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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Legendary Cowboys Of The American Wild West MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, April 26, 2024
April 26: National Help A Horse Day: -- Today we're saddling up to create awareness around taking better care of horses. Horses hold a high status in the United States and this day endeavors to encourage people to come together and safeguard these beloved animals from any neglect. Back in 2013, the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) launched an equine campaign in the form of Help a Horse Day to create awareness and promote the protection of neglected and abused horses across the country. National Help a Horse Day has more than one purpose. This day also serves as a national day of acknowledgment for equine organizations to highlight the work they do to save at-risk horses. Moreover, it even showcases how people can join them to make a difference in the equine community. Thousands of horses across the country are abandoned and face poor care. Although rescues and shelters work round the clock to take care of them, these organizations still need adequate support to sustain their efforts. Thus, ever since the launch of National Help a Horse Day, many programs have been and continue to be conceptualized to build a better life for horses. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/legendary-cowboys-of-the-american-wild-west-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26: Audubon Day: -- April 26, 1785: #BOTD: #HBD! John James Audubon, French-African American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist (d. January 27, 1851) is #born Jean-Jacques Rabin in Les Cayes in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) on his father's sugarcane plantation, the son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval officer and privateer, and his chambermaid mistress of French and African descent Jeanne Rabine, after whom he was named. We greatly admire people working towards conservation activities and this factors into our celebrations of Audubon Day on April 26 each year. Held to commemorate the birth of John James Audubon, this day also recognizes the crucial work done by The National Audubon Society. John James Audubon combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America. He was notable for his extensive studies documenting all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations, which depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major work, a color-plate book titled The Birds of America (1827-1839), is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. Audubon is also known for identifying 25 new species. He is the eponym of the National Audubon Society, and his name adorns a large number of towns, neighborhoods, and streets across the United States. Dozens of scientific names first published by Audubon are still in use by the scientific community. Audubon made some excursions out West where he hoped to record Western species he had missed, but his health began to fail. In 1848, he manifested signs of senility or possibly dementia from what is now called Alzheimer's disease, his "noble mind in ruins". He died at his family home in northern Manhattan, aged 65. Audubon is buried in the graveyard at the Church of the Intercession in the Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum at 155th Street and Broadway in Manhattan, near his home. An imposing monument in his honor was erected at the cemetery, which is now recognized as part of the Heritage Rose District of NYC. Audubon's final work dealt with mammals; he prepared The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1845-1849) in collaboration with his good friend Rev. John Bachman of Charleston, South Carolina, who supplied much of the scientific text. His son, John Woodhouse Audubon, drew most of the plates. The work was completed by Audubon's sons, and the second volume was published posthumously in 1851. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/cavalcade-of-america-historical-old-time-radio-mp3-dv3.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26: Remember Your First Kiss Day: -- Almost everyone has a first kiss story. This day serves to remind us of who we had our first kiss with, where we had it, what led to it, how we enjoyed it, and what transpired afterward. It also allows us to revisit the past and rekindle our relationships, or remember that special person who first made us feel lost in romance. However, the first kiss might not always be as romantic as many proclaim. Some loathe it due to certain circumstances that surrounded the moment. It is not known where or when the holiday, Remember Your First Kiss Day was created nor is its creator known. However, millions of people in the U.S. relish the celebration of the day. The day takes the mind on a journey back in time to that special or maybe awkward moment where we had our first kiss, the person we had it with, and how it all happened. It is believed that people rarely forget their first time doing certain things in life. The first kiss, like other things, can be an everlasting memory just like any other big life achievement. Maybe that is why almost everyone can remember 90% details of their first kiss. The act of kissing has been around for millions of years. Some believe that it unconsciously originated from mothers feeding their babies with their mouths. Others argue that it emanated from ancient India. Accordingly, four major literary texts of the Vedic Sanskrit explained an early form of kissing as rubbing and pressing noses together in 1500 B.C. Half a millennium later, lip kissing was mentioned in the epic poem 'Mahabharata,' indicating that someone went the extra mile to experiment with kissing with the lips rather than pressing noses. Around 326 B.C., kissing began to go beyond India, spread by the armies of Alexander the Great into parts of Asia. The act of kissing became overwhelmingly popular in Europe in the middle ages. Everyone in Europe was kissing everyone. In 1896, a film titled "The Kiss" featuring May Irwin and John Rice showed for the first time, a repeated act of kissing, an act many described as disgusting. So, do you still remember your first kiss£ Can you recall how it all happened£ Pour it all out today! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/teenage-dating-films-194619461958.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26: National Garage Day: -- The garage is an essential part of every household. It's evolved to become more than just a storage space. This practical space provides people the chance to practice their hobbies, make D.I.Y. projects, store their collectibles, or even entertain guests. This fun holiday is your reminder to declutter your garage and take the time to reflect on all the hobbies you abandoned and the projects you've been meaning to finish. Reclaim your space to accommodate your needs! Encourage productivity and inspire yourself by spending the day engaging in creative projects. Garages are an important feature of the home, and they can be very versatile. For many, this is the place to start new projects or pursue their messier hobbies that they can't bring into their house. This holiday was started to motivate people and encourage creativity. The company Garage Condos, LLC invented this new holiday in 2020. First, it's important to reflect on how garages became part of everyday life. Cars and garages are now found in nearly every home, making it difficult to imagine a time without them, but both are quite recent inventions. The first motor car was invented in 1886 by Karl Benz, an evolution of wagons and carriages led by horses. People only started driving cars in the early 1900s, with the first driver's license being issued in 1903. After that, cars became much more accessible, and many city-dwellers had them. These large and expensive objects needed to be stored safely. At first, car owners parked their vehicles in carriage houses and stables, but this wasn't very practical. This need gave way to a new invention, the garage. The first garage door was a result of a miscalculation by Henry Ford. Ford was working in a shed on his quadricycle - a four-wheeled bicycle that functioned without a horse. He soon realized that the vehicle was too big to take out, and he had to knock down a part of the shed's brick wall. In its place, he installed what could be considered the earliest version of a garage door. Many variations were invented, but none caught on. In 1921, C.G. Johnson invented the overhead door, which is still in use today. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-mego-toy-classics-dvd.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26: Hug An Australian Day: -- An international holiday whose idea is really simple; share a hug with an Australian friend! A hug is a physical display of affection. It has been proven to have a positive psychological effect on both parties. It's an easy way to share feelings of love, support, comfort, and happiness. A hug from a loved one or even a stranger can significantly enhance a person's mood. Nothing communicates affection and care quite as a hug does so go ahead, share hugs; enjoy hugs. Hug an Australian Day is a copyrighted holiday that was launched by Ruth and Thomas Roy. They believed it was important to set aside a day to simply appreciate the Australians in our lives. Australians are friendly, helpful people who are well known and loved by people all around the world. Australia is an old and solid nation. For at least 50,000 years, Aboriginal Australians have lived in the nation and thrived. This makes it so that they have the oldest living cultural history in the world. In 1788, there were about 250 different languages spoken across the country. This was around when the British arrived. At that time, there were between 300,000 and one million Aboriginal people living in Australia. A map of the languages used across Australia was created by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. In 1851, Gold was discovered in Australia first at Bathurst, then at Ballarat. This gave the economy a kickstart and made Australia a desirable location. A rebellion against taxation called the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, took place in 1854. This is considered to be a crucial event in the evolution of Australia's democracy. The citizens were ready to stand up for themselves and demand a fairer system. In 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia was officially established and the country became a federation. It was agreed by the Australian government that the capital could be in NSW. The condition was that it couldn't be any closer than 100 kilometers or 62.137 miles from Sydney. A temporary parliament called 'Canberra' was set up in Melbourne for 27 years. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/by-the-seat-of-their-pants-australian-aviation-history-dvd-mp3-us3.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26: Alien Day: -- A day accompanied by celebrations aimed not only to appreciate science fiction but also educate people about it. The day provides science fiction lovers with the opportunity to partake in everything sci-fi. It is spiced up by organizing sci-fi competitions for interested persons to win alien collectible and wearable prizes. Did you know that "Blade Runner," rated by critics as the most influential sci-fi movie ever, was directed by Ridley Scott£ Ridley Scott also directed the famous movie titled "Alien," where Alien Day draws its inspiration. Alien Day is a widely acclaimed holiday sponsored by the film production company, 20th Century Fox. It was first celebrated in 2015 as an unofficial holiday in Brooklyn, New York, by a group of folks who aimed to glorify the world of science fiction. In 2016, it became even more organized and recognized as trivia competitions, comic books, alien video games, clothes, and collectible prizes became parts of events marking its celebration. The creation of the holiday was inspired by Ridley Scott's movie "Alien" which was released in 1979. The choice of April 26 as the date of celebration does not reflect the day the movie was released; rather, it was adopted from the fictional name of a planet where aliens were discovered in the movie. The year 2016 held a special place in the alien world because it corresponded with the 30th anniversary of the release of the 'Alien' narrations. The reason behind the observation of Alien Day is to reach out to many people across the globe and get them to appreciate the extraordinary world of aliens in style. Do you know that you can learn a lot about science and technology in science fiction movies£ "Blade Runner" is a sci-fi movie you will not regret watching. The history of the "Alien" movie is incomplete without Ridley Scott. Sir Ridley Scott, born November 30, 1937, is an English film director and producer. He is notable for his sci-fi movies collections such as "Alien" released in 1979, "Blade Runner" in 1982, "The Martian" in 2015, and the 2001 war film "Black Hawk Down," among many others. The British director is an authority in the making of sci-fi movies. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/aliens-invade-hollywood-20th-century-sf-films-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26: International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day: -- April 26, 1986: Nuclear And Radioactive Disasters: Nuclear Disasters In The Soviet Union: Nuclear Disasters In Belarus: The Chernobyl Disaster: -- A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world' worst nuclear disaster. The Chernobyl Disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl Accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred between April 25-26, 1986 in the No. 4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the now-abandoned town of Pripyat, in northern Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, approximately 104 km (65 mi) north of Kiev. The event occurred during a late-night safety test which simulated a station blackout power failure, in the course of which safety systems were intentionally turned off. A combination of inherent reactor design flaws and the reactor operators arranging the core in a manner contrary to the checklist for the test, eventually resulted in uncontrolled reaction conditions. Water flashed into steam, generating a destructive steam explosion and a subsequent open-air graphite fire. This fire produced considerable updrafts for about nine days. These lofted plumes of fission products into the atmosphere. The estimated radioactive inventory that was released during this very hot fire phase approximately equaled in magnitude the airborne fission products released in the initial destructive explosion. This radioactive material precipitated onto parts of the western USSR and Europe. During the accident, steam-blast effects caused two deaths within the facility; one immediately after the explosion, and the other, compounded by a lethal dose of radiation. Over the coming days and weeks, 134 servicemen were hospitalized with acute radiation symptoms, of which 28 firemen and employees died in the days-to-months afterward from the effects of acute radiation syndrome (ARS). In addition, approximately fourteen radiation induced cancer deaths among this group of 134 hospitalized survivors were to follow within the next ten years. Among the wider population, an excess of 15 childhood thyroid cancer deaths were documented as of 2011. It will take further time and investigation to definitively determine the elevated relative risk of cancer among the surviving employees, those that were initially hospitalized with ARS and the population at large. The Chernobyl Accident is considered the most disastrous nuclear power plant accident in history, both in terms of cost and casualties. It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents classified as a level 7 event (the maximum classification) on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011. The struggle to safeguard against scenarios which were perceived as having the potential for greater catastrophe, together with later decontamination efforts of the surroundings, ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles. The remains of the No. 4 reactor building were enclosed in a large cover which was named The Object Shelter, often known as The Sarcophagus. The purpose of the structure was to reduce the spread of the remaining radioactive dust and debris from the wreckage and the protection of the wreckage from further weathering. The sarcophagus was finished in December 1986 at a time when what was left of the reactor was entering the cold shut-down phase. The enclosure was not intended as a radiation shield, but was built quickly as occupational safety for the crews of the other undamaged reactors at the power station, with No.3 continuing to produce electricity up into 2000. The accident motivated safety upgrades on all remaining Soviet-designed reactors in the RBMK (Chernobyl No. 4) family, of which eleven continued to power electric grids as of 2013. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-great-san-francisco-earthquake-of-1906-dvd-f-murray-abr1906.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1994: Freedom Day: -- South Africa: The History Of South Africa: Elections And Referendums In South Africa: The 1994 South African General Election (Freedom Day): -- Multiracial elections were held for the first time in the history of South Africa. The General elections were held between 26 and 29 April 1994. The election was conducted under the direction of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), and marked the culmination of the four-year process that ended apartheid. Millions queued in lines over a four-day voting period. Altogether 19,726,579 votes were counted and 193,081 were rejected as invalid. As widely expected, the African National Congress (ANC), whose slate incorporated the labour confederation COSATU and the South African Communist Party, won a sweeping victory, taking 62 percent of the vote, just short of the two-thirds majority required to unilaterally amend the Interim Constitution. As required by that document, the ANC formed a Government of National Unity with the National Party and the Inkatha Freedom Party, the two other parties that won more than 20 seats in the National Assembly. The new National Assembly's first act was to elect Nelson Mandela as President, making him the country's first black chief executive. F.W. de Klerk became vice president. The date 27 April is now a public holiday in South Africa, Freedom Day. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/apartheid-documentaries-dvd-racial-segregation-in-south-africa.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1865: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater Of The American Civil War: The Surrender Of Joseph E. Johnston (The Surrender Of The Army Of Tennessee, The End Of The Conclusion Of The American Civil War, The Last Surrender Agreement Of The Confederate States Of America (CSA), The Last Surrender Agreement Of The Confederate State (C.S.), The Last Surrender Agreement Of The Confederacy, The Last Surrender Agreement Of The South): "Confederate Memorial Day": -- Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his Army of Tennessee, as well as all other remaining Confederate forces in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place, a poor former farm and homestead near Durham, North Carolina. It was the largest and last major Confederate field army surrender to the Union, and it effectively ended the American Civil War. This surrender is commemorated as Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee), a holiday observed in several Southern U.S. states on various dates since the end of the American Civil War. When General Sherman started after Johnston on April 10, Johnston retreated through Raleigh, North Carolina, abandoning the city on April 12 before continuing westward along the North Carolina Railroad to Hillsborough; he planned to surrender but thought that the Confederacy could get better terms if he negotiated from a position of strength. Johnston and Sherman met and negotiated terms of surrender on April 17 and 18 at the Bennett Place near Durham Station, North Carolina; Sherman not only accepted the surrender of the Army of Tennessee but promised to recognize the Confederate state governments. These terms were immediately rejected by the Union government, forcing Sherman and Johnston to negotiate a new agreement. The new terms of surrender, signed on April 26, were modeled on the terms given at Appomattox Court House and included not only the Army of Tennessee but also all other Confederate forces in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina; the number of Confederate troops included in the surrender totaled almost 90,000 men. Confederate Memorial Day is currently an official state holiday in Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas (where state employees are entitled to a paid day off work), while it is commemorated in Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee. It was also formerly recognized in Missouri, Louisiana, and Virginia. In Georgia, a state holiday is still observed on the 4th Monday in April; however, since 2016, it is referred to simply as a "State Holiday". Several states celebrate the date on or near April 26. Originally publicly presented as a day to remember the estimated 258,000 Confederate soldiers who died during the American Civil War, the holiday was promoted by Southern state legislatures after the Civil War to reinforce and symbolize white supremacy in the South. During the 1950s and 1960s, the holiday also served as symbol of resistance against desegregation and black civil rights. The Southern Poverty Law Center has condemned the holiday as part of a campaign of "racial terror" on the part of white supremacists - "an organized propaganda campaign, created to instill fear and ensure the ongoing oppression of formerly enslaved people." Writers and historians have pointed out that the holiday's official recognition by states often coincided with the height of Jim Crow racism around the United States, decades after the war ended. The holiday originated at a local level by Ladies' Memorial Associations to care for the graves of Confederate dead. In 1866, General John A. Logan commanded the posts of Grand Army Of The Republic to strew flowers on the graves of Union soldiers, which observance later became the national Memorial Day. In a speech to veterans in Salem, Illinois, on July 4, 1866, Logan referred to the various dates of observance adopted in the South for the practice, saying "traitors in the South have their gatherings day after day, to strew garlands of flowers upon the graves of Rebel soldiers..." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/long-shadows-dvd-legacy-of-the-american-civil-war.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 121: #BOTD: #HBD! Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161 to 180, who ruled jointly with his adoptive brother, Lucius Verus, until Verus' death in 169, and jointly with his son, Commodus, from 177 till Aurelius' own death, last of the so-called Five Good Emperors (d. March 17, 180) is is #born Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus in Rome, Italy. He was a practitioner of Stoicism, and his untitled writing, commonly known as Meditations, is a significant source of the modern understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy. It is considered by many commentators to be one of the greatest works of philosophy. During his reign, the Roman Empire defeated a revitalized Parthian Empire in the East: Aurelius' general Avidius Cassius sacked the capital Ctesiphon in 164. In central Europe, Aurelius fought the Marcomanni, Quadi, and Sarmatians with success during the Marcomannic Wars, although the threat of the Germanic peoples began to represent a troubling reality for the Empire. A revolt in the East led by Avidius Cassius failed to gain momentum and was suppressed immediately. Marcus Aurelius died of unknown causes in his military quarters either in the city of Vindobona (province of Pannonia Superior, today Vienna) or near Sirmium (province of Pannonia Inferior, modern Sremska Mitrovica) at the age of 58. He was immediately deified and his ashes were returned to Rome, where they rested in Hadrian's mausoleum (modern Castel Sant'Angelo) until the Visigoth sack of the city in 410. His campaigns against Germans and Sarmatians were also commemorated by a column and a temple built in Rome. His death is considered to be the end of the Pax Romana, a roughly 200-year-long period of Roman history which is identified as a golden age of increased and sustained Roman imperialism, relative peace and order, prosperous stability, hegemonic power, and regional expansion, and the increasing instability in the west that followed has traditionally been seen as the beginning of the eventual fall of the Western Roman Empire. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-fall-of-the-roman-empire-1964-dvd-set-aleq-guinness-sophia-l1964.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1798: #BOTD: #HBD! Eugene Delacroix, French painter, lithographer and muralist, Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school, who together with his rival and enemy of Romanticsim Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Delacroix is considered one of the last old Masters of painting and is one of the few who was ever photographed (d. August 13, 1863) is #born Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroixat Charenton-Saint-Maurice in Ile-de-France, near Paris. His mother was Victoire Oeben, the daughter of the cabinetmaker Jean-Francois Oeben. There are medical reasons to believe that Eugene's legitimate father, Charles-Francois Delacroix, was not able to procreate at the time of Eugene's conception. Talleyrand (Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, 1st Prince Of Benevento, then Prince Of Talleyrand, French secularized clergyman, statesman and leading diplomat) considered himself to be Eugene's real father, as he was a friend of the family and successor of Charles Delacroix as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and resumbled the adult Eugene in appearance and character. After assuming his office as foreign minister, Talleyrand dispatched Delacroix to The Hague in the capacity of French ambassador to the then Batavian Republic. Delacroix at that time suffered from erectile dysfunction, and when he returned to Paris in early September 1797, he found his wife pregnant. Talleyrand went on to assist Eugene in the form of numerous anonymous commissions. Throughout his career as a painter, he was protected by Talleyrand, who served successively the Restoration and king Louis-Philippe, and ultimately as ambassador of France in Great Britain, and later by Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, duc de Morny, half-brother of Napoleon III and speaker of the French House of Commons. His legitimate father, Charles Delacroix, died in 1805, and his mother in 1814, leaving 16-year-old Eugene an orphan. Eugene had three much older siblings: Charles-Henri Delacroix (1779-1845) rose to the rank of General in Napoleon's army, Henriette (1780-1827) married the diplomat Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur (1762-1822), and Henri born six years later was killed at the Battle Of Friedland during the Napoleonic War Of The Fourth Coalition. As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott, and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Theodore Gericault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action. However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible." Victor Hugo as young man declared his own life's mission as "Delacroix or Bust!". Eugene Delacroix died of a throat infection at his home in Paris, France, aged 65. He is buried at The Cimetiere Du Pere Lachaise in Paris. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-romantic-spirit-tv-series-all-14-episodes-5-dual-layer-d145.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1984: #DOTD: #RIP: Count Basie, influentential African American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer (b. August 21, 1904) #dies of pancreatic cancer in Hollywood, Florida, on April 26, 1984, at the age of 79. Count Basie was born William James Basie in Red Bank, New Jersey, a town he maintained a special relationship with all his life. Dropping out of school, he learned to improvise accompaniment for silent films at a local movie theater in his home town of Red Bank, New Jersey. In 1924, he went to Harlem, where his performing career expanded; he toured with groups to the major jazz cities of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. In 1929 he joined Bennie Moten's band in Kansas City, and played with them until Moten's death in 1935. In 1935, Basie formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He created innovations like the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, and others. Many musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, the guitarist Freddie Green, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/rhythm-and-blues-revue-dvd-1955-apollo-theater-tv-1955.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26-27, 1805: Crime: Organized Crime: Piracy: The Barbary Pirates (The Barbary Corsairs, The Ottoman Corsairs): The Barbary Wars: The First Barbary War (1801-1805) (The Tripolitan War, The Barbary Coast War): The Battle Of Derna (1805): -- United States Marines captured the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' Hymn) under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. The Battle Of Derna at Derna, Cyrenaica, was the decisive victory in April-May 1805 of a mercenary Berber army recruited and led by United States Marines under the command of U.S. Army Lieutenant William Eaton, diplomatic Consul to Tripoli, and U.S. Marine Corps First Lieutenant Presley Neville O'Bannon. The battle involved a forced 521-mile march through the North African desert from Alexandria, Egypt, to the eastern port city of Derna, Libya, which was defended by a much larger force. The Battle Of Derna was the first land battle of the United States on foreign soil (after the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)) and was the decisive action of the First Barbary War (1801-1805). The First Barbary War (1801-1805), also known as the Tripolitanian War and the Barbary Coast War, was the first of two Barbary Wars, in which the United States and Sweden fought against the four North African states known collectively as the "Barbary States". Three of these were nominal provinces of the Ottoman Empire, but in practice autonomous: Tripoli, Algiers, and Tunis. The fourth was the independent Sultanate of Morocco. The cause of the U.S. participation was pirates from the Barbary States seizing American merchant ships and holding the crews for ransom, demanding the U.S. pay tribute to the Barbary rulers. United States President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay this tribute. Sweden had been at war with the Tripolitans since 1800. On 10 May 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli declared war on the U.S., not through any formal written documents but in the customary Barbary manner of cutting down the flagstaff in front of the U.S. Consulate. Although Congress never voted on a formal declaration of war, they did respond by authorizing President Jefferson to instruct the commanders of armed American vessels to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli "and also to cause to be done all such other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war will justify." In 1802, in response to Jefferson's request for authority to deal with the pirates, Congress passed "An act for the protection of commerce and seamen of the United States against the Tripolitan cruisers", authorizing the President to "_employ such of the armed vessels of the United States as may be judged requisite_ for protecting effectually the commerce and seamen thereof on the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas." The U.S Navy went unchallenged on the sea, but still the question remained undecided. Jefferson pressed the issue the following year, with an increase in military force and deployment of many of the navy's best ships to the region throughout 1802. Argus, Chesapeake, Constellation, Constitution, Enterprise, Intrepid, Philadelphia and Syren all saw service during the war under the overall command of Preble. Throughout 1803, Preble set up and maintained a blockade of the Barbary ports and executed a campaign of raids and attacks against the cities' fleets. In October 1803, Tripoli's fleet captured USS Philadelphia intact after the frigate ran aground on a reef while patrolling Tripoli harbor. Efforts by the Americans to float the ship while under fire from shore batteries and Tripolitan Naval units failed. The ship, her captain, William Bainbridge, and all officers and crew were taken ashore and held as hostages. Philadelphia was turned against the Americans and anchored in the harbor as a gun battery. On the night of 16 February 1804, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur led a small detachment of U.S. Marines aboard the captured Tripolitan ketch rechristened USS Intrepid, thus deceiving the guards on Philadelphia to float close enough to board her. Decatur's men stormed the ship and overpowered the Tripolitan sailors. With fire support from the American warships, the Marines set fire to Philadelphia, denying her use by the enemy. The "Marines' Hymn", in part inspired by the Battle Of Derna, is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, introduced by the first Director of USMC Band, Francesco Maria Scala. It is the oldest official song in the United States Armed Forces. The "Marines' Hymn" is typically sung at the position of attention as a gesture of respect. However, the third verse is also used as a toast during formal events, such as the birthday ball and other ceremonies. In the aftermath of the Battle Of Derna, Eaton was furious over what he called a 'sell-out' between State Department diplomat Tobias Lear and the bey. Hamet returned to Egypt, and the mercenaries were never fully paid. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-gallant-breed-dvd-set-3-part-us-marine-history-2-dis32.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Outer Space Mission MP3 MegaSet DVD, Audio Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1962: Outer Space Firsts: -- The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Missions To The Moon: Space Probes: Lunar Space Probes: The United States Space Program: The Ranger Program: Ranger 4: -- The dubious honor of being the first spacecraft to impact the far side of the Moon is acquired by NASA's Ranger 4 as its onboard computer failed, preventing the deployment of its solar panels and the operation of its navigation system, preventing it from returning any scientific data. Nevertheless, it was the first spacecraft of the United States to reach another celestial body, and the excellent performance of the Atlas-Agena booster had also raised morale as it performed flawlessly for the first time. Ranger 4, launched from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 12 (LC-12) atop a Atlas LV-3 Agena-B rocket at 20:50:00 UTC, was virtually identical in design to Ranger 3, and was designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to crashing upon the Moon, to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study radar reflectivity of the lunar surface, and to continue testing of the Ranger program for development of lunar and interplanetary spacecraft. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/outer-space-mission-mp3-dvd-megaset-4-dis34.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB
Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1954: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Indochina Wars: The First Indochina War (1946-1954) (The Indochina War, The Anti-French Resistance War): The Korean Conflict: The 1954 Geneva Conference (The Geneva Conference): -- In an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, The Geneva Conference (April 26 - July 20, 1954) begin in Geneva, Switzerland, with diplomats from South Korea, North Korea, the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, and the United States dealing with the Korean side of the conference, and France, the Viet Minh, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the future states being made from French Indochina dealing with the Indochina side. The Geneva Conference was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. The part of the conference on the Korean question ended without adopting any declarations or proposals, so is generally considered less relevant. The Geneva Accords that dealt with the dismantling of French Indochina proved to have long-lasting repercussions, however. The crumbling of the French Empire in Southeast Asia would create the eventual states of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the State of Vietnam (the future Republic of Vietnam / South Vietnam), the Kingdom of Cambodia, and the Kingdom of Laos. Diplomats from South Korea, North Korea, the People's Republic Of China (PRC), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and the United States of America (US) dealt with the Korean side of the Conference. For the Indochina side, the Accords were between France, the Viet Minh, the USSR, the PRC, the US, the United Kingdom, and the future states being made from French Indochina. The agreement temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones, a northern zone to be governed by the Viet Minh rebels, and a southern zone to be governed by the State of Vietnam, then headed by former emperor Bao Dai. A Conference Final Declaration, issued by the British chairman of the conference, provided that a general election be held by July 1956 to create a unified Vietnamese state. Despite helping create the agreements, they were not directly signed onto nor accepted by delegates of both the State of Vietnam and the United States, decisions that were ultimately to result in the Second Indochina War, otherwise known as the Vietnam War. In addition, three separate ceasefire accords, covering Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, were signed at the conference. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/vietnam-the-10000-day-war-4-dual-layer-dvds-all-13-10000413.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Korea: The Unknown War TV Korean War Series DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1960: Korea: The History Of Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Korean Conflict: The Korean War: Aftermath Of The Korean War: The April Revolution (Korean: 4.19 Hyeogmyeong) (The April 19 Revolution, The April 19 Movement): -- President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule. On April 19, 1960, students in South Korea held a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Rhee, while ulitimately brought about his resignation. The April Revolution, sometimes called the April 19 Revolution or April 19 Movement, was a popular uprising in April 1960, led by labor and student groups, which overthrew the autocratic First Republic of South Korea under Syngman Rhee. It led to the resignation of Rhee and the transition to the Second Republic of South Korea. The events were touched off by the discovery on April 11 in Masan Harbor of the body of a high school student, Kim Ju-yul, killed by a tear-gas shell in demonstrations against the elections of March 1960. The body was found in the harbor at Masan by a fisherman. Kim had been a student at Masan Commercial High School who had disappeared during the Masan rioting of March 15. Authorities announced that an autopsy confirmed that the cause of his death was drowning, but many rejected this explanation. Some protesters forced their way into the hospital. They found that Kim's skull had been split by a 20 centimeter-long tear-gas grenade which had penetrated from Kim's eyes to the back of his head, which indicated that the police had shot the tear gas to an angle less than 45 degrees, which could be fatal if shot directly at a person's face. Rhee's regime tried to censor news of this incident, however the story was reported by the Korean press along with a picture of Kim when his body was first found, and delivered to the world through AP. This incident shocked the nation and became the basis of a national movement against electoral corruption on April 19. Masan erupted into three days of spontaneous mass protests which led to further violent clashes. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/korea-the-unknown-war-dvd-complete-6-part-tv-series-3-dis63.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1989: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Democracy Movements Of China : The Revolutions Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of Communism): The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests And Massacre (The June Fourth Incident, The Tiananmen Square Massacre., The '89 Democracy Movement, The Tiananmen Square Incident, The Tiananmen Uprising): The April 26 Editorial: -- The Chinese newspaper The People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests, leading the following day to the The April 27 Demonstrations, massive student-led protests which occured in response to the editorial. The April 26 Editorial defined the student movement as a destabilizing anti-party revolt that should be resolutely opposed at all levels of society. As the first authoritative document from the top leadership on the growing movement, it was widely interpreted as having communicated the party's position of "no-tolerance" to student protesters and their sympathizers. The content of the editorial incited the largest student protest of the movement thus far in Beijing: 50,000-200,000 students marched through the streets of Beijing before finally breaking through police lines into Tiananmen Square. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-1989-tiananmen-square-protests-dvd-mp4-usb-19894.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1925: The Aftermath Of World War I: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Weimar Republic (The German Reich, The German Republic): The 1925 German Presidential Election: -- In a runoff election, Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state (President Of The Reich (Reichsprasident)) of the Weimar Republic. The election began on March 29; 1925, with the runoff on April 26. The first President, Friedrich Ebert, who had died on February 28 1925, had been elected indirectly, by the National Assembly, but the Weimar Constitution required that his successor be elected by the "whole German people". Paul von Hindenburg was elected as the second president of Germany in the second round of voting. Hindenburg was the candidate of a broad coalition of the political right. Many on the right hoped that once in power he would destroy Weimar democracy from the inside and restore the pre-Weimar status quo. The two other candidates who were believed to have a chance of winning were Otto Braun of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Wilhelm Marx of the Centre Party. Both the SPD and Centre were members of the Weimar Coalition, the group of parties regarded as most committed to the Weimar system. Only Marx proceeded to the second round of the election. The election was important because of the turbulent times in which it occurred and because, under the Weimar Constitution, the head of state wielded considerable power. Hindenburg would be again returned in the 1932 election and would play an important role during the rise to power of the Nazi Party. However, many of Hindenburg's 1925 backers were subsequently disappointed. Although in the years that followed his election many questioned the constitutionality of certain of his actions, Hindenburg never attempted to overthrow the Weimar constitution outright. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/between-the-wars-dvd-set-all-16-tv-shows-4-discs164.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 25, 1792: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: -- "La Marseillaise" (French: "The Marseillaise"), the French national anthem, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant De Guerre Pour L'Armee Du Rhin" ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine"). The French National Convention adopted it as the Republic's anthem in 1795. The song acquired its nickname after being sung in Paris by volunteers from Marseille marching to the capital. The song is the first example of the "European March" anthemic style. The anthem's evocative melody and lyrics have led to its widespread use as a song of revolution and its incorporation into many pieces of classical and popular music. Just before Paris surrendered to invading Nazi forces in World War II, the last international shortwave radio broadcast by the French Republic was "La Marseillaise', monitored and recorded by NBC news in New York City. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-old-time-radio-world-war-ii-megaset-2-dual-layer-mp3-dv23.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Twisted Cross: Hitler & Nazism's Rise & Fall DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1933: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Road To War: Nazi Germany (The German Reich, The Third Reich): Gleichschaltung (Nazification): The Gestapo (Abbreviation Of Geheime Staatspolizei (German: "Secret State Police"): -- The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, and later of German-occupied Europe, is established. An abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), the force was created by Hermann Goering in 1933 by combining the various security police agencies of Prussia into one organisation. Beginning on 20 April 1934 it passed, as a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) (Security Police), to the administration of Schutzstaffel (SS) national leader Heinrich Himmler, who in 1936 was appointed Chief of German Police (Chef der Deutschen Polizei) by Hitler, as the Gestapo by this time had become a national rather than a Prussian state agency. From 27 September 1939 forward, it was then administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) (Reich Main Security Office), and was considered a sister organisation to the SS Sicherheitsdienst (SD) (Security Service). During World War II, the Gestapo played a key role in the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-twisted-cross-dvd-hitler39s-nazi-germany-rise-and-fa39.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Henchmen Of The Third Reich: Goering Goebbels Hess DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1894: #BOTD: Rudolf Hess, prominent Egyptian-German politician in Nazi Germany (d. August 17, 1987) is #born Rudolf Walter Richard Hess in Alexandria, Egypt. He was appointed Deputy Fuehrer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, and was a member of Hitler's inner circle. He served in this position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. He was taken prisoner and eventually was convicted of crimes against peace, serving a life sentence until his suicide. Hess enlisted as an infantryman at the outbreak of World War I. He was wounded several times over the course of the war and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class, in 1915. Shortly before the war ended, Hess enrolled to train as an aviator, but he saw no action in this role. He left the armed forces in December 1918 with the rank of Leutnant der Reserve. In 1919, Hess enrolled in the University of Munich, where he studied geopolitics under Karl Haushofer, a proponent of the concept of Lebensraum ("living space"), which later became one of the pillars of Nazi Party (NSDAP) ideology. Hess joined the NSDAP on 1 July 1920, and was at Hitler's side on 8 November 1923 for the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed Nazi attempt to seize control of the government of Bavaria. Whilst serving time in jail for this attempted coup, Hess helped Hitler write his book, Mein Kampf, which became a foundation of the political platform of the NSDAP. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Hess was appointed Deputy Fuhrer of the NSDAP and received a post in Hitler's cabinet. He was the third most powerful man in Germany, behind only Hitler and Hermann Goering. In addition to appearing on Hitler's behalf at speaking engagements and rallies, Hess signed into law much of the legislation, including the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which stripped the Jews of Germany of their rights in the lead-up to the Holocaust. Hess continued to be interested in aviation, learning to fly the more advanced aircraft that were coming into development at the start of World War II. On 10 May 1941 he undertook a solo flight to Scotland, where he hoped to arrange peace talks with the Duke of Hamilton, whom he believed to be prominent in opposition to the British government. Hess was immediately arrested on his arrival and was held in British custody until the end of the war, when he was returned to Germany to stand trial in the Nuremberg Trials of major war criminals in 1946. During much of the trial, he claimed to be suffering from amnesia, but later admitted this was a ruse. Hess was convicted of crimes against peace and conspiracy with other German leaders to commit crimes and was transferred to Spandau Prison in 1947, where he served a life sentence. Repeated attempts by family members and prominent politicians to win him early release were blocked by the Soviet Union. Still in custody in Spandau, he committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical extension cord in 1987 at the age of 93. After his death, the prison was demolished to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine. He was the last of the major Nuremberg war criminals to die. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/henchmen-of-the-third-reich-dvd-goering-goebbels-hess.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Story Of Aviation: The Story Of Icarus DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1937: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Spanish Civil War: The Siege Of Madrid: Air Warfare Of World War II: Strategic Bombing During The Spanish Civil War: German Strategic Bombing During The Spanish Civil War: Italian Strategic Bombing During The Spanish Civil War: The Bombing Of Guernica (Operation Rugen): -- The ancient Basque town of Guernica is bombed by warplanes of the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, under the code name Operation Rugen. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's nationalist government. After destroying the town in a three hour bombing raid, the planes machine-gunned fleeing citizens. The town was being used as a communications center behind the frontline. The operation opened the way to Franco's capture of the city of Bilbao and his victory in northern Spain. The attack gained controversy because it involved the bombing of civilians by a military air force. The number of victims is still disputed; the Basque government reported 1,654 people killed at the time, while local historians identified 126 victims, later revised by the authors of the study to 153. A British source used by the Air War College claims 400 civilians died. Soviet archives claim 800 deaths on 1 May 1937, but this number may not include victims who later died of their injuries in hospitals or whose bodies were discovered buried in the rubble. The bombing is the subject of a famous anti-war painting by Pablo Picasso, commissioned by the Spanish Republic. It was also depicted in a woodcut by the German artist Heinz Kiwitz, who was later killed fighting in the International Brigades. The bombing shocked and inspired many other artists, including a sculpture by Rene Iche, one of the first electroacoustic music pieces by Patrick Ascione, a musical composition by Renr-Louis Baron and poems by Paul Eluard (Victory of Guernica), and Uys Krige (Nag van die Fascistiese Bomwerpers) (English translation from the Afrikaans: Night of the Fascist Bombers). There is also a short film from 1950 by Alain Resnais entitled Guernica. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-story-of-aviation-the-story-of-icarus-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The President Vanishes (1934) DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1956: #DOTD: #RIP: Edward Arnold, American actor and star of radio and film (b. February 18, 1890) #dies at his home in Encino, California, at age 66 from a cerebral hemorrhage associated with atrial fibrillation. He is interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery. Edward Arnold was born Gunther Edward Arnold on the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of German immigrants Elizabeth (Ohse) and Carl Schneider. His schooling came at the East Side Settlement House. Interested in acting since his youth (he made his first stage appearance at the age of 12 as Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice), Arnold made his professional stage debut in 1907. He found work as an extra for Essanay Studios and World Studios, before landing his first significant role in 1916's The Misleading Lady. In 1919, he left film for a return to the stage, and did not appear again in movies until he made his talkie debut in Okay America! (1932). He recreated one of his stage roles in one of his early films, Whistling in the Dark (1933). He starred in the 1934 American political drama film The President Vanishes, which was named by the National Legion of Decency - an organization of the United States Catholic Church - as one of Hollywood's problematic and "immoral" films. It was his role in the 1935 film Diamond Jim that boosted him to stardom. He reprised the role of Diamond Jim Brady in the 1940 film Lillian Russell. He also played a similar role in The Toast of New York (1937), another fictionalized version of real-life business chicanery, for which he was billed above Cary Grant in the posters with his name in much larger letters. Arnold appeared in over 150 movies. Although he was labeled "box office poison" in 1938 by an exhibitor publication (he shared this dubious distinction with Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Fred Astaire and Katharine Hepburn), he never lacked for work. Rather than continue in leading man roles, he gave up losing weight and went after character parts instead. Arnold was quoted as saying, "The bigger I got, the better character roles I received." He was such a sought-after actor, he often worked on two pictures at the same time. Arnold was an expert at playing rogues and authority figures, and superb at combining the two as powerful villains quietly pulling strings. He was best known for his roles in Come and Get It (1936), Sutter's Gold (1936), the aforementioned The Toast of New York (1937), You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), and The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941). He was the first actor to portray Rex Stout's famous detective Nero Wolfe, starring in Meet Nero Wolfe (1936), the film based on the first novel in the series. He played blind detective Duncan Maclain in two movies based on the novels by Baynard Kendrick, Eyes in the Night (1942) and The Hidden Eye (1945). Arnold made a posthumous cameo in the 1984 film Gremlins as the deceased husband (visible in a large framed photograph) of Mrs. Deagle, a character much like the rich, heartless characters Arnold was known for. Director Joe Dante mentioned that they received permission from Arnold's family to use his image. From 1947 to 1953, Arnold starred in the ABC radio program Mr. President. He also played a lawyer, "Mr. Reynolds," in The Charlotte Greenwood Show. In 1953, he was host of Spotlight Story on Mutual. Arnold was host for Your Star Showcase, a series of 52 half-hour television dramas released by Television Programs of America." The series was launched January 1, 1954, to run in 1950 cities. He also co-starred in "Ever Since the Day," an episode of Ford Theatre on NBC. Arnold was married three times: Harriet Marshall (1917-1927), with whom he had three children: Elizabeth, Jane and William (who had a short movie career as Edward Arnold Jr.); Olive Emerson (1929-1948) and Cleo McLain (1951 until his death). Midwestern University awarded Arnold an honorary Doctor of Letters degree on May 24, 1951. Arnold has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6225 Hollywood Blvd. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-president-vanishes-dvd-1934-edward-arnold-arthur-b1934.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1925: First Publications: -- Franz Kafka's novel The Trial (German: Der Process, later Der Prozess), written by Kafka between 1914 and 1915, is published posthumously. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which appears to bring the story to an intentionally abrupt ending. After Kafka's death in 1924 his friend and literary executor Max Brod edited the text for publication by Verlag Die Schmiede. The original manuscript is held at the Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar, Germany. The first English-language translation, by Willa and Edwin Muir, was published in 1937. In 1999, the book was listed in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century and as No. 2 of the Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/franz-kafka39s-the-trial-dvd-1987-docum391987.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1968: The American Civil Rights Movement: Black Power: The Black Power Movement (Black Liberation Movement): The Counterculture Of The 1960s: Student Rights: Student Rights In Higher Education: Student Activism (Campus Activism): Student Protest (Campus Protest) The Protests Of 1968: The Ohio State University Administration Building Seizure: -- At exactly 9 a.m. Friday April 26, some 60 Black Student Union (BSU) members entered the office of Gordon B. Carson, vice president of business and finance, armed with a list of demands and an ultimatum that they all be met by 12 p.m. May 3 or 'the black people shall cease arbitration." When Carson was unable to produce any concrete answers to solve their problems, the students decided to stay until he could. The seizure came as a direct result of apathy and under-action on the part of the Ohio State administrators to resolve grievances presented them in early February. The grievances asked for Negro university administrators and counselors, fair housing in apartments around campus, courses in Negro History, and placement of foreign exchange African students in Negro family homes. John Sidney Evans was the spokesman for the Black Student Union at the time of the protests. He, like 33 of his peers, was expelled and criminally charged for the takeover of the administration building. All had to fight to clear their names and reverse their expulsions. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/1968-dvd-cbs-news-special-report-10-years-later-harry-re196810.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 2005: #DOTD: #RIP: Mason Adams, American character actor and voice-over artist (b. February 26, 1919) #dies of natural causes aged 86 in Manhattan, New York. Mason Adams was born Mason Abrams in Brooklyn, New York into a Russian Jewish immigrant family, and grew up in Sheepshead Bay. He was heard rom the late 1940s until the early 1970s in numerous radio programs and voiceovers for television commercials. In the early 1970s he moved into acting and from 1977 to 1982 held perhaps his most known role, that of Managing Editor Charlie Hume on Lou Grant. He also acted in numerous other television and movie roles, most prominently Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) and F/X (1986). Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York. He earned an MA degree from the University of Michigan in Theatre Arts and Speech and also attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying theater arts. He made his stage debut in 1940, appearing in summer stock at Baltimore's Hilltop Theater. Adams was heard on many radio programs during Radio's Golden Age. A notable recurring role was that of Pepper Young in Pepper Young's Family, which aired from 1947 to 1959. He also portrayed the deadly Nazi Atom Man in a classic 1945 serial on the radio version of The Adventures of Superman. During the 1960s, Adams was ubiquitous as a voiceover actor in television commercials for foods and household products, most notably for Chiffon margarine and Crest toothpaste ("Helps stop cavities before they start"). He also did the vocal part of the television commercials for Smucker's preserves ("With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good!"), a role he resumed in his later years. His voiceover work resumed in the 1980s when he began providing the voiceover for Cadbury Creme eggs, which were advertised on television with Adams' catchy slogan, "Nobunny knows Easter better than him [the Cadbury Bunny]." Also in the 1980s, Adams did voice-over TV commercials for Sherwin-Williams Paints, as well as radio commercials for the Salvation Army. In addition, Adams was the narrator for Kix commercials in the 1990s as well as a few Dentyne commercials and a few Swanson commercials. He was also the announcer for a 1992 WCBS-TV news promo, as well as a 1986 Lysol commercial. In the early 1990s, he narrated Frontiers of Flight, a Discovery Channel series on milestones of aviation. In one of the early episodes of Sesame Street, he voiced a cartoon featuring a "jazzy" triangle and a "square" square. He voiced those two, as well as being the narrator, with jazz music in the background. This cartoon was repeated on the show for many years, well into the 1980s. During the 1970s, Adams was a co-star of the NBC soap opera Another World and in 1976 he was in the original 1976 Broadway cast for Checking Out. Following that he landed perhaps his most famous role, Managing Editor Charlie Hume in the television series Lou Grant, which aired from 1977 to 1982. Appearing in the show for its entire run, he landed three straight Emmy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor in 1979, 1980 and 1981, each year alongside his Lou Grant co-star Robert Walden, who played reporter Joe Rossi. During his run on Lou Grant, Adams performed perhaps his most often seen role, as the US president in Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981). He also appeared in popular TV movies, such as The Deadliest Season (1977), Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980) and The Kid with the Broken Halo (1982). In 1983, Adams joined The Mirror Theater Ltd's Mirror Repertory Company for their first repertory season, appearing in Paradise Lost, Rain, Inheritors, and The Hasty Heart. This season was presented initially Off-Off-Broadway at The Real Stage Acting School and was moved Off-Broadway to the Theatre at St. Peter's Church. In 1986, he starred as Col. Edward Mason, one of his most famous feature film roles, in the movie F/X starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy, and in 1991 he appeared in the action movie Toy Soldiers. In 1993, Adams starred as Walter Warner Sr. in the movie Son in Law starring Pauly Shore, and after that he had roles in Houseguest (1995), Touch (1997) and The Lesser Evil (1998). In the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon he played Senator Clinton P. Anderson. His final role was in the series finale of Oz. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/frontiers-of-flight-aviation-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-download-us4.html

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April 26, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD: Warren Clarke, English actor, director, and producer who appeared in many films after a significant role as Dim in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (d. November 12, 2014) is #born Alan James Clarke in Oldham, Lancashire, England. His television appearances included Dalziel and Pascoe (1996-2007 TV crime drama series) (as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel) , The Manageress (1989-1990 TV series), Sleepers (1991 TV miniseries), and Poldark (2015 TV series). Warren Clarke died of an undisclosed illness in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, aged 67. He was cremated, and his ashes were given to his family. In 2014 he began filming Poldark as Charles Poldark. The character's final scene in the series, in episode four in which Poldark lies on his deathbed before dying, was also Clarke's final scene as an actor; he was very ill at the time of filming and died a few weeks later; the first episode of the television series was then dedicated to his memory. Warren Clarke dies penniless after a successful 50-year career. He died with a gross estate of 13,056 Pounds Sterling; however, after his outstanding affairs were settled, this was reduced to a figure of nil. The actor had reportedly made a will that left his estate to wife Michele and, if she did not survive him, it was to be shared between his daughter Georgia and son Rowan. He had spoken previously of wanting to change his career as he felt he did not earn enough. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/sleepers-1991-dvd-4-part-cold-war-spy-tv-miniseries-dvd-set-2199142.html

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April 26, 1944: World War II: The Home Front During World War II: The United States Home Front During World War II: Corporate Seizures Of The United States Home Front During World War II: Labor Union Disputes (Trade Union Disputes): Strikes (Strike Actions, Labor Strikes, Labour Strikes): The 1944 Montgomery Ward Strike: -- Four months into a nationwide strike by Montgomery Ward and Company's 12,000 workers, U.S. Army troops seize the company's Chicago offices because its chairman, Sewell Avery, refused to settle the strike, as requested by the Roosevelt administration because of its adverse effect on the delivery of needed goods in wartime. Avery had refused to comply with a War Labor Board order to recognize the CIO unions that called the strike and institute the terms of a collective bargaining agreement. Avery repeatedly opposed actions of Roosevelt's National War Labor Board and opposed labor unions. He resisted signing a contract after a union had won representation for 7,000 of Montgomery Ward's employees until twice ordered by Roosevelt. Eight months later, with Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to recognize the unions and settle the strike, endangering the delivery of essential goods, Roosevelt issued an executive order to use emergency measures to remove him from office and temporarily seize the company and all its propery nationwide, citing the War Labor Disputes Act as well as his power under the Constitution as commander-in-chief. Two National Guard men had to pick him up by an arm each and carry him out of his office. Avery yelled at the Attorney General, who had flown to meet with him and try to avert a showdown, "To hell with the government, you... New Dealer!". Sewell Avery was later implicated in the so-called Business Plot to overthrow President Roosevelt in 1993. Shortly before hearing began on November 20, 1934 before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee (later known as the House Un-American Activities Committee), in September of 1934, the newly formed American Liberty League, made up of leaders and captains of industry opposed to the president "fomenting class hatred" and his handling of the Depression, released a statement that dismissed claims made by Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with Butler as its leader and use it in a coup d'etat to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt.. Among the members of the ALL were Sewell Avery, the DuPonts, S.B. Colgate, Alfred P. Sloan, former Secretary Of State Elihu Root and John Raskob. Butler noticed Robert Sterling Clark's name on the list, as well as Grayson M. P. Murphy, Gerald MacGuire's boss. Also implicated in the plot was Al Smith, former New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee, as well as Prescott Bush, a banker, future Connecticut senator, and father to George H. W. Bush and grandfather to George W. Bush. In 1945, Truman ended the seizure when unions won an election to represent the company's workers, and the Supreme Court ended the pending legal appeal against the seizure as moot. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/america-the-way-we-were-the-home-front-19401945-life-and-cu19401945.html

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April 26, 1865: United States Presidential Assassination Attempts And Plots: The Assassination Plots Against Abraham Lincoln: The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln: -- #DOTD: Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of President Lincoln, who #dies in Port Royal, Virginia, aged 26. John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin, who murdered US President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865 (b. May 10, 1838) was born a member of the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland to noted British Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and his mistress, Mary Ann Holmes, in Bel Air, Maryland. By the 1860s, he too was a well-known actor, as were his brothers Edwin and Junius Brutus Jr. John Wilkes Booth was also a Confederate sympathizer, vehement in his denunciation of Lincoln, and strongly opposed to the abolition of slavery in the United States. Booth and a group of co-conspirators originally plotted to kidnap Lincoln but later planned to kill him, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary Of State William H. Seward in a bid to help the Confederacy's cause. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, but Booth believed that the American Civil War was not yet over because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's army was still fighting the Union Army. Of the conspirators, only Booth was completely successful in carrying out his part of the plot. He shot Lincoln once in the back of the head, and the President died the next morning. Seward was severely wounded but recovered, and Vice President Johnson was never attacked at all. Following the assassination, Booth fled on horseback to southern Maryland, eventually making his way to a farm in rural northern Virginia 12 days later, where he was tracked down. Booth's companion gave himself up, but Booth refused and was shot by Boston Corbett, a Union soldier, after the barn in which he was hiding was set ablaze. Eight other conspirators or suspects were tried and convicted, and four were hanged shortly thereafter. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-assassination-of-abraham-lincoln-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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April 26, 1962: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: -- The Lockheed A-12 high-altitude, Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft built for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by Lockheed's Skunk Works, based on the designs of Clarence "Kelly" Johnson. The aircraft was designated A-12, the 12th in a series of internal design efforts for "Archangel", the aircraft's internal code name. In 1959, it was selected over Convair's FISH and Kingfish designs as the winner of Project GUSTO, and was developed and operated under Project Oxcart. The CIA's representatives initially favored Convair's design for its smaller radar cross-section, but the A-12's specifications were slightly better and its projected cost was much lower. The companies' respective track records proved decisive. Convair's work on the B-58 had been plagued with delays and cost overruns, whereas Lockheed had produced the U-2 on time and under budget. In addition, Lockheed had experience running a "black" project. The A-12 was produced from 1962 to 1964 and flew from 1963 to 1968. It was the precursor to the twin-seat U.S. Air Force YF-12 prototype interceptor, M-21 launcher for the D-21 drone, and the SR-71 Blackbird, a slightly longer variant able to carry a heavier fuel and camera load. The A-12 began flying missions in 1967 and its final mission was in May 1968; the program and aircraft were retired in June. The program was officially revealed in the mid-1990s. A CIA officer later wrote, "Oxcart was selected from a random list of codenames to designate this R & D and all later work on the A-12. The aircraft itself came to be called that as well." The crews named the A-12 the Cygnus, suggested by pilot Jack Weeks to follow the Lockheed practice of naming aircraft after celestial bodies. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-the-lockheed-sr71-blackbird-d71.html

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April 26, 1938: #BOTD: #HBD! Duane Eddy, American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor is #born in Corning, New York. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had a string of hit records produced by Lee Hazlewood, which were noted for their characteristically "twangy" sound, including "Rebel-'Rouser", "Peter Gunn", and "Because They're Young". He had sold 12 million records by 1963. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2008. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-rock-39n39-roll-dvd-complete-tv-series-5-39395.html

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April 26, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Bobby Rydell, American singer and actor (d. April 5, 2022) is #born Robert Louis Ridarelli into an Italian family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1950, he won a talent show on the television series Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club and gained a spot on the cast, where he remained for several years. He changed his name to Bobby Rydell and played in several bands in the Philadelphia area. In the early 1960s, he was a teen idol of rock and roll music. His most well-known songs include "Wild One" and "Volare" (cover), and he appeared in the movie Bye Bye Birdie in 1963. Bobby Rydell died from complications of pneumonia at Jefferson Abington Hospital in Abington Township, Pennsylvania, aged 79. He is buried at Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Springfield, Pennsylvania. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/dj-radio-airchecks-mp3-dvd-1950s60s70s-dis319506070.html

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April 26, 1938: #BOTD: #HBD! Maurice Williams, African American doo-wop/R & B singer-songwriter (Maurice Williams And The Zodiacs) is #born in Lancaster, South Carolina. Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs were an American doo-wop/R & B vocal group in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Originally the (Royal) Charms, the band changed its name to the Gladiolas in 1957 and the Excellos in 1958, before finally settling on the Zodiacs in 1959. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/offshore-pirate-radio-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvds-uk-amp-euro23.html

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April 26, 2007: #DOTD: #RIP: Jack Valenti, American soldier, airman, businessman, political advisor, Special Assistant to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, lobbyist, creator of the MPAA film rating system (b. September 5, 1921) #dies at the age of 85 at his home in Washington from stroke complications. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery under a veteran's gravestone, which lists both his war decorations and his years as president of the MPAA. His memoirs This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House and Hollywood were published on May 15, 2007, only a few weeks after his death. He was born Jack Joseph Valentiin Houston, Texas, the son of Italian immigrants. During World War II, he was a first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Force. Valenti flew 51 combat missions as the pilot-commander of a B-25 medium bomber and received four decorations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. Valenti graduated from the University of Houston in 1946 with a BBA. During his time there, he worked on the staff of the university newspaper, The Daily Cougar, and was president of the university's student government. Valenti would later serve on the university's board of regents. After earning an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1948, Valenti went to work for Humble Oil in its advertising department, where he helped the company's Texas gas stations jump from fifth to first in sales through a "cleanest restrooms" campaign. In 1952, he and a partner named Weldon Weekley founded Weekley & Valenti, an advertising agency, with oil company, Conoco, as its first client. In 1956, Valenti met then Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. Weekley & Valenti branched out into political consulting and added Representative Albert Thomas, a Johnson ally, as a client. In 1960, Valenti's firm assisted in the Kennedy-Johnson presidential campaign. Valenti served as liaison with the news media during the November 22, 1963, visit of President John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson to Dallas, Texas, and Valenti was in the presidential motorcade. Following the assassination of President Kennedy, Valenti was present in the famous photograph of Lyndon Johnson's swearing in aboard Air Force One, and flew with the new president to Washington. He then became the first "special assistant" to Johnson's White House and lived in the White House for the first two months of Johnson's presidency. In 1964, Johnson gave Valenti the responsibility to handle relations with the Republican Congressional leadership, particularly Gerald Ford and Charles Halleck from the House of Representatives, and the Senate's Everett Dirksen. Valenti later called Johnson "the most single dominating human being that I've ever been in contact with" and "the single most intelligent man I've ever known". In a speech before the American Advertising Federation in 1965, Valenti said: "I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president." Valenti later attacked film director Oliver Stone for the 1991 movie JFK. Valenti called the movie a "monstrous charade" and said, "I owe where I am today to Lyndon Johnson. I could not live with myself if I stood by mutely and let some filmmaker soil his memory." In 1966, Valenti, at the insistence of Universal Studios chief Lew Wasserman, and with Johnson's consent, resigned his White House commission and became the president of the Motion Picture Association of America. With Valenti's arrival in Hollywood, the pair were lifelong allies, and together orchestrated and controlled how Hollywood would conduct business for the next several decades. In 1968, Valenti developed the MPAA film rating system, which initially comprised four distinct ratings: G, M, R and X. The M rating was soon replaced by GP, and changed to PG in 1972. The X rating immediately proved troublesome, since it was not trademarked and therefore was used freely by the pornography industry, with which it became most associated. Films such as Midnight Cowboy and A Clockwork Orange were assumed to be pornographic because they carried the X rating. In 1990 the NC-17 rating was introduced as a trademarked "adults only" replacement for the non-trademarked X-rating. The PG-13 rating was added in 1984 to provide a greater range of distinction for audiences, and was first proposed to Valenti by Steven Spielberg. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Valenti became notorious for his flamboyant attacks on the Sony Betamax Video Cassette Recorder (VCR), which the MPAA feared would devastate the movie industry. He famously told a congressional panel in 1982, "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." Despite Valenti's prediction, the home video market ultimately came to be the mainstay of movie studio revenues throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1998, Valenti lobbied for the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, arguing that copyright infringement via the Internet would severely damage the record and movie industries. In 2003, Valenti found himself at the center of the so-called screener debate, as the MPAA barred studios and many independent producers from sending screener copies of their films to critics and voters in various awards shows. Under mounting industry pressure and a court injunction Antidote Int'l Films Inc. et al. v MPAA (November 2003), Valenti backed down in 2004, narrowly avoiding a massive and embarrassing antitrust lawsuit against the MPAA. 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April 25, 1945: #BOTD: #HBD! Bjorn Ulvaeus, Swedish musician, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a member of the musical group ABBA, is #born Bjorn Kristian Ulvaeus in Gothenburg, Sweden. Bjorn Kristian Ulvaeus KVO1kl (The Royal Order Of Vasa) is also the co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina Fran Duvemala, and Mamma Mia! He co-produced the films Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again with fellow ABBA member and close friend Benny Andersson. He is the oldest member of the group. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/leonardo-da-vinci-documentary-dvd-mp4-video-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

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April 26, 1478: #DOTD: #RIP: The Pazzi Conspiracy: The Pazzi family attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral before a crowd of 10,000. Lorenzo was wounded but survived; Giuliano was killed. The failure of the plot served to strengthen the position of the Medici. The Pazzi were banished from Florence. The Pazzi Conspiracy (Italian: Congiura dei Pazzi, "Conspiracy of the Pazzi", literally "Conspiracy of the Madmen") was a plot by members of the Pazzi and Salviati families and others to displace the Medici family as rulers of Renaissance Florence. The Salviati, Papal bankers in Florence, were at the centre of the conspiracy. They again were influenced by Pope Sixtus IV, who was an enemy of the Medici. As with all medieval intrigues and politics, the story is hyper-convoluted, but stated as succintly as possible: Francesco della Rovere, who came from a poor family in Liguria, was elected pope in 1471. As Pope Sixtus IV, he was both wealthy and powerful, and at once set about giving power and wealth to his nephews of two different families: the della Rovere family, and the Riario family. Within months of his election, he had made Giuliano della Rovere (the future Pope Julius II) and Pietro Riario both cardinals and bishops; four other nephews were also made cardinals. He made Giovanni della Rovere, who was not a priest, prefect of Rome, and arranged for him to marry into the da Montefeltro family, dukes of Urbino, a walled city in the Marche region of Italy. For Girolamo Riario, also a layman - and who may in fact have been Pope Sixtus IV's son rather than his nephew - he arranged to buy small town of Imola in Romagna, Italy, with the aim of establishing a new papal state in that area. Imola lay on the trade route between Florence and Venice, and therefore stratetically placed. Lorenzo de' Medici had arranged in May 1473 to buy it from the Duke Of Milan, Galeazzo Maria Sforza, for 100,000 fiorini d'oro, but Duke Sforza subsequently agreed to sell it instead to Pope Sixtus IV for 40,000 ducats, provided that his beautiful illegitimate daughter, Caterina Sforza, was married to Pope Sixtus IV's son/nephew Girolamo Riario, a marriage that would result in their two families being the rulers of Imola, and preventing the Medici from obtaining this strategic town. The purchase between Pope Sixtus IV and the Duke Of Milan Sforza for the town of Imola was financed by the Pazzi bank, even though Francesco de' Pazzi had promised Lorenzo de' Medici they would not aid the Pope. As a reward, Sixtus IV assigned to the Pazzi bank lucrative rights to manage Papal revenues. Accordingly, Sixtus IV appointed his nephew/son Riario as the new Governor Of Imola, and appointed Francesco Salviati, of the Papal banking family of Florence, as archbishop of Pisa, a city that was a former commercial rival but now subject to Florence. Lorenzo de' Medici therefore refused to permit Francesco Salviati to enter Pisa, because of the challenge his ecclesiastical position as Archbishop presented to his own government in Florence. Because of the opposition of Lorenzo de' Medici to the purchase of Imola, the marriage arrangements made between the Pope and the Duke Of Milan, the appointment of the Papal banker Salviati as Archbishop of Piza and the financial and political arragements involved in all of this, a plan to assassinate Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici was put together by Girolamo Riario, Francesco Salviati and Francesco de' Pazzi. Pope Sixtus was approached for his support. He made a very carefully worded statement in which he said that in the terms of his holy office he was unable to sanction killing. He made it clear that it would be of great benefit to the papacy to have the Medici removed from their position of power in Florence, and that he would deal kindly with anyone who did this. He instructed the men to do what they deemed necessary to achieve this aim, and said that he would give them whatever support he could. An encrypted letter in the archives of the Ubaldini family, discovered and decoded in 2004, reveals that Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, a renowned humanist and condottiere for the Papacy, was deeply embroiled in the conspiracy and had committed to position 600 troops outside Florence, waiting for the right moment. The Medici brothers were assaulted on Sunday, April 26, 1478, during High Mass at the Duomo (Florence Cathedral). Giuliano de' Medici was stabbed 19 times and received a sword wound to the head from Bernardo Bandini dei Baroncelli, an Italian merchant and one of the instigators of conspiracy, and Francesco de' Pazzi. As Giuliano bled to death on the cathedral floor, his brother Lorenzo escaped with serious, but not life-threatening, wounds. Lorenzo was locked safely in the sacristy by Angelo Poliziano, an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. A coordinated attempt to capture the Gonfaloniere of Justice (in charge of the internal security forces and the maintenance of public order) and the Signoria (the governmening officials of Florence) was thwarted when the archbishop and head of the Salviati clan were trapped in a room where the doors were held by a hidden latch. The coup d'etat had failed. Most of the conspirators were soon caught and summarily executed; five, including Francesco de' Pazzi and Salviati, were hanged from the windows of the Palazzo della Signoria. Jacopo de' Pazzi, head of the family, escaped from Florence but was caught and brought back. He was tortured, then hanged from the Palazzo della Signoria next to the decomposing corpse of Salviati. He was buried at Santa Croce, but the body was dug up and thrown into a ditch. It was then dragged through the streets and propped up at the door of Palazzo Pazzi, where the rotting head was mockingly used as a door-knocker. From there it was thrown into the Arno; children fished it out and hung it from a willow tree, flogged it, and then threw it back into the river. Although Lorenzo appealed to the crowd not to exact summary justice, many of the conspirators, as well as many people accused of being conspirators, were killed. Lorenzo did manage to save the nephew of Sixtus IV, Cardinal Raffaele Riario, who was almost certainly an innocent pawn of the conspirators, as well as two relatives of the conspirators. The main conspirators were hunted down throughout Italy. Between April 26, the day of the attack, and October 20 1478, a total of eighty people were executed. Bandini dei Baroncelli, who had escaped to Constantinople, was arrested and returned in fetters by the Sultan Mehmed II, and - still in Turkish clothing - was hanged from a window of the Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo on December 29. 1479, an execution drawn by eyewitness Leonardo da Vinci. The Pazzi were banished from Florence, and their lands and property confiscated. Their name and their coat of arms were perpetually suppressed. The name was erased from public registers, and all buildings and streets carrying it were renamed. Their shield with its dolphins was everywhere obliterated. Anyone named Pazzi had to take a new name; anyone married to a Pazzi was barred from public office. Guglielmo de' Pazzi, husband of Lorenzo's sister Bianca, was placed under house arrest, and later forbidden to enter the city; he went to live at Torre a Decima, near Pontassieve. In the aftermath of the "Pazzi" conspiracy, Pope Sixtus IV placed Florence under interdict for the execution of Archbishop Salviati, forbidding Mass and communion. Sixtus enlisted the King of Naples, Ferdinand I, the traditional Papal military arm, to attack Florence. With no help coming from Florence's traditional allies in Bologna and Milan, Lorenzo faced with dire prospects and took an unorthodox course of action: he sailed to Naples and put himself in the hands of the king, remaining in his custody for three months. Lorenzo's courage and charisma convinced Ferdinand I to support Lorenzo's attempts at brokering a peace and intercede, albeit ineffectually, with Sixtus IV. 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April 26 , 1476: #DOTD: #RIP: Simonetta Vespucci, nicknamed "La Bella Simonetta" (Italian: "The Beautiful Simonetta"), Italian noblewoman from Genoa, wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence, cousin-in-law of Florentine explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci after whom America is named, known as the greatest beauty of her age in Italy, the alleged model for many paintings, such as: Sandro Botticelli's Venus and Flora in "The Birth Of Venus", Venus and one of The Three Graces in "Primavera", and two "Portrait Of A Woman" paintings from his workshop; Piero Di Cosimo's nymph in "A Satyr Mourning Over A Nymph" and "Portrait Of A Woman" ("Portrait Of Simonetta Vespucci") (b. c. 1453) #dies during the overnight of April 26-27 at the tender age of in Florence. She was carried through the city in an open coffin for all to admire, and there may have existed a posthumous cult about her in Florence. Traditionally, it was thought that her death was caused by tuberculosis. In 2019, a team of medical historians argued that the supposed portraits of Simonetta show evidence that she suffered from a pituitary adenoma (a tumor in the pituitary gland) secreting Prolactin (best known for its role in enabling mammals to produce milk) and Human Growth Hormone (HGH); the increase in tumor volume led her to death. She si buried in the Chiesa Di San Salvatore Di Ognissanti, Or More Simply Chiesa Di Ognissanti (Italian: "Church Of All Saints"), a Franciscan church located on the piazza of the same name in central Florence, dedicated to all the saints and martyrs, known and unknown, where Sandro Botticelli and Amerigo Vespucci are also buried. Her husband remarried soon afterward. Giuliano De Medici, her troubadour knight who jousted with her image, painted by Botticelli, painted on his banner, was assassinated in The Pazzi conspiracy two years to the day after Simonetta's death. While some art historians have taken issue with La Bella Simonetta's attributions to subjects of Botticelli and Di Cosimo, Victorian critic John Ruskin promulgated the idea, and the cult of her beauty and her being the certain subject of Giuliano De Medici's banner painting is beyond dispute. Simonetta Vespucci was born Simonetta Cattaneo in a part of the Republic of Genoa that is now in the Italian region of Liguria. A more precise location for her birthplace is unknown: possibly the city of Genoa, or perhaps either Portovenere or Fezzano (nowadays included in the municipality of Portovenere). The Florentine poet Politian wrote that her home was "in that stern Ligurian district up above the seacoast, where angry Neptune beats against the rocks ... There, like Venus, she was born among the waves." Her father was a Genoese nobleman named Gaspare Cattaneo della Volta (belonging to the same family of 16th-century Doge of Genoa Leonardo Cattaneo della Volta) and her mother was his wife, Cattocchia Spinola; another source names her parents slightly differently, as Gaspare Cattaneo and Chateroccia di Marco Spinola. At age sixteen she married Marco Vespucci, son of Piero, who was a distant cousin of the explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci. They met in April 1469, when she was with her parents at the church of San Torpete in Genoa; the doge Piero il Fregoso and much of the Genoese nobility were present. Marco had been sent to Genoa by his father, Piero, to study at the Banco di San Giorgio. Smitten with Simonetta, Marco was accepted by her parents as their daughter's prospective bridegroom; they likely felt that the marriage would be advantageous because Marco's family was well connected in Florence, especially to the Medici family. Simonetta and Marco were married in Florence that same year. According to legend, Simonetta quickly became popular at the Florentine court, and attracted the interest of the Medici brothers, Lorenzo and Giuliano. Lorenzo permitted the Vespucci wedding to be held at the palazzo in Via Larga, and held the wedding reception at their lavish Villa di Careggi. At La Giostra (a jousting tournament) in 1475, held at the Piazza Santa Croce, Giuliano entered the lists bearing a banner upon which was a picture of Simonetta as a helmeted Pallas Athene, painted by Botticelli, beneath which was the French inscription La Sans Pareille, meaning "The Unparalleled One". Giuliano won the tournament, and nominated Simonetta as "The Queen of Beauty" at that event. It is clear that Simonetta had a reputation as an exceptional beauty in Florence, but Giuliano's display should be considered within the conventions of courtly love. Simonetta was a married woman and a member of a powerful family allied to his. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-historical-view-a-legacy-in-pictures-jpg-photo-cd.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1886: #BOTD: #HBD! Ma Rainey, influential African American blues singer and early blues recording artist (d. December 22, 1939) is #born Gertrude Pridgett; she is said to have been #born on this date in Columbus, Georgia, but there is uncertainty about the date. Some sources indicate that she was born in 1882, while most sources assert that she was born, as she herself said, on April 26, 1886 (beginning with the 1910 census, taken April 25, 1910). However, the 1900 census indicates that she was born in September 1882 in Alabama, and researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc suggest that her birthplace was in Russell County, Alabama. Dubbed the "Mother of the Blues", Ma Rainey (nee Pridgett) bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of southern blues, influencing a generation of blues singers. She began performing as a teenager and became known as "Ma" Rainey after her marriage to Will "Pa" Rainey in 1904. They toured with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and later formed their own group, Rainey and Rainey, Assassinators of the Blues. Her first recording was made in 1923. In the following five years, she made over 100 recordings, including "Bo-Weevil Blues" (1923), "Moonshine Blues" (1923), "See See Rider Blues" (1924), "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (1927), and "Soon This Morning" (1927). Rainey was known for her powerful vocal abilities, energetic disposition, majestic phrasing, and a "moaning" style of singing. Her qualities are present and most evident in her early recordings "Bo-Weevil Blues" and "Moonshine Blues". Rainey recorded with Thomas Dorsey and Louis Armstrong, and she toured and recorded with the Georgia Jazz Band. She toured until 1935, when she largely retired from performing and continued as a theater impresario in her hometown of Columbus, Georgia, until her death four years later. Ma Rainey died of a heart attack in her hometown of Columbus, Georgia, aged 53. She is buried at Porterdale Cemetery in Columbus, Georgia. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-history-of-jazz-by-billy-taylor-parts-i-amp-ii-dvd.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 2011: #DOTD: #RIP: Phoebe Snow, American roots music singer, songwriter and guitarist, known for her hit 1974 and 1975 songs "San Francisco Bay Blues", "Poetry Man", "Harpo's Blues", and her credited guest vocals backing Paul Simon on "Gone at Last" (b. July 17, 1950) #dies at age 60 in Edison, New Jersey - most likely at JFK Medical Center, where Luther Vandross died -- after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage on January 19, 2010, having slipped into a coma, enduring bouts of blood clots, pneumonia and congestive heart failure. Her remains were cremated, and the ashes were given to her family. Phoebe Snow was born Phoebe Ann Laub in New York City. Her father, Merrill Laub, an exterminator by trade, had an encyclopedic knowledge of American film and theater and was also an avid collector and restorer of antiques; both he and Poebe have been mistaken in thinking they were black. Her mother, Lili Laub, was a Jewish dance teacher who had performed with the Martha Graham group. was. raised in a musical household in which Delta blues, Broadway show tunes, Dixieland jazz, classical music, and folk music recordings were played around the clock. Phoebe Snow was described by The New York Times as a "contralto grounded in a bluesy growl and capable of sweeping over four octaves." Snow also sang numerous commercial jingles for many U.S. products during the 1980s and 1990s, including General Foods International Coffees, Salon Selectives, and Stouffer's. Snow experienced success in Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s with five top 100 albums in that territory. In 1995 she recorded a gospel album with Sisters of Glory. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! Carol Burnett, American actress, comedian, singer, writer and producer, whose career spans seven decades of television, best known for her TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, originally aired on CBS, is #born Carol Creighton Burnett at Nix Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. She has achieved success on stage, television and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles. She has also appeared on various talk shows and as a panelist on game shows. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Burnett moved with her grandmother to Hollywood, where she attended Hollywood High School and eventually studied theater and musical comedy at UCLA. Later she performed in nightclubs in New York City and had a breakout success on Broadway in 1959 in Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She soon made her television debut, regularly appearing on The Garry Moore Show for the next three years, and won her first Emmy Award in 1962. Burnett had her television special debut in 1963 when she starred as Calamity Jane in the Dallas State Fair Musicals production of Calamity Jane on CBS. Burnett moved to Los Angeles, California, and began an 11-year run as star of The Carol Burnett Show on CBS television from 1967 to 1978. With its vaudeville roots, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show that combined comedy sketches with song and dance. The comedy sketches included film parodies and character pieces. Burnett created many memorable characters during the show's run, and both she and the show won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. During and after her variety show, Burnett appeared in many television and film projects. Her film roles include Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), The Front Page (1974), The Four Seasons (1981), Annie (1982), Noises Off (1992), and Horton Hears a Who! (2008). On television, she has appeared in other sketch shows; in dramatic roles in 6 Rms Riv Vu (1974) and Friendly Fire (1979); in various well-regarded guest roles, such as in Mad About You, for which she won an Emmy Award; and in specials with Julie Andrews, Dolly Parton, Beverly Sills, and others. She returned to the Broadway stage in 1995 in Moon Over Buffalo, for which she was again nominated for a Tony Award. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-baby-boomer-bloopers-tv-amp-movie-blooper-outtakes-dvd.html

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Today, April 26, 2024
April 26: World Burlesque Day: -- An annual tribute to a unique art form. Burlesque dancing shows have dramatic and musical performances by women that is both comedic and provocative. World Burlesque Day is devoted to the celebration and elevation of burlesque and provides a way of boosting the art form's global visibility. For those who are not aware of what burlesque is, it is a form of entertainment that is similar to a cabaret. It was extremely popular during the early part of the 20th century. It is a glamorous, satirical, raunchy, and irreverent performance that would consist of strippers, comedians, and a master of ceremonies. World Burlesque Day was created in 2022 by Sapphira, a showgirl, author, and mental-health ambassador. She created World Burlesque Day as a way of bringing together people who love everything to do with burlesque. She also wanted this holiday to serve as a platform for people to share their stories and, in so doing, encourage others to find their own sense of style and freedom through burlesque. Sapphira has been a showgirl since 2004 and claims that burlesque has helped her to overcome mental health problems and believes that it can give confidence to others who are struggling too. She chose April 26 as the day to celebrate World Burlesque Day to commemorate 50 years since the passing of Gypsy Rose Lee who was one of the greatest burlesque performers in the 1930s. Today, burlesque has evolved into neo-burlesque, which is based on traditional burlesque. Although burlesque has changed throughout the years, people still enjoy all types of burlesque. On World Burlesque Day, burlesque lovers from all over the world come together to celebrate the different activities designed by the founder to showcase the art form and bring new performers into the fold. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/vaudeville-tv-vanities-olsen-amp-johnson-ben-blue-dual-layer-dvd.html