thai Stamps. In 1925, his own collection of Thai stamps was prepared for the National Exhibition of 1926. When this was cancelled owing to the death of King Rama VI of Siam, the collection was presented to the National Museum and Library, where it can still be seen today. In 1926, Le May's first book on Siam appeared, titled An Asian Arcady, (An Account of Northern Siam), a description of his 5-month, 700-mile long journey from Chiang Mai-Lampang through Phrae and Nan- Lampang, dedicated to H.R.H. Prince Purac Hatra, and published by Heffer and Sons of Cambridge. In 1930 Noel Douglas of London published Le May's Siamese Tales, Old and New. A second edition was later published by Probsthain of London. In 1932, the Siam Society published Le May's The Coinage of Siam, long a standard work on the subject, which was reprinted by the Society in 1961. In 1934, LeMay retired from Thai Government service and went up as a research student to Pembroke College, Cambridge. He spent the following three years writing his magnum opus on Buddhist Art in Siam, which gained for him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and was published by the Cambridge University Press. It has since been reprinted twice by Tuttle of Vermont and Tokyo, and is still on sale. Finally, to crown his work, in 1954, Allen & Unwin published The Culture of South-East Asia, which has had three editions in England, a special one for India, and another edition in the German language. Reginald Le May's affection for Thailand and the Thai people was great; to the last days of his life, he called Siam "the country of my adoption." https://store.earthstation1.com/valley-of-the-kilns-reginald-le-may-in-thailand-dvd-video-download.html

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Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1561: #DOTD: #RIP: Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, known as Lord Verulam between 1618 and 1621, English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author, Attorney General for England and Wales, Lord Chancellor of England, and occultist considered to be "the father of empiricism" (d. April 9, 1626) is #born at York House near Strand in London, England, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper of the Great Seal) by his second wife, Anne (Cooke) Bacon, the daughter of the noted Renaissance humanist Anthony Cooke. His mother's sister was married to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, making Burghley Bacon's uncle. Francis Bacon served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the scientific method, and his works remained influential even in the late stages of the Scientific Revolution. Known as the father of empiricism., he argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. He believed that science could be achieved by the use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. Although his most specific proposals about such a method, the Baconian method, did not have long-lasting influence, the general idea of the importance and possibility of a sceptical methodology makes Bacon one of the later founders of the scientific method. His portion of the method based in scepticism was a new rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, whose practical details are still central to debates on science and methodology. He is famous for his role in the scientific revolution, promoting scientific experimentation as a way of glorifying God and fulfilling scripture. Bacon was a patron of libraries and developed a system for cataloguing books under three categories - history, poetry, and philosophy - which could further be divided into specific subjects and subheadings. About books he wrote: "Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested." The Shakespearean authorship thesis, a fringe theory which was first proposed in the mid-19th century, contends that Bacon wrote at least some and possibly all of the plays conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare. Bacon was educated at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, where he rigorously followed the medieval curriculum, which was presented largely in Latin. He was the first recipient of the Queen's counsel designation, conferred in 1597 when Elizabeth I reserved him as her legal advisor. After the accession of James I in 1603, Bacon was knighted, then created Baron Verulam in 1618 and Viscount St Alban in 1621. The Baconian hypothesis of Shakespearean authorship, first proposed in the mid-19th century, contends that Francis Bacon wrote some or even all of the plays conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare. Bacon's connection to the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons has been widely discussed by authors and scholars in many books. However, others, including Daphne du Maurier in her biography of Bacon, have argued that there is no substantive evidence to support claims of involvement with the Rosicrucians. Frances Yates does not make the claim that Bacon was a Rosicrucian, but presents evidence that he was nevertheless involved in some of the more closed intellectual movements of his day. She argues that Bacon's movement for the advancement of learning was closely connected with the German Rosicrucian movement, while Bacon's New Atlantis portrays a land ruled by Rosicrucians. He apparently saw his own movement for the advancement of learning to be in conformity with Rosicrucian ideals. An old volume of Francis Bacon and a rose. The link between Bacon's work and the Rosicrucians ideals which Yates allegedly found was the conformity of the purposes expressed by the Rosicrucian Manifestos and Bacon's plan of a "Great Instauration", for the two were calling for a reformation of both "divine and human understanding", as well as both had in view the purpose of mankind's return to the "state before the Fall". Another major link is said to be the resemblance between Bacon's New Atlantis and the German Rosicrucian Johann Valentin Andreae's Description of the Republic of Christianopolis (1619). Andreae describes a utopic island in which Christian theosophy and applied science ruled, and in which the spiritual fulfilment and intellectual activity constituted the primary goals of each individual, the scientific pursuits being the highest intellectual calling - linked to the achievement of spiritual perfection. Andreae's island also depicts a great advancement in technology, with many industries separated in different zones which supplied the population's needs - which shows great resemblance to Bacon's scientific methods and purposes. The Rosicrucian organisation AMORC claims that Bacon was the "Imperator" (leader) of the Rosicrucian Order in both England and the European continent, and would have directed it during his lifetime. It is furthermore plausible or even likely that Bacon was a member of The Priory Of Sion (PS), a Templar secret society supposedly founded by crusading knight Godfrey Of Bouillon, on Mount Zion in the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099. Bacon's influence can also be seen on a variety of religious and spiritual authors, and on groups that have utilised his writings in their own belief systems. Francis Bacon died in the early morning of pneumonia at the Earl of Arundel's mansion at Highgate outside London, aged 65. He is buried in St Michael's Church in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Though he was married to Alice Barnham, Viscountess St Albans (May 14, 1592 - 1650) since 1604 (his bisexuality and decided preference for men was an open secret at the time), he had no heirs, and so both the titles Baron Verulam and Viscount St Alban became extinct upon his death. At the news of his death, over 30 great minds collected together their eulogies of him, which were then later published in Latin. He left personal assets of about 7K PS and lands that realised 6K PS when sold. His debts amounted to more than 23K PS, equivalent to more than 4M PS as of 2021. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. https://store.earthstation1.com/seofteseboti.html

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Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1917: #DOTD: #RIP: Berenger Sauniere, French Catholic priest in the village of Rennes-le-Chateau in the Aude region of Southern France, named after the river Aude, the historical Languedoc-Roussillon region of Occitan, located in modern Occitania. the southernmost administrative region of metropolitan France (excluding Corsica), central figure in the secrets associated with the village and the Priory Of Sion (PS) (French: "Prieure De Sion") secret society, founded by crusading knight Godfrey of Bouillon on Mount Zion in the Kingdom Of Jerusalem in 1099 under the guise of the monastic order of The Abbey Of Our Lady of Mount Zion to protect the "Sangreal" (translated both as "Holy Grail" or "True Blood"), the bloodline of the Merovingian Kings believed to be that of Jesus Of Nazareth and Mary Magdelene (basis of "The Da Vinci Code" [in which the fictional character Jacques Sauniere is named after him], "The Templar Revelation" and "The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail") (b. April 11, 1852) #dies aged 64, his suspension from his priestly duties for refusing to leave Rennes-le-Chateau to accept his appointment as bishop of Carcassonne being lifted at the moment of death (in articulo mortis) by Abbe Jean Riviere, who performed the last rites. His death certificate was dated the following day, January 23, 1917, and was signed by Victor Riviere, the mayor of Rennes-le-Chateau. Sauniere was buried at Rennes-le-Chateau Cemetery on January 24, 1917. The epitaph on Sauniere's original 1917 gravestone read "Priest Of Rennes-le-Chateau 1885-1917". Marie Denarnaud paid for Sauniere's coffin on June 12, 1917. In September 2004, the mayor of Rennes-le-Chateau exhumed Sauniere's corpse from the cemetery and reburied it in a concrete sarcophagus to protect it from grave-robbers. Since then, the cemetery of Rennes-le-Chateau has been closed to the general public. Berenger Sauniere was born Francois-Berenger Sauniere in Montazels, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Sauniere served in Rennes-le-Chateau from 1885 until he was transferred to another village in 1909 by his bishop. He declined this nomination and subsequently resigned. From 1909 until his death in 1917, he was a non-stipendiary Free Priest (an independent priest without a parish, who did not receive any salary from the church because of suspension), and who from 1910 celebrated Mass at an altar constructed in a special conservatory by his Villa Bethania. Sauniere's refusal to leave Rennes-le-Chateau to continue his priesthood in another parish incurred permanent suspension, lifted only at the moment of his death. A few researchers claim, based on insider information, that the Priory of Sion continues to operate as a secret society to this day. https://store.earthstation1.com/seofteseboti.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial Archaeology Artifacts Peoples DVD MP4 USB
Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1888: #BOTD: #HBD! Basil Brown, self-taught archaeologist and astronomer who in 1939 discovered and excavated a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in what curator of the British Museum described as "one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time" (d. March 12, 1977) is #born Basil John Wait Brown in Bucklesham, east of Ipswich, to George Brown (1863-1932) and Charlotte Wait (c.1854-1931), daughter of John Wait of Great Barrington, Gloucestershire. His father was a farmer, wheelwright and agent for the Royal Insurance Company. Although described as an amateur archaeologist, Brown's career as a paid excavation employee for a provincial museum spanned more than thirty years. In July 1937 English landowner Edith Pretty paid Basil Brown to find out if anything lay beneath the mounds on her property. Promising finds were made, and Brown returned in the summer of 1939 for further work on the project. He soon unearthed The Sutton Hoo Burial, the remains of an enormous burial site containing what was later identified as a 7th-century Saxon ship, which may have been the last resting-place of King Raedwald of East Anglia. The famed Sutton Hoo Helmet, and the other artefacts from the site were determined the be legally the property of Edith Pretty, as she was owner of the land on which they were found. She donated them to the British Museum, where the helmet is on permanent display in Room 41. The Sutton Hoo Helmet is a decorated and ornate Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. It was buried around 625 and is widely believed to have belonged to King Raedwald of East Anglia; its elaborate decoration may have given it a secondary function akin to a crown. The helmet was both a functional piece of armour that would have offered considerable protection if ever used in warfare, and a decorative, prestigious piece of extravagant metalwork. It is described as "the most iconic object" from "one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries ever made," and perhaps the most important known Anglo-Saxon artefact. The visage contains eyebrows, a nose, and moustache, creating the image of a man joined by a dragon's head to become a soaring dragon with outstretched wings. It has become a symbol of the Early Middle Ages and "of Archaeology in general." It was excavated as hundreds of rusted fragments, and was first displayed following an initial reconstruction in 1945-46, and then in its present form after a second reconstruction in 1970-71. Sutton Hoo, at Sutton near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, England, is the site of two early medieval cemeteries, from the 6th to 7th centuries. Archaeologists have been excavating the area since the 1930s. One cemetery had an undisturbed ship burial with a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts of art-historical and archaeological significance; most of these objects are now held by the British Museum in London. The site is in the care of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. Historians who specialise in the early middle ages regard Sutton Hoo as important because it illuminates a period that is on the margin between myth, legend, and historical documentation. Use of the site culminated when Raedwald, ruler of the Kingdom of East Anglia, held senior power among the English people and played a dynamic if ambiguous part in the establishment of Christian rulership in England. Scholars believe that Raedwald is most likely the person buried in the ship. Findings at the site have been important in understanding the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia and the early Anglo-Saxon period. The ship burial is one of the most magnificent archaeological finds in England because of its size, completeness, far-reaching connections, the quality and beauty of its contents, and the profound interest of the burial ritual itself. The initial excavation was privately sponsored by the landowner. When the significance of the find became apparent, national experts took over. Subsequent archaeological campaigns, particularly in the late 1960s and late 1980s, have explored the wider site and many other individual burials. The most significant artefacts from the ship burial, displayed in the British Museum, are those found in the burial chamber, including a suite of metalwork dress fittings in gold and gems, a ceremonial helmet, shield and sword, a lyre, and many pieces of silver plate from the Byzantine Empire. The ship burial has, from the time of its discovery, prompted comparisons with the world described in the heroic Old English poem Beowulf, which is set in Gotaland (now southern Sweden). That region, especially Vendel, has close archaeological parallels to the Sutton Hoo ship burial, both in its general form and in details of the military equipment in the burial. Although the ship burial commands the greatest attention from tourists, the two cemeteries also have rich historical meaning because of their position in relation to the River Deben estuary and the North Sea, and their relation to other sites in the immediate neighbourhood. Of the two grave fields at Sutton Hoo, the Sutton Hoo cemetery had long been known to exist because it consists of a group of approximately 20 earthen Anglo-Saxon burial mounds that rise slightly above the horizon of the hill-spur when viewed from the opposite bank. The other, the newer burial ground, is situated on a second hill-spur close to the present Exhibition Hall, about 500 metres upstream of the first. It was discovered and partially explored in 2000 during preliminary work for the construction of the hall. This site also had burials under mounds, but was not known because these mounds had been flattened by agricultural activity. There is a visitor centre with many original and replica artefacts and a reconstruction of the ship burial chamber. The burial field can be toured in the summer months and at weekends and school holidays year-round. Basil Brown died of pneumonia at his home "Cambria" in Rickinghall, Suffolk, England. He was cremated at Ipswich Crematorium in Ipswich, Suffolk, England on March 17, and his ashes were given to his widow Dorothy. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-sutton-hoo-ship-burial-archaeology-artifacts-peoples-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Audio Recording History Films Collection DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 2004: #DOTD: #RIP: Billy May, American trumpet player, composer and arranger (b. November 10, 1916) #dies at San Juan Capistrano, California, aged 97. Edward William "Billy" May, Jr composed film and television music for The Green Hornet (1966), The Mod Squad (1968), Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1967), and Naked City (1960). He collaborated on films such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return, among others. May also wrote arrangements for many top singers, including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jones, Bing Crosby, Sandler and Young, Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney, The Andrews Sisters and Ella Mae Morse. He also collaborated with satirist Stan Freberg on several classic 1950s and 1960s satirical music albums. As a trumpet player, during the 1940s big band May recorded such songs as "Measure for Measure", "Long Tall Mama", and "Boom Shot", with Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, and "The Wrong Idea", "Lumby", and "Wings Over Manhattan" with Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra. With his own band, May had a hit single, "Charmaine", in 1952, and he released an album, Sorta-May. Famed WABC radio disc jockey Dan Ingram used segments of Billy May's "Tri-Fi Drums" as his signature closing theme. https://store.earthstation1.com/audio-recording-history-films-dual-layer-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Music & Dance Shows #14 Aretha Temptations Kinks DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1982: #DOTD: #RIP: Tommy Tucker, African American blues singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights journalist (b. March 5, 1933) #dies at the age of 48 at College Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, from inhaling carbon tetrachloride while refinishing the hardwood floors of his home, though his death has been alternatively attributed to food poisoning. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Tommy Tucker was born Robert Higginbotham in Springfield, Ohio. He is best known for the 1964 hit song, "Hi-Heel Sneakers", that went to No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and peaked at No. 23 in the UK Singles Chart. He released an album, also entitled Hi-Heel Sneakers, on Checker Records that same year. His follow-up single, "Long Tall Shorty", was less successful, but was a favorite of British rockers, including The Kinks who performed it on Shindig. Musicians that played on his albums and singles included Louisiana Red, Willie Dixon and Donny Hathaway. In the 1970s, he began releasing previously unissued material on the English label Red Lightnin'. This was combined with his work for Big Bear Records, featuring on their American Blues Legends '75 album and tour. Tucker co-wrote a song with Atlantic Records founder executive Ahmet Ertegun, called "My Girl (I Really Love Her So)". Tucker left the music industry in the late 1960s, taking a position as a real estate agent in New Jersey. He also did freelance writing for a local newspaper in East Orange, New Jersey, writing of the plight and ignorance of black males in America, and the gullibility and exploitation of African Americans in general by the white-dominated media. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-14-aretha-temptations-kinks-d14.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Music & Dance Shows #9 The Action Is Here DVD, MP4, USB Flash Drive
Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1966: Aesthetics: The Performing Arts: Music: Music History: Music Of The United States: The History Of Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): Record Releases: -- Lies by The Knickerbockers peaks on the Billboard Hot 100 at #20. The song was written by Beau Charles, guitarist and vocalist of the band, and Buddy Randell, the band's vocalist and saxophone player who was also a member of The Royal Teens (famous for the song "Short Shorts") under his birth name, Billy Crandall. The single was produced by Jerry Fuller. It was featured on their 1966 album Lies and is famous for often being mistaken for a Beatles track due to its similarities to their style and harmonies. Here is what original Knickerbockers member Beau Charles said about the song's behind-the-scenes story: "We desperately tried to write something that sounded like the British Invasion. We wrote 'Lies' in less than one half hour. We demo-ed it in New York." After a Jerry Fuller inspired re-arrangement, the track was recorded at Sunset Sound in West Hollywood with Bruce Botnick as the Engineer. Things were not quite right, so the multi-track master was taken to Leon Russell's house in Hollywood Hills. Jerry Fuller knew Leon and "Leon had this great little studio - just a four track". The band recorded the vocals there and overdubbed a new guitar part that was recorded from a beat up old Fender guitar amp that gave the guitar sound a meaty, edgy feel". https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-9-the-action-is-here-dv9.html

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Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1968: Aesthetics: The Performing Arts: Music: Music History: Music Of The United States: The History Of Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): Record Releases: -- Boogie With Canned Heat, the second studio album by American blues and rock band Canned Heat, is released. It contains mostly original material, unlike their debut album. It was the band's most commercially successful album, reaching number 16 in the US and number 5 in the UK. Boogie with Canned Heat includes the top 10 hit "On the Road Again", one of their best-known songs. "Amphetamine Annie", a warning about the dangers of amphetamine abuse, also received considerable airplay. "Fried Hockey Boogie" was the first example of one of Canned Heat's boogies, or loose jams. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album an "impressive selection," and praised the "in-concert favourite" "Fried Hockey Boogie". Rolling Stone wrote that "'An Owl Song' is perhaps Al Wilson's strongest vocal outing to date - his peculiarly high crooning mumble grooving along over a kicking, chugging rhythm section." https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-rock-39n39-roll-dvd-complete-tv-series-5-39395.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Strange Case Of Yukio Mishima Biography DVD, MP4 Download, USB
Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1940: #BOTD: #HBD! John Hurt, English actor of stage, television and film whose career spanned over five decades, regarded as one of Britain's finest actors (d. January 25, 2017) is #born John Vincent Hurt in Chesterfield, Derbyshire in central England. Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE was described by film director David Lynch described him as "simply the greatest actor in the world". He was known for his distinctive voice and received numerous awards including the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award in 2012 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2015 for his services to drama. He came to prominence playing Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966) and won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for The Naked Civil Servant (1975). He played Caligula in the BBC TV series I, Claudius (1976). Hurt earned Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Midnight Express (1978), and Best Actor for The Elephant Man (1980). Other films include Alien (1979), Heaven's Gate (1980), Champions (1984), 1984 (1984), The Hit (1984), Scandal (1989), The Field (1990) and Rob Roy (1995). Hurt gained further prominence portraying Mr. Ollivander in the Harry Potter film series (2001-11), and starring in the Hellboy films (2004 and 2008), V for Vendetta (2005), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Outlander (2008), and Snowpiercer (2013). He also acted in the acclaimed films Melancholia (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Jackie (2016). Hurt reprised his role as Quentin Crisp in An Englishman in New York (2009), which brought his seventh BAFTA nomination. He portrayed the War Doctor in the BBC TV series Doctor Who's 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", in 2013. He voiced roles in Watership Down (1978), The Lord of the Rings (1978), The Plague Dogs (1982), The Black Cauldron (1985), and Dogville (2003) as well as BBC's Merlin (2008-2012). John Hurt died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Cromer, Norfolk, East Anglia, England, three days after his 77th birthday. His remains were cremated, and the ashes given to his widow Anwen Rees-Myers. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-strange-case-of-yukio-mishima-dvd-read-by-john-hurt.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Dark Journey 1937 WWI Spy Film Conrad Veidt Vivien Leigh DVD, MP4, USB
Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1893: #BOTD: #HBD! Conrad Veidt, German-American actor, director, and producer (d. April 3, 1943) is #born Hans Walter Conrad Veidt in his parents' home at Tieckstrasse 39 in Berlin, German Empire. Conrad Veidt was best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Man Who Laughs (1928), and, after being forced to migrate to Britain by the rise of Nazism in Germany, his English-speaking roles in Dark Journey (1937), The Thief of Bagdad (1940), and, in Hollywood, Casablanca (1942), in which he appeared as Major Strasser. After a successful career in German silent film, where he was one of the best-paid stars of Ufa, he left Germany in 1933 with his new Jewish wife after the Nazis came to power. They settled in Britain, where he participated in a number of films before emigrating to the United States around 1941. He died on 3 April 1943 of a massive heart attack while playing golf at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles with singer Arthur Fields and his personal physician, Dr. Bergman, who pronounced him dead on the scene. His remains were cremated and inurned at Golders Green Crematorium in Golders Green, Greater London, England. https://store.earthstation1.com/dark-journey-1937-dvd-conrad-veidt-vivien-leigh-wwi-espio1937.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Commercials: The Cable Age Classics Vol. 4 MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 1994: #DOTD: #RIP: Telly Savalas, American actor and singer whose career spanned four decades (b. January 21, 1922) #dies the day after his 72nd birthday, of complications of prostate and bladder cancer at the Sheraton-Universal Hotel in Universal City, California. He had lived at the Sheraton in Universal City for 20 years, becoming such a fixture at the hotel bar that it was renamed Telly's. Savalas is interred at the George Washington section of Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. The funeral, held in the Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, was attended by his third wife, Julie, and his brother Gus. His first two wives, Katherine and Marilyn, also attended with their own children. The mourners included Angie Dickinson, Nicollette Sheridan, Jennifer Aniston (his goddaughter), Kevin Sorbo, Sally Adams, Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, and several of Savalas's Kojak co-stars - Kevin Dobson, Dan Frazer, and Vince Conti. Telly Savalas was born Aristotelis Savalas in Garden City, New York. Noted for his bald head and deep, resonant voice, he is perhaps best known for portraying Lt. Theo Kojak on the crime drama series Kojak (1973-1978) and James Bond archvillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Savalas' other roles include Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Battle of the Bulge (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Horror Express (1972), Lisa and the Devil (1974) and Escape to Athena (1979). For Birdman of Alcatraz, he was nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. As a singer, Savalas released a cover of the Bread song "If", which became a UK No. 1 single in 1975. The song also peaked at number 12 in Australia. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-vol-4-mp4-video-download-d44.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, January 22, 2025
January 22, 2010: #DOTD: #RIP: Jean Simmons, English-American actress, singer and beauty (b. January 31, 1929) #dies from lung cancer at her home in Santa Monica, nine days shy of her 81st birthday. She is interred in Highgate Cemetery, London. She was born Jean Merilyn Simmons in Islington, London to Charles Simmons, a bronze medalist in gymnastics at the 1912 Summer Olympics, and his wife, Winifred Ada (nee Loveland), Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE was one of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", and she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Great Britain during and after World War II, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards. Simmons was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hamlet (1948), and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for Guys and Dolls (1955). Her other film appearances include Young Bess (1953), The Robe (1953), Elmer Gantry (1960), Spartacus (1960), and the 1969 film The Happy Ending, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won an Emmy Award for the miniseries The Thorn Birds. https://store.earthstation1.com/hollywood-the-golden-years-the-rko-story-dvd-set-2-disc2.html