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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Archival Cartoon Classics #4 Cartoon Menagerie! MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, October 29, 2025

October 29: National Cat Day: -- An awareness day to raise public interest in cat adoption, taking place on August 8 in Canada and October 29 in the United States. The National Cat Day website states that the holiday was first celebrated in 2005 "to help galvanize the public to recognize the number of cats that need to be rescued each year and also to encourage cat lovers to celebrate the cat(s) in their life for the unconditional love and companionship they bestow upon us." The day was founded by Colleen Paige, a pet and family lifestyle expert, who was supported by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which is a nonprofit pet adoption organization. With 40-70 recognized Cat breeds, there is a cat for all cat lovers. Cats remind us that just when you think they've lost interest in you, they'll turn around and melt your hearts. When it appears they're too busy staring out at passing cars, chasing nylon mice, and sending tiny multi-colored balls to their under-the-refrigerator graves, they'll somehow let you know that their very world revolves around you. Just wait. It'll happen when you least expect it. Cats have their own timetable. Science magazine reports that cat domestication goes back 12,000 years. That encompasses a lot of toys and even more naps. The process appears to have taken place in the Middle East - think Israel, Iraq, and Lebanon. Domestication did not happen overnight. Cats did not go from wild beasts to softly purring pets - just, sort of, one day. Per National Geographic: "DNA analysis suggests that cats lived for thousands of years alongside humans before they were domesticated. During that time, their genes have changed little from those of wildcats, apart from picking up one recent tweak: the distinctive stripes and dots of the tabby cat." Another study from University of Rome scholar Claudio Ottoni reveals that ancient sailors would bring cats along to "help protect food storages on board by killing rodents. This allowed cats to spread across the world." We're glad they spread. Like dogs, who get all the credit for being lovable, cats feel everything we do. They can gauge our moods and emotions - and act accordingly. They have also given up a lot of their natural cravings to live in homes and apartments. (Especially indoor cats.) Take a moment on National Cat Day to appreciate all the love they bring. Yes, they're on the aloof side, but they've come a long way. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/archival-cartoon-classics-4-cartoon-menagerie-mp4-video-download-d44.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Old Time Radio History MP3 MegaSet DVD, Audio Download, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025

( #JCKaelin here: When I founded EarthStation1 on March 26, 1996, it became the internet's first audio-visual historical media archive, and was for many years the largest as well. It's primary focus was downloadable .WAV sound files, files that are still downloadable from the site. Many of those same sound files are now featured on our Old TIme Radio History MP3 Set, which we feature as a special on this day :) ) ========= October 29: National Internet Day: -- October 29, 1969: Charley Kline, a young grad student on the UCLA campus, attempts to send the first internet message to his colleague, Bill Duvall, at Stanford. They were working on something called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), the U.S. Defense Department-funded network that connected four terminals installed at UCLA, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. They succeeded - sort of - in their attempt to send the word "LOGIN." Charley Kline: "So I'm on the phone and I type the L and say, 'OK, I typed in L, you got that?' Bill Duvall, the guy at Stanford, is watching his monitor and he has the L. I type the O. Got the O. Typed the G. 'Wait a minute,' Bill says, 'my system crashed. I'll call you back.'" An hour later, under the watchful eye of UCLA computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock, Kline was able to send the complete "LOGIN" message. Another man, a computer scientist named Joseph Licklider, also deserves credit for being an internet pioneer with an early vision of a worldwide computer network long before it was built. Today he's known as "computing's Johnny Appleseed." It's impossible to calculate the effect of the Internet on society as a whole. That's like trying to figure out how the telephone and printing press changed the world. We started with chat rooms, email programs, and some basic websites and wound up in the midst of a cultural revolution. Today we've got mail - along with access to infinite possibilities - in our back pockets. Literally. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-old-time-radio-history-megaset-dual-layer-mp3-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Golden Age Of Comedy 5 Album Set CD, MP3, USB Stick
Today, October 29, 2025

October 29, 1894: #BOTD: #HBD! Jack Pearl, vaudeville performer and a star of early radio, best known for his character Baron Munchausen (d. December 25, 1982) is #born Jack Perlman in New York. Pearl debuted as an entertainer in School Days, the vaudeville act of songwriter and vaudevillian Gus Edwards. He made the transition from vaudeville to broadcasting when he introduced his character Baron Munchausen on The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air in 1932. His creation was loosely based on the Baron Munchausen literary character. As the Baron, Pearl would tell far-fetched stories with a comic German accent. When the straight man (originally Ben Bard, but later Cliff Hall) expressed skepticism, the Baron replied with his familiar tagline and punchline: "Vass you dere, Sharlie?" This catch phrase soon became part of the national lexicon. (Typical of the dialogue: Hall: "You seem to be effervescent tonight." Munchausen: "Haff you effer seen me ven I effer vasn't?") Pearl played this character and others in Broadway musical revues of the 1920s and 1930s: The Dancing Girl (1923), Topics of 1923 (1923-1924), A Night in Paris (1926), Artists and Models (1927-1928), Pleasure Bound (1929), International Review (1930), Ziegfeld Follies of 1931, Pardon My English (1933) and All for All (1943). In 1923, Pearl and Wilkie Bard appeared in early tests of the Lee DeForest sound-on-film process Phonofilm which are now in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Pearl's radio career included stints as the host of The Lucky Strike Hour (1932-34) and The Jack Pearl Show, which ran from late 1936 through early 1937, sponsored by Raleigh and Kool Cigarettes. The success of his first radio series brought him to the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He starred as his character in one feature film, Meet the Baron (1933) with Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver, ZaSu Pitts and the Three Stooges. He also appears in Ben Bard and Jack Pearl (1926), a film of their vaudeville act made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, and Hollywood Party (1934). With the cancellation of his second radio series, Pearl found himself struggling to find work. He continued in radio with shows like, Jack and Cliff (1948), The Pet Milk Show (1950), and The Baron and the Bee (1952), a quiz show, but he never recaptured his mid-1930s fame. In 1934, a juvenile novel, Jack Pearl as Detective Baron Munchausen, was based on his radio scripts. On February 8, 1960, he received a star at 1680 Vine Street on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his radio work. Pearl died in New York in 1982. He was an uncle to the agent and producer Bernie Brillstein. Pearl was married to Winifred Desborough. Jack Pearl died in New York at the age of 88. He is buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens County, New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/golden-age-of-comedy-narrated-by-george-burns-5-album-set-mp3-53.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Great War (1964) TV Documentary Series DVD, Video Download, USB
Today, October 29, 2025

October 29, 1914: The History Of The Ottoman Empire: The Dissolution Of The Ottoman Empire (1908-1922): The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The Middle Eastern Theater Of World War I: The Balkans Theatre (The Balkan Campaign): The African Theatre Of World War I: The Ottoman Entry Into World War I: The Black Sea Raid: -- Two warships of the Ottoman navy purchased from Germany the prior August 16th -- the Ottoman Navy's flagship, the Moltke-Class Battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim (formerly SMS Goeben), and the Magdeburg-Class Light Cruiser Midilli (formerly SMS Breslau) -- still crewed by German sailors and commanded by their Rear Admiral Wilhelm Souchon of the Imperial German Navy, carry out The Black Sea Raid, a surprise naval sortie against the Russian Black Sea ports of Odessa, Sebastopol, Feodosia and Yalta, and Novorossiysk. Prior to the attack the Ottoman government had declared neutrality in the recently started war, and negotiations with both sides were underway. The attack was in fact a subterfuge conceived by Ottoman War Minister (and later convicted war criminal) Enver Pasha; Admiral Souchon, who would later say his intention was "to force the Turks, even against their will, to spread the war"; and The German Foreign Ministry. The German government had been hoping that the Ottomans would enter the war to support them, but the government in Istanbul was undecided. Therefore, the Germanophile War Minister Pasha began conspiring with the German ambassador in Istanbul, Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim, to bring the empire into the war. Attempts to secure widespread support in the government failed, so Enver decided to instigate a conflict with Russia, with the help of the pugnacious German Admiral Souchon and the reluctant Ottoman naval minister Djemal Pasha, by Enver arranging the Ottoman fleet to go out to sea on October 29 on supposed naval maneuvers but in fact to provoke Russian vessels into opening fire and then accuse them of inciting war. Enver's plan failed when instead Admiral Souchon raided the Russian coast in a flagrant display of hostility, causing little lasting damage but enraging the Russians. Enver impeded attempts by anti-war officials in Istanbul to apologise for the incident, and accordingly Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire on November . The British and the French declared war on the Ottomans three days later; the British quickly initiated naval attacks in the Dardanelles. For all this, the Ottomans still did not officially declare war until November 11, which date would ironically four years later would be that of The Armistice Of 11 November 1918, when Germany capitulated to The Allies. The Ottoman's decision to enter the war on the side of Germany would ultimately lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ottoman citizens, the Armenian Genocide, the dissolution of the The Ottoman Empire (which had the reputation of "The Sick Man Of Europe"), and the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-great-war-dvd-set-1964-wwi-tv-series-26-shows-1964266.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: World War I: The War Files TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025

October 29, 1918: 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: Naval Warfare Of World War I: The Naval Order Of 24 October 1918: The Kiel Mutiny: The Wilhelmshaven Mutiny: -- The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger The German Revolution Of 1918-1919 and speed the end of the First World War. The revolt started on the Schillig Roads off Wilhelmshaven, where the German fleet had anchored in expectation of a planned battle. During the night of October 29-30, some crews refused to obey orders. Sailors on board three ships from the Third Navy Squadron refused to weigh anchor. Part of the crew on SMS Thuringen and SMS Helgoland, two battleships from the First Navy Squadron, committed outright mutiny and sabotage. However, when a day later some torpedo boats pointed their cannons at these ships, the mutineers gave up and were led away without any resistance. Nevertheless, the naval command had to drop its action plans as it was felt that the crew's loyalty could no longer be relied upon. The Third Navy Squadron was ordered back to Kiel. The German Revolution or November Revolution (German: Novemberrevolution) was a civil conflict in the German Empire at the end of the First World War that resulted in the replacement of the German federal constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliamentary republic that later became known as the Weimar Republic. The revolutionary period lasted from November 1918 until the adoption in August 1919 of the Weimar Constitution. The causes of the revolution were the extreme burdens suffered by the population during the four years of war, the strong impact of the defeat on the German Empire and the social tensions between the general population and the elite of aristocrats and bourgeoisie who held power and had just lost the war. The first acts of revolution were triggered by the policies of the German Supreme Command of the Army and its lack of coordination with the Naval Command. In the face of defeat, the Naval Command insisted on trying to precipitate a climactic battle with the British Royal Navy by means of its naval order of October 24, 1918. The battle never took place; instead of obeying their orders to begin preparations to fight the British, German sailors led a revolt in the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven on October 29, 1918, followed by the Kiel Mutiny in the first days of November. These disturbances spread the spirit of civil unrest across Germany, and ultimately led to the proclamation of a republic on November 9, 1918. Shortly thereafter, Emperor Wilhelm II abdicated his throne and fled the country. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/world-war-i-the-war-files-dvd-2-part-documentary-serie2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Benito Mussolini Documentaries DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025

October 29, 1922: The Aftermath Of World War I: Aftermath Of World War I In Italy: 20th Century Revolutions: The Revolutions Of 1917-1923: The Interwar Period (The Aftermath Of World War I, The Interbellum, Between The Wars): Fascist Revolts: Riots And Civil Disorder In Italy: Fascist And Anti-Fascist Violence In Italy (1919-1926): Italian Fascism: The March On Rome: -- The day after the National Fascist Party leaders' planned insurrection with Italian fascist blackshirts who marched into Rome for an organized mass demonstration, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister, surrendering democratic rule and effectively handing over the Italian government to the fascists without armed conflict. Former Prime Minister Luigi Facta had wished to declare a state of siege, but this was overruled by King Victor Emmanuel III. Instead, there immediately followed the formation of a dictatorship under Benito Mussolini. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/benito-mussolini-dvd-wwii-documentaries.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Wall Street Crash Of 1929 Documentary Set MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, October 29, 2025

October 29, 1929: Economics: Markets (Economics): Financial Markets: Exchanges (Bourses, Trading Exchanges, Trading Venues): Stock Exchanges (Securities Exchanges, Bourses): Stock Markets (Equity Markets, Share Markets): Financial Crises: Financial Crises In The United States: Stock Market Crashes: Stock Market Crashes In The United States: Economic Crises: Economic Crises In The United States: Financial Markets Of The United States ("Wall Street"): The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, The Big Board): The Wall Street Crash Of 1929 (The Wall Street Crash, The Great Crash, The Crash of '29): Black Tuesday: -- The New York Stock Exchange crashes when share prices on the exchange collapse as over 16 million shares were dumped in what will be called "Black Tuesday". The Wall Street Crash Of 1929 had started in September 1929, and ended in late October when Black Tuesday brought about the end the Great Bull Market of the 1920s. It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its aftereffects. The crash, which followed the London Stock Exchange's crash of September, signaled the beginning of the Great Depression, which spread worldwide lasted until the outbreak of World War II. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across the world; in most countries, it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. The Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how intensely the global economy can decline. The Great Depression started in the United States after a major fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, (known as Black Tuesday). Between 1929 and 1932, worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15%. By comparison, worldwide GDP fell by less than 1% from 2008 to 2009 during the Great Recession. Some economies started to recover by the mid-1930s. However, in many countries, the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the beginning of World War II. The Great Depression had devastating effects in both rich and poor countries. Personal income, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade fell by more than 50%. Unemployment in the U.S. rose to 23% and in some countries rose as high as 33%. Cities around the world were hit hard, especially those dependent on heavy industry. Construction was virtually halted in many countries. Farming communities and rural areas suffered as crop prices fell by about 60%. Facing plummeting demand with few alternative sources of jobs, areas dependent on primary sector industries such as mining and logging suffered the most. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wastcrof19do.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Portraits Of Power: Gamal Abdel Nasser DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025

October 29, 1956: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1947-1953): The Decolonization Of Asia: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Suez Crisis (The Second Arab-Israeli War, The Tripartite Aggression, The Sinai War): -- On the 68th anniversary of the signing of The Convention Of Constantinople, which guaranteed free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during War And Peace, Israel invades the Egyptian Sinai; Britain and France issue a joint ultimatum to cease fire, which was to all appearance at the time ignored. On November 5, Britain and France landed paratroopers along the Suez Canal. The Egyptian forces were defeated, but they did block the canal to all shipping. It later became clear that the Israeli invasion and the subsequent Anglo-French attack had been planned beforehand by the three countries, and though these three allies had attained a number of their military objectives, the canal was nevertheless useless. The duplicity of the Israelis, British and French about the operation, and their having kept the United States in the dark about their intentions, did much to undermine efforts towards peace in the mideast for decades to come. The Suez Crisis, also known as The Second Arab-Israeli War, and as The Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and The Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had just nationalised the canal. After the fighting had started, heavy political pressure from the United States and the USSR led to a withdrawal by the three invaders. The episode humiliated the United Kingdom and France and strengthened Nasser. U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower had strongly warned Britain not to invade; he threatened serious damage to the British financial system by selling the US government's pound sterling bonds. Historians conclude the crisis "signified the end of Great Britain's role as one of the world's major powers". The Suez Canal was closed from October 1956 until March 1957. Israel did fulfill some of its objectives, such as attaining freedom of navigation through the Straits of Tiran, which Egypt had blocked to Israeli shipping since 1950. As a result of the conflict, the United Nations created the UNEF Peacekeepers to police the Egyptian-Israeli border. Distinquished British prime minister Anthony Eden resigned in humiliation in the aftermath of the crisis. Canadian external affairs minister Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis, and the USSR may have been emboldened to invade Hungary, in that it had made the condemnation of Soviet actions very difficult. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/portraits-of-power-gamal-abdel-nasser-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Commercials: The Cable Age Classics II DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29: National Oatmeal Day: -- A celebration of one of the world's most versatile, familiar foods. But how many of us know more than that? How many ways are there to prepare it? With all the way to eat and use oatmeal, it's no wonder we had to dedicate a whole day to it! Oatmeal, while praised today by nutritionists and health gurus, comes from very humble beginnings. The last of the cereal grains to be domesticated by western society 3,000 year ago, the oats for oatmeal came from weeds that grew in fields prepared for other crops. Ancient Romans saw oats as an unfortunate and diseased wheat and used them as cheap horse food. They scoffed in disgust at societies who ate oats in their meals, such as the Germanic tribes who conquered the West Roman Empire as well as the Scottish whom the Romans were never able to conquer. Huh, almost sounds like the Romans should have eaten their oats after all. Though oats are still used in horse food today, there is a portion set aside specifically for human consumption. And for good reason! The fiber within oats is more soluble than any other grain. Soluble fiber dissolves in water and turns into a thick, viscous gel, which moves slowly through the body. This means it keeps you full for long periods of time. Soluble fiber also slows down the body's process of glucose absorption and inhibits re-absorption of bile into the system, meaning you avoid sugar highs and lows while your liver gets its needed cholesterol from your blood. So apparently, eating oatmeal makes you stronger than a Roman. Who knew? https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-ii-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Tibet History & The Dalai Lama Documentaries DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29: National Hermit Day: -- A day when you can get away from it all and de-stress by spending some time on your own to recharge. Hermits, by definition, are people who prefer seclusion to socialization. They spend their lives living separated from the rest of the world. Traditionally, hermits choose this lifestyle because of religious reasons. Their days are filled with religious prayers, invoking the deities, and just musing on their general philosophy of life. Some famous historical hermits include Father Maxime Qavtaradze (who lives on a pillar in Georgia) and Willard MacDonald, who lived as a hermit for 60 years in Canada. But you do not need to cut off all your worldly ties to celebrate National Hermit Day. You can choose to spend the day, or a part thereof, by yourself in your favorite quiet spot, doing whatever activity gives you peace of mind. In the frenetic pace of our world, most people complain about too little 'me time', which you can start sorting out by taking part in National Hermit Day. It is unclear who or what started the National Hermit Day. Many sources point to the day being celebrated in recognition of the death of Colman mac Duagh. Saint Duagh was born in County Galway, Ireland. While information related to his family remains uncertain, some scholars claim he may have been the son of Queen Rhinagh and Chieftain Duac. There are heroic tales surrounding his birth. It is believed that Queen Rhinagh, while being pregnant with St. Duagh, had a dream where she was told that her son would be a great man, surpassing all his lineage in social stature and fame. The queen feared that upon hearing of this dream, her husband may try to harm the child, so she fled the palace and after several attempts on her life, she gave birth to St. Duagh. He was brought up by monks, being educated at St. Enda's monastery. Soon after, he started his hermit lifestyle. In 590 A.D., he moved to a forest in Burren, living there at the foot of a cliff. While living as a hermit started as a religious choice for many, there came a time in history when keeping hermits in your gardens or sprawling estates became fashionable. One prominent example is of Charles Hamilton, the son of the sixth Earl of Abercorn, in the 1700s. He was building gardens at his home in Surrey, and the perfect addition to his landscape would be a religious hermit. He placed advertisements for applicants, offering them pay, food, and shelter, all for the exchange of a seven-year service, which would entirely be spent in seclusion in his garden estate. These were called "ornamental hermits". Today, National Hermit Day is more about spending time by yourself to freshen up than to spend it as a "trophy" hermit in someone's garden. The constant hustle and bustle, accompanied by social media, can be very taxing physically and mentally. People take the day apart from distractions and other people to enjoy solitary pursuits from hiking to having a nap or watching their favorite movies. https://store.earthstation1.com/tibet-documentaries-2-dvd-se2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Walt Whitman Documentary Biography DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29: World Stroke Day: -- The World Stroke Organization (WSO) states that one in four adults will experience a stroke in their lifetime, and this is why the official World Stroke Day on October 29 aims to raise awareness about the ailment worldwide. In simple words, a stroke happens when the blood supply to your brain is cut off, resulting in temporary or permanent damage to your brain cells. A person can recover from a stroke, but those who do not recover either suffer from one disability or more or, in the worst case scenario, they die. World Stroke Day reinforces the idea of stroke being preventable. One of the best things we can do to reduce our chances of getting a stroke is becoming physically active. Exercising regularly and eating or drinking right will help us not to be part of the one-in-four statistic. Stroke is the number one cause of disabilities, and it is also the second-highest reason behind people dying from a disease. The WSO celebrated the first World Stroke Day in 2006. The organization came into being the same year after the merger of the International Stroke Society (ISS) and the World Stroke Federation (WSF). The WSO is a non-profit agency that works to raise awareness about strokes and help stroke survivors in getting back to their lives. In their own words, the WSO's mission is to "promote research and teaching in this area that will improve the care of stroke victims throughout the world". In this way, the organization is also committed to recognizing and appreciating the efforts of all those medical and nonmedical professionals who have committed to reducing the stroke rate worldwide. The WSO also hosts a biennial congress workshop where, to date, more than 2400 participants have learned important skill sets. In order to reach a wider audience, the organization has set up an e-learning platform called the World Stroke Academy. Every year, there's a special theme surrounding October 29. Previous years' themes include "Little Strokes, Big Troubles" (2008), "Because I Care" (2013), and "Up Again After Stroke" (2018). A stroke takes place when the blood supply to the brain is cut off, either totally or partially. Because brain cells require oxygen and nutrients constantly, if the blood supply is not restored on time, the cells will start dying. This is why it is extremely important to get the patient to receive treatment as soon as you suspect stroke symptoms. The following are some tell-tale signs of a stroke: loss of movement, feeling, and/or vision on one side of the body, combined with dizziness, confusion, and difficulty in speaking. People who smoke, have high blood pressure or cholesterol, diabetes, and obesity are at a higher risk of suffering from a stroke. You can prevent a stroke from happening by quitting tobacco consumption, eating or drinking healthy, exercising, and taking good care of your heart. https://store.earthstation1.com/walt-whitman-dvd-biography-poetry-documentary.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: World's Fair And Exposition Films Collection DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1967: Grand Finales: World's Fair Finales: The 1967 International And Universal Exposition (Expo 67): -- Montreal, Canada's World's Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors. Expo 67 officially opened in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on April 27, 1967 with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world, and opened to the public the next day. Expo 67 was commonly known, was a general exhibition, Category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It is considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century with the most attendees to that date and 62 nations participating. It also set the single-day attendance record for a world's fair, with 569,500 visitors on its third day. Expo 67 was Canada's main celebration during its centennial year. The fair had been intended to be held in Moscow, to help the Soviet Union celebrate the Russian Revolution's 50th anniversary; however, for various reasons, the Soviets decided to cancel, and Canada was awarded it in late 1962. The project was not well supported in Canada at first. It took the determination of Montreal's mayor, Jean Drapeau, and a new team of managers to guide it past political, physical and temporal hurdles. Defying a computer analysis that said it could not be done, the fair opened on time. After Expo 67 ended in October 1967, the site and most of the pavilions continued on as an exhibition called Man and His World, open during the summer months from 1968 until 1984. By that time, most of the buildings -- which had not been designed to last beyond the original exhibition -- had deteriorated and were dismantled. Today, the islands that hosted the world exhibition are mainly used as parkland and for recreational use, with only a few remaining structures from Expo 67 to show that the event was held there. https://store.earthstation1.com/world39s-fair-and-exposition-films-d39.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Armada: Spanish Armada TV Series + Bonus MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1618: #DOTD: #RIP: Sir Walter Raleigh, English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer, one of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, who played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppressed rebellion in Ireland, helped defend England against the Spanish Armada and held political positions under Elizabeth I (b. c. 1552) #dies of beheading in the Old Palace Yard at the Palace of Westminster in London, England aged approximately 65 for allegedly conspiring against James I of England, but actually to appease England's hitherto enemy, Spain. After Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, Raleigh was imprisoned (again) in The Tower Of London, this time for being involved in the Main Plot against King James I, who was not favourably disposed towards him. In 1616, he was released to lead a second expedition in search of El Dorado; in 1594, Raleigh heard of a "City of Gold" in South America and sailed to find it, publishing an exaggerated account of his experiences in a book that contributed to the legend of "El Dorado". During the expedition, a detachment of Raleigh's men led by his top commander and long-time friend Lawrence Kemys attacked the Spanish outpost of Santo Tome de Guayana on the Orinoco river, in violation of peace treaties with Spain and against Raleigh's orders. A condition of Raleigh's pardon was avoidance of any hostility against Spanish colonies or shipping. In the initial attack on the settlement, Raleigh's son, Walter, was fatally shot. Kemys informed Raleigh of his son's death and begged for forgiveness, but did not receive it, and at once committed suicide. On Raleigh's return to England, an outraged Count Gondomar, the Spanish ambassador, demanded that Raleigh's death sentence be reinstated by King James, who had little choice but to do so. Raleigh was brought to London from Plymouth by Sir Lewis Stukley, where he passed up numerous opportunities to make an effective escape. "Let us dispatch", he said to his executioner. "At this hour my ague (fever) comes upon me. I would not have my enemies think I quaked from fear." After he was allowed to see the axe that would be used to behead him, he mused: "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries." According to biographers, Raleigh's last words, spoken to the hesitating executioner, were: "What dost thou fear? Strike, man, strike!" Having been one of the people to popularise tobacco smoking in England, he left a small tobacco pouch, found in his cell shortly after his execution. Engraved upon the pouch was a Latin inscription: Comes meus fuit in illo miserrimo tempore ("It was my companion at that most miserable time"). Raleigh's head was embalmed and presented to his wife. His body was to be buried in the local church in Beddington, Surrey, the home of Lady Raleigh, but was finally laid to rest in St. Margaret's, Westminster, where his tomb is presently located. "The Lords", she wrote, "have given me his dead body, though they have denied me his life. God hold me in my wits." It has been said that Lady Raleigh kept her husband's head in a velvet bag until her death. After Raleigh's wife's death 29 years later, his head was removed to his tomb and interred at St. Margaret's Church. Although Raleigh's popularity had waned considerably since his Elizabethan heyday, his execution was seen by many, both at the time and since, as unnecessary and unjust, as for many years his involvement in the Main Plot seemed to have been limited to a meeting with Lord Cobham. One of the judges at his trial later said: "The justice of England has never been so degraded and injured as by the condemnation of the honourable Sir Walter Raleigh." Raleigh was born to a landed gentry family of Protestant faith in East Budleigh, Devon, England, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne. He was the younger half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and a cousin of Sir Richard Grenville. Little is known of his early life, though in his late teens he spent some time in France taking part in the religious civil wars. In his 20s he took part in the suppression of rebellion in the colonisation of Ireland; he also participated in the siege of Smerwick. Later, he became a landlord of property in Ireland and mayor of Youghal in East Munster, where his house still stands in Myrtle Grove. He rose rapidly in the favour of Queen Elizabeth I and was knighted in 1585. He was granted a royal patent to explore Virginia, paving the way for future English settlements. In 1591, he secretly married Elizabeth Throckmorton, one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, without the Queen's permission, for which he and his wife were sent to the Tower of London. After his release, they retired to his estate at Sherborne, Dorset. https://store.earthstation1.com/armada-dvd-spanish-armada-tv-series-all-3-episode3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Remember When: Page One Print Journalism w/ Dick Cavett DVD, MP4, USB
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1911: #DOTD: #RIP: Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American journalist, publisher, activist, philanthropist and politician, founder of Pulitzer, Inc. (b. April 10, 1847) #dies of heart disease in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina aboard his yacht Liberty, aged 64. While traveling to his winter home at the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia, in 1911, Pulitzer had his yacht stop in Charleston Harbor. On October 29, 1911, Pulitzer listened to his German secretary read aloud about King Louis XI of France. As the secretary neared the end, Pulitzer said in German: "Leise, ganz leise" (English: "Softly, quite softly"), and died. His body was returned to New York for funeral services, and is interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. Joseph Pulitzer was born Jozsef Pulitzer into a Jewish family in a Jewish neighborhood of Mako, Kingdom Of Hungary. He came to America in 1864 and fought briefly in the Civil War for the Union. He was a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption, and helped keep the Statue Of Liberty in New York. In the 1890s the fierce competition between his World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal caused both to develop the techniques of yellow journalism, which won over readers with sensationalism, sex, crime and graphic horrors. The wide appeal reached a million copies a day and opened the way to mass-circulation newspapers that depended on advertising revenue (rather than cover price or political party subsidies) and appealed to readers with multiple forms of news, gossip, entertainment and advertising. Today, his name is best known for the Pulitzer Prizes, which were established in 1917 as a result of his endowment to Columbia University. The prizes are given annually to recognize and reward excellence in American journalism, photography, literature, history, poetry, music and drama. Pulitzer founded the Columbia School of Journalism by his philanthropic bequest; it opened in 1912. He then began a remarkable career in journalism and publishing. His newspapers included the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He also endowed the journalism school at Columbia University and established a fund for the Pulitzer Prizes, awarded annually for excellence in journalism. https://store.earthstation1.com/remember-when-page-one-dvd-journalism-history-dick-cavett.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Soldiers: A History Of Men In Battle TV Series + Bonus Title DVD MP4
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1921: #BOTD: #HBD! Bill Mauldin, American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes For Editorial Cartooning for his work (d. January 22, 2003) is #born William Henry Mauldin in Mountain Park, New Mexico, into a family with a tradition of military service. Bill Mauldin was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field of the sort he served with as a sergeant of the 45th Infantry Division's press corp. He landed with the division in the invasion of Sicily and later in the Italian campaign. Mauldin began working for Stars And Stripes, the American soldiers' newspaper; as well as the 45th Division News, until he was officially transferred to the Stars And Stripes in February 1944. His cartoons were popular with soldiers throughout Europe, and with civilians in the United States as well. In 1945, at the age of 23, Mauldin won a Pulitzer Prize for his wartime body of work, exemplified by a cartoon depicting exhausted infantrymen slogging through the rain, its caption mocking a typical late-war headline: "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners". Mauldin was not without his detractors. His images - which often parodied the Army's spit-shine and obedience-to-orders-without-question policy - offended some officers. After a Mauldin cartoon ridiculed Third Army commander General George Patton's decree that all soldiers be clean-shaven at all times - even in combat - Patton called Mauldin an "unpatriotic anarchist" and threatened to "throw [his] ass in jail" and ban Stars And Stripes from his command. General Dwight Eisenhower, Patton's superior, told Patton to leave Mauldin alone; he felt the cartoons gave the soldiers an outlet for their frustrations. "Stars And Stripes is the soldiers' paper," he told him, "and we won't interfere." Mauldin's cartoons made him a hero to the common soldier. GIs often credited him with helping them to get through the rigors of the war. His credibility with the common soldier increased in September 1943, when he was wounded in the shoulder by a German mortar while visiting a machine gun crew near Monte Cassino. By the end of the war, he received the Legion of Merit for his cartoons. Mauldin wanted Willie and Joe to be killed on the last day of combat, but Stars And Stripes dissuaded him. In 1959, Mauldin won a second Pulitzer Prize, while working at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for a cartoon depicting Soviet author Boris Pasternak in a Gulag, asking another prisoner, "I won the Nobel Prize for literature. What was your crime?" (Pasternak had won the Nobel Prize for his novel Doctor Zhivago, but was not allowed to travel to Sweden to accept it.) Possibly his best-known cartoon was published in 1963, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It depicted the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, with his head in his hands. Bill Mauldin died from complications of Alzheimer's disease and a bathtub scalding, aged 81. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. https://store.earthstation1.com/soldiers-a-history-of-men-in-battle-4-dvds-all-13-sh413.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years TV Series DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! Robert Hardy, English actor and antiquarian who had a long career in theatre, film and television (d. August 3, 2017) is #born in Cheltenham, also known as Cheltenham Spa, a large spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy CBE FSA began his career as a classical actor and later earned widespread recognition for roles such as Siegfried Farnon in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small, Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter film series and Winston Churchill in several productions, beginning with the Southern Television series Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years. He was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actor for All Creatures Great and Small in 1980 and Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years in 1982. Aside from acting, Hardy was an acknowledged expert on the medieval English longbow and wrote two books on the subject, for which he was awarded his FSA (Fellow Of The Society Of Antiquaries) from the Society Of Antiquaries of London, a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." Robert Hardy died at aged 91 at Denville Hall, a home for retired actors in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England. His remains were cremated; the final disposition of his ashes are not publicly disclosed, other than that they were given to family or friend(s). https://store.earthstation1.com/winston-churchill-the-wilderness-years-tv-series-dvd-set-4-disc4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The World: A Television History Documentary Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1888: Engineering: Engineering Projects: Multinational Engineering Projects: The Suez Canal: The Convention Of Constantinople: -- The United Kingdom, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire sign The Convention Of Constantinople, which guaranteeed free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during War And Peace. The Khedivate of Egypt, through whose territory the Canal ran, and to whom all shares in the Suez Canal Company were due to revert when the company's 99-year lease to manage the Canal expired, was not invited to participate in the negotiations, and did not sign the treaty. During all the 74 years of the United Kingdom's military presence in Egypt, from 1882 to 1956, the British government was in effective control of the Canal. In 1956, the Egyptian government nationalised the Suez Canal Company. Future wars between Egypt and the State of Israel would see the Canal blocked and unusable for extended periods of time. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-world-a-television-history-4-dual-layer-dvds-all-26-sh426.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: A Vaughn Meader Anthology All 4 Comedy Albums MP3 Set CD Download USB
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 2004: #DOTD: #RIP: Vaughn Meader, American comedian, impersonator, musician, and film actor (b. March 20, 1936) #dies in Auburn, Maine of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 68. He remains were cremated, and the ashes were given to his widow Sheila Colbath. Vaughn Meader was born Abbott Vaughn Meader in Waterville, Maine during one of the worst floods ever to hit New England: he often said he was born on "the night the West Bridge washed out". He began his career as a musician but later found fame in the early 1960s after the release of the 1962 comedy record The First Family, honored as the "largest and fastest selling record in the history of the record industry" up till that point, selling more than a million copies per week for the first six and one-half weeks in distribution, and by January 1963 had sold more than 7 million copies. The album spoofed President John F. Kennedy, who was played by Meader, and went on to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1963. At the peak of his popularity, he performed his Kennedy impersonation on variety shows and in nightclubs around the country and was profiled in several magazines. Meader's career success came to an abrupt end after President Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. The First Family was quickly pulled from stores and Meader's bookings were cancelled. He attempted to take his career in a different direction by performing non-Kennedy related comedy and released a new comedy album, Have Some Nuts!!!, in early 1964. However, sales for the album were low as public interest in Meader had waned. His career never rebounded as he was too closely associated with President Kennedy. Meader eventually returned to his native Maine where he resumed performing music and managed a pub. https://store.earthstation1.com/a-vaughn-meader-anthology-all-4-comedy-albums-cd-mp3-u43.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Scarlett O'Hara War 1980 Tony Curtis Bill Macy DVD, Download, USB
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1957: #DOTD: #RIP: Louis B. Mayer, one of history's most outstanding rags-to-riches stories, Russian-born American film producer, co-founder in 1924 of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which became under Louis Burt Mayer's management the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors and stars in Hollywood (b. 1882/1884/1885) #dies of leukemia aged 73 in Los Angeles, California. He is buried in the Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California. Louis Burt Mayer was born Lazar Meir into a Jewish family in the Russian Empire; he exact date and location of Mayer's birth remain highly disputed. According to Bosley Crowther, Mayer was born "in a little town near Minsk" according to Samuel Marx in "Demre", according to Gary Carey in "Dmra, a village between Minsk and Vilnius" while Charles Higham and Scott Eyman believed that Mayer was born in Dymer near Kyiv in Ukraine. In addition, Andrzej Krakowski suggested that the birthplace has been misinterpreted and Mayer was in fact from the town of Minsk Mazowiecki in eastern Poland, which at the time was subjugated by the Russian Empire. According to his personal details in the U.S. immigration documents,] the date was July 4, 1885. In addition he gave his birth year as 1882 in his marriage certificate while the April 1910 census states his age as 26 (b.1883). His parents were Jacob Meir and Sarah Meltzer (both Jewish) and he had two sisters - Yetta, born in c. 1878 and Ida, born in c. 1883. Mayer first moved with his family to Long Island, where they lived from 1887 to 1892 and where his two brothers were born - Rubin, in April 1888 and Jeremiah, in April 1891. Then, they moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, where Mayer attended school. His father started a scrap metal business, J. Mayer & Son. An immigrant unskilled in any trade, he struggled to earn a living. Young Louis quit school at age twelve to work with his father and help support his family. He roamed the streets with a cart that said "Junk Dealer" and collected any scrap metal he came across. When the owner of a tin business, John Wilson, saw him with his cart, he began giving him copper trimmings which were of no use and Mayer considered Wilson to be his first partner and his best friend. Wilson remembered that he was impressed with the boy's good manners and bright personality. In his spare time, he hung around the York Theatre, sometimes paying to watch the live vaudeville shows. He became enamored of the entertainment business. Then in 1904 the 20-year-old Mayer left Saint John for Boston, where he continued for a time in the scrap metal business, got married and took a variety of odd jobs to support his new family when his junk business lagged. Mayer renovated the Gem Theater, a rundown, 600 seat burlesque house in Haverhill, Massachusetts called the "Garlic Box" as it catered to poorer Italian immigrants. He renovated and expanded several other theaters in the Boston area catering to higher end audiences. After expanding and moving to Los Angeles, he teamed with film producer Irving Thalberg, and they developed hundreds of high quality story-based films, noted for their wholesome and lush entertainment. Mayer handled the business of running the studio, such as setting budgets and approving new productions, while Thalberg, still in his twenties, supervised all MGM productions. During his long reign at MGM, Mayer acquired many enemies as well as admirers. Some stars did not appreciate his attempts to control their private lives, while others saw him as a solicitous father figure. He believed in wholesome entertainment and went to great lengths to discover new actors and develop them into major stars. Actors working under Mayer would generally portray an idealized vision of men and women, family life, virtue, and patriotism, all presented in the present world they lived in. He believed that movies should not be a mere reflection of life, but be an entertaining escape from life. Because of his gift for understanding the nature of stardom and the needs of the audience, it was claimed that "Mayer's view of America became America's view of itself.". Mayer was forced to resign as MGM's vice president in 1951, when the studio's parent company, Loew's, Inc., wanted to improve declining profits. Mayer was a staunch conservative, at one time the chairman of California's Republican party. In 1927 he was one of the founders of AMPAS, famous for its annual Academy Awards. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-scarlett-o39hara-war-tv-movie-19391980.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Complete Fred Allen Radio Shows MP3 Set DVD, Audio Download, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1963: #DOTD: Adolphe Menjou, American actor and chauvinist whose career spanned radio, silent films and talkies (b. February 18, 1890) #dies of hepatitis in Beverly Hills, California, aged 73. He is interred beside his third and final wife Verree Teasdale at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Adolphe Menjou was born Adolphe Jean Menjou in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's 1923 film A Woman of Paris, where he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle; The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino; Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931. Menjou was a staunch Republican who equated the Democratic Party with socialism. He supported the Hoover administration's policies during the Great Depression. Menjou told a friend that he feared that if a Democrat won the White House, they "would raise taxes [and] destroy the value of the dollar," depriving Menjou of a good portion of his wealth. He took precautions against this threat: "I've got gold stashed in safety deposit boxes all over town... They'll never get an ounce from me." In the 1944 presidential election, he joined other celebrity Republicans at a rally in the Los Angeles Coliseum, organized by studio executive David O. Selznick, to support the Dewey-Bricker ticket and Governor Earl Warren of California, who would be Dewey's running mate in 1948. The gathering drew 93,000, with Cecil B. DeMille as the master of ceremonies and short speeches by Hedda Hopper and Walt Disney. Despite the rally's large turnout, most Hollywood celebrities who took public positions supported the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the House Committee on Un-American Activities saying that Hollywood "is one of the main centers of Communist activity in America". He added: "it is the desire and wish of the masters of Moscow to use this medium for their purposes" which is "the overthrow of the American government". Menjou was a leading member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a group formed to oppose communist influence in Hollywood, whose other members included John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck (with whom Menjou costarred in Forbidden in 1932 and Golden Boy in 1939) and her husband, actor Robert Taylor. Because of his political leanings, Menjou came into conflict with actress Katharine Hepburn, with whom he appeared in Morning Glory, Stage Door, and State of the Union (also starring Spencer Tracy). Hepburn was strongly opposed to the HUAC hearings, and their clashes were reportedly instant and mutually cutting. During a government deposition, Menjou said, "Scratch a do-gooder, like Hepburn, and they'll yell, 'Pravda'." To this, Hepburn called Menjou "wisecracking, witty - a flag-waving super-patriot who invested his American dollars in Canadian bonds and had a thing about Communists." In his book Kate, Hepburn biographer William Mann said that during the filming of State Of The Union, she and Menjou spoke to each other only while acting. https://store.earthstation1.com/fred-allen-radio-mp3-dvd-complete-broadcast3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Great McGinty 1940 Brian Donlevy Muriel Angelus DVD, Download, USB
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1899: #BOTD: #HBD! Akim Tamiroff, Armenian-American actor of film, stage, and television who appeared in at least 80 American motion pictures in a career spanning thirty-seven years, praised by personal friend and oft-collaborator Orson Welles as "the greatest of all screen actors", whose malapropistic performance as the boss in The Great McGinty was the inspiration for the cartoon character Boris Badenov, the male half of the villainous husband-and-wife team Boris and Natasha on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (d. September 17, 1972) is #born Hovakim Tamiryants to Armenian parents living in the Russian Empire; different sources cite his birth place as either Tiflis in modern-day Georgia, or Baku in modern-day Azerbaijan. Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff was one of the premier character actors of Hollywood's Golden Age, appearing in at least 80 motion pictures in a career spanning 37 years, developing a prolific career despite his thick accent. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in The General Died at Dawn (1936) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), and the latter won him the first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was also the inspiration for a 1969 episode of the TV show H.R. Pufnstuf entitled "The Stand-in" in which a frog named "Akim Toadanoff" directs a movie on Living Island. He was mentioned in J.D. Salinger's "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1942 New Yorker), and Walker Percy's 1961 novel "The Moviegoer". Akim Tamiroff died of cancer in Palm Springs, California at the age of 72. He was cremated, and his ashes were scattered at an undisclosed location. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-great-mcginty-dvd-1940-preston-sturges-brian-don1940.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Way To The Stars (Uncut) {Johnny in the Clouds (Cut)} MP4 DVD USB
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1909: #BOTD: #HBD! Douglass Montgomery, also credited as Kent Douglass, American film actor (d, uly 23, 1966) is #born Robert Douglass Montgomery in Los Angeles, California. Montgomery used the stage name Douglass Montgomery when he began acting in New York. He gained early acting experience at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. The film phase of his career began at MGM in 1930, playing the second male lead in films such as Paid and Five And Ten. When he signed his contract at the studio his name was changed to Kent Douglass, to avoid confusion with that studio's star Robert Montgomery. Upon leaving MGM in 1932, he changed it back to Douglass Montgomery. His most celebrated roles were Laurie in Little Women (1933), opposite Katharine Hepburn's Jo March, and Johnny Hollis in The Way To The Stars (UK; released as Johnny In The Clouds in the US) (1945). After serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, Montgomery moved to Great Britain and made films there. He later returned to the U.S. and appeared in a number of television shows. Montgomery married British actress Kay Young (born Kathleen Tamar Young) on March 14, 1952, at Bethlehem Federated Church. He was her second husband. Young had divorced film actor Michael Wilding the year before she wed Montgomery. (Wilding remarried in 1952, to Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor.) Young and Montgomery remained married until his death. Douglass Montgomery died of spinal cancer in Norwalk, Connecticut at age 56. His remains were cremated, and his ashes given to his widow Kay Young. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-way-to-the-stars-dvd-world-war-ii-feature-film.html

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Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1995: #DOTD: #RIP: Terry Southern, American soldier, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style (b. May 1, 1924) #dies in New York City at St. Luke's Hospital of respiratory failure following a collapse on October 25 on the steps of Columbia University's Dodge Hall; his last words were "What's the delay?". His remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered over Canaan, Connecticut. Terry Southern was born in Alvarado, Texas. After attending the Sorbonne on the G.I. Bill, he became part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s. Southern frequented the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris and saw jazz performances by leading bebop musicians including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis, evoked in his classic "You're Too Hip, Baby". In 1953, Southern returned to the US with his first wife, French model Pud Gadiot, and settled in Greenwich Village in New York City. As he had in Paris, Southern quickly became a prominent figure on the artistic scene that flourished in the Village in the late 1950s. He met visual artists such as Robert Frank, Annie Truxell and Larry Rivers. Through Mason Hoffenberg, who made occasional visits from Paris, he was introduced to leading beat writers including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. He frequented renowned New York jazz venues such as the Five Spot, the San Remo, and the Village Vanguard. Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. Southern's dark and often absurdist style of satire helped to define the sensibilities of several generations of writers, readers, directors and film goers. He is credited by journalist Tom Wolfe as having invented New Journalism with the publication of "Twirling at Ole Miss" in Esquire in February 1963. Southern's reputation was established with the publication of his comic novels Candy and The Magic Christian and through his gift for writing memorable film dialogue as evident in Dr. Strangelove, The Loved One, The Cincinnati Kid, and The Magic Christian. His work on Easy Rider helped create the independent film movement of the 1970s. https://store.earthstation1.com/alternative-sgt-pepper39s-lonely-hearts-club-band-mp3-cd-download-393.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Western Tradition TV Series DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 312: Rome: Ancient Rome: Roman Civil Wars And Revolts: The Roman Empire: Civil Wars Of The Roman Empire: Fourth Century Roman Civil Wars And Revolts: The Civil Wars Of The Tetrarchy: The Battles Of Constantine I: The Battle Of The Milvian Bridge: -- Constantine The Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge the day before, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius's body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded. In the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Constantine I defeated Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West. The day before the battle , Constantine had had the Vision of the Cross, which inspired him to paint the Christian cross on the shields of his soldiers. Constantine's victory was to become the foundation of the Christian world that followed thereafter. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-western-tradition-dvd-set-all-52-shows-13-d5213.html

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Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1944: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II: The Great Patriotic War (The German-Soviet War): The Battle Of Debrecen (The Debrecen Offensive Operation): -- The Red Army's 2nd Ukrainian Front under Marshal Rodion Malinovsky siezes the Hungarian town of Debrecen from German General Maximilian Fretter-Pico's Sixth Army (II formation) and the allied Hungarian VII Army Corps of Army Group South Ukraine. The Axis units were forced to retreat some 160 kilometers. Called by the Red Army the Debrecen Offensive Operation, it took place October 6-29, 1944 in response to General Friessner's reorganization of Army Group South in the aftermath of Romania and Bulgaria, both former German allies, having switched sides by declaring war on Nazi Germany. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-unknown-war-complete-tv-series-soviet-union-wwii-10-dvd-s10.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Henchmen Of The Third Reich: Goering Goebbels Hess DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1897: #BOTD: Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, nicknamed "the poison dwarf" to those who worked with him (which is an insult to dwarves) (d. May 1 1945) is #born Paul Joseph Goebbels in Rheydt, near Dusseldorf, Germany. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted associates, and was known for his skills in public speaking and his deeply virulent antisemitism, which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a Doctor of Philology degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1921. He joined the Nazi Party in 1924, and worked with Gregor Strasser in their northern branch. He was appointed Gauleiter (district leader) for Berlin in 1926, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its programme. After the Nazis' seizure of power in 1933, Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry quickly gained and exerted control over the news media, arts, and information in Germany. He was particularly adept at using the relatively new media of radio and film for propaganda purposes. Topics for party propaganda included antisemitism, attacks on the Christian churches, and (after the start of the Second World War) attempting to shape morale. In 1943, Goebbels began to pressure Hitler to introduce measures that would produce total war, including closing businesses not essential to the war effort, conscripting women into the labour force, and enlisting men in previously exempt occupations into the Wehrmacht. Hitler finally appointed him as Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War on 23 July 1944, whereby Goebbels undertook largely unsuccessful measures to increase the number of people available for armaments manufacture and the Wehrmacht. As the war drew to a close and Nazi Germany faced defeat, Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children joined him in Berlin. They moved into the underground Vorbunker, part of Hitler's underground bunker complex, on April 22, 1945. Hitler committed suicide on April 30. In accordance with Hitler's will, Goebbels succeeded him as Chancellor of Germany; he served one day in this post. The following day, Goebbels and his wife Magda committed suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Fuehrerbunker. Their six children were also killed by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths by their mother. His burial details are in dispute; it is alleged that his remains were scattered into the Biederitz (Elba) river. https://store.earthstation1.com/henchmen-of-the-third-reich-dvd-goering-goebbels-hess.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Mein Kampf: A Blueprint For The Age Of Chaos 1960 DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1879: #BOTD: Franz Von Papen, German nobleman, General Staff officer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. May 2, 1969) is #born Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria Von Papen into a wealthy and noble Catholic family in Werl, Westphalia, Prussia, German Empire. He served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933-34. He belonged to the group of close advisers to President Paul Von Hindenburg in the late Weimar Republic. It was largely Papen, believing that Hitler could be controlled once he was in the government, who persuaded Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor in a cabinet not under Nazi Party domination. However, Papen and his allies were quickly marginalized by Hitler and he left the government after the Night of the Long Knives, during which the Nazis killed some of his confidantes. Hitler appointed him Ambassador to Austria until it was annexed by Germany, then Ambassador to Turkey. He was a defendant at the Nuremberg trials; the court acquitted him, stating that while he had committed a number of "political immoralities," these actions were not punishable under the "conspiracy to commit crimes against peace" written in Papen's indictment. The American and British judges voted to acquit while the Soviet and French judges voted to convict, and under the rules of Nuremberg, this resulted in an acquittal. Franz Von Papen died in Obersasbach, West Germany at the age of 89. He is buried at Wallerfangen, Saarland in south west Germany on the border of France. https://store.earthstation1.com/mein-kampf-1960-dvd-adolf-hitler-third-reich-holoc1960.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: George B. McClellan American Civil War General MP4 Download Or DVD
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1885: #DOTD: George B. McClellan, American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th Governor of New Jersey (b. December 3, 1826) #dies unexpectedlyat 3 a.m. of a heart attack at age 58 at Orange, New Jersey, after suffering from chest pains for a few weeks; his final words were, "I feel easy now. Thank you." He is buried at Riverview Cemetery in Trenton. He was born George Brinton McClellan in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A graduate of West Point, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), and later left the Army to work on railroads until the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Early in the conflict, McClellan was appointed to the rank of major general and played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army, which would become The Army Of The Potomac in the Eastern Theater; he served a brief period (November 1861 to March 1862) as Commanding General of the United States Army of the Union Army. McClellan organized and led the Union army in the Peninsula Campaign in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862. It was the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater. Making an amphibious clockwise turning movement around the Confederate Army in northern Virginia, McClellan's forces turned west to move up the Virginia Peninsula, between the James River and York River, landing from Chesapeake Bay, with the Confederate capital, Richmond, as their objective. Initially, McClellan was somewhat successful against General Joseph E. Johnston, but the emergence of General Robert E. Lee to command The Army Of Northern Virginia turned the subsequent Seven Days Battles into a partial Union defeat. However, historians note that Lee's victory was in many ways pyrrhic as he failed to destroy The Army Of The Potomac and suffered a bloody repulse at Malvern Hill. General McClellan and President Abraham Lincoln developed a mutual distrust, and McClellan was privately derisive of his General-in-Chief. McClellan was removed from command in November in the aftermath of the 1862 midterm elections. A major contributing factor in this decision was McClellan's failure to pursue Lee's Army following the tactically inconclusive but strategic Union victory at the Battle Of Antietam outside Sharpsburg, Maryland. McClellan never received another field command and went on to become the unsuccessful Democratic Party nominee in the 1864 presidential election against the Republican Lincoln. The effectiveness of his campaign was damaged when he repudiated his party's platform, which promised an end to the war and negotiations with the Confederacy. He served as the 24th Governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881; he eventually became a writer, and vigorously defended his Civil War conduct. Most historians have judged that McClellan was a poor battlefield general. In recent decades, however, this view has been challenged by some historians. https://store.earthstation1.com/george-b-mcclellan-american-civil-war-general-mp4-download-or-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Long Shadows: Civil War Legacy DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1877: #DOTD: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate Army general during the American Civil War, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (b. July 13, 1821) #dies reportedly from acute complications of diabetes at the Memphis, Tennessee home of his brother Jesse, aged 56. His eulogy was delivered by his recent spiritual mentor, former Confederate chaplain George Tucker Stainback, who declared in his eulogy: "Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest, though dead, yet speaketh. His acts have photographed themselves upon the hearts of thousands, and will speak there forever." Forrest's funeral procession was over two miles long. The crowd of mourners was estimated to include 20,000 people. According to Forrest biographer Jack Hurst, writers present at the public viewing of Forrest's body and the funeral procession noted many black citizens among them. Forrest was buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis. In 1904, the remains of Forrest and his wife Mary were disinterred from Elmwood and moved to a Memphis city park that was originally named Forrest Park in his honor but has since been renamed Health Sciences Park. On July 7, 2015, the Memphis City Council unanimously voted to remove the statue of Forrest from Health Sciences Park, and to return the remains of Forrest and his wife to Elmwood Cemetery. However, on October 13, 2017, the Tennessee Historical Commission invoked the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2013 and U.S. Public Law 85-425: Sec. 410 to overrule the city. Consequently, Memphis sold the park land to Memphis Greenspace, a non-profit entity not subject to the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act, which immediately removed the monument. Nathan Bedford Forrest was born to a poor settler family in a secluded frontier cabin near Chapel Hill hamlet, then part of Bedford County, Tennessee, but now in Marshall County. A cavalry and military commander in the war, Forrest is one of the war's most unusual figures. Although less educated than many of his fellow officers, before the war Forrest had already amassed a fortune as a planter, real estate investor, and slave trader. He was one of the few officers in either army to enlist as a private and be promoted to general officer and corps commander during the war. He created and established new doctrines for mobile forces, earning the nickname The Wizard of the Saddle. In their postwar writings, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee both expressed their belief that the Confederate high command had failed to fully use Forrest's talents. Ulysses S. Grant called him "that devil Forrest." Another Union general, William Tecumseh Sherman, it is reported, considered him "the most remarkable man our civil war produced on either side." He was unquestionably one of the Civil War's most brilliant tacticians. Without military education or training, he became the scourge of Grant, Sherman, and almost every other Union general who fought in Tennessee, Alabama, or Kentucky. Forrest fought by simple rules: he maintained that "war means fighting and fighting means killing" and that the way to win was "to get there first with the most men." His cavalry, which Sherman reported in disgust "could travel one hundred miles in less time it takes ours to travel ten," secured more Union guns, horses, and supplies than any other single Confederate unit. He played pivotal roles at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, the capture of Murfreesboro, the Franklin-Nashville campaign, Brice's Cross Roads, and in pursuit and capture of Streight's Raiders. In April 1864, in what has been called "one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history", troops under Forrest's command at the Battle of Fort Pillow massacred hundreds of surrendered troops, composed of black soldiers and white Tennessean Southern Unionists fighting for the United States. Forrest, who was a Freemason, was accused of war crimes for the slaughter in the U.S. press, and this news may have strengthened the United States's resolve to win the war. However, Sherman investigated the allegations and did not charge Forrest with any improprieties. Park Ranger Matt Atkinson, during his lecture on Brice's Crossroads, stated that there were no orders found in the chain of command, ordering the massacre of the garrison. Forrest's responsibility for the massacre continues to be actively debated by historians. He was a pledged delegate from Tennessee to the New York Democratic national convention of July 4, 1868. Forrest was an early member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Historian and Forrest biographer Brian Steel Wills writes, "While there is no doubt that Forrest joined the Klan, there is some question as to whether he actually was the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan." In the 1990 PBS documentary The Civil War by Ken Burns, historian Shelby Foote states in Episode 7 that the Civil War produced two "authentic geniuses": Abraham Lincoln and Nathan Bedford Forrest. When he expressed his opinion to one of General Forrest's granddaughters, she replied after a pause, "You know, we never thought much of Mr. Lincoln in my family". Foote also made Forrest a major character in his novel Shiloh, which used numerous first-person stories to illustrate a detailed timeline and account of the battle. https://store.earthstation1.com/long-shadows-dvd-legacy-of-the-american-civil-war.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Swing: The Best Of The Big Bands DVD, MP4 Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1987: #DOTD: #RIP: Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, singer and bandleader (b. May 16, 1913) #dies aged 74 in West Hollywood, California. The immediate cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest; however, after the death of his wife, his health went into decline, chiefly due to his having to continue to perform in order to pay the IRS millions of dollars in back taxes that were owed because of his business manager's bookkeeping in the 1960s. He had a Catholic funeral on November 2 at St. Victor's in West Hollywood, and is interred in a niche in the columbarium behind the Cathedral Mausoleum in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. He was born Woodrow Charles Herman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Leading various groups called "The Herd", Woodrow Charles Herman came to prominence the late 1930s and was active until his death in 1987. His bands often played music that was cutting edge and experimental for its time; they received numerous Grammy nominations and awards. Herman and his big band were the featured halftime performers for Super Bowl VII. https://store.earthstation1.com/swing-the-best-of-the-big-bands-dvd-complete-tv-series-2-disc2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Music & Dance Shows #5 Ready Steady Go! DVD, Download, Flash Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! Denny Laine, English musician, singer, and songwriter known as a founder of two major British rock bands: The Moody Blues, with whom he played from 1964 to 1966, and Paul McCartney and Wings (d. December 5, 2023) is #born Brian Frederick Hines in Tyseley, Birmingham, England. Laine has worked with a variety of artists and groups over a six decade career, and continues to record and perform as a solo artist. In 2018, Laine was inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues. Denny Laine died from interstitial lung disease in Naples, Florida at the age of 79. He remains were cremated, and his ashes scattered at a private place in Naples, Florida. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-5-ready-steady-go-dv5.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Offshore Pirate Radio 1960s-1980s MP3s DVD, Audio Download, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! Robbie van Leeuwen, Dutch musician who was guitarist, sitarist, background vocalist and main songwriter for Dutch bands such as The Motions and Shocking Blue, the latter best known for the 1967 No. 1 hit "Venus", is #born in The Hague. In 1967 he played guitar on the only single ever released by The Six Young Riders titled "Let the Circle Be Unbroken". As of February 2018, he is the only surviving member of Shocking Blue's best known four-piece lineup. https://store.earthstation1.com/offshore-pirate-radio-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvds-uk-amp-euro23.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Shadow Of Jack The Ripper Documentary DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1888: Crime: Crime In The United Kingdom: Murder: Serial Murders: The Whitechapel Murders (The Jack The Ripper Murders, The Leather Apron Murders): Jack The Ripper Letters: The Openshaw Letter: -- Dr. Thomas Horrocks Openshaw, a surgeon at The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, who had become well known in the media as the doctor who inspected the human kidney mailed to Whitechapel Vigilance Committee Chairman George Lusk from someone identifying himself as "Jack The Ripper", himself receives a letter through the post addressed to 'Dr Openshaw, Pathological curator, London Hospital, Whitechapel' that was postmarked 'LONDON E', 'OC29 88'. The text of the letter reads "Old boss you was rite it was the left kidny i was goin to hoperate agin close to your ospitle just as i was going to dror mi nife along of er bloomin throte them cusses of coppers spoilt the game but i guess i wil be on the job soon and will send you another bit of innerds | Jack the Ripper | O have you seen the devle | with his mikerscope and scalpul | a-lookin at a kidney | with a slide cocked up." This letter has become known as the "Openshaw Letter". A copy of the letter is on display with other Ripper items in the Royal London Hospital's museum in Whitechapel. The letter was also used by author Patricia Cornwell to try to substantiate her claim that Walter Sickert was the Ripper. She claims that the paper used for the Openshaw Letter came from the same manufacturers as paper used by Sickert. However, it was a brand of stationery that was widely available at the time. Also according to Cornwell, mitochondrial DNA extracted from the stamp on the envelope could not be ruled out as being the same as that found on other Sickert letters. Mitochondrial DNA, however, is not a definitive test of identity and the sequence found by Cornwell's team of experts could be from one of over 400,000 individuals. https://store.earthstation1.com/timewatch-shadow-of-jack-the-ripper-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: History Of Talk Radio w/Lauren Hutton + Dateline: Howard Stern MP4 DVD
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1997: #DOTD: Anton LaVey, American author, musician, occultist and Satanist, founder of The Church Of Satan (b. April 11, 1930) #dies, according to his family, on October 29, 1997, in St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco of pulmonary edema; however, his death certificate lists October 31, 1997. He was taken to St. Mary's, a Catholic hospital, because it was the closest available. A secret Satanic funeral, attended by invitation only, was held in Colma, after which LaVey's body was cremated; the final dispostion of his ashes are not publicly disclosed. On February 2, 1998, his estranged daughter Zeena Schreck and her then husband Nikolas Schreck published a nine-page "fact sheet", in which they endorsed investigative journalist Lawrence Wright's earlier allegations that many details of Anton LaVey's life were false, and claimed that many more of LaVey's stories about his life had also been false. Anton Szandor LaVey was born Howard Stanton Levey in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Michael Joseph Levey (1903-1992), from Chicago, married LaVey's mother, Gertrude Augusta nee Coultron, born to a Georgian father and Ukrainian mother. He was the founder of the Church of Satan and the religion of Satanism. He authored several books, including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Rituals, The Satanic Witch, The Devil's Notebook, and Satan Speaks! In addition, he released three albums, including The Satanic Mass, Satan Takes a Holiday, and Strange Music. He played a minor on-screen role and served as technical advisor for the 1975 film The Devil's Rain and served as host and narrator for Nick Bougas' 1989 mondo film Death Scenes. Historian of Satanism Gareth J. Medway described LaVey as a "born showman", with anthropologist Jean La Fontaine describing him as a "colourful figure of considerable personal magnetism". The academic scholars of Satanism Per Faxneld and Jesper Aagaard Petersen described LaVey as "the most iconic figure in the Satanic milieu". LaVey was labeled many things by journalists, religious detractors, and Satanists alike, including "The Father of Satanism", the "St. Paul of Satanism", "The Black Pope", and the "evilest man in the world". LaVey's image has been described as "Mephistophelian," and was likely inspired by an occult-themed episode of the television show The Wild Wild West entitled "The Night Of The Druid's Blood" which originally aired on March 25, 1966, and starred Don Rickles as the evil magician and Satanic cult leader Asmodeus, whose Mephistophelean persona is virtually identical to that which LaVey adopted one month later. https://store.earthstation1.com/hioftarawila.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Mozart Mystique w/ Peter Ustinov DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1787: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Theatre Premieres: Musical Premieres: Opera Premieres: -- Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance at the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre (Stavovske Divadlo) in Prague, Czech republic. Don Giovanni (Italian complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni (The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni or The Libertine Punished)) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer, by Spanish writer Tirso de Molina. Da Ponte's libretto was billed as a dramma giocoso, a common designation of its time that denotes a mixing of serious and comic action. Mozart entered the work into his catalogue as an opera buffa (Italian: "comic opera"). Although sometimes classified as comic, it blends comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements. Don Giovanni is generally regarded as one of Mozart's supreme achievements and one of the greatest operas of all time, and it has proved a fruitful subject for writers and philosophers. A staple of the standard operatic repertoire, it is ninth on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas of the 2018-19 season. Critic Fiona Maddocks described it as one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces with libretti by Ponte". ========= October 29, 1829: #DOTD: #RIP: Maria Anna Mozart, called Marianne and nicknamed Nannerl, Austrian pianist, older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and daughter of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart (b. July 30, 1751) #dies in Salzburg, Austrian Empire aged 78 years. She is buried in St Peter's Cemetery, Salzburg. Maria Anna Mozart was born Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart in Salzburg, Austria. When she was seven years old, her father Leopold Mozart started teaching her to play the harpsichord. Leopold took her and Wolfgang on tours of many cities, such as Vienna and Paris, to showcase their talents. In the early days, she sometimes received top billing, and she was noted as an excellent harpsichord player and fortepianist. However, given the views of her parents, prevalent in her society at the time, it became impossible as she grew older for her to continue her career any further. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1878-present), "from 1769 onwards she was no longer permitted to show her artistic talent on travels with her brother, as she had reached a marriageable age." Wolfgang went on during the 1770s to many artistic triumphs while traveling in Italy with Leopold, but Marianne stayed at home in Salzburg with her mother. She likewise stayed home with Leopold when Wolfgang visited Paris and other cities (1777-1779) accompanied by his mother. There is evidence that Marianne wrote musical compositions, as there are letters from Wolfgang praising her work, but the voluminous correspondence of her father never mentions any of her compositions, and none have survived. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-mozart-mystique-dvd-peter-ustinov-2-part-tv-serie2.html

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Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1891: #BOTD: #HBD! Fanny Brice, American singer, comedian, theater and film actress who made many stage, radio and film appearances (d. May 29, 1951) is #born Fania Borach in Manhattan, New York City, United States, the third child of saloon owners Rose (nee Stern 1867-1941), a Jewish Hungarian woman who immigrated to the US at age 10, and Alsatian immigrant Charles Borach. Known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, she was also an illustrated song model, a type of performance art and was a popular form of entertainment in the early 20th century in the United States where live performers (usually both a pianist and a vocalist) and music recordings were both used by different venues (vaudeville houses first and later in nickelodeons) to accompany still images projected from glass slides. She is best known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series The Baby Snooks Show. Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the 1964 musical Funny Girl and its 1968 film adaptation, for which Streisand won an Oscar. Fanny Brice died at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood from a cerebral hemorrhage at 11:15 am; she was 59. The May 29, 1951, episode of The Baby Snooks Show was broadcast as a memorial to Brice who created the brattish toddler, crowned by Hanley Stafford's brief on-air eulogy: "We have lost a very real, a very warm, a very wonderful woman." Brice was cremated, and her ashes were interred in the Chapel Mausoleum at the Jewish Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California. At the time of Brice's daughter Frances's death in 1992, Brice's ashes were reinterred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, some 20 miles west of her original interment place. Fanny's grave and those of her daughter, son, and her daughter's husband Ray Stark are in an outdoor pavilion. https://store.earthstation1.com/old-time-radio-comedy-mp3-dvd-megaset-2-dis32.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War Props: The Ilyushin IL-2 Sturmovik DVD, MP4, USB Flash Drive
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 2009: #DOTD: #RIP: Anna Yegorova, female pilot of the Soviet Air Force during the Second World War, Hero Of The Soviet Union, and beauty (b. September 23, 1916) #dies of natural causes in Moscow, Russian Federation, aged 93. Her burial details are not publicly disclosed. Anna Yegorova flew a total of 277 sorties that included liaison, reconnaissance and ground-attack missions before she became a prisoner-of-war when her Il-2 Shturmovik was shot down,. She was awarded the title of Hero Of The Soviet Union in 1965. She was born Anna Alexandrovna Timofeyeva-Yegorova into a peasant family in the village Volodovo (now in Tver Oblast). Eight of her fifteen siblings died when they were infants. Her father, Aleksandr Yegorov, fought in the First World War as well as the Russian Civil War as a Bolshevist. Combat stress and other hardships deteriorated his health, and in 1925 he died at 49 years of age. After seven years of school, Yegorova joined Mosmetrostroy, major Russian construction company, where she worked as a steelman, and then as a tiler on the construction of Krasnye Vorota station, a Moscow Metro mass rapid transit (MRT) heavy rail train station. Her construction job allowed her to study at the Mosmetrostroy aeroclub, a not-for-profit, member-run organization that provided its members with affordable access to aircraft. In 1938, she was recommended to attend the Ulyanovsk flight school of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River, but was soon expelled due to her brother's arrest as an "enemy of the people" by Soviet security forces. After her expulsion, Yegorova worked as a bookkeeper's assistant at a weaving factory in Smolensk, while tutoring members of the factory's aero club. She was then sent to attend the Kherson flight school, which she graduated from in 1939. Soon afterwards, Yegorova became a flight instructor for the Kalinin municipal aero club. After the start of Operation Barbarossa (the German invasion of the USSR), Yegorova volunteered for combat service. From 1941 to 1942, Yegorova flew 236 reconnaissance and delivery missions for the 130th Air Liaison Squadron in a Polikarpov Po-2, and was subsequently awarded the Order of the Red Banner for distinguished service. After an aircrash, which was determined, rightly or wrongly, to be due to pilot error, Yegorova was transferred to a training air regiment. In 1943, Yegorova was transferred to the 805th Attack Aviation Regiment and flew 41 missions in the Ilyushin Il-2. These missions included the battles above the Taman Peninsula, Crimea, and Poland. During a mission on August 22 1944, while in an attack formation of ten aircraft over the Magnuszew bridgehead near Warsaw, Yegorova's plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire. Her gunner, fellow female soldier Yevdokiya "Dusya" Alekseyevna Nazarkina, was killed in the attack. With her gunner killed, and the plane heavily damaged, Yegorova exited the aircraft while the plane was inverted, and suffered serious thermal burns. Yegorova's parachute only partially opened, and she was seriously wounded again upon landing. Yegorova was captured by the German Army and taken to a prisoner of war camp where her wounds were treated by Dr. Georgy Sinyakov. Back at her air base, Yegorova was presumed dead and was recommended for the title of Hero Of The Soviet Union, but she did not receive the title until 1965. On January 31, 1945, Soviet forces overran the Kustrin prisoner camp where she was being held. Yegorova was interrogated as a potential traitor for eleven days at an NKVD filtration camp for returning Soviet prisoners. Eventually, she was released from custody, but was discharged into the reserve soon after. After being discharged from the armed forces she married Vyacheslav Timofeev, the commander of her air division, and bore two sons named Pyotr and Igor. She was the subject of a feature article in the Literaturnaya Gazeta in 1961, and in 1965, she was awarded the title of Hero Of The Soviet Union. https://store.earthstation1.com/war-props-the-ilyushin-il2-sturmovik-dvd-mp4-usb-flash-dri24.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Portraits Of American Presidents Nos. 1-42 TV Series MP4 Download DVD
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 1947: #DOTD: #RIP: Frances Cleveland, charity worker, socialite, education advocate, media sensation and beauty, the youngest first lady of the United States, first lady from 1886 to 1889, and again from 1893 to 1897 as the wife of President Grover Cleveland, and the only first lady to have served in the role during two non-consecutive terms (b. July 21, 1864) #dies in her sleep at her son Richard's home for his 50th birthday in Baltimore, Maryland, aged 83 . She is buried in Princeton Cemetery next to President Cleveland, her first husband. Her great popularity, charm and beauty has often led to comparisons in recent years between herself and late Diana, Princess Of Wales; in 2018, Comedy Central broadcast an episode of Drunk History with the segment "Frances Cleveland Becomes An 'It' Girl", meaning an attractive young woman perceived to have both sex appeal and personality, an expression originating in British upper-class society around the turn of the 20th century and popularized in the 1927 film "It" starring 1920s sex symbol Clara Bow. Frances Cleveland was born Frances Clara Folsom in Buffalo, New York, later christened Frank Clara Folsom. Frances Clara Cleveland Preston met Grover Cleveland while she was an infant, as he was a friend of her father, Oscar Folsom. When her father died in 1875, Grover became the executor of her father's estate. He took care of Oscar's outstanding financial debts and provided for the well-being of Frances and her mother Emma. She was educated at Wells College, and after graduating, she married Grover while he was the incumbent president. When her husband lost reelection in 1888, they went into private life for four years and began having children. They returned to the White House when her husband was elected again in 1892, though much of her time in the second term was dedicated to her children. The Clevelands had five children, four of whom survived to adulthood; their eldest child, Ruth, is reputed to be the inspiration for the naming of the "Baby Ruth" candy bar. Cleveland involved herself in education advocacy, serving on the Wells College board, supporting women's education, and organizing the construction of kindergartens. She was widowed in 1908, and she married Thomas J. Preston Jr. in 1913. Cleveland-Preston continued to work in education activism after leaving the White House, becoming involved with Princeton University. During World War I, she was active in the movement for American involvement and advocated military preparedness. https://store.earthstation1.com/portraits-of-american-presidents-nos-142-tv-series-mp4-download1424.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Martin Mull Presents The History Of White People In America DVD MP4 USB
Today, October 29, 2025
October 29, 2024: #DOTD: #RIP: Teri Garr, American dancer, actress, comedian and beauty, known for her comedic roles in film and television in the 1970s and 1980s who often played women struggling to cope with the life-changing experiences of their husbands, children or boyfriends, receiving nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her performance in Tootsie (1982) (b. December 11, 1944) #dies from complications of multiple sclerosis at her home in Los Angeles surrounded by family and friends at the age of 79. Her cremains are buried next to her mother at San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles County, California. Teri Garr was born Terry Ann Garr in Los Angeles to Eddie Garr (born Edward Leo Gonnoud), a vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor, and Phyllis Lind Garr (born Emma Schmotzer),, a dancer, Rockette, wardrobe mistress, and model. Her father was of Irish descent and her maternal grandparents were Austrian immigrants. Garr had two older brothers, Ed and Phil. Garr was raised primarily in North Hollywood, California. She was the third child of a comedic-actor father and a studio costumier mother. In her youth, Garr trained in ballet and other forms of dance. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in television and film in the early 1960s, including appearances as a dancer in nine Elvis Presley musicals. After spending two years attending college, Garr left Los Angeles and studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City. She had her breakthrough appearing in the episode Assignment: Earth of Star Trek in 1968. After gaining attention for her 1974 roles in Francis Ford Coppola's thriller The Conversation and Mel Brooks's comedy horror Young Frankenstein, Garr became increasingly successful with major roles in Carl Reiner's comedy Oh, God! and Steven Spielberg's science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (both 1977) and The Black Stallion (1979). In the 1980s, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her comedic role as an acting student in Sydney Pollack's romantic comedy Tootsie, and enjoyed leading roles in Coppola's musical drama One from the Heart (1982), Mr. Mom (1983), and Firstborn (1984). She later acted in films such as Martin Scorsese's black comedy After Hours (1985), Let It Ride (1989), Dumb and Dumber (1994), Pret-a-Porter (1994), Michael (1996), and Ghost World (2001). Garr's quick wit and charming banter made her a sought-after guest on late-night shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman. On television, she took a guest role as Phoebe Abbott in the sitcom Friends (1997-98). In 2002, Garr announced that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the symptoms of which had affected her ability to perform. She retired from acting in 2011, thirteen years before her death. https://store.earthstation1.com/martin-mull-presents-the-history-of-white-people-in-america-dvd.html