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January 29: National Corn Chip Day: -- Grab the queso or salsa and celebrate! Recognized each year across the country on January 29, National Corn Chip Day encourages corn chip lovers to whip up their favorite dips and toppings. The corn chip or friotes are not to be confused with the tortilla chip. Both are made from cornmeal which is baked or fried in oil. Differing steps for processing the corn separate the tortilla from the corn chip. The corn for a tortilla chip is soaked in a lime-water solution that breaks down the hulls. This process creates a crisper, milder chip. A corn chip is sturdier with a stronger corn flavor. Both were popular snacks originating in Mexico. There are two men credited with patenting and marketing the corn chip in the United States. First, Isador J. Filler often ate a tostada (a hard corn tortilla with toppings) while traveling in San Antonio, Texas as a salesman. He struck on the idea of making them in rectangles and marketing them as a chip. In 1932 he patented his concept. Around the same time, Elmer Doolin was also traveling in San Antonio and was enjoying friotes. According to the story, he paid 100 USD for the recipe. Experimenting in his home until he created the ideal chip, Doolin then started selling them from the back of his Model T Ford. When he began mass-producing them under the name of Frito Corn Chips, they were a hit. In 1945, Doolin came to an agreement with Herman Lay (of potato chip fame) to distribute Doolin's Fritos across the country. The two companies merged in 1959 after Doolin's death. To observe National Corn Chip Day, Create a topping buffet with everyone's favorite toppings. Include jalapenos, cheese, olives, queso, seasoned shredded pork, chicken or steak, onions, tomatoes, sour cream, and guac. Dip it! Some of you are looking for hot and spicey while others like it light and fresh. Get the cheese dipping, layers, melty, herbaceous, flavor party started. Pack them up! Sneak corn chips into your loved one's lunch bags. Add cheese slices or a container of their favorite dip. Stick a corny note to it. You know, something like this: Chip, chip, hooray! It's National Corn Chip Day! (It even rhymes.) This one is a real winner: It's nacho average holiday, #NationalCornChipDay. Now if this doesn't just guac their world, we don't know what will. Be sure to chip in by using #NationalCornChipDay when posting about this to social media! Keep exploring the day by discovering more chip and dip combinations to enjoy. We have been celebrating National Corn Chip Day since at least 2002. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-vol-4-mp4-video-download-d44.html

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January 29: National Puzzle Day: -- An annual recognition of how exercising our brains with puzzles is just one of its many benefits! Whether it's a crossword, jigsaw, trivia, word searches, brain teasers or Sudoku, puzzles put our minds to work. Studies have found that when we work on a jigsaw puzzle, we use both sides of the brain. And spending time daily working on puzzles improves memory, cognitive function, and problem-solving skills. Word searches and crossword puzzles have the obvious benefit of increasing vocabulary and language skills. Sudoku, a puzzle sequencing a set of numbers on a grid, exercises the brain as well. By testing memory and logical thinking, this puzzle stimulates the brain and can improve number skills. Puzzles also offer social benefits. When we work on these brain teasers with someone, we improve our social interactions. Whether we join a group or play with our children, those interactions keep us socially active and teach our children social skills, too. Even working them quietly together provides an opportunity to focus the mind in a meditative way that isn't forced. The bottom line is, puzzles stimulate the brain, keeping it active, and practicing its skills. Invite a friend to put a puzzle together with you. Try a new puzzle game or revisit an old one. Create a puzzle game. And use #NationalPuzzleDay to post on social media! In 2002, Jodi Jill created National Puzzle Day as a way to share her enjoyment of puzzles. As a syndicated newspaper puzzle maker and professional quiz maker, Jodi Jill developed classroom lesson plans especially for the observance and the popularity has grown year after year. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-whistler-radio-mp3-dvd-complete-broadcast3.html

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January 29: Freethinkers Day (Thomas Paine Day, Common Sense Day): -- What are your thoughts about celebrating Freethinkers Day annually on January 29? Are you ready to open up your mind to new odds and ideas? Freethinkers Day is a day when people are not only entitled to think outside the box but are even cheered on to do so. In some places, it is also called Thomas Paine Day, or Common Sense Day. It encourages people all over the world to have the freedom to think and express themselves. Freethinkers Day is observed on the birthday of Thomas Paine. Paine is a well-known thinker whose works and books, which expanded on a philosophy of enlightenment, enormously affected the course of the French and American revolutions. Paine was a noble and bold man whose entire life work was inspiring and a strong motivation for those who yearned to find their independence. His efforts especially promoted the rejection of abstract authority that symbolized power and self-promotion over motive. Although Paine was English-born, at the request of Benjamin Franklin, he came to America in 1774. Paine's many significant books and pamphlets throughout his life included "Common Sense," "The Age of Reason," and "The Rights of Man." He was also one of the first persons to call for universal human rights and an end to slavery. Paine's writing has inspired a lot of other activists to seek their political, economic, and social progression. Although Paine rose to prominence hundreds of years ago, it was only until the 1990s that he was acknowledged with a day. "The Truth Seeker" magazine initiated the celebration of this day on January 29, as a celebration of Thomas Paine's memorable history and birth on January 29, 1737. The sole objective of this day is to bring around education and awareness as well as the common benefits of freedom and liberty. A symbolic way that the magazine suggested the day be celebrated was by exhibiting a white rose with thorns. The color white symbolized purity, fragility, and beauty; and the thorns represented danger. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/berkeley-in-the-sixties-dvd-1960s-counterculture-ori1960.html

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January 29: Freethinkers Day (Thomas Paine Day, Common Sense Day): -- January 29, 1737: #BOTD: #HBD! Thomas Paine, English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, revolutionary, pamphleteer, author, possible Freemason, Founding Father of the United States (d. June 8, 1809) is #born Thomas Pain on January 29, 1737 O.S. (February 9, 1737 N.S.) in Thetford, England. Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. He authored two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution - Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-1783), the latter which began "These are the times that try men's souls" - which provided inspiration to undecided Americans that a new nation, independent from Britain, might eventually become "...an asylum for mankind!", and he helped to inspire the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. Virtually every American Patriot read his 47-page pamphlet Common Sense, which catalyzed the call for independence from Great Britain. The American Crisis was a pro-independence pamphlet series. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of human rights. He served in the Continental Army and observed the hardships of American troops fighting the world's most powerful army. He refused to accept the profits from his writings and wound up destitute after the Revolution. Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution. While in England, he wrote Rights of Man (1791), in part a defense of the French Revolution against its critics. His attacks on Anglo-Irish conservative writer Edmund Burke led to a trial and conviction in absentia in England in 1792 for the crime of seditious libel. The British government of William Pitt the Younger was worried by the possibility that the French Revolution might spread to Britain and had begun suppressing works that espoused radical philosophies. Paine's work advocated the right of the people to overthrow their government and was therefore targeted with a writ for his arrest issued in early 1792. Paine fled to France in September, despite not being able to speak French, but he was quickly elected to the French National Convention. The Girondins regarded him as an ally; consequently, the Montagnards regarded him as an enemy, especially Maximilien Robespierre. In December 1793, he was arrested and was taken to Luxembourg Prison in Paris. While in prison, he continued to work on The Age of Reason (1793-1794). James Monroe used his diplomatic connections to get Paine released in November 1794. Paine became notorious because of his pamphlets and attacks on his former allies, who he felt had betrayed him. In The Age of Reason and other writings, he advocated Deism, promoted reason and freethought, and argued against religion in general and Christian doctrine in particular. In 1796, he published a bitter open letter to George Washington, whom he denounced as an incompetent general and a hypocrite. He published the pamphlet Agrarian Justice (1797), discussing the origins of property and introducing the concept of a guaranteed minimum income through a one-time inheritance tax on landowners. In 1802, he returned to the U.S., where he died seven years later. Though there is no definitive evidence Paine himself was a Freemason, upon his return to America from France he penned "An Essay on the Origin of Free-Masonry" (1803-1805) about Freemasonry being derived from the religion of the ancient Druids. Marguerite de Bonneville published the essay in 1810 after Paine's death, but she chose to omit certain passages from it that were critical of Christianity, most of which were restored in an 1818 printing. In the essay, Paine stated that "the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun." Paine also had a negative attitude toward Judaism. While never describing himself as a Deist, he openly advocated Deism in his writings, and called Deism "the only true religion": "The opinions I have advanced ... are the effect of the most clear and long-established conviction that the Bible and the Testament are impositions upon the world, that the fall of man, the account of Jesus Christ being the Son of God, and of his dying to appease the wrath of God, and of salvation, by that strange means, are all fabulous inventions, dishonorable to the wisdom and power of the Almighty; that the only true religion is Deism, by which I then meant, and mean now, the belief of one God, and an imitation of his moral character, or the practice of what are called moral virtues - and that it was upon this only (so far as religion is concerned) that I rested all my hopes of happiness hereafter. So say I now - and so help me God." Thomas Paine died in the morning at 59 Grove Street in Greenwich Village, New York City, aged 72. Although the original building no longer exists, the present building has a plaque noting that Paine died at this location. His remains then went on a strange and, as of 2023, unresolved journey. After his death, Paine's body was brought to New Rochelle, but the Quakers would not allow it to be buried in their graveyard as per his last will, so his remains were buried under a walnut tree on his farm. In 1819, English agrarian radical journalist William Cobbett, who in 1793 had published a hostile continuation of Francis Oldys (George Chalmer)'s The Life of Thomas Paine, dug up his bones and transported them back to England with the intention to give Paine a heroic reburial on his native soil, but this never came to pass. The bones were still among Cobbett's effects when he died over fifteen years later, but were later lost. There is no confirmed story about what happened to them after that, although various people have claimed throughout the years to own parts of Paine's remains, such as his skull and right hand. He was taken care of at the end of his life and buried by Marguerite Brazier, a Parisian woman, the wife of author Nicholas Bonneville, and mother of Paine's godson, the explorer Benjamin Bonneville. In his will, Paine left the bulk of his estate to Marguerite, including 100 acres (40.5 ha) of his farm so she could maintain and educate Benjamin and his brother Thomas. At the time of his death, most American newspapers reprinted the obituary notice from the New York Evening Post that was in turn quoting from The American Citizen, which read in part: "He had lived long, did some good, and much harm". Only six mourners came to his funeral, as he had been ostracized for his ridicule of Christianity and his attacks on the nation's leaders. Two of the mourners were black, most likely freedmen. Months later, there appeared a hostile biography by James Cheetham, who had admired him since the latter's days as a young radical in Manchester, and who had been friends with Paine for a short time before the two fell out. Many years later the writer and orator Robert G. Ingersoll wrote: "Thomas Paine had passed the legendary limit of life. One by one most of his old friends and acquaintances had deserted him. Maligned on every side, execrated, shunned and abhorred - his virtues denounced as vices - his services forgotten - his character blackened, he preserved the poise and balance of his soul. He was a victim of the people, but his convictions remained unshaken. He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his death. Even those who loved their enemies hated him, their friend - the friend of the whole world - with all their hearts. On the 8th of June 1809, death came - Death, almost his only friend. 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January 29: Curmudgeons Day: -- Celebrated in honor of all the cranky and fussy people in our lives. Picture Oscar the Grouch, Mr. Mooney from the Lucy Show, the old lady at the cashier, or your grandfather sitting on his porch - and blow them a kiss on this fun and interesting holiday! The word 'curmudgeon' is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as an ill-tempered, disagreeable, and quarrelsome person. We disagree with the curmudgeons in our lives the entire year, right? We honor them on Curmudgeons Day. Curmudgeons Day is celebrated on the birth anniversary of American actor, comedian, writer, and juggler, William Claude Dukenfield, better known as, W.C. Fields. Fields' finessed the persona of a curmudgeon with his comic acts and became one of the best-known entertainers of his time. W.C. Fields portrayed cantankerous and antisocial characters throughout his life while maintaining his absolute affinity for alcohol and his disdain for dogs and children. His juggling acts became world-famous, as he toured all across America and the seven seas, making Queen Victoria one of his attendees. In his four decades as an entertainer, Fields acted in dozens of films and became a household name. Fields died at age 66 and left behind one of the greatest legacies any entertainer ever has. On Curmudgeons Day, you can either sit at home and be grouchy, or you can take a stroll around the neighborhood to greet all the grumpy people you can find. You can also take a quick scan of your social media and reach out to the 'mean boys and girls' of your high school. Better yet make a cup of tea for a co-worker who'd shed a limb before sharing a smile. Whatever you do, don't let the grump slip away from you. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/jonathan-bell-ministries-dallas-cable-access-tv-shows-dvd.html

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January 29: Curmudgeons Day: -- January 29, 1880: #BOTD: #HBD! W. C. Fields, American actor, comedian, juggler and screenwriter (d. December 25, 1946) is #born William Claude Dukenfield in Darby, Pennsylvania. Curmudgeons Day, which clebrates of all the cranky and fussy people in our lives is celebrated annually on W. C. Fields' birthday in his honor. His comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs and children. His career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler. He gradually incorporated comedy into his act, and was a featured comedian in the Ziegfeld Follies for several years. He became a star in the Broadway musical comedy Poppy (1923), in which he played a colorful small-time con man. His subsequent stage and film roles were often similar scoundrels, or else henpecked everyman characters. Among his recognizable trademarks were his raspy drawl and grandiloquent vocabulary. The characterization he portrayed in films and on radio was so strong it was generally identified with Fields himself. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/you-can39t-cheat-an-honest-man-dvd-1939-wc-391939.html

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January 29, 1258: The Mongols: The Mongol Empire: Mongol Invasions And Conquests: The Siege Of Baghdad (The Siege Of Baghdad 1258): -- The Abbasid Caliphate and the Islamic Golden Age sees its last act when The Siege Of Baghdad begins, lasting from January 29 until February 10 when Baghdad falls to the Mongols. The Siege Of Baghdad 1258 entailed the investment, capture, and sack of Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, by Ilkhanate Mongol forces and allied troops. The Abbasid Caliphate was the third of the Islamic caliphates to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate, was a khanate, a political entity ruled by a khan or khagan typical for people from the Eurasian Steppe, established from the southwestern sector of the Mongol Empire, ruled by the Mongol House of Hulagu. The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural, economic and scientific flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century. This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, where scholars from various parts of the world with different cultural backgrounds were mandated to gather and translate all of the world's classical knowledge into Arabic and Persian. This period is traditionally said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Siege Of Baghdad in 1258. The Mongols forces were under the command of Hulagu Khan (or Hulegu Khan), brother of the khagan Mongke Khan, who had intended to further extend his rule into Mesopotamia but not to directly overthrow the Caliphate. Mongke, however, had instructed Hulagu to attack Baghdad if the Caliph Al-Musta'sim refused Mongol demands for his continued submission to the khagan and the payment of tribute in the form of military support for Mongol forces in Persia. Hulagu began his campaign in Persia with several offensives against Nizari groups, including the Assassins, who lost their stronghold of Alamut. He then marched on Baghdad, demanding that Al-Musta'sim accede to the terms imposed by Mongke on the Abbasids. Although the Abbasids had failed to prepare for the invasion, the Caliph believed that Baghdad could not fall to invading forces and refused to surrender. Hulagu subsequently besieged the city, which surrendered after 12 days. During the next week, the Mongols sacked Baghdad, committing numerous atrocities and destroying the Abbasids' vast libraries, including the House of Wisdom. The Mongols executed Al-Musta'sim and massacred many residents of the city, which was left greatly depopulated. The siege is considered to mark the end of the Islamic Golden Age, during which the caliphs had extended their rule from the Iberian Peninsula to Sindh, and which was also marked by many cultural achievements in diverse fields. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/legacy-with-michael-wood-world-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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January 29, 1820: The United Kingdom: The History Of The United Kingdom: Governments Of The United Kingdom: The Monarchy Of The United Kingdom (The British Monarchy): Royal Accessions: Successions To The British Throne: Succession To The Irish Throne: Successions To The Hanoverian Throne: King George IV: -- Prince Regent George Hanover succeedes his father George III as George IV, King Of The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland and King Of Hanover, and reigned in those capacities until his death. Prior to his accession to these thrones, he had been Prince Regent for his father since February 5, 1811 during his father's final mental illness. George IV (August 12, 1762 - June 26, 1830) was born George Augustus Frederick at St James's Palace, London, England, the first child of King George III and Queen Charlotte. He led an extravagant lifestyle that contributed to the fashions of the Regency era; those of style of dress were due to his association with the dandy Beau Brummell, and those of architecture were do to his association the architect John Nash, the latter of whom created the Regency Style of Architecture. He was also in other fields a patron of new forms of leisure, style and taste. He commissioned John Nash to build the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and remodel Buckingham Palace, and commissioned Jeffry Wyatville to rebuild Windsor Castle. George's charm and culture earned him the title "the first gentleman of England", but his dissolute way of life and poor relationships with his parents and his wife, Caroline of Brunswick, earned him the contempt of the people and dimmed the prestige of the monarchy. He excluded Caroline from his coronation and asked the government to introduce the unpopular Pains And Penalties Bill in an unsuccessful attempt to divorce her. George's rule was tarnished by scandal and financial extravagance. His ministers found his behaviour selfish, unreliable and irresponsible, and he was strongly influenced by favourites. During most of George's regency and reign, Lord Liverpool controlled the government as prime minister of the United Kingdom. Liverpool's government presided over Britain's ultimate victory over Napoleon and negotiated a peace settlement with the French. After Liverpool's retirement, George was forced to accept Catholic emancipation despite opposing it. His only legitimate child, Princess Charlotte, predeceased him in 1817, as did his childless younger brother Prince Frederick in 1827, so he was succeeded by another younger brother, William IV. George died at 3:15 am of upper gastrointestinal bleeding resulting from the rupture of a blood vessel in his stomach. A large tumour "the size of an orange" was found attached to his bladder; his heart was enlarged, had heavily calcified valves and was surrounded by a large fat deposit. He was buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on July 15, 1830. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/monarchy-in-the-uk-british-royal-history-mp4-video-download-dvd-set.html

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January 29, 1856: Awards And Decorations: Awards And Decorations Of The British Armed Forces: Highest Military Awards For Gallantry: Highest Military Awards For Gallantry Of The British Armed Forces: The Victoria Cross (VC): -- Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system, to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War. A warrant is generally an order that serves as a specific type of authorization, that is, a writ issued by a competent officer, usually a judge or magistrate, that permits an otherwise illegal act that would violate individual rights and affords the person executing the writ protection from damages if the act is performed. In the United Kingdom, senior public appointments are made by warrant under the royal sign-manual, the personal signature of the monarch, on the recommendation of the government. The royal sign-manual is the signature of the sovereign, by the affixing of which the monarch expresses his or her pleasure either by order, commission, or warrant. A sign-manual warrant may be either an executive act (for example, an appointment to an office), or an authority for affixing the Great Seal of the pertinent realm. The sign-manual is also used to give power to make and ratify treaties. Sign manual, with or without hyphen, is an old term for a handwritten signature in general. It is also referred to as sign manual and signet. The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. The immediate cause of the war involved the rights of Christian minorities in Palestine, which was part of the Ottoman Empire (the French promoted the rights of Roman Catholics, and Russia promoted those of the Eastern Orthodox Church). The Victoria Cross is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces. It may be awarded posthumously. It was previously awarded by countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, most of which have established their own honours systems and no longer recommend British honours. It may be awarded to a person of any military rank in any service and to civilians under military command. No civilian has received the award since 1879. Since the first awards were presented by Queen Victoria in 1857, two-thirds of all awards have been personally presented by the British monarch. These investitures are usually held at Buckingham Palace. Since Queen Victoria introduced the VC , the medal has been awarded 1,358 times to 1,355 individual recipients. Only 15 medals, of which 11 were to members of the British Army and four were to members of the Australian Army, have been awarded since the Second World War. The traditional explanation of the source of the metal from which the medals are struck is that it derives from Russian cannon captured at the siege of Sevastopol. However, research has indicated another origin for the material. Historian John Glanfield has established that the metal for most of the medals made since December 1914 came from two Chinese cannon, and that there is no evidence of Russian origin. Owing to its rarity, the VC is highly prized and the medal has fetched over _400,000 at auctions. A number of public and private collections are devoted to the Victoria Cross. The private collection of Lord Ashcroft, amassed since 1986, contains over one-tenth of all VCs awarded. Following a 2008 donation to the Imperial War Museum, the Ashcroft collection went on public display alongside the museum's Victoria and George Cross collection in November 2010. Beginning with the Centennial of Confederation in 1967, Canada, followed in 1975 by Australia and New Zealand, developed their own national honours systems, separate from and independent of the British or Imperial honours system. As each country's system evolved, operational gallantry awards were developed with the premier award of each system-the Victoria Cross for Australia, the Canadian Victoria Cross and the Victoria Cross for New Zealand-being created and named in honour of the Victoria Cross. These are unique awards of each honours system, recommended, assessed, gazetted, and presented by each country. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/heroes-dvd-set-all-26-tv-shows-7-di267.html

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January 29, 1845: First Publications: -- "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe. Its publication made Poe popular in his lifetime, although it did not bring him much financial success. The poem was soon reprinted, parodied, and illustrated. Critical opinion is divided as to the poem's literary status, but it nevertheless remains one of the most famous poems ever written. "The Raven" is a narrative poem often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further distress the protagonist with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references. Poe claimed to have written the poem logically and methodically, with the intention to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explained in his 1846 follow-up essay, "The Philosophy of Composition". The poem was inspired in part by a talking raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty by Charles Dickens. Poe borrows the complex rhythm and meter of Elizabeth Barrett's poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship", and makes use of internal rhyme as well as alliteration throughout. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/nbc-university-theater-of-the-air-otr-mp3-dv3.html

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January 29, 1874: #BOTD: #HBD! John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman, financier and philanthropist (d. May 11, 1960) is #born John Davison Rockefeller Jr. in Cleveland, Ohio, the fifth and last child, and only son, of Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller Sr. and schoolteacher Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman. John D. Rockefeller was the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in Midtown Manhattan known as Rockefeller Center, making him one of the largest real estate holders in the city. Towards the end of his life, he was famous for his philanthropy, donating over 500M USD to a wide variety of different causes, including educational establishments and museums. Among his projects was the reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. He was widely blamed for having orchestrated the Ludlow Massacre and other offenses during the Colorado Coalfield War. Rockefeller was the father of six children: Abby, John III, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, and David. John D. Rockefeller Jr. died of pneumonia at the age of 86 in Tucson, Arizona. He is interred in the family cemetery in Tarrytown, New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/radio-broadcasting-history-films-2-dvd-se2.html

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Today, January 29, 2026

January 29, 1886: The History Of The Automotive Industry: -- Karl Benz patents his "Benz Patent Motorwagen", the first purpose-built gasoline-driven automobile, as DRP-37435: "automobile fueled by gas". It was the first automobile entirely designed as such to generate its own power, not simply a motorized stage coach or horse carriage which were vehicles designed to rely on horse power, which is why Karl Benz was granted his patent and is regarded as the inventor of the automobile. This is also considered to be the first "production" vehicle as Benz made several other identical copies. Benz began to advertise and sell his "Benz Patent Motorwagen" in the late summer of 1888, making it the first commercially available automobile in history. In 1870 Siegfried Marcus built the first gasoline powered combustion engine, which he placed on a pushcart, building four progressively more sophisticated combustion-engine cars over a 10-to-15-year span that influenced later cars. Marcus created the two-cycle combustion engine. The car's second incarnation in 1880 introduced a four-cycle, gasoline-powered engine, an ingenious carburetor design and magneto ignition. He created an additional two models further refining his design with steering, a clutch and a brake. Nevertheless, these automobiles were the cobbling-together of the gasoline engine and extant wheeled vehicles. In 1871, at the age of twenty-seven, Karl Benz joined August Ritter in launching the Iron Foundry and Mechanical Workshop in Mannheim, later renamed Factory for Machines for Sheet-metal Working. The enterprise's first year went very badly. Ritter turned out to be unreliable, and the business's tools were impounded. The difficulty was overcome when Benz's fiancee, Bertha Ringer, bought out Ritter's share in the company using her dowry. On 20 July 1872, Karl Benz and Bertha Ringer married. They had five children: Eugen (1873), Richard (1874), Clara (1877), Thilde (1882), and Ellen (1890). Despite the business misfortunes, Karl Benz led in the development of new engines in the early factory he and his wife owned. To get more revenues, in 1878 he began to work on new patents. First, he concentrated all his efforts on creating a reliable petrol two-stroke engine. Benz finished his two-stroke engine on 31 December 1879, New Year's Eve, and was granted a patent for it in 28 June 1880. Karl Benz showed his real genius, however, through his successive inventions registered while designing what would become the production standard for his two-stroke engine. Benz soon patented the speed regulation system, the ignition using sparks with battery, the spark plug, the carburetor, the clutch, the gear shift, and the water radiator. Benz's lifelong hobby of bicycling brought him to a bicycle repair shop in Mannheim owned by Max Rose and Friedrich Wilhelm Esslinger. In 1883, the three founded a new company producing industrial machines: Benz & Companie Rheinische Gasmotoren-Fabrik, usually referred to as Benz & Cie. Quickly growing to twenty-five employees, it soon began to produce static gas engines as well. The success of the company gave Benz the opportunity to indulge in his old passion of designing a horseless carriage. Based on his experience with, and fondness for, bicycles, he used similar technology when he created an automobile. It featured wire wheels (unlike carriages' wooden ones) with a four-stroke engine of his own design between the rear wheels, with a very advanced coil ignition and evaporative cooling rather than a radiator. Power was transmitted by means of two roller chains to the rear axle. Karl Benz finished his creation in 1885. The 1885 version was difficult to control, leading to a collision with a wall during a public demonstration. The first successful tests on public roads were carried out in the early summer of 1886. The next year Benz created the Motorwagen Model 2, which had several modifications, and in 1889, the definitive Model 3 with wooden wheels was introduced, showing at the Paris Expo the same year. The second customer of the Motorwagen was a Parisian bicycle manufacturer Emile Roger, who had already been building Benz engines under license from Karl Benz for several years. Roger added the Benz automobiles (many built in France) to the line he carried in Paris and initially most were sold there. The early 1888 version of the Motorwagen had only two gears and could not climb hills unaided. This limitation was rectified after Bertha Benz suggested the addition of a third gear after she famously became the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance, rigorously field testing the patent Motorwagen, inventing brake pads and solving several practical issues during the 65 miles (105 km) trip. In doing so, she brought the Benz Patent-Motorwagen worldwide attention and got the company its first sales. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-birth-of-europe-european-history-from-the-ice-age-to-20th-centu20.html

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Today, January 29, 2026

January 29, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Allen B. DuMont, American electronics engineer, scientist, broadcaster and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers, founder of the DuMont Television Network (d. November 14, 1965) is #born Allen Balcom DuMont, also spelled Du Mont, in Brooklyn, New York City. At the age of 10, he was stricken with polio and was quarantined at his family's Eastern Parkway apartment for nearly a year. During his quarantine, his father brought home books and magazines for the young DuMont to read while bedridden. At this time, DuMont developed an interest in science, specifically wireless radio communication, and taught himself Morse code. In June 1938, he went on to manufacture and sell the first commercially practical television set to the public, his Model 180 television receiver, the first all-electronic television set, a mere few months prior to RCA's first set in April 1939. In 1946, DuMont founded the first television network to be licensed, the DuMont Television Network, initially by linking station WABD (named for DuMont; it later became WNEW and is now WNYW) in New York City to station W3XWT, which later became WTTG, in Washington, D.C. (WTTG was named for Dr. Thomas T. Goldsmith, DuMont's Vice President of Research, and his best friend.) DuMont's successes in television picture tubes, TV sets and components and his involvement in commercial TV broadcasting made him the first millionaire in the business. Since DuMont was a leader in cathode ray tube or CRT design and manufacturing, it was a natural step to use the CRT as a visual measuring instrument now known as an oscilloscope. Although not the inventor of the oscilloscope, DuMont designed and mass-produced practical oscilloscopes (he called them oscillographs) for all types of laboratory, automotive/equipment servicing and manufacturing applications. By the 1940s DuMont was the leader in the oscilloscope equipment market. In 1932, DuMont proposed a "ship finder" device to the United States Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, that used radio wave distortions to locate objects on a cathode ray tube screen, a type of radar. The military asked him, however, not to take out a patent for developing what they wanted to maintain as a secret, and so he is not often mentioned among those responsible for radar. In 1932, DuMont invented the magic eye tube also known as the Electron Ray Tube, used as a tuning accessory in radios and as a level meter in mono and stereo home reel-to-reel tape recorders. In the 1930s the manufacture of mechanical panel meters were labor-intensive and expensive. Magic eye tubes provided radio designers with a less expensive and more profitable way to add a feature usually found in higher price equipment. The general public reception was a success as customers like the green glow and the seemingly magical way it worked. The DuMont Television Network was not an unqualified success, being faced with the major problem of how to make a profit without the benefit of an already established radio network as a base. After ten years, DuMont shuttered the network and sold what remained of his television operations to John Kluge in 1956, which Kluge renamed Metromedia. DuMont's partner, Thomas T. Goldsmith (for whom the Washington, D.C. station WTTG was named), remained on Metromedia's board of directors from this time all the way until Kluge sold the stations to the Fox Television Stations Group in 1986, when the Fox network was formed. DuMont was the first to provide funding for educational television broadcasting. He died in 1965 and is buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Montclair, New Jersey. The television center at Montclair State University bears his name and produces programs for the NJTV system (formerly New Jersey Network). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/forty-years-of-fine-tuning-dvd-wnew-tv-channel-5-ny5.html

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Today, January 29, 2026

January 29, 1969: United States Presidential Assassination Attempts And Plots: United States Presidential Assassinations: The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy: The Trial Of Clay Shaw: -- New Orleans businessman and covert CIA agent Clay Shaw is brought to trial in Orleans Parish Criminal Court on charges of conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy, with the help of Lee Harvey Oswald, David Ferrie, and others. On March 1, 1967, Shaw was arrested and charged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison with conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy. Two years later to the day, on March 1, 1969, a jury took less than an hour to find Shaw not guilty. It remains the only trial to be brought for the assassination of President Kennedy. The origins of Garrison's case can be traced to an argument between New Orleans residents Guy Banister and Jack Martin. On November 22, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Banister pistol whipped Martin after a heated exchange. (There are different accounts as to whether the argument was over phone bills or missing files.) Over the next few days, Martin told authorities and reporters that Banister had often been in the company of a man named David Ferrie who, Martin said, might have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Martin told the New Orleans police that Ferrie knew accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald going back to when both men had served together in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol and that Ferrie "was supposed to have been the getaway pilot in the assassination." Martin also said that Ferrie had driven to Dallas the night before the assassination, a trip which Ferrie explained as research for a prospective business venture to determine "the feasibility and possibility of opening an ice skating rink in New Orleans." As Garrison continued his investigation he became convinced that a group of right-wing activists, which he believed included David Ferrie, Guy Banister, and Clay Shaw (director of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans), were involved in a conspiracy with elements of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to kill President Kennedy. Garrison would later say that the motive for the assassination was anger over Kennedy's foreign policy, especially Kennedy's efforts to find a political, rather than a military, solution in Cuba and Southeast Asia, and his efforts toward a rapprochement with the Soviet Union. Garrison also believed that Shaw, Banister, and Ferrie had conspired to set up Oswald as a patsy in the JFK assassination. News of Garrison's investigation was reported in the New Orleans States-Item on February 17, 1967. On February 22, 1967, less than a week after the newspaper broke the story of Garrison's investigation, David Ferrie, then his chief suspect, was found dead in his apartment from a brain aneurysm. Garrison suspected that Ferrie had been murdered despite the coroner's report that his death was due to natural causes. According to Garrison, the day news of the investigation broke, Ferrie had called his aide Lou Ivon and warned that "I'm a dead man". Garrison believed that Clay Shaw was the mysterious "Clay Bertrand" mentioned in the Warren Commission investigation. In the Warren Commission Report, New Orleans attorney Dean Andrews, claimed that he was contacted the day after the assassination by a "Clay Bertrand" who requested that he go to Dallas to represent Oswald. At the trial's conclusion - after the prosecution and the defense had presented their cases - the jury took 54 minutes on March 1, 1969, to find Clay Shaw not guilty. Attorney and author Mark Lane said that he interviewed several jurors after the trial. Although these interviews have never been published, Lane said that some of the jurors believed that Garrison had in fact proven to them that there really was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy, but that Garrison had not adequately linked the conspiracy to Shaw or provided a motive. Author and playwright James Kirkwood, who was a personal friend of Clay Shaw, said that he spoke to several jury members who denied ever speaking to Lane. Kirkwood also cast doubt on Lane's claim that the jury believed there was a conspiracy. In his book American Grotesque, Kirkwood said that jury foreman Sidney Hebert told him: "I didn't think too much of the Warren Report either until the trial. Now I think a lot more of it than I did before." On May 8, 1967, the New Orleans States-Item reported that Garrison charged that the CIA and FBI cooperated to conceal the facts of the assassination, and that he planned to seek a Senate inquiry looking into the CIA's role in the Warren Commission's investigation. Garrison later wrote a book about his investigation of the JFK assassination and the subsequent trial called On the Trail of the Assassins. This book served as one of the main sources for Oliver Stone's movie JFK. In the movie, this trial serves as the back story for Stone's account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/jfk-assassination-mp3-set-cd-download-usb-flash-driv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Sacred Serpents: Snake Worship Documentaries DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, January 29, 2026
January 29, 2025: Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year, Korean New Year, Tet [Vietnamese New Year], etc.): -- Celebrates the beginning of The Year Of The Snake in the Chinese zodiac, a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional calendars on Chinese and other asian cultures. The festival is usually referred to as the Spring Festival in mainland China, and is one of several Lunar New Years in Asia. Observances traditionally take place from the evening preceding the first day of the year to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between January 21 and February 20. Chinese New Year is a major holiday in China, and has strongly influenced Lunar new year celebrations of China's neighbouring cultures, including the new years of Korea (Seollal), Vietnam (Tet), and Tibet (Losa). It is also celebrated worldwide in regions and countries with significant Overseas Chinese or Sinophone populations, including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Mauritius, as well as many in North America and Europe. Chinese New Year is associated with several myths and customs. The festival was traditionally a time to honour deities as well as ancestors. Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the New Year vary widely, and the evening preceding Chinese New Year's Day is frequently regarded as an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly clean their house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for incoming good luck. Another custom is the decoration of windows and doors with red paper-cuts and couplets. Popular themes among these paper-cuts and couplets include that of good fortune or happiness, wealth, and longevity. Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes. For the northern regions of China, dumplings are featured prominently in meals celebrating the festival. It often serves as the first meal of the year either at midnight or as breakfast of the first day. https://store.earthstation1.com/sacred-serpents-snake-worship-documentaries--dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Super Sense Animal Perception/Plant Adaptation TV Series DVD, MP4, USB
Today, January 29, 2026
January 29: Seeing-Eye Guide Dog Anniversary: -- An annual appreciation for all of the dogs who act as their owners' eyes and ears. The devotion and taught abilities of these particular canines keep them safe and enable them to operate as fully functional persons. The day is meant to recognize the school that educates them. Seeing-eye dogs go through extensive training to be able to safely traverse the environment and all of its hazards for their person. That is why they are so worthy of this recognition. Since World War II, guide dogs have been utilized worldwide. With the goal of counseling war-affected troops, Morris Frank is credited with being the first recipient of a sighted dog in the U.S., a dog called Buddy. Dorothy Harrison Eustis, an American dog breeder residing in Switzerland, wrote about a guide dog display in Potsdam, Germany, in 1927, and the essay was featured in "The Saturday Evening Post." This article was about dogs being taught to be ears and eyes for German World War I veterans. Frank sent a letter to Eustis as soon as he read the story, imploring her to train a dog for him. Eustis agreed to Frank's urgent plea and welcomed him to Switzerland. After a time of training with two dogs, Eustis and Frank picked the best dog for the job, which Frank called Buddy. In 1928, Frank arrived in New York City, U.S., where he and Buddy were met by a swarm of media. And Buddy was fantastic at navigating Frank through the congested streets of traffic and people. When Frank arrived home safely, he wrote a success message to Eustis to express his happiness. The See-Eye was started on January 29, 1929, with Frank and Eustis as co-founders. To this day, the See-Eye is the world's most sustainable guide dog training school. The Seeing-Eye Guide Dog Anniversary celebrates the See-Eye's inception date as the year's anniversary. Many people's lives are becoming more stable due to guide dogs, and many governmental policies for people who need guide dogs and for guide dogs are improving due to their eyesight. https://store.earthstation1.com/super-sense--animal-perception-tv-series-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Shadow Complete Old Time Radio Series MP3 Set DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, January 29, 2026
January 29: National Carnation Day: -- The flowers are amazingly significant for almost any season or occasion. National Carnation Day was established in honor of William McKinley, the 25th U.S. President, who was assassinated in 1901 and always wore a red carnation on his lapel. The carnation was said to be his favorite flower, and he always wore one for good luck. National Carnation Day, also known as Red Carnation Day, was established in memory of President William McKinley. He was born many years ago on January 29, and was well known for his love of carnations, as he often wore one on his lapel. McKinley's famed carnations stayed on for a while, with the flower appearing multiple times all throughout his political career. It all started in 1876 when he was running for Congress in Ohio on the Republican ticket. His competitor, Levi Lamborn, was a horticulturalist who had cultivated a strain of bright scarlet carnations he named 'Lamborn Red.' So before debates between the candidates, Lamborn gave McKinley one of his carnations. And after McKinley won the election, he began viewing carnations as good luck charms - and maybe they were because they just kept working in his favor. McKinley had carnations everywhere; his clothes and the vase in his office were filled with them. Even during his stay in the White House, he kept a whole basket of carnations centered in the Cabinet Room. One political joke remarked, "Whenever someone came to see the President and couldn't get an office, he got a carnation." President McKinley would pick up one of the flowers and place them in the visitor's buttonhole. So whenever a man left the president's presence wearing a flower, everyone figured he didn't get what he went for. According to legend, when President McKinley was sadly hit by an assassin's bullet in September of 1901, he took off the carnation he was wearing and gave it to a young girl. People believe luck left him when he took off the carnation. After his death, National Carnation Day started in his honor. The official day began with the Carnation League of America, the group established by Lewis G. Reynolds of Dayton, Ohio, and was first held in 1903. It is a silent memorial day in which its observers wear a carnation in the spirit of patriotism and to "encourage the growth of good citizenship and advance the greatness of the country by the proper observance of national holidays." https://store.earthstation1.com/the-shadow-radio-mp3-dvd-complete-old-time-broadcast3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Portraits Of American Presidents Nos. 1-42 TV Series MP4 Download DVD
Today, January 29, 2026
January 29: National Carnation Day: -- January 29, 1843: #BOTD: #HBD! William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897 until his assassination six months into his second term (d. September 14, 1901) is #born in Niles, Ohio, the seventh of nine children of William McKinley Sr. and Nancy (nee Allison) McKinley. McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of free silver (effectively, expansionary monetary policy). McKinley was the last president to have served in the American Civil War, and the only one to have started the war as an enlisted soldier, beginning as a private in the Union Army and ending as a brevet major. After the war, he settled in Canton, Ohio, where he practiced law and married Ida Saxton. In 1876, he was elected to Congress, where he became the Republican Party's expert on the protective tariff, which he promised would bring prosperity. His 1890 McKinley Tariff was highly controversial; which together with a Democratic redistricting aimed at gerrymandering him out of office, led to his defeat in the Democratic landslide of 1890. He was elected Governor of Ohio in 1891 and 1893, steering a moderate course between capital and labor interests. With the aid of his close adviser Mark Hanna, he secured the Republican nomination for president in 1896, amid a deep economic depression. He defeated his Democratic rival, William Jennings Bryan, after a front porch campaign in which he advocated "sound money" (the gold standard unless altered by international agreement) and promised that high tariffs would restore prosperity. Rapid economic growth marked McKinley's presidency. He promoted the 1897 Dingley Tariff to protect manufacturers and factory workers from foreign competition, and in 1900, he secured the passage of the Gold Standard Act. McKinley hoped to persuade Spain to grant independence to rebellious Cuba without conflict, but when negotiation failed, he led the nation into the Spanish-American War of 1898; the U.S. victory was quick and decisive. As part of the peace settlement, Spain turned over to the United States its main overseas colonies of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines; Cuba was promised independence, but at that time remained under the control of the U.S. Army. The United States annexed the independent Republic of Hawaii in 1898 and it became a U.S. territory. Historians regard McKinley's 1896 victory as a realigning election, in which the political stalemate of the post-Civil War era gave way to the Republican-dominated Fourth Party System, which began with the Progressive Era. McKinley defeated Bryan again in the 1900 presidential election, in a campaign focused on imperialism, protectionism, and free silver. His legacy was suddenly cut short when he was shot on September 6, 1901 by Leon Czolgosz, a second-generation Polish-American with anarchist leanings; McKinley died eight days later, and was succeeded by his Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. As an innovator of American interventionism and pro-business sentiment, McKinley's presidency is generally considered above average, though his highly positive public perception was soon overshadowed by Roosevelt. https://store.earthstation1.com/portraits-of-american-presidents-nos-142-tv-series-mp4-download1424.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The World: A Television History Documentary Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, January 29, 2026
January 29, 1850: The History Of The United States: United States Expansionism: Origins Of The American Civil War: The Compromise Of 1850: -- Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky introduces the Compromise Of 1850 he drafted to the United States Congress, a bill which ultimatelyl became a package of five separate bills passed by congress the following September 1850, defusing a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and reduced sectional conflict. On March 7, 1850, Senator Daniel Webster gaves his historic "Seventh Of March" speech endorsing the Compromise Of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war, a speech designed to influence public opinion in favor of the compromise to preserve the Union, which he later acknowledged was "probably the most important effort of my life", a spech considered a classic example of American political oratory, but which also deeply offended many in the North generally and in his own state of Massachusetts; as result of the speech, Webster resigned as Senator, but espite this, Webster' support for the Compromise Of 1850, proved crucial to its passage. The Compromise Of 1850 was brokered by Clay and Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois. Controversy arose over the Fugitive Slave provision. The Compromise was greeted with relief, but each side disapproved of some of its specific provisions: 1) Texas surrendered claim to New Mexico as well as its claims north of 36 deg. 30 min.. It retained the Texas Panhandle, and the federal government took over the state's public debt; 2) California was admitted as a free state, with its current boundaries; 3) The South prevented adoption of the Wilmot Proviso that would have outlawed slavery in the new territories, and the new Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory were allowed, under popular sovereignty, to decide whether to allow slavery in their borders. In practice, these lands were generally unsuited to plantation agriculture, and their settlers were uninterested in slavery; 4) The slave trade, but not slavery altogether, was banned in the District of Columbia; and 5) A more stringent Fugitive Slave Law was enacted. The Compromise became possible after the sudden death of President Zachary Taylor, who, although a slave owner, wanted to exclude slavery from the Southwest. Whig leader Henry Clay designed a compromise, which failed to pass in early 1850 because of opposition by both pro-slavery southern Democrats, led by John C. Calhoun, and anti-slavery northern Whigs. Upon Clay's instruction, Douglas then divided Clay's bill into several smaller pieces and narrowly won their passage, over the opposition of radicals on both sides. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-world-a-television-history-4-dual-layer-dvds-all-26-sh426.html

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Today, January 29, 2026
January 29, 1820: #DOTD: King George III of the United Kingdom (George William Frederick), King of Great Britain and King Of Ireland from October 25, 1760 until the union of the two countries on January 1, 1801, after which he was King Of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death (b. June 4, 1738) #dies aged 81 of pneumonia at Windsor Castle at 8:38 pm, six days after the death of his fourth son Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. His favourite son, Prince Frederick, Duke of York And Albany, was with him. George III lay in state for two days, and his funeral took place on February 16 in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, where he was interred in The Royal Vault. On George III's death, the Prince Regent George Hanover succeeded his father as George IV. Historical analysis of George III's life has gone through a kaleidoscope of changing views that have depended heavily on the prejudices of his biographers and the sources available to them. Until it was reassessed in the second half of the 20th century, his reputation in the United States was one of a tyrant; and in Britain he became "the scapegoat for the failure of imperialism". George III was born George William Frederick Hanover in Norfolk House, St James's Square, London, England. He was concurrently Duke and prince-elector of Brunswick-Luneburg ("Hanover") in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on October 12, 1814. He was the third British monarch of the House Of Hanover, but unlike his two predecessors, he was born in England, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover. His life and with it his reign, which were longer than those of any of his predecessors, were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Further wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France from 1793 concluded in the defeat of Napoleon at The Battle Of Waterloo in 1815. In the later part of his life, George III had recurrent, and eventually permanent, mental illness. Although it has since been suggested that he had the blood disease porphyria, the cause of his illness remains unknown. After a final relapse in 1810, a regency was established, and George III's eldest son, George, Prince Of Wales, ruled as Prince Regent. https://store.earthstation1.com/american-revolutionary-war-dvd-documentaries.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Gulf Crisis: The Road To War TV Series + Bonus 2 DVDs MP4 Download
Today, January 29, 2026
January 29, 1991: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I): Operation Desert Storm: -- United States and the Soviet Union offer a ceasefire to Iraq if it withdraws all its troops from Kuwait. The offer is not accepted. 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. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-gulf-crisis-the-road-to-war-tv-documentary-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, January 29, 2026
January 29, 1991: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I): Operation Desert Storm: The Battle Of Khafji: -- Iraqi forces invade the town of Khafji in Saudi Arabia. Iraqi forces are quickly engaged by Saudi Arabian and Qatari troops with help from the U.S. Marines. The Battle of Khafji was the first major ground engagement of the Persian Gulf War. It took place in and around the Saudi Arabian city of Khafji, from 29 January to 1 February 1991 and marked the culmination of the Coalition's air campaign over Kuwait and Iraq, which had begun on 17 January 1991. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who had already tried and failed to draw Coalition troops into costly ground engagements by shelling Saudi Arabian positions and oil storage tanks and firing Scud surface-to-surface missiles at Israel, ordered the invasion of Saudi Arabia from southern Kuwait. The 1st and 5th Mechanized Divisions and 3rd Armored Division were ordered to conduct a multi-pronged invasion toward Khafji, engaging Saudi Arabian, Kuwaiti, and U.S. forces along the coastline, with a supporting Iraqi commando force ordered to infiltrate further south by sea and harass the Coalition's rear. These three divisions, which had been heavily damaged by Coalition aircraft in the preceding days, attacked on 29 January. Most of their attacks were repulsed by U.S. Marines as well as U.S. Army Rangers and Coalition aircraft, but one of the Iraqi columns occupied Khafji on the night of 29-30 January. Between 30 January and 1 February, two Saudi Arabian National Guard battalions and two Kuwaiti tank companies attempted to retake control of the city, aided by Coalition aircraft and U.S. artillery. By 1 February, the city had been recaptured at the cost of 43 Coalition servicemen dead and 52 wounded. Iraqi Army fatalities numbered between 60 and 300, while an estimated 400 were captured as prisoners of war. Although the invasion of Khafji was initially a propaganda victory for the Ba'athist Iraqi regime, it was swiftly recaptured by Saudi Arabian ground forces. The battle demonstrated the ability of air power to support ground forces. 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. https://store.earthstation1.com/desert-triumph-the-gulf-war-tv-documentary-series-dvd-amp-mp4-downloa4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Robert Frost Documentaries Set DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, January 29, 2026
January 29, 1963: #DOTD: #RIP: Robert Frost, American poet and playwright (b. March 26, 1874) #dies in Boston aged 88 of complications from prostate surgery, aged 88. He is buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont. His epitaph quotes the last line from his poem, "The Lesson For Today" (1942): "I had a lover's quarrel with the world.". Robert Lee Frost was born Robert Lee Frost in San Francisco, California. Frost was initially published in England before it was published in America. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. On July 22, 1961, Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont. https://store.earthstation1.com/robert-frost-dvd-biography-poetry-documentary.html

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Today, January 29, 2026
January 29, 1969: #DOTD: Allen Dulles, American banker, lawyer, and diplomat, first civilian Director and 5th Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and its longest-serving director to date (b. April 7, 1893) #dies of influenza, complicated by pneumonia, at the age of 75, in Georgetown, D.C. He is buried in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Allen Dulles was born Allen Welsh Dulles in Watertown, New York. He was five years younger than his brother, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower's secretary of state and chairman and senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, and two years older than his sister, diplomat, Eleanor Lansing Dulles. His maternal grandfather, John W. Foster, was secretary of state under Benjamin Harrison, while his uncle by marriage, Robert Lansing was secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, Allen Dulles oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'etat, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'etat, the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program, the Project MKUltra mind control program and the Bay Of Pigs Invasion. He was fired by John F. Kennedy over the latter fiasco and the Algiers putsch against Charles de Gaulle. Dulles was one of the members of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. His older brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary Of State during the Eisenhower Administration and is the namesake of Dulles International Airport. Allen Dulles died of influenza, complicated by pneumonia, at the age of 75, in Georgetown, D.C. He is buried in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. https://store.earthstation1.com/cia-the-secret-files-the-central-intelligence-agency-tv-series-mp4-dv4.html

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January 29, 1964: #DOTD: #RIP: Alan Ladd, American actor and film and producer (b. September 3, 1913) #dies in Palm Springs, California aged 50 of cerebral edema caused by an acute accidental overdose of "alcohol and three other drugs". His butler said that he saw Ladd on his bed at 10 a.m.; when he returned at 3:30 p.m., Ladd was still there, dead. In January 1964, after injuring his knees, Ladd hoped to recuperate at his house in Palm Springs. Ladd suffered from chronic insomnia and regularly used sleeping pills and alcohol to induce sleep. While he had not taken a lethal amount of any one drug, the combination apparently caused a synergistic reaction that proved fatal. Suicide was ruled out. He was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Ladd's funeral was held on February 1 with Edmond O'Brien giving the eulogy. Fans were allowed to see his coffin. He was buried with his wedding ring, out of respect for his wife and agent Sue Carol, and a letter that their son David had written to him. Ladd died a wealthy man, with his holdings including a 5,000-acre ranch at Hidden Valley and a hardware store in Palm Springs. After he died, his recently completed film The Carpetbaggers was released and became a financial success. Born Alan Walbridge Ladd in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in Westerns such as Shane (1953) and in films noir. He was often paired with Veronica Lake in noirish films such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942) and The Blue Dahlia (1946). His other notable credits include Two Years Before the Mast (1946), Whispering Smith, his first Western and color film, (1948) and The Great Gatsby (1949). His popularity diminished in the late 1950s, though he continued to appear in popular films, including his first supporting role since This Gun for Hire in the smash hit The Carpetbaggers (1963), until his accidental death due to a lethal combination of alcohol, a barbiturate, and two tranquilizers. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-old-time-radio-adventure-mp3-dvd-megase3.html

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Today, January 29, 2026
January 29, 1913: #BOTD: #HBD! Victor Mature, American stage, film, and television actor who starred most notably in several movies during the 1950s (d. August 4, 1999) is #born Victor John Mature in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Marcello Gelindo Maturi, later Marcellus George Mature, was a cutler from Pinzolo, in the Italian part of the former County of Tyrol (now Trentino in Italy, but at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). His mother, Clara P. (Ackley), was Kentucky-born and of Swiss heritage. Victor Mature was known for his dark hair and smile. His best known film roles include One Million B.C. (1940), My Darling Clementine (1946), Kiss of Death (1947), Samson and Delilah (1949), and The Robe (1953). He also appeared in many musicals opposite such stars as Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Victor Mature died of leukemia at his Rancho Santa Fe, California home at the age of 86. He is buried in the family plot, marked by a replica of the Angel of Grief, at St. Michael's Cemetery in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. For his contribution to the motion-picture industry, Mature has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6780 Hollywood Boulevard. https://store.earthstation1.com/after-the-fox-dvd-1966-peter-sellers-victor-matur1966.html

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January 29, 1945: #BOTD: #HBD: Tom Selleck, American actor whose breakout role was playing private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988), for which he received five Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, winning in 1984, is born Thomas William Selleck in Detroit, Michigan. From 2010-24, he was NYC Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in Blue Bloods. From 2005-15, he was troubled small-town police chief Jesse Stone in nine television films based on the Robert B. Parker novels. In films, Selleck has played bachelor architect Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Baby (1987) and its sequel Three Men and a Little Lady (1990). He has also appeared in more than 50 other film and television roles since Magnum, P.I., including the films Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, and Lassiter. He appeared in recurring television roles as Monica Geller's love interest Dr. Richard Burke in Friends, as Lance White, the likeable and naive partner on The Rockford Files, and as casino owner A. J. Cooper on Las Vegas. He also had a lead role in the television Western film The Sacketts, based on two of Louis L'Amour's books. Selleck was a spokesman for the National Rifle Association of America, an endorser in advertisements for National Review magazine, and co-founder of the Character Counts! organization. He also served as an infantryman in the California Army National Guard from 1967 to 1973, attaining the rank of sergeant. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-vol-5-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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( #JCKaelin here: To my mind, this is the greatest hero of American music. So much of what my youthful white-boy 1960s rock 'n' roll reality of "cool" was based either partly or entirely on him - and practically none of my generation even know his name - so it's left to me and those like me with their eyes, ears and hearts open enough to do something about it!) ========= January 29, 1992: #DOTD: #RIP: Willie Dixon, African American blues guitarist, bassist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer, widely considered history's most influential blues artist, who sang with a distinctive voice, but is best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time (b. July 1, 1915) #dies of heart failure in Burbank, California, aged 76. He is buried in Burr Oak Cemetery, in Alsip, Illinois. After his death, his widow, Marie Dixon, took over the Blues Heaven Foundation and moved the headquarters to Chess Records. Dixon was posthumously inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in the category Early Influences (pre-rock) in 1994. On April 28, 2013, both Dixon and his grandson Alex Dixon were inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame.In 2007, Dixon was honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in Vicksburg. The actor and comedian Cedric the Entertainer portrayed Dixon in Cadillac Records, a 2008 film based on the early history of Chess Records. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 12th greatest bass player and mentioned him as the history's most influential bluesmen. Willie Dixon was born William James Dixonin Vicksburg, Mississippi. Next to Muddy Waters, Dixon is recognized as the most influential person in shaping the post-World War II sound of the Chicago blues. Dixon's songs have been recorded by countless musicians in many genres as well as by various ensembles in which he participated. A short list of his most famous compositions includes "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "Little Red Rooster", "My Babe", "Spoonful", and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover". These songs were written during the peak years of Chess Records, from 1950 to 1965, and were performed by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Bo Diddley; they influenced a generation of musicians worldwide. Dixon was an important link between the blues and rock and roll, working with Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley in the late 1950s. His songs have been covered by some of the most successful musicians of the past sixty years including Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. Jeff Beck, Cream, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and Steppenwolf all featured at least one of his songs on their debut albums, a measure of his influence on rock music. He received a Grammy Award and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Dixon was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, in the inaugural session of the Blues Foundation's ceremony. In 1989 he received a Grammy Award for his album Hidden Charms. Dixon's health increasingly deteriorated during the 1970s and the 1980s, primarily as a result of long-term diabetes. Eventually one of his legs was amputated. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-5-ready-steady-go-dv5.html

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Today, January 29, 2026
January 29, 2017: #DOTD: #RIP: Herb Oscar Anderson, morning D.J. for the New York Top 40 station WABC-AM during most of the 1960s (b. May 30, 1928) #dies of kidney failure in Bennington, Vermont aged 88. He was born in South Beloit, Illinois, and was raised along with his four siblings at the Odd Fellows orphanage in nearby Lincoln, Illinois because his widowed mother was too poor to support them. He and his mother were eventually reunited. When Mr. Anderson arrived at WABC in 1960, the station was in the early stages of a battle for listeners with WMCA, WINS and WMGM. He was one of the station's "Swingin' 7" air personalities, a group that included Scott Muni and was known as the All Americans. But Mr. Anderson was a throwback in a changing music scene, a fan of the big band sound, not necessarily the rock 'n' roll he was playing on a 50,000-watt station that reached well beyond the city limits. His son John James, an actor who played Jeff Colby on the prime-time soap opera "Dynasty", said "My father walked into his job at WABC wearing wingtips and a suit and left in wingtips and a suit.". As the station's low-key "morning mayor," Mr. Anderson had a mandate: to appeal to adults whose buying power was critical to advertisers, more than to the teenagers who were already tuning in. Each morning, his booming, melodic voice crooned his lyrics to his signature song, "Hello Again": "Hello again, here's my best to you. Are your skies all gray? I hope they're blue.". He recorded that song, as he did a few others, and wrote lyrics to instrumentals by Nelson Riddle and Bert Kaempfert. Mr. Anderson's old-fashioned approach set him apart from other D.J.'s at the station, like the exuberant Bruce Morrow (a.k.a. Cousin Brucie), who courted teenagers. In effect, Mr. Anderson had said, there were two WABCs: one in the morning, and one for the rest of the day. "We had to make money," Mr. Anderson told MusicRadio77.com, a website devoted to the Top 40 legacy of the station, which switched to a talk format in 1982. "No question about it. I was for the housewife, mother and children. It was a combination that had to be done." Allan Sniffen, who runs MusicRadio77.com, said, "His job was to come in and sound like a grown-up, not like Cousin Brucie.". He died of kidney failure on Sunday January 29, 2017 in Bennington, Vt., near Hoosick Falls, N.Y., where he had a home. He was 88. https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

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January 29, 1943: #BOTD: #HBD! Tony Blackburn, English disc jockey, singer and television presenter, whose career spans 60 years, is #born Anthony Kenneth Blackburn in Guildford, Surrey, South East England. Anthony Kenneth Blackburn OBE first achieved fame broadcasting on the pirate stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s, before joining the BBC, initially broadcasting on the BBC Light Programme. His was the first voice to be heard on newly launched Radio 1 on September 30, 1967. He also has had several stints working for the corporation. He also worked for Capital London, Classic Gold Digital and BBC Local Radio, and as of 2005 currently BBC Radio 2 and British Forces Broadcasting Service. He regularly presented the British popular music dance show Top Of The Pops (TOTPs). He has also had a singing career. As a DJ, Blackburn is known for his championing of Motown and soul music as well as his popular presenting style. In 2002, Blackburn was the first "King Of The Jungle" (winner) of the British reality TV series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! https://store.earthstation1.com/offshore-pirate-radio-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvds-uk-amp-euro23.html

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January 29, 2021: #DOTD: #RIP: Hilton Valentine, English skiffle and rock and roll musician who was the original guitarist in The Animals (b. May 21, 1943) #dies at the age of 77 in Norwich, Connecticut; no cause of death was given. His body was returned to England and is interred at Preston Cemetery and Tynemouth Crematorium, North Shields, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear. Hilton Valentine was born Hilton Stewart Paterson Valentine in North Shields, Northumberland, England. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and into Hollywood's Rock Walk of Fame in 2001 with the other members of The Animals. Following The Animals' breakup in 1966, Valentine produced several solo albums including All in Your Head (1969) and It's Folk 'N' Skiffle, Mate! (2004). He also toured New England and participated in several The Animals reunions. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-1-hullabaloo-dv1.html

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January 29, 1949: #BOTD: #HBD! Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer, drummer for the influential punk rock band the Ramones from its debut in 1974 to 1978, later serving as its producer, and was the longest-surviving original member of the Ramones (d. July 11, 2014) is #born Tamas Erdelyi in Budapest, Hungary. His Jewish parents were professional photographers, who survived the Holocaust by being hidden by neighbors. Many of his relatives were killed by the Nazis. The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first true punk rock group. Despite only achieving limited commercial success during their time together, the band is today seen as highly influential. All of the band members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname "Ramone", although none of them were biologically related; they were inspired by Paul McCartney, who would check into hotels under alias "Paul Ramon". The Ramones performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years. In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, they played a farewell concert in Los Angeles and disbanded. Tommy Ramone died at his home in Ridgewood, Queens, New York, aged 65. He had received hospice care following unsuccessful treatment for bile duct cancer. He is buried at New Montefiore Cemetery in West Babylon, New York. https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

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Today, January 29, 2026
January 29, 1916: The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The Western Front Of World War I: Air Warfare Of World War I: -- German Zeppelin LZ 79 bombs Paris, killing 23 and injuring 30, but was so severely damaged by anti-aircraft fire that it crashed during the return journey. A second mission by LZ 77 the following night bombed the suburbs of Asnieres and Versailles, with little effect. https://store.earthstation1.com/behind-the-front-the-allied-home-front-during-wwi-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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January 29, 1956: #DOTD: H. L. Mencken, known as "The Sage Of Baltimore", American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English (b. September 12, 1880) #dies in his sleep in Baltimore, Maryland, aged 75. He is interred in Baltimore's Loudon Park Cemetery. Though it does not appear on his tombstone, Mencken, during his Smart Set days, wrote a joking epitaph for himself: "If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl." A very small, short, and private service was held, in accordance with Mencken's wishes. Henry Louis Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also gained him attention. H. L. Mencken was #born Henry Louis Mencken in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Anna Margaret (Abhau) and August Mencken Sr., a cigar factory owner, a family of German ancestry who all spoke German in his childhood household. H. L. Mencken commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also gained him attention. The term "Menckenian" has entered multiple dictionaries to describe anything of or pertaining to Mencken, including his combative rhetorical and prose style. As a scholar, Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. As an admirer of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was an outspoken opponent of organized religion, theism, and representative democracy, the last of which he viewed as a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors. Mencken was a supporter of scientific progress and was critical of osteopathy and chiropractic. He was also an open critic of economics. Mencken opposed the American entry into World War I and World War II. Some of the opinions in his private diary entries have been described by some researchers as racist and anti-Semitic, although this characterization has been disputed. Larry S. Gibson argued that Mencken's views on race changed significantly between his early and later writings, and that it was more accurate to describe Mencken as elitist rather than racist. He seemed to show a genuine enthusiasm for militarism but never in its American form. "War is a good thing," he wrote, "because it is honest; it admits the central fact of human nature.... A nation too long at peace becomes a sort of gigantic old maid." His longtime home in the Union Square neighborhood of West Baltimore was turned into a city museum, the H. L. Mencken House. His papers were distributed among various city and university libraries, with the largest collection held in the Mencken Room at the central branch of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library. https://store.earthstation1.com/darrow-1991-dvd-kevin-spacey-tv-m1991.html

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Today, January 29, 2026
January 29, 1928: #DOTD: #RIP: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. June 19, 1861) #dies at 21 Prince's Gate, London, from a heart attack, aged 66. He was given an elaborate funeral on February 3. As The Times, a British daily national newspaper based in London, reported in its February 4, 1928 issue, "Great crowds lined the streets ... come to do honour to the chief who had sent thousands to the last sacrifice when duty called for it, but whom his war-worn soldiers loved as their truest advocate and friend." The gun-carriage that carried the Unknown Warrior to his grave and, in active service, had borne the gun that fired the first British shot in the First World War took the field marshal's body from St Columba's Church, Pont Street, London, where it had been lying in state, to Westminster Abbey. Three royal princes followed the gun-carriage and the pall-bearers included two Marshals of France (Foch and Petain). The cortege was accompanied by five guards of honour at the slow march, with reversed arms and muffled drums: two officers and fifty other ranks from each branch of the British armed forces (Royal Navy, the Irish Guards, and the Royal Air Force); fifty men of the 1st French Army Corps; and 16 men from the Belgian Regiment of Grenadiers. After the service at the Abbey, the procession re-formed to escort the body to Waterloo station for the journey to Edinburgh, where it lay in state for three days at St Giles's Cathedral. Haig's body was buried at Dryburgh Abbey in the Scottish borders, the grave being marked with a plain stone tablet in the style of the standard headstones of the Imperial War Graves Commission issued to British military casualties in the First World War. During the First World War, Douglas Haig commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war. He was commander during the Battle Of The Somme, the battle with one of the highest casualties in British military history, the Third Battle Of Ypres, the German Spring Offensive, and the Hundred Days Offensive, which led to the armistice of 11 November 1918. Although he had gained a favourable reputation during the immediate post-war years, with his funeral becoming a day of national mourning, Haig has since the 1960s become an object of criticism for his leadership during the First World War. He was nicknamed "Butcher Haig" for the two million British casualties endured under his command. The Canadian War Museum comments, "His epic but costly offensives at the Somme (1916) and Passchendaele (1917) have become nearly synonymous with the carnage and futility of First World War battles." Major-General Sir John Davidson, one of Haig's biographers, praised Haig's leadership, and since the 1980s some historians have argued that the public hatred in which Haig's name had come to be held failed to recognise the adoption of new tactics and technologies by forces under his command, the important role played by British forces in the Allied victory of 1918, and that high casualties were a consequence of the tactical and strategic realities of the time. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-great-war-dvd-set-1964-wwi-tv-series-26-shows-1964266.html

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January 29, 1980: #DOTD: #RIP: Jimmy Durante, American entertainer, singer, pianist, comedian, and actor (b. February 10, 1893) #dies of pneumonia in Santa Monica, California, 12 days before he would have turned 87. He received Catholic funeral rites four days later, with fellow entertainers including Desi Arnaz, Ernest Borgnine, Marty Allen, and Jack Carter in attendance, and was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. He was born James Francis Durante on the Lower East Side of New York City, the youngest of four children born to Rosa (Lentino) and Bartolomeo Durante, both immigrants from Salerno, Campania, Italy.. Jimmy Durante's distinctive clipped gravelly speech, Lower East Side New York accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. He often referred to his nose as the Schnozzola (Italianization of the American Yiddish slang word schnoz, meaning "big nose", from the German Schnauze), and the word became his nickname. https://store.earthstation1.com/hell-below-1933-dvd-wwi-movie-jimmy-durante-walter-hu1933.html

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January 29, 2015: #DOTD: #RIP: Rod McKuen, American singer-songwriter, actor and poet (b. April 29, 1933) #dies of respiratory arrest, a result of pneumonia, at a hospital in Beverly Hills, California, aged 81. Rodney Marvin "Rod" McKuen was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned two Academy Award nominations and one Pulitzer nomination for his music compositions. McKuen's translations and adaptations of the songs of Jacques Brel were instrumental in bringing the Belgian songwriter to prominence in the English-speaking world. His poetry deals with themes of love, the natural world and spirituality. McKuen's songs sold over 100 million recordings worldwide, and 60 million books of his poetry were sold as well, according to the Associated Press. McKuen refused to identify as gay, straight, or bisexual, but once explained his sexuality saying, "I can't imagine choosing one sex over the other, that's just too limiting. I can't even honestly say I have a preference." He was active in the LGBT rights movement, and as early as the 1950s, was a key member of the San Francisco chapter of the Mattachine Society, one of the nation's earliest LGBT advocacy organizations. Despite his popular appeal, McKuen's work was never taken seriously by critics or academics. Michael Baers observed in Gale Research's St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture that "through the years his books have drawn uniformly unkind reviews. In fact, criticism of his poetry is uniformly vituperative. McKuen was born on April 29, 1933, in a Salvation Army hostel in Oakland, California. He never knew his biological father who had left his mother. Sexually and physically abused by relatives, raised by his mother and stepfather, who was a violent alcoholic, McKuen ran away from home at the age of 11. He drifted along the West Coast, supporting himself as a ranch hand, surveyor, railroad worker, lumberjack, rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and radio disk jockey, always sending money home to his mother. To compensate for his lack of formal education, McKuen began keeping a journal, which resulted in his first poetry and song lyrics. After dropping out of Oakland Technical High School prior to graduating in 1951, McKuen worked as a newspaper columnist and propaganda script writer during the Korean War. He settled in San Francisco, where he read his poetry in clubs alongside Beat poets like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He began performing as a folk singer at the famed Purple Onion. Over time, he began incorporating his own songs into his act. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-unknown-war-complete-tv-series-soviet-union-wwii-10-dvd-s10.html

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January 29, 1999: #DOTD: #RIP: Lili St. Cyr, American model and dancer (b. June 3, 1918) #dies in Los Angeles, California of natural causes, aged 80. Born Willis Marie Van Schaack, she was a prominent American burlesque stripteaser. St. Cyr was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 3, 1918. Her maternal half-sister, Rosemary Minsky (nee Van Schaack; born 1924), was also a burlesque stripteaser (whose stage name was Dardy Orlando, and was married to Harold Minsky); Minsky appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2004. The sisters, and Barbara Moffett, were raised by their grandparents, the Klarquists. Having taken ballet lessons throughout her youth, she began to dance professionally as a chorus line girl in Hollywood. Unlike other women who have stroke-of-luck stories about being plucked from the chorus line and selected for a feature role, St. Cyr had to beg her manager at the club to let her do a solo act. From her self-choreographed act she eventually landed a bit part at a club called the Music Box in San Francisco, with the Duncan Sisters. It was here that she found a dancer's salary was only a small fraction of what the featured star's salary was. The difference was that the featured star was nude. From the 1940s and most of the 1950s, St. Cyr with Gypsy Rose Lee and Ann Corio were the most recognized acts in striptease. St. Cyr's stage name is a patronymic of the French aristocracy, which she first used when booked as a nude performer in Las Vegas. Although more obscure toward the end of her life, her name popped-up regularly in 1950s tabloids: stories of her many husbands, brawls over her, and her attempted suicides. St. Cyr was married six times. Her best-known husbands were the motorcycle speedway rider Cordy Milne, musical-comedy actor and former ballet dancer Paul Valentine, restaurateur Armando Orsini, and actor Ted Jordan. St. Cyr's reputation in the burlesque and stripping world was that of a quality and high-class performer, unlike others such as Rosa La Rose, who flashed her pubic hair. St. Cyr started her professional career as a chorus line dancer at the Florentine Gardens, in Hollywood. Two years later, her stripping debut was at the Music Box, in an Ivan Fehnova production. The producer had not even seen her perform - her striking looks won him over. The act was a disaster, but instead of firing her, Fehnova put together a new act. At the end of the dance, a stagehand pulled a fishing rod attached to St. Cyr's G-string, which flew into the balcony as the lights went dim. This act was known as The Flying G, and such creative shows became St. Cyr's trademark. Over the ensuing years and in a variety of different venues, many of St. Cyr's acts were memorable, with names like "The Wolf Woman", "Afternoon of a Faun", "The Ballet Dancer", "In a Persian Harem", "The Chinese Virgin", as well as "Suicide" (where she tried to woo a straying lover by revealing her body), and "Jungle Goddess" (in which she appeared to make love to a parrot). Props were integral to many of the women's acts. Lili was known not only for her bathtub, but elaborate sets of vanities, mirrors, and hat racks. She variously performed as Cinderella, a matador, Salome, a bride, a suicide, Cleopatra and Dorina Grey. Lili St. Cyr received the title of the most famous woman in Montreal throughout the late 1940s into the 1950s. However, Quebec's Catholic clergy condemned her act, declaring that whenever she dances "the theater is made to stink with the foul odor of sexual frenzy." The clergy's outcry was echoed by the Public Morality Committee. St. Cyr was arrested and charged with behavior that was "immoral, obscene and indecent." She was acquitted but the public authorities eventually closed down the Gayety Theatre where she performed. In 1982, St. Cyr wrote a French autobiography, Ma Vie de Stripteaseuse. (Editions Quebecor). In the book, she declared her appreciation for the Gayety Theatre and her love for the city of Montreal. While performing in 1947 at Ciro's nightclub in Hollywood (billed as the "Anatomic Bomb"), St. Cyr was arrested by police and taken to court by a customer who considered her act lewd and lascivious. Represented by the infamous Hollywood attorney Jerry Giesler in court, St. Cyr insisted to the jury that her act was refined and elegant. As St. Cyr pointed out, what she did was slip off her dress, try on a hat, slip off her brassiere (there was another underneath), slip into a negligee. Then, undressing discreetly behind her maid, she stepped into a bubble bath, splashed around, and emerged, more or less dressed. After her appearance as a witness, as a newspaper account of the time put it, "The defense rested, as did everyone else." After just 80 minutes of deliberation by the jury, St. Cyr was acquitted. While St. Cyr starred in several movies, an acting career never really materialized. In 1953, with the help of Howard Hughes, St. Cyr landed her first acting job in a major motion picture in the Son of Sinbad. The film, described by one critic as "a voyeur's delight", has St. Cyr as a principal member of a Baghdad harem populated with dozens of nubile starlets. The film was condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency. St. Cyr also had a role in the movie version of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead in 1958. In this film, St. Cyr plays 'Jersey Lili', a stripper in a Honolulu night-club and girlfriend of a soldier who boasts to his pals that he has her picture painted inside his groundsheet. Heavy edits of St. Cyr's night-club routine by censors result in some choppy editing in an otherwise finely crafted film. But St. Cyr's movie career was short lived, and typically she settled for playing a secondary role as a stripper, or playing herself. Her dancing is featured prominently in two Irving Klaw films, Varietease and Teaserama. St. Cyr was also known for her pin-up photography, especially for photos taken by Bruno Bernard, known professionally as "Bernard of Hollywood", a premier glamor photographer of Hollywood's Golden Era. Bernard said that she was his favorite model and referred to her as his muse. Lili depleted the wealth she earned during her heyday. Many women like Lili were not supported by their husbands or family. St. Cyr retired from the stage in the 1970s, and began a lingerie business that she retained an interest in until her death. Similar to Frederick's of Hollywood, the "Undie World of Lili St. Cyr" designs offered costuming for strippers, and excitement for ordinary women. Her catalogs featured photos or drawings of her modeling each article, lavishly detailed descriptions, and hand-selected fabrics. Her marketing for "Scantie-Panties" advertised them as "perfect for street wear, stage or photography." Her later years were "quiet - just her and some cats in a modest Hollywood apartment." Cyr was a self-professed nymphomaniac and claimed that she turned down opportunities in the film industry so she could maintain her sexually active lifestyle. She had ten abortions before Roe v. Wade. Cyr married six times and purportedly seduced one husband away from her "dear friend" Marilyn. St. Cyr died in Los Angeles, California, on January 29, 1999, aged 80. She never had children, but told Mike Wallace in an October 5, 1957, interview that had she wanted them she would have adopted. Following her death and a renewed interest in burlesque, especially in Bettie Page, legions of new fans rediscovered some of the dancers in Irving Klaw's photos and movies. https://store.earthstation1.com/teaserama-1955-stripper-film-dvd-tempest-storm-bettie-1955.html