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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Movie Life Of George: George Harrison's HandMade Films DVD MP4 USB
Today, December 21, 2024
December 21: Look On The Bright Side Day: -- We can't always be optimistic, but today we can always try our best to be! It's quite normal to feel a little down on this day since it falls around the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, which means things tend to get a little cold and cloudy outside. But, fret not, because every cloud has a silver lining. While it may all sound very cliche, being optimistic is scientifically good for our bodies and minds. Just like a pessimist might see the glass as half empty, Look On The Bright Side Day is all about seeing the glass as half full! While it may be the shortest day of the year, people all over the world celebrate the winter solstice, so this can be seen as something happy to take away from the event. Various cultures and religions have made it a special occasion for ages. The shortest day and longest night of the year have inspired mystical celebrations, both old and new, in anticipation of the sun's return. That's something beautiful and optimistic to take away from this time. December is generally a festive month throughout the world. There's Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and of course, Christmas, as well as the impending New Year. But the winter solstice is another reason to celebrate in December, which is on the same day as Look On The Bright Side Day. It's nothing new. Humans may have observed the winter solstice as early as the Neolithic period - the last part of the Stone Age, beginning in about 10,200 B.C. Ancient Romans held several celebrations around the time of the winter solstice. Saturnalia, a holiday in honor of Saturn, the god of agriculture, was a week-long celebration in the days leading up to the winter solstice. The ancient Norsemen of Scandinavia celebrated Yule from the winter solstice through January, always hopefully looking for the return of the sun. The Inca Empire paid homage to the sun god Inti at a winter solstice celebration called 'Inti Raymi'. In China, Dongzhi is celebrated with family gatherings, a big meal, and delicious rice-flour balls called tang yuan. It marks the end of the harvest and has its roots in the concept of yin and yang - after the solstice, the darkness of winter will begin to be balanced with the light of the sun. At Stonehenge, modern-day revelers witness the magical occurrence of the sun rising through the stones. And in Pakistan, the Kalasha people celebrate the winter solstice or 'Choimus' with a colorful swirl of traditional dance, food, and prayer dance. Today, on Look On The Bright Side Day, take something beautiful out of these cultural and ancient traditions during the shortest day of the year and try to be optimistic. After all, the sun will come again! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-movie-life-of-george-handmade-films-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1913: Crossword Puzzle Day: -- Arthur Wynne invents the "Word-Cross Puzzle", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. Arthur Wynne was born on June 22, 1871, in Liverpool, England. His father was the editor of the local newspaper the Liverpool Mercury. He emigrated to the United States on June 6, 1891, at the age of 19, settling for a time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While in Pittsburgh, Wynne worked on the Pittsburgh Press newspaper. He later moved to New York City and worked on the New York World newspaper. Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World. For the December 21, 1913, edition, he introduced a puzzle with a diamond shape and a hollow center, the letters F-U-N already being filled in. He called it a "Word-Cross Puzzle." A few weeks after the first "Word-Cross" appeared, the name of the puzzle was changed to "Cross-Word" as a result of a typesetting error. Wynne's puzzles have been known as "crosswords" ever since. Although Wynne's invention was based on earlier puzzle forms, such as the word diamond, he introduced a number of innovations (e.g. the use of horizontal and vertical lines to create boxes for solvers to enter letters). He subsequently pioneered the use of black squares in a symmetrical arrangement to separate words in rows and columns. With the exception of the numbering scheme, the form of Wynne's "Word-Cross" puzzles is that used for modern crosswords. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/superman-radio-mp3-dvd-complete-broadcast3.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21: National Short Story Day: -- Get lost in worlds within words - create characters, weave plots, and inspire imaginations. Reading and writing is a passport to adventure! Do you love literature? Do you feel you have an inner creative streak you've never yet acted on? Do you have a brilliant idea that you're afraid isn't long enough to make into an entire book, but that you really just want to finally write down? If so, National Short Story Day could be your chance to discover a new passion and create something you can be proud of. You don't have to have written anything before to start writing now. After all, everyone has to start somewhere. All you need to become a writer is a pen and paper, or a computer, or a typewriter - the rest is entirely up to you. So if you have a story in you that's waiting to be told, celebrate National Short Story Day today! National Short Story Day takes place on the shortest day of the year_ Very clever, right? Take some time out from all of the chaos that goes on pre-Christmas and enjoy a moment of literary calm. Not only does this day give you the ability to read interesting short stories, but it is also an invitation to write your own. It does not matter whether you want to keep it to yourself or you intend to publish it to the world, grab your pen and start writing! Writing a short story can be a fun and even therapeutic way to spend your time. Plus, you never know; you may uncover a skill that you never realized you had. Every year on National Short Story Day, a compelling theme is provided. Start by taking a look at the theme, as it can lead you in the direction of the sort of books you should read and write on this date. Of course, we won't tell anyone if you decide to go against the them! After all, you may simply detest the genre of book suggested! Nevertheless, it is a fun way to read something that you would probably never considering reading! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/a-painful-case-by-james-joyce-dvd-sin-phillips.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21: National Humbug Day: -- A holiday that allows you to cast off your frustrations before Christmas. Because the pressures of the festive season can get to us all, it is important that we all get a day to vent out all our frustrations. Created by Thomas and Ruth Roy, Humbug Day affords everyone 12 free humbugs. Things can get chaotic during the holidays, that's why this day was created to help people cope with the stress and challenges. Humbug is a word used to underplay the relevance of a person or an event. At first, it was just student slang used as a joke. But it became a catchphrase after Charles Dickens used it in his book titled "A Christmas Carol." The character of Ebenezer Scrooge is a miser and miserabilist who doesn't celebrate the Christmas holiday but mocked those who did. Scrooge's character eventually became very popular, attaining pop culture status. The character has since been in several media, often bordering around the Christmas festivities. Several books and movies have portrayed the character since its first use in Charles Dickens' book. The character is most notable for blurting out these words during the festivities: "Bah, Humbug!" He does this to express his frustration and lack of enthusiasm during the holidays. But, Ebenezer Scrooge's character later developed into a more likable character, finally embracing and enjoying Christmas like every other person. Likewise, we also may start to feel unsatisfied and frustrated as the pressure of festivities comes upon us. That's why it is important to blow off some steam before Christmas. Created by Thomas and Ruth Roy, National Humbug Day is the day that we unwind and let go of our worries so we can enjoy Christmas also. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/a-christmas-carol-by-charles-dickens-ronald-colman-as-scrooge-mp3-c3.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21: National Homeless Persons' Remembrance Day: -- Since 1990, the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council have sponsored this day to call attention to the plight of the country's homeless population. It's also a day to encourage the public to act on their behalf. Homelessness in the U.S. started many years ago. During King Philip's War against the native people, which began in 1675, many colonies were driven out of their homes. Families became refugees across the frontier areas like New York and New England. It became a national issue in the 1870s and sparked the creation of rescue missions, such as America's first rescue mission, the New York City Rescue Mission, which Jerry and Maria McAuley founded in 1872. As the government didn't provide enough assistance, more private charities and organizations tried their best to help. In New York City's Bowery neighborhood, many rescue missions started appearing. In 1879, The Bowery Mission was founded by Rev. and Mrs. A.G. Ruliffson. The Western Soup Society began in Philadelphia to provide food for the homeless. In the years that followed, significant events like The Great Depression and World War II greatly increased the number of homeless people in the U.S. Many passed homelessness to the next generation through poverty and crime. In the 1980s, the government started acknowledging that it was becoming a national problem. The Homeless Survival Act was enacted in 1986, providing emergency relief and long-term solutions to homelessness. The Homeless Eligibility Clarification Act ended the problems associated with a permanent address and other social barriers, leading to the introduction of food stamps benefits, Medicaid, and other benefits. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/songs-of-protest-and-conscience-played-in-the-usa-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21: Phileas Fogg Win A Wager Day: -- Although a fictional holiday, today commemorates a piece of fiction that is loved all around the world. If you haven't guessed it yet, let us tell you. We're talking about the classic novel titled "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne, a French novelist whom most literature aficionados are familiar with. Also known as Phileas Fogg Wager Day, December 21 is the day by which the novel's main character, Phileas Fogg, must accomplish his challenge to win a wager of 20,000PS. Set and published in 1872, Jules Verne's adventure novel is certainly a classic, and with good reason. Since it was written during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and 1871, it was a difficult time for Verne and his country. It was already a financially dire period for him, and he was called upon as coastguard during the war. Two events had greatly affected him during this time - one was his father's death, and the other was a public execution that greatly disturbed him. Just before this time, by 1870, there were three major breakthroughs that made a tourist-like around-the-world journey possible for the first time. This development in circumnavigation fascinated Verne, whose character was inspired by the real around-the-world journey of the adventurous American writer William Perry Fogg. Before we knew it, the novel was serially published starting on December 21, 1872, while it was published in book form on January 30, 1973. It is no wonder that December 21 was chosen as the significant wager day in the book. Or was it? Because of this coincidence of dates, people believed the journey was actually taking place in real time! In the novel, when Phileas Fogg argues about the possibility of traveling around the globe in 80 days, he is challenged by his fellow club members to prove it. The argument stems from an article in "The Daily Telegraph" which mentions the opening of a new railway section in India, with which it would then be theoretically possible to travel around the world in just 80 days. Later that evening, on October 2, 1872, without wasting any time, Fogg departs London with his valet. To win the wager - and 20,000PS - he must arrive back at the club on December 21, 1872, at the same time. Spoiler alert - he wins, and 140 years later, we still celebrate his victory! On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, (pen name of Elizabeth Cochran), American investigative journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker, pioneer in the field of journalism generally and of a new kind of investigative journalism particularly, set out from Hoboken, New Jersey to beat the record of Jules Verne's imaginary hero Phileas Fogg; she beat Fogg's 80 days when she returned on January 25th in a time of 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes to Jersey City near Exchange Place at 3:51PM, setting a new world record, to a tumultuous welcome at Exchange Place train station! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/remember-when-page-one-dvd-journalism-history-dick-cavett.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21: Yule: -- December 21, 2024: Astronomical Events: Solstices: The Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere) (The Midwinter Solstice, The Hiemal Solstice, The Hibernal Solstice): -- The Winter Solstice occurs in the Northern Hemisphere as the Earth's north pole has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky. At the pole, there is continuous darkness or twilight around the winter solstice. Its opposite is the summer solstice. The winter solstice occurs during the hemisphere's winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the December solstice (usually 21 or 22 December) and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is the June solstice (usually 20 or 21 June). Although the winter solstice itself lasts only a moment, the term sometimes refers to the day on which it occurs. Other names are "midwinter", the "extreme of winter" (Dongzhi), or the "shortest day". Traditionally, in many temperate regions, the winter solstice is seen as the middle of winter, but today in some countries and calendars, it is seen as the beginning of winter. In meteorology, winter is reckoned as beginning about three weeks before the winter solstice. Since prehistory, the winter solstice has been seen as a significant time of year in many cultures, and has been marked by festivals and rituals. It marked the symbolic death and rebirth of the Sun. The seasonal significance of the winter solstice is in the reversal of the gradual lengthening of nights and shortening of days. On the arrival of the Winter Solstice, Yule is celebrated, also known as Jul, which predates the Christmas holiday by thousands of years. Linguists debate the origin of the word Yule. Some suggest the word is derived from "Iul," the Anglo-Saxon word for wheel. This makes a connection to a Celtic calendar, the Wheel of the Year. However, in the Norse culture, "Jul" refers to the god, Odin. Odin was celebrated during Yule as well. Yule celebrations included bonfires, decorating with holly, mistletoe, and the boughs of evergreen trees, ritual sacrifices, feasts, and gift-giving. Many of the traditions we use at Christmastime were borrowed from Yule traditions of old. Whether they are from myths, feasts, folklore, ancient beliefs, oral stories told, or festivals, we have woven them into the fabric of our modern-day customs. Christmas traditions borrowed from Yule include the midwinter feast usually lasting 12 days, as in the 12 Days Of Christmas; Vikings decorated evergreen trees with gifts such as food, carvings, and food for the tree spirits to encourage them to return in the spring; Mistletoe combined with the tears of the Sun's mother resurrected her son, the God of Light and Goodness, in a Viking myth. The Celts believe Mistletoe possessed healing powers as well and would ward off evil spirits; in Norse tradition, Old Man Winter visited homes to join the festivities; the Viking god, Odin was described as a wanderer with a long white beard and is considered the first Father Christmas; Viking children left their shoes out by the hearth on the eve of the winter solstice with sugar and hay for Odin's eight-legged horse, Sleipnir; Children traipsed from house to house with gifts of apples and oranges spiked with cloves and resting in baskets lined with evergreen boughs; and the Yule log was a whole tree meant to be burned for 12 days in the hearth (the Celts believed the sun stood still during the winter solstice, and tbey believed that by keeping the Yule log burning for these 12 days encouraged the sun to move, making the days longer; the largest end would be fed into the hearth, wine poured over it, and they lit it with the remains of the previous year's Yule log, as everyone took turns feeding the length of timber into the fire as it burned, not letting it burn out so as to not bring bad luck). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/who-built-stonehenge-dvd-horizon.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1968: Rocket Launches: The History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: The Discovery And Exploration Of The Solar System: Missions To The Moon: Project Apollo: Apollo 8: -- The first crewed launch of the Saturn V super heavy-lift launch vehicle rocket, the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit, the first visit to another celestial body by humans, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon is launched when Apollo 8 lifts off on a lunar trajectory at 12:51:00 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) with the three-astronaut crew of Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders; they also became the first humans to see Earth as a whole planet; enter the gravity well of another celestial body (Earth's moon); orbit another celestial body (Earth's moon); directly see the far side of the Moon with their own eyes; witness an Earthrise; escape the gravity of another celestial body (Earth's moon); and re-enter the gravitational well of Earth. The 1968 mission, the third flight of the Saturn V rocket and that rocket's first crewed launch, was also the first human spaceflight launch from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, located adjacent to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Originally planned as a second Lunar Module/Command Module test in an elliptical medium Earth orbit in early 1969, the mission profile was changed in August 1968 to a more ambitious Command Module-only lunar orbital flight to be flown in December, because the Lunar Module was not yet ready to make its first flight. This meant Borman's crew was scheduled to fly two to three months sooner than originally planned, leaving them a shorter time for training and preparation, thus placing more demands than usual on their time and discipline. Apollo 8 took three days to travel to the Moon. It orbited ten times over the course of 20 hours, during which the crew made a Christmas Eve television broadcast where they read the first 10 verses from the Book of Genesis. At the time, the broadcast was the most watched TV program ever. Apollo 8's successful mission paved the way for Apollo 11 to fulfill U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. The Apollo 8 astronauts returned to Earth on December 27, 1968, when their spacecraft splashed down in the Northern Pacific Ocean. The crew was named Time magazine's "Men of the Year" for 1968 upon their return. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/to-the-moon-the-story-in-sound-complete-6-album-set-mp3-63.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1620: The Colonial History Of The United States: The British Colonization Of The Americas: The Plymouth Colony: The Pilgrims' Voyage On The Mayflower: The Mayflower Compact (The Agreement Between The Settlers Of New Plymouth): -- William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts to found the Plymouth Colony, an English colonial venture in America from 1620 to 1691 at a location that had previously been surveyed and named by Captain John Smith. The settlement developed into the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. At its height, Plymouth Colony occupied most of the southeastern portion of Massachusetts. The Pilgrims did not refer to Plymouth Rock in any of their writings; the first known written reference to the rock dates to 1715 when it was described in the town boundary records as "a great rock." The first documented claim that Plymouth Rock was the landing place of the Pilgrims was made by Elder Thomas Faunce in 1741, 121 years after the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth. From that time to the present, Plymouth Rock has occupied a prominent spot in American tradition and has been interpreted by later generations as a symbol of both the virtues and the flaws of the first English people who colonized New England. In 1774, the rock broke in half during an attempt to haul it to Town Square in Plymouth. The top portion (the fragment now visible) sat in Town Square, was moved to Pilgrim Hall Museum in 1834, and was returned to its original site on the shore of Plymouth Harbor in 1880. Today it is ensconced beneath a granite canopy designed by McKim, Mead & White. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-american-adventure-series-us-1st-century-4-dv14.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
( #JCKaelin here: The next time you see or hear anyone find erroneous cause to decry the descriptor "African American", tell them this, so that they know it's a sign of respect for the diversity of the black American community, devised by the best and brightest of the (same) African American community :) ). ========= December 21, 1988: December 21, 1988: African American History (Afro-American History, Black American History): African American Ethnicity -- The term "African American" is coined when Jesse Jackson, along with a group of prominent blacks at a Monday Chicago press conference, including representatives of the National Black Republicans Council, the National Black County Officials and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), urges the use of the term "African American" as an alternative to the term "Black Americans", declaring that members of their race prefer to be called African-Americans. ''Just as we were called colored, but were not that, and then Negro, but not that, to be called black is just as baseless,'' Mr. Jackson said after the group met to discuss national goals. ''To be called African-Americans has cultural integrity,'' he said. ''It puts us in our proper historical context. Every ethnic group in this country has a reference to some land base, some historical cultural base. African-Americans have hit that level of cultural maturity.'' Mr. Jackson was joined by Richard Hatcher, the former Mayor of Gary, Ind., Ramona Edelin, the National Urban Coalition's president, Gloria Toote, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and others. ''There are Armenian-Americans and Jewish-Americans and Arab-Americans and Italian-Americans,'' Mr. Jackson said. ''And with a degree of accepted and reasonable pride, they connect their heritage to their mother country and where they are now.'' Many of those who attended said using the term African-Americans would be a psychological lift. The Rev. Willie Barrow, president of Operation PUSH, the economic self-help group started by Mr. Jackson, said she would start using the term immediately. ''I'm African-American just like the Polish are Polish-American and Italians are Italian-American,'' she said. ''It's something we've all agreed upon and it's just great.'' Cook County Commissioner John Stroger said he was already using the term. ''It's appropriate in the light of our origin,'' he said. But some said the change was superficial. ''We must have really reached a zenith in the civil rights struggle that we have to now busy ourselves with semantics,'' said the Rev. B. Herbert Martin, head of Chicago's Human Relations. But Mr. Martin added, ''I think the title or name African-American points us to a higher consciousness in terms of the origin of African people.'' On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/eyes-on-the-prize-ii-dvd-set-4-discs-complete-2nd-seri42.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1734: #BOTD: #HBD! Paul Revere, American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution, best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride" (1861) (d. May 10, 1818) is #born in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. At age 41, Revere was a prosperous, established and prominent Boston silversmith. He had helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. In the days before April 18, Revere had instructed Robert Newman, the sexton of the North Church, to send a signal by lantern to alert colonists in Charlestown as to the movements of the troops when the information became known. In what is well known today by the phrase "one if by land, two if by sea", one lantern in the steeple would signal the army's choice of the land route while two lanterns would signal the route "by water" across the Charles River (the movements would ultimately take the water route, and therefore two lanterns were placed in the steeple) Revere later served as a Massachusetts militia officer, though his service ended after the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, for which he was absolved of blame. Following the war, Revere returned to his silversmith trade. He used the profits from his expanding business to finance his work in iron casting, bronze bell and cannon casting, and the forging of copper bolts and spikes. In 1800 he became the first American to successfully roll copper into sheets for use as sheathing on naval vessels. Paul Revere died at the age of 83 at his home on Charter Street in Boston. He is buried in the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/american-revolutionary-war-dvd-documentaries.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1861: Awards And Decorations: Military Awards And Decorations: Awards And Decorations Of The United States Armed Forces: Highest Military Awards For Gallantry: Highest Military Awards For Gallantry Of The United States Armed Forces: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Medal Of Honor (MOH) (The Congressional Medal Of Honor): -- During the early stages of The American Civil Wear, Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. The Medal Of Honor is the United States Armed Forces' highest and most-prestigious military decoration that may be awarded to recognize American soldiers, marines, sailors, airmen, guardians, and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor. The medal is normally awarded by the President of the United States in the name of the United States Congress. Because the medal is presented "in the name of Congress", it is also known as the Congressional Medal Of Honor. During the first year of the American Civil War, a proposal for a battlefield decoration for valor was submitted to Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, the Commanding General of the United States Army, by Lieutenant Colonel Edward D. Townsend, an assistant adjutant at the Department of War and Scott's Chief Of Staff. Scott, however, was strictly against medals being awarded, which was the European tradition. After Scott retired in October 1861, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles adopted the idea of a decoration to recognize and honor distinguished naval service. On December 9, 1861, Iowa Senator James W. Grimes, Chairman on the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted Bill S. 82 (12 Stat. 329-330) during the Second Session of the 37th Congress, "An Act to further promote the Efficiency of the Navy". The bill included a provision (Chap. 1, Sec. 7) for 200 "medals of honor", "to be bestowed upon such petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and marines as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other seaman-like qualities during the present war, ..." On December 21, the bill was passed and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. Secretary Welles directed the Philadelphia Mint to design the new military decoration. On May 15, 1862, the United States Department of the Navy ordered 175 medals from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia with "Personal Valor" inscribed on the back of each one. Today there are three versions of the medal, one each for the Department of the Army (awarded to United States Army soldiers), Department of the Navy (awarded to United States Navy sailors, United States Marine Corps marines) and Department of the Air Force (awarded to United States Air Force airmen and United States Space Force guardians). Despite not normally being a part of the Department of the Navy, the United States Coast Guard is one of the sea services and awards the Department of the Navy's version of the medal to coast guardsmen. The Medal Of Honor was introduced for the Department of the Navy in 1861, soon followed by the Department of the Army's version in 1862. The Department of the Air Force used the Department of the Army's version until they received their own distinctive version in 1965. The Medal Of Honor is the oldest continuously issued combat decoration of the United States Armed Forces. The president typically presents the Medal Of Honor at a formal ceremony intended to represent the gratitude of the American people, with posthumous presentations made to the primary next of kin. According to the Medal Of Honor Historical Society of the United States, there have been 3,526 Medals of Honor awarded to 3,507 individuals since the decoration's creation, with over 40% awarded for actions during the American Civil War. In 1990, Congress designated March 25 annually as "National Medal Of Honor Day". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/heroes-dvd-set-all-26-tv-shows-7-di267.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1864: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater Of The American Civil War: The Atlanta Campaign: The Fall Of Atlanta: Sherman's March To The Sea (The Savannah Campaign, Sherman's March): -- Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's March To The Sea ends with the capture of the port of Savannah, Georgia. The following day, December 22, 1864, Sherman telegraphed to President Abraham Lincoln "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah" following the prior morning's surrender of the city of Savannah, Georgia to Sherman and his Army Of The Tennessee. Sherman's March To The Sea (also known as the Savannah Campaign or simply Sherman's March) was a military campaign conducted through Georgia from November 15 till December 21, 1864, by Sherman and his Union armies of The Army Of The Tennessee and the Army Of Georgia. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta on November 15, and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. His forces followed a "scorched earth" policy, destroying military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian property, disrupting the Confederacy's economy and transportation networks. The operation debilitated the Confederacy and helped lead to its eventual surrender. Sherman's decision to operate deep within enemy territory without supply lines was unusual for its time, and the campaign is regarded by some historians as an early example of modern warfare or total war. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-divided-union-american-civil-war-tv-series-3-dual-layer-dvd3.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1945: #DOTD: #RIP: General George S. Patton, Four-Star General of the United States Army, commander of the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European theaters of World War II, best known as the commander of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy (b. November 11, 1885) #dies in Germany following a car accident. He had been injured on December 9 near Mannheim and was taken to a hospital in Heidelberg, where he died. He is buried in The Luxembourg American Cemetery And Memorial, a Second World War American military war grave cemetery located in Hamm, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. George S. Patton was born George Smith Patton Jr. in San Gabriel, California to a family with an extensive military background (with members having served in both the United States Army and Confederate States Army), Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known as the "Patton Sword", and partially due to his skill in the sport, he competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Patton first saw combat during the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1916, taking part in America's first military action using motor vehicles. He later joined the newly formed United States Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces and saw action in World War I, commanding the U.S. tank school in France before being wounded while leading tanks into combat near the end of the war. In the interwar period, Patton remained a central figure in the development of armored warfare doctrine in the U.S. Army, serving in numerous staff positions throughout the country. Rising through the ranks, he commanded the 2nd Armored Division at the time of the American entry into World War II. Patton led U.S. troops into the Mediterranean theater with an invasion of Casablanca during Operation Torch in 1942, where he later established himself as an effective commander through his rapid rehabilitation of the demoralized U.S. II Corps. He commanded the U.S. Seventh Army during the Allied invasion of Sicily, where he was the first Allied commander to reach Messina. There he was embroiled in controversy after he slapped two shell-shocked soldiers under his command, and was temporarily removed from battlefield command for other duties such as participating in Operation Fortitude's disinformation campaign for Operation Overlord. Patton returned to command the Third Army following the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, where he led a highly successful rapid armored drive across France. He led the relief of beleaguered American troops at Bastogne during the Battle Of The Bulge, and advanced his Third Army into Nazi Germany by the end of the war. After the war, Patton became the military governor of Bavaria, but he was relieved of this post because of his statements trivializing denazification. He commanded the United States Fifteenth Army for slightly more than two months. Patton died in Germany on December 21, 1945, as a result of injuries from an automobile accident twelve days earlier. Patton's colorful image, hard-driving personality and success as a commander were at times overshadowed by his controversial public statements. His philosophy of leading from the front and his ability to inspire troops with vulgarity-ridden speeches, such as a famous address to the Third Army, attracted favorable attention. His strong emphasis on rapid and aggressive offensive action proved effective. While Allied leaders held sharply differing opinions on Patton, he was regarded highly by his opponents in the German High Command. A popular, award-winning biographical film released in 1970 helped transform Patton into an American hero. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/patton-dvd-general-george-s-dual-layer-wwii-documentaries.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1937: #DOTD: #RIP: Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer, politician and statesman, U.S. Senator from Minnesota, 45th United States Secretary Of State during the Coolidge administration and Freemason, most notable as the co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Pact for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929 (b. December 22, 1856) #dies of pneumonia, following a stroke, on the eve of his 81st birthday in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is buried at the Chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea in Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. Frank B. Kellogg was born Frank Billings Kellogg in Potsdam, New York. The Kellogg-Briand Pact (or Pact of Paris, officially General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy) is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them". Parties failing to abide by this promise "should be denied of the benefits furnished by [the] treaty". It was signed by Germany, France, and the United States on 27 August 1928, and by most other nations soon after. Sponsored by France and the U.S., the Pact renounces the use of war and calls for the peaceful settlement of disputes. Similar provisions were incorporated into the Charter of the United Nations and other treaties and it became a stepping-stone to a more activist American policy. It is named after its authors, United States Secretary Of State Frank B. Kellogg and French foreign minister Aristide Briand. The pact was concluded outside the League Of Nations, and remains in effect. As a practical matter, the Kellogg-Briand Pact did not live up to all of its aims, but has arguably had some considerable success. It did not end war or stop the rise of militarism, and was unable to keep the international peace in succeeding years. Moreover, it erased the legal distinction between War And Peace because the signatories began to wage wars without declaring them. However, the pact is associated with a marked decline in territorial conquest of one nation by another in the periods before and after its signing: the period from 1816 to 1928 saw on average one conquest every 10 months and 114,088 square miles of territory taken per year, while the period since World War II has seen one conquest every four years and 5,772 square miles of territory taken per year. After WWII, territories that had been conquered between 1928 and WWII, with some exceptions, were mostly returned to the countries that had originally held them. The pact's central provisions renouncing the use of war, and promoting peaceful settlement of disputes and the use of collective force to prevent aggression, were incorporated into the United Nations Charter and other treaties. Although civil wars continued, wars between established states have been rare since 1945, with a few exceptions in the Middle East. One legal consequence is that it is unlawful to annex territory by force, although other forms of annexation have not been prevented. More broadly, there is now a strong presumption against the legality of using, or threatening, military force against another country. The pact also served as the legal basis for the concept of a crime against peace, for which the Nuremberg Tribunal and Tokyo Tribunal tried and executed the top leaders responsible for starting World War II. In 1880, he became a member of the Masonic Lodge Rochester No. 21, where he received the degrees of freemasonry on April 1, April 19, and May 3. 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, December 21, 2024
December 21, 2013: #DOTD: #RIP: John Eisenhower, United States Army general, military historian and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (b. August 3, 1922) #dies at Trappe, Maryland, aged 91. He is buried at West Point Cemetery on the grounds of the United States Military Academy. From the death of John Coolidge in 2000 until his own death, Eisenhower was the oldest living presidential child. John Eisenhower was born John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower at Denver General Hospital in Denver, Colorado. The son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, his decorated military career spanned from before, during, and after his father's presidency, and he would retire from active duty in 1963 and then altogether in 1974. From 1969 to 1971, he served as United States Ambassador to Belgium during the administration of President Richard Nixon, previously his father's Vice President. Eisenhower was born on in Denver, Colorado to future U.S. President and United States Army General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie; he was their second child. Their elder son, Doud, known affectionately as "Icky", died in 1921, at age three, after contracting scarlet fever. Eisenhower, like his father, attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating on June 6, 1944, the same day as the Normandy Landings, which his father was commanding. Eisenhower served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War, remaining on active duty until 1963; then serving in the U.S. Army Reserve until retirement in 1975 - attaining the rank of brigadier general. A decorated soldier, Eisenhower found his World War II military career thwarted by fears for his safety and concern from the top brass that his death or capture would be a distraction to his father, the Supreme Allied Commander. During World War II, he was assigned to intelligence and administrative duties. This issue arose again in 1952 when Major Eisenhower was assigned to fight in a combat unit in Korea while his father ran for President. But unlike World War II, John was able to see combat in Korea. After serving combat with an infantry battalion, he was reassigned to the 3rd Division headquarters. During his father's presidency, John Eisenhower served as Assistant Staff Secretary in the White House, on the Army's General Staff, and in the White House as assistant to General Andrew Goodpaster. In the administration of President Richard Nixon, who had been his father's Vice President, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971. In 1972, President Nixon appointed Eisenhower Chairman of the Interagency Classification Review Committee. In 1975, he served President Gerald Ford as chairman of the President's Advisory Committee on Refugees. As a military historian, Eisenhower wrote several books, including The Bitter Woods, a study of the Battle Of The Bulge, and So Far from God, a history of the Mexican-American War. In a New York Times review of the latter, historian Stephen W. Sears remarked that Eisenhower "writes briskly and authoritatively, and his judgments are worth reading." Eisenhower wrote Zachary Taylor: The American Presidents Series: The 12th President, 1849-1850 (2008). John Eisenhower also wrote the forewords to Borrowed Soldiers, by Mitchell Yockelson of the U.S. National Archives, and to Kenneth W. Rendell's Politics, War and Personality: 50 Iconic Documents of World War II. In later years, he had been an opponent of Frank Gehry's proposed design for the National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, which he said was "too extravagant" and "attempts to do too much." A lifelong Republican, Eisenhower voted for Democrat John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election, citing dissatisfaction with Republican incumbent George W. Bush's management of U.S. foreign policy. During the 2008 presidential election, in which presidential candidate John McCain and vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden all had children enlisted in the armed forces, he wrote about his wartime experience as the son of a sitting President in an cautionary opinion piece in The New York Times entitled "Presidential Children Don't Belong in Battle". Eisenhower married Barbara Jean Thompson on June 10, 1947, only a few days before her twenty-first birthday. Barbara was born on June 15, 1926, in Fort Knox, Kentucky, into an Army family. She was the daughter of Col. Percy Walter Thompson (November 8, 1898 - June 19, 1974) by his wife Beatrice (nee Birchfield). Col. Thompson was commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. The Eisenhowers had four children: 1) Dwight David Eisenhower II (born March 31, 1948, West Point, New York), who married Julie Nixon, herself a presidential daughter; 2) (Barbara) Anne Eisenhower (born May 30, 1949, West Point, New York); 3) Susan Elaine Eisenhower (born December 31, 1951, Fort Knox, Kentucky); and 4) Mary Jean Eisenhower (born December 21, 1955, Washington, DC). All of his daughters were presented as debutantes to high society at the prestigious International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. John and Barbara divorced in 1986 after thirty-nine years of marriage. In 1988, Barbara married widower Edwin J. Foltz, a former Vice President at the Campbell Soup Company. She died on September 19, 2014, in Gladwyne, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In 1988, Eisenhower married Joanne Thompson. He lived in Trappe, Maryland, after moving there from Kimberton, Pennsylvania. 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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1988: Aviation Incidents And Accidents: Terrorism: State Sponsored Terrorism: Libya And State-Sponsored Terrorism: Terrorism In The United Kingdom: Pan Am Flight 103 (The Lockerbie Bombing): -- The deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom, as well as its deadliest aviation disaster, occurs when a bomb explodes shortly after 19:00 on board Pan Am Flight 103, a regularly scheduled transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit with stopovers in London and New York City, over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 residents. Large sections of the aircraft, Clipper Maid of the Seas, a Boeing 747-121 registered N739PA, crashed in a residential street in Lockerbie. Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, the Netherlands, after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012 as the only person to be convicted for the attack. In 2003, Gaddafi accepted Libya's responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. Acceptance of responsibility was part of a series of requirements laid out by a UN resolution for sanctions against Libya to be lifted. Libya said it had to accept responsibility due to Megrahi's status as a government employee. During the First Libyan Civil War in 2011, former Minister of Justice Mustafa Abdul Jalil claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing, though this was later denied, while investigators have long believed that Megrahi did not act alone, and have been reported as questioning retired Stasi agents about a possible role in the attack. Some relatives of the dead, including Lockerbie campaigner Jim Swire, believe the bomb was planted at Heathrow Airport, and not sent via feeder flights from Malta, as per the US and UK governments. A sleeper cell belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (General Command) had been operating in West Germany in the months before the Pan Am bombing. In 2020, US authorities indicted the Tunisia resident and Libyan national Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi for participating in the bombing, who was 37 years old at the time of the bombing, and in December 2022, they obtained custody of him. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-sword-of-islam-the-islamic-revolution-dvd-mp4-usb-flash-driv4.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, voice artist, humanitarian, and inventor (d. June 24, 2005) is #born Paul Wilchinsky into a Jewish family. his career flourished throughout the 1950s and 1960s. From 1950 to 1954, he hosted The Paul Winchell Show, which also used two other titles during its prime time run on NBC, The Speidel Show, and What's My Name?. From 1965-1968, Winchell hosted the children's television series, Winchell-Mahoney Time. Winchell made guest appearances on Emmy Award-winning television series from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s, such as Perry Mason, The Dick Van Dyke Show, McMillan and Wife, The Donna Reed Show, and two appearances as Homer Winch on The Beverly Hillbillies in 1962. In animation, he was the original voice of Winnie The Pooh's Tigger; Dick Dastardly on Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines; The Smurf's Gargamel; Clyde and Softy on Wacky Races and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop; Fleegle on The Banana Splits; and other characters. Winchell, who had medical training, was also an inventor, becoming the first person to build and patent a mechanical artificial heart, implantable in the chest cavity (US Patent #3097366). He has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television. Paul Winchell died in his sleep of natural causes at his home in Moorpark, California at the age of 82, after years of recurring mental problems that came from his youth. He wrote a long and detailed autobiography called Winch, The Autobiography - published in April 2004 - which revealed the bad treatment he had from his mother for a considerable period, and the mental impact that continued to negatively affect him for decades after his mother's death (Clara Wilchinski died in 1953 when she was only 58 years old, and Paul was 30). Winchell was survived by his wife, his children, and three grandchildren. His remains were cremated, and his ashes scattered over his home property. Winchell was estranged from his children, and they were not immediately informed of his death. Upon learning of it, April posted an entry on her website: "I got a phone call a few minutes ago, telling me that my father passed away yesterday. A source close to my dad, or at least, closer than I was, decided to tell me himself, instead of letting me find out on the news, which I appreciate. Apparently a decision had been made not to tell me, or my father's other children. My father was a very troubled and unhappy man. If there is another place after this one, it is my hope that he now has the peace that eluded him on earth." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/paul-winchell-and-jerry-mahoney-2-dual-layer-dvd-se2.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1940: #BOTD: #HBD! Frank Zappa, American singer, songwriter, composer, guitarist, record producer, filmmaker and activist (d. December 4, 1993) is #born Frank Vincent Zappa in Baltimore, Maryland. His work was characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrete works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era. As a self-taught composer and performer, Zappa had diverse musical influences that led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical modernism, African American rhythm and blues, and doo-wop music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm-and-blues bands, later switching to electric guitar. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. He continued this eclectic and experimental approach whether the fundamental format was rock, jazz, or classical. Zappa's output is unified by a conceptual continuity he termed "Project/Object", with numerous musical phrases, ideas, and characters reappearing across his albums. His lyrics reflected his iconoclastic views of established social and political processes, structures and movements, often humorously so, and he has been described as the "godfather" of comedy rock. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self-education, political participation and the abolition of censorship. Unlike many other rock musicians of his generation, he disapproved of recreational drug use, but supported decriminalization and regulation. Zappa was a highly productive and prolific artist with a controversial critical standing; supporters of his music admired its compositional complexity, while critics found it lacking emotional depth. He had greater commercial success outside the US, particularly in Europe. Though he worked as an independent artist, Zappa mostly relied on distribution agreements he had negotiated with the major record labels. He remains a major influence on musicians and composers. His many honors include his 1995 induction into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and the 1997 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Frank Zappa died from prostate cancer 17 days before his 53rd birthday at his home with his wife and children by his side. At a private ceremony the following day, his body was buried in a grave at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, in Los Angeles. The grave is unmarked. Two days after his death, his family publicly announced that "Composer Frank Zappa left for his final tour just before 6:00 pm on Saturday". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/frank-zappa-documentaries-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1946: #BOTD: #HBD! Josh Mostel, American actor with numerous film and Broadway credits, best known for his supporting roles in films such as Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Harry and Tonto (1974), Sophie's Choice (1982), Windy City (1984), City Slickers (1991), Billy Madison (1995), and Big Daddy (1999), is #born Joshua Mostel in New York City to Kate Mostel (born Kathryn Celia Harkin), an actress, dancer, and writer, and iconic comic actor Zero Mostel (born Samuel Joel Mostel). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/windy-city-1984-kate-capshaw-josh-mostel-john-shea-mp4-download-dvd.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1804: #BOTD: #HBD! Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, English journalist, author and novelist, politician and statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. April 19, 1881) is #born at 6 King's Road, Bedford Row, Bloomsbury, London, England. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy", a form of British political conservatism advocating preservation of established inst itutions and traditional principles that combined with political democracy and a social and economic program designed to benefit the common man. He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is the only British prime minister to have been of Jewish birth. He was also a dandy and a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as Prime Minister. He was born in Bloomsbury, then a part of Middlesex. His father left Judaism after a dispute at his synagogue; young Benjamin became an Anglican at the age of 12. After several unsuccessful attempts, Disraeli entered the House Of Commons in 1837. In 1846 the Prime Minister at the time, Sir Robert Peel, split the party over his proposal to repeal the Corn Laws, which involved ending the tariff on imported grain. Disraeli clashed with Peel in the House Of Commons. Disraeli became a major figure in the party. When Lord Derby, the party leader, thrice formed governments in the 1850s and 1860s, Disraeli served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House Of Commons. Upon Derby's retirement in 1868, Disraeli became Prime Minister briefly before losing that year's general election. He returned to the Opposition, before leading the party to winning a majority in the 1874 general election. He maintained a close friendship with Queen Victoria, who in 1876 appointed him Earl of Beaconsfield. Disraeli's second term was dominated by the Eastern Question: the slow decay of the Ottoman Empire and the desire of other European powers, such as Russia, to gain at its expense. He was instrumental in the expansion of the British empire into India and the mideast. Disraeli arranged for the British to purchase a major interest in the Suez Canal Company in Ottoman-controlled Egypt. In 1878, faced with Russian victories against the Ottomans, he worked at the Congress of Berlin to obtain peace in the Balkans at terms favourable to Britain and unfavourable to Russia, its longstanding enemy. This diplomatic victory over Russia established Disraeli as one of Europe's leading statesmen. World events thereafter moved against the Conservatives. Controversial wars in Afghanistan and South Africa undermined his public support. He angered British farmers by refusing to reinstitute the Corn Laws in response to poor harvests and cheap imported grain. With Gladstone conducting a massive speaking campaign, his Liberals bested Disraeli's Conservatives at the 1880 general election. In his final months, Disraeli led the Conservatives in Opposition. He had throughout his career written novels, beginning in 1826, and he pioneered the concept of the political novel with works such as Vivian Grey, Coningsby, and Lothair. He published his last completed novel, Endymion, shortly before he died at the age of 76 of bronchitis at his home at 19 Curzon Street, Mayfair, London, England in the early morning hours of an Easter Monday. Disraeli's last confirmed words "I had rather live but I am not afraid to die". The anniversary of Disraeli's death was for some years commemorated in the United Kingdom as Primrose Day. Despite having been offered a state funeral by Queen Victoria, Disraeli's executors decided against a public procession and funeral, fearing that too large crowds would gather to do him honour. Queen Victoria was prostrated with grief; protocol forbade her attending Disraeli's funeral (this would not be changed until 1965, when Elizabeth II attended the rites for the former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill) but she sent primroses ("his favourite flowers") to the funeral, and visited the burial vault to place a wreath of china flowers four days later. Disraeli is buried with his wife in a vault beneath the Church of St Michael and All Angels which stands in the grounds of his home, Hughenden Manor, accessed from the churchyard. Disraeli also has a memorial in Westminster Abbey, erected by the nation on the motion of his bitter political adversary William Ewart Gladstone during his memorial speech on Disraeli in the House Of Commons. Gladstone had absented himself from the funeral, with his plea of the press of public business provoking public mockery. His speech was widely anticipated, if only because his dislike for Disraeli was well known, and caused the Prime Minister much worry. In the event, the speech was a model of its kind, in which he avoided comment on Disraeli's politics, while praising his personal qualities. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/disraeli-portait-of-a-romantic-tv-series-dvd-set-4-disc4.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1742: #BOTD: #HBD! Gebhard Leberecht Von Blucher, Prussian German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal), who earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and The Battle Of Waterloo in 1815 (d. September 12, 1819) is #born in Rostock, a Baltic port in northern Germany, then in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Gebhard Leberecht Von Blucher, Furst Von Wahlstatt (Sovereign Prince of Wahlstatt; first Graf (Count) Wahlstatt, later elevated to Furst (Sovereign Prince), was born in Rostock, the son of a retired army captain. His military career began in 1758 as a hussar (light cavalry) in the Swedish Army. He was captured by the Prussians in 1760 during the Pomeranian Campaign and thereafter joined the Prussian Army, serving as a hussar officer for Prussia during the remainder of the Seven Years' War. In 1773, Blucher was forced to resign by Frederick the Great for insubordination. He worked as a farmer until the death of Frederick in 1786, when Blucher was reinstated and promoted to colonel. For his success in the French Revolutionary Wars, Blucher became a major general in 1794. He became a lieutenant general in 1801 and commanded the cavalry corps during the Napoleonic Wars in 1806. War broke out between Prussia and France again in 1813 and Blucher returned to active service at the age of 71. He was appointed full general over the Prussian field forces and clashed with Napoleon at the Battles of Lutzen and Bautzen. Later he won a critical victory over the French at the Battle of Katzbach. Blucher commanded the Prussian Army of Silesia at the Battle of the Nations where Napoleon was decisively defeated. For his role, Blucher was made a field marshal and received his title of Prince of Wahlstatt. After Napoleon's return in 1815, Blucher took command of the Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine and coordinated his force with that of the British and Allied forces under the Duke of Wellington. At the Battle of Ligny, he was severely injured and the Prussians retreated. After recovering, Blucher resumed command and joined Wellington at The Battle Of Waterloo, with the intervention of Blucher's army playing a decisive role in the final allied victory. Blucher was made an honorary citizen of Berlin, Hamburg and Rostock. Known for his fiery personality, he was nicknamed Marschall Vorwarts ("Marshal Forward") by his soldiers because of his aggressive approach in warfare. Along with Paul Von Hindenburg, he was the most highly decorated Prussian-German soldier in history: Blucher and Hindenburg are the only Prussian-German military officers to have been awarded the Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross. A statue once stood in the square that bore his name, Blucherplatz, in Breslau (today Wroclaw). Gebhard Leberecht Von Blucher dief aged 76 at his Silesian residence at Krieblowitz, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation (modern Krobielowice, Lower Silesia Voivodeship, Poland). After his death, an imposing mausoleum was built for his remains. When Krieblowitz was conquered by the Red Army in 1945, Soviet soldiers broke into the Blucher mausoleum and scattered the remains. Soviet troops reportedly used his skull as a football. After 1989, some of his remains were taken by a Polish priest and interred in the catacomb of the church in Sosnica (German: Schosnitz), three km from the now Polish Krobielowice. Napoleon, who died less than two years after Von Blucher, characterized Von Blucher as a very brave soldier with no talent as a general, but he admired his attitude, which he described as a bull that looks all around him with rolling eyes and, when he sees danger, charges. Napoleon thought of him as stubborn and untiring, knowing no fear. He called him an old rascal who would be always get up on his feet again and be ready for the next battle as, following a sound defeat, Blucher had, almost instantly, returned to attack him vigorously again. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/waterloo-napoleon-wellington-blucher-steiger-plummer-welles-dvd.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1944: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Film Premieres: American Film Premieres: -- The Fighting Lady, a 1944 documentary film (billed as a "newsdrama") directed by Edward Steichen, produced by the U.S. Navy and narrated by Lt. Robert Taylor USNR, is released to theaters. The plot of the film revolves around the life of seamen on board an anonymous aircraft carrier; because of war time restrictions, the name of the aircraft carrier was disguised as "the Fighting Lady", although she was later identified as USS Yorktown (CV-10). The film uses Technicolor footage shot by "gun cameras" mounted directly on aircraft guns during combat. This gives a very realistic edge to the film, while the chronological following of the ship and crew mirror the experiences of the seamen who went from green recruits through the rigours of military life, battle, and, for some, death. In his autobiography Baa Baa Black Sheep, U.S. Marine Corps ace pilot Gregory "Pappy" Boyington claims that the film briefly shows the small pit in which he and five other prisoners of war took cover during the Truk raid. Boyington had been captured by the Japanese and was being transported to a prison camp on the Truk islands when the raid began. Boyington writes that the prisoners, tied and blindfolded, were thrown from their transport plane during a hurried landing, and that one of their Japanese captors saved their lives by throwing them into the pit, where they survived without harm. According to Boyington, the film also shows a crater from a two-thousand pound bomb that landed just fifteen feet from the pit. Due to her fighting heritage, and to honor all carrier sailors and airmen, the Yorktown is on permanent display at Patriots Point in Charleston, SC. Alfred Newman's musical theme originally appeared in Vigil in the Night and was reused in Hell and High Water and in many 20th Century Fox film trailers. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-fighting-lady-1944-edward-steichen-uss-yorktown-wwii1944.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Unknown War: The Great Patriotic War Series WWII USSR DVD MP4 USB
Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1896: #BOTD: #HBD! Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II, Soviet officer of Polish origin who became Marshal of Poland and served as Poland's Defence Minister from 1949 until his removal in 1956 during the Polish October (d. August 3, 1968) is #born Konstantin Konstantinovich (Xaverevich) Rokossovsky in Warsaw, then part of Congress Poland under Russian rule. Rokossovsky served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. In 1917 he joined the Red Guards and in 1918 the newly-formed Red Army; he fought with great distinction during the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922. Rokossovsky held senior commands until 1937 when he fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, during which he was branded a traitor, imprisoned and probably tortured. After Soviet failures in the Winter War of 1939-1940, Rokossovsky was reinstated due to an urgent need for experienced officers. Following Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Rokossovsky played key roles in the defense of Moscow (1941-1942) and the counter-offensives at Stalingrad (1942-1943) and Kursk (1943). He was instrumental in planning and executing part of Operation Bagration (1944), fought between June 22 and August 19, 1944, a major victory which destroyed the German Army Group Centre and completely ruptured the German front line, one of the most decisive Red Army successes of the Second World War, for which Rokossovsky was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union. After the war, Rokossovsky became Defence Minister and deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers in the newly-established Polish People's Republic. Forced out of office in Poland in 1956 after Wladyslaw Gomulka became the leader of Poland, Rokossovsky then returned to the Soviet Union, where he lived out the rest of his life until his death in 1968. Konstantin Rokossovsky died of prostate cancer in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, aged 71. His ashes are buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis on Red Square. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-unknown-war-complete-tv-series-soviet-union-wwii-10-dvd-s10.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Rise And Fall Of Ceausescu Documentary DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1989: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The Cold War): The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The Revolutions Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of Communism): The Eastern Bloc (The Communist Bloc, The Socialist Bloc, The Soviet Bloc): The Romanian Revolution (The Christmas Revolution): Ceausescu's Final Speech: -- Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu delivers his last public speech, held in what is now Revolution Square, as the President of Romania at a staged morning mass meeting of approximately 100,000 people to condemn the Timisoara revolt. Official media presented the meeting as a "spontaneous movement of support for Ceausescu", emulating the 1968 meeting in which he had spoken against the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces. Ceausescu's disastrous speech began like many of his other speeches over the years. He spoke of the achievements of the "Socialist revolution" and Romania's "multi-laterally developed Socialist society." He also blamed the Timisoara riots on "fascist agitators who want to destroy socialism." However, Ceausescu had misjudged the crowd's mood. Roughly eight minutes into his speech, several people began jeering and booing, and others began chanting "Timisoara!" He tried to silence them by raising his right hand and calling for the crowd's attention before order was temporarily restored, then proceeded to announce social benefit reforms that included raising the national minimum wage by 200 lei per month to a total of 2,200 per month by January 1. Images of Ceausescu's facial expression as the crowd began to boo and heckle him were among the most widely broadcast of the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Failing to control the crowd, the Ceausescus finally took cover inside the building that housed the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party. The rest of the day saw an open revolt of Bucharest's population, which had assembled in University Square and confronted the police and army at barricades. The rioters, however, were no match for the military apparatus concentrated in Bucharest, which cleared the streets by midnight and arrested hundreds of people in the process. Despite this military repression, Ceausescu and his regime would be overthrown the following day, ultimately culminating in the drumhead trial and execution him and his wife Elena, ending 42 years of Communist rule in Romania. The Romanian Revolution (Romanian: Revolutia Romana), also known as The Christmas Revolution (Romanian: Revolutia de Craciun)), was part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world. It was the last removal of a Marxist-Leninist government in a Warsaw Pact country during the events of 1989, and the only one that violently overthrew a country's leadership and executed its leader. According to estimates, over one thousand people died and thousands more were injured. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-ceausescu-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: War Props: The Junkers Ju 88 Multirole Aircraft DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1936: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: Military Aviation Maiden Flights: -- The First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 Schnellbomber, the multirole German combat aircraft that became the one of the most versatile aircraft of World War II, is made by the prototype Ju 88 V1, which bore the civil registration D-AQEN. The Junkers Ju 88 was a Luftwaffe twin-engined aircraft designed by the Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works (JFM) as a schnellbomber, a so-called fast bomber that would be too fast for fighters of its era to intercept. It suffered from technical problems during its development and early operational periods, but it ultimately became one of the Luftwaffe's most important aircraft. Like a number of other Luftwaffe bombers, it served as a bomber, dive bomber, night fighter, torpedo bomber, reconnaissance aircraft, heavy fighter and at the end of the war, as a flying bomb. The assembly line ran constantly from 1936 to 1945 and more than 15,000 Ju 88s were built in dozens of variants, more than any other twin-engine German aircraft of the period. Throughout production the basic structure of the aircraft remained unchanged. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-props-the-junkers-ju-88-dvd-mp4-usb-flash-dr884.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: War Jets: The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1964: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: Military Aviation Maiden Flights: -- The test F-111A aircraft, which was powered by YTF30-P-1 turbofan jet engines and used a set of ejector seats as the escape capsule was not yet available, make its first flight from Carswell Air Force Base, Texas. Lasting for 22 minutes, less than planned due to a flap malfunction, this initial flight was considered to be satisfactory overall. The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark is a retired supersonic, medium-range, multirole combat aircraft. Production variants of the F-111 had roles that included ground attack (e.g. interdiction), strategic bombing (including nuclear weapons capabilities), reconnaissance and electronic warfare. Developed in the 1960s by General Dynamics, the F-111 entered service in 1967 with the United States Air Force (USAF). The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) also ordered the type and began operating the F-111C variant in 1973. The F-111 pioneered several technologies for production aircraft, including variable-sweep wings, afterburning turbofan engines, and automated terrain-following radar for low-level, high-speed flight. Its design influenced later variable-sweep wing aircraft, and some of its advanced features have since become commonplace. The F-111 suffered a variety of problems during initial development. A fighter variant, the F-111B, was not accepted for production. The F-111B was intended to perform aircraft carrier-based roles with the US Navy, including long-range interception. USAF F-111s were retired during the 1990s with the F-111Fs in 1996 and EF-111s in 1998. The F-111 was replaced in USAF service by the F-15E Strike Eagle for medium-range precision strike missions, while the supersonic bomber role has been assumed by the B-1B Lancer. The RAAF continued to operate the type until December 2010, when the last F-111C was retired. The name Aardvark was derived from perceived similarities of the aircraft to the animal of the same name: a long nose and low-level, terrain-following capabilities. The word aardvark originated in the Afrikaans language, as a contraction of "earth-pig", and this was the source of the F-111's nickname of "Pig", during its Australian service. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-the-general-dynamics-f111-aardvark-111.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: War Jets: The Grumman F-14 Tomcat DVD MP4 Download USB Flash Drive
Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1970: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: Military Aviation Maiden Flights: -- The first flight of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat F-14 multi-role combat aircraft takes place in its initial F-14A two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather interceptor fighter variant prototype form, the first of 12 F-14As (sometimes called YF-14As). Modifications late in its service life added precision strike munitions to its armament. The U.S. Navy received 478 F-14A aircraft and 79 were received by Iran. The final 102 F-14As were delivered with improved Pratt & Whitney TF30-P-414A engines. Additionally, an 80th F-14A was manufactured for Iran, but was delivered to the U.S. Navy. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a twin-engine, all-weather, two-seat, twin-tail, variable-sweep wing fleet defense interceptor, air superiority fighter, tactical aerial reconnaissance platform and multirole fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program after the collapse of the F-111B project. The F-14 was the first of the American Teen Series fighters, which were designed incorporating air combat experience against MiG fighters during the Vietnam War. The F-14 made its first deployment in 1974 with the U.S. Navy aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65), replacing the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. The F-14 served as the U.S. Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor, and tactical aerial reconnaissance platform into the 2000s. The Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) pod system was added in the 1990s and the Tomcat began performing precision ground-attack missions. In the 1980s, F-14s were used as land-based interceptors by the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force during the Iran-Iraq War, where they saw combat against Iraqi warplanes. Iranian F-14s reportedly shot down at least 160 Iraqi aircraft during the war, while only 12 to 16 Tomcats were lost; at least half of these losses were due to accidents. The Tomcat was retired by U.S. Navy on September 2006 22, having been supplanted by the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The F-14 remains in service with Iran's air force, having been exported to Iran under the Pahlavi regime in 1976. In November 2015, reports emerged of Iranian F-14s flying escort for Russian Tupolev Tu-95, Tu-160, and Tu-22M bombers on air strikes in Syria. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-the-grumman-f14-tomcat-d14.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Props And Jets: Giants: History's Largest Aircraft DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1988: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: Military Aviation Maiden Flights: -- The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world. The Antonov An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian: lit. "Dream" or "Inspiration"; NATO reporting name: Cossack) is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft that was designed by the Antonov Design Bureau in the Ukrainian SSR within the Soviet Union during the 1980s. It is powered by six turbofan engines and is the heaviest aircraft ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes (710 short tons; 630 long tons). It also has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in operational service. The single example built has the Ukrainian civil registration UR-82060. A second airframe with a slightly different configuration was partially built. Its construction was halted in 1994 because of lack of funding and interest, but revived briefly in 2009, bringing it to 60-70% completion. On August 30, 2016, Antonov agreed to complete the second airframe for Airspace Industry Corporation of China (not to be confused with the Aviation Industry Corporation of China) as a prelude to commencing series production. The Antonov An-225 was initially developed as an enlargement of the Antonov An-124 to transport Buran-class orbiters. The only An-225 airplane was completed in 1988. After successfully fulfilling its Soviet military missions, it was mothballed for eight years. It was then refurbished and reintroduced, and is in commercial operation with Antonov Airlines, carrying oversized payloads. The airlifter holds the absolute world record for an airlifted single-item payload of 189,980 kg (418,830 lb), and an airlifted total payload of 253,820 kg (559,580 lb). It has also transported a payload of 247,000 kg (545,000 lb) on a commercial flight. With a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes (705 short tons), the An-225 held several records, including heaviest aircraft ever built and largest wingspan of any aircraft in operational service. It was commonly used to transport objects once thought impossible to move by air, such as 130-ton generators, wind turbine blades, and diesel locomotives. Additionally, both Chinese and Russian officials had announced separate plans to adapt the An-225 for use in their respective space programmes. The Mriya routinely attracted a high degree of public interest, attaining a global following due to its size and its uniqueness. The only completed An-225 was destroyed in the Battle Of Antonov Airport on February 24, 2022 during the 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine. On May 20, 2022, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky announced plans to complete the second An-225 to replace the destroyed aircraft. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/props-and-jets-giants-dvd-history39s-largest-aircra39.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1940: #DOTD: #RIP: F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer (b. September 24, 1896) #dies in Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California of a heart attack, aged just 44. On the night of December 20, 1940, Fitzgerald and Graham attended the premiere of This Thing Called Love starring Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas. As the two were leaving the Pantages Theater, Fitzgerald experienced a dizzy spell and had trouble walking; upset, he said to Graham, "They think I am drunk, don't they?" The following day, as Fitzgerald ate a candy bar and made notes in his newly arrived Princeton Alumni Weekly, Graham saw him jump from his armchair, grab the mantelpiece, gasp, and fall to the floor. She ran to the manager of the building, Harry Culver. Upon entering the apartment to assist Fitzgerald, Culver stated, "I'm afraid he's dead." Among the attendees at a visitation held at a funeral home was Dorothy Parker, who reportedly cried and murmured "the poor son-of-a-bitch", a line from Jay Gatsby's funeral in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. His body was transported to Bethesda, Maryland, where his funeral was attended by only thirty people; among the attendees were his only child, Scottie Fitzgerald, and his editor, Maxwell Perkins. At the time of his death, the Roman Catholic Church denied the family's request that Fitzgerald, a non-practicing Catholic, be buried in the family plot in the Catholic Saint Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. Fitzgerald was instead buried at Rockville Union Cemetery. When Zelda Fitzgerald died in 1948, in a fire at the Highland Mental Hospital, she was originally buried next to him at Rockville Union. In 1975, Scottie successfully petitioned to have the earlier decision revisited, and her parents' remains were moved to the family plot in Saint Mary's. Born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term which he coined. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. Although he temporarily achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received wide critical and popular acclaim after his death. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald was born into an upper-middle-class family in St. Paul, Minnesota, but was primarily raised in New York. He attended Princeton University, but due to a failed relationship and a preoccupation with writing, he dropped out in 1917 to join the army. While stationed in Alabama, he fell in love with rich socialite Zelda Sayre. Although she initially rejected him due to his financial situation, Zelda agreed to marry Fitzgerald after he had published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). In the 1920s, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he was influenced by the modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, particularly Ernest Hemingway. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him into the New York City elite. To maintain his lifestyle during this time, he also wrote several stories for magazines. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), was inspired by his rise to fame and relationship with Zelda. Although it received mixed reviews, The Great Gatsby is now widely praised, with some even labeling it the "Great American Novel". While Zelda was placed at a mental institute for her schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934). Faced with financial difficulties due to the declining popularity of his works, Fitzgerald turned to Hollywood, writing and revising screenplays. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he died in 1940, at the age of 44. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), was completed by Edmund Wilson and published after Fitzgerald's death. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/nbc-university-theater-of-the-air-otr-mp3-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Waldheim: A Commission Of Inquiry Kurt Waldheim WWII DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1918: #BOTD: Kurt Waldheim, Austrian colonel, war criminal, and politician, 9th President of Austria and fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. June 14, 2007) is #born Kurt Josef Waldheim in Sankt Andra-Wordern, near Vienna, Austria. While was running for the 1986 presidential election, the revelation of his service in Thessaloniki, Greece and in Yugoslavia, as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II raised controversy over what became known internationally as the "Waldheim affair". Before the presidential elections, investigative journalist Alfred Worm revealed in the Austrian weekly news magazine Profil that there had been several omissions about Waldheim's life between 1938 and 1945 in his recently published autobiography. Waldheim had previously claimed to have received a medical discharge after being wounded in winter 1942. His aides at the United Nations even accused the Israeli mission of spreading rumors that he supported the Nazis. Israeli ambassador Yehuda Zvi Blum denied the charges, saying, "We don't believe Waldheim ever supported the Nazis and we never said he did." A short time later, the World Jewish Congress alleged that Waldheim had lied about his service in the mounted corps of the SA and had concealed his service as a special missions staff officer (Ordonnanzoffizier) for Germany's Army Group E in Yugoslavia and Greece, from 1942 to 1944, based primarily on captured German wartime records held at the United States National Archives in Washington, DC, and in other archives. The 23 March 1986 public disclosure by the World Jewish Congress that the organization had unearthed the fact that the United Nations War Crimes Commission concluded after the war that Waldheim was implicated in Nazi mass murder and should be arrested arguably transformed the Waldheim affair into the most sensational of all postwar Nazi scandals. Waldheim called the allegations, which grew in magnitude in the ensuing months, "pure lies and malicious acts". Nevertheless, he admitted that he had known about German reprisals against partisans: "Yes, I knew. I was horrified. But what could I do? I had either to continue to serve or be executed." He said that he had never fired a shot or even seen a partisan. His former immediate superior at the time stated that Waldheim had "remained confined to a desk". Former Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky, of Jewish origin, denounced the actions of the World Jewish Congress as an "extraordinary infamy", adding that Austrians would not "allow the Jews abroad to ... tell us who should be our President." Part of the reason for the controversy was Austria's refusal to address its national role in the Holocaust. (Many leading Nazis, including Adolf Hitler, were Austrians, and Austria became part of the Third Reich.) Austria refused to pay compensation to Nazi victims, and from 1970 onwards refused to investigate Austrian citizens who were senior Nazis. Stolen Jewish art remained public property a generation after the Waldheim affair. Because the revelations leading to the Waldheim affair came shortly before the presidential election, there has been speculation about the background of the affair. Declassified documents from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency show that the CIA had been aware of some details of his wartime past since 1945. Information about Waldheim's wartime past was also previously published by a pro-German Austrian newspaper, Salzburger Volksblatt, during the 1971 presidential election campaign, including the claim of an SS membership, but the matter was supposedly regarded as unimportant or even advantageous for the candidate at that time. According to several of Waldheim's obituarists, his wartime past and the discrepancies in his autobiography, In the Eye of the Storm, must have been known to both superpowers before he was elected UN Secretary-General, and there were allegations that the KGB had blackmailed him during his UN time. In 1994, former Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky claimed in his book The Other Side of Deception that Mossad doctored Waldheim's file while he was serving as Secretary-General to implicate him in Nazi crimes. These allegedly false documents were subsequently "discovered" by Benjamin Netanyahu in the UN file and triggered the "Waldheim Affair". Ostrovsky says that this was motivated by Waldheim's criticism of Israel's war in Lebanon. Controversy surrounds Ostrovsky because many of his revelations have not been sourced or otherwise confirmed, leading several critics to say that most of his work (including The Other Side of Deception) is fictional. Ostrovsky's service in Mossad was confirmed when the Israeli government unsuccessfully attempted to stop publication of the book. In view of the ongoing international controversy, the Austrian government decided to appoint an international committee of historians to examine Waldheim's life between 1938 and 1945. Their report found no evidence of any personal involvement in those crimes. Although Waldheim had stated that he was unaware of any crimes taking place, the committee cited evidence that Waldheim must have known about war crimes. On 27 April 1987, the United States Department Of Justice and the United States Department of State announced that evidence amassed in an investigation conducted by the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) had established a prima facie case that Waldheim participated in Nazi-sponsored persecution during World War II and therefore that his entry into the United States was prohibited by federal statute. This marked the first time that a head of state had been put on an immigration watchlist. The 232-page internal Department Of Justice 9 April 1987 investigative report was released in 1994 by that agency, and it is available at the agency's website.The report catalogues evidence that, the U.S. government concluded, proved that Waldheim had taken part in, among other actions: the transfer of civilian prisoners to the SS for exploitation as slave labor; the mass deportation of civilians-including Jews from Greek islands and the town of Banja Luka, Yugoslavia-to concentration and death camps; the utilization of anti-Semitic propaganda; the mistreatment and execution of Allied prisoners; and reprisal executions of hostages and other civilians. Additional allegations of participation in Nazi crimes, with citations to captured Nazi documents and other records, were leveled in a 1993 book by Eli Rosenbaum, the former U.S. federal prosecutor who had directed the World Jewish Congress investigation that led to the New York Times' initial exposure of Waldheim's hidden Nazi-era past in 1986. The authors also cited evidence that the governments of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia had covered up Waldheim's wartime past and used it to blackmail him before and during his tenure as United Nations Secretary General, and that the U.S. intelligence community had committed a major error in failing to detect the Cold War weaponization of that information by the two communist governments. Kurt Waldheim died in Vienna, Austria at the age of 88 of heart failure. His funeral was held on June 23 at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, and he was buried at the Presidential Vault in the Vienna Central Cemetery (German: Wiener Zentralfriedhof), one of the largest cemeteries in the world by number of interred, and the most-known cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/waldheim-a-commission-of-inquiry-kurt-waldheim-wwii-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1967: Medicine: The History Of Medicine: Surgery: The History Of Surgery: Cardiac Surgery: The History Of Cardiac Surgery: The First Human-To-Human Heart Transplant: -- #DOTD: #RIP: Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a human-to-human heart transplant, #dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant. In the early morning hours of a Sunday December 3, 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carried out the heart transplant on Washkansky, a 54-year-old grocer who was suffering from diabetes and incurable heart disease, was the patient. Barnard was assisted by his brother Marius Barnard, as well as a team of thirty staff members. The operation lasted approximately five hours. Barnard stated to Washkansky and his wife Ann Washkansky that the transplant had an 80% chance of success. This has been criticised by the ethicists Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse as making claims for chances of success to the patient and family which were "unfounded" and "misleading". Barnard later wrote, "For a dying man it is not a difficult decision because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water, convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side." The donor heart came from a young woman, Denise Darvall, who had been rendered brain dead in an accident the day prior on December 2 1967, while crossing a street in Cape Town. On examination at Groote Schuur hospital, Darvall had two serious fractures in her skull, with no electrical activity in her brain detected, and no sign of pain when ice water was poured into her ear.] Coert Venter and Bertie Bosman requested permission from Darvall's father for Denise's heart to be used in the transplant attempt. The afternoon before his first transplant, Barnard dozed at his home while listening to music. When he awoke, he decided to modify Shumway and Lower's technique. Instead of cutting straight across the back of the atrial chambers of the donor heart, he would avoid damage to the septum and instead cut two small holes for the venae cavae and pulmonary veins. Prior to the transplant, rather than wait for Darvall's heart to stop beating, at his brother Marius Barnard's urging, Christiaan had injected potassium into her heart to paralyse it and render her technically dead by the whole-body standard. Twenty years later, Marius Barnard recounted, "Chris stood there for a few moments, watching, then stood back and said, 'It works.'" Washkansky survived the operation and lived for 18 days, having succumbed to pneumonia as he was taking immunosuppressive drugs. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/pioneers-of-surgery-dvd-set-4-episode-tv-series-2-dis42.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
( #JCKaelin here: Eric Clapton has said that his work on the 1967 Cream album "Disraeli Gears" was inspired by Albert King, particularly the song "Strange Brew", in which Clapton copied note-for-note King's lead guitar solo on the song "Crosscut Saw"! ========= December 21, 1992: #DOTD: #RIP: Albert King, African American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. April 25, 1923) #dies of a heart attack in his Memphis, Tennesee home, aged 69. His final concert had been in Los Angeles two days earlier. He was given a funeral procession with the Memphis Horns playing "When The Saints Go Marching In" and was buried in Paradise Gardens Cemetery in Edmondson, Arkansas, near his childhood home. King was survived by his wife, Glendle; two daughters, Evelyn Smith and Gloria Randolph; a son, Donald Randolph; a sister, Elvie Wells; eight grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren. Albert King was born Albert Nelson in Indianola, Mississippi. Known by his stage name Albert King, he was an American blues guitarist and singer whose playing influenced many other blues guitarists. He is perhaps best known for the popular and influential album Born Under a Bad Sign (1967) and its title track. He is one of the three performers (together with B.B. King and Freddie King) known as the "Kings of the Blues." King was known for his "deep, dramatic sound that was widely imitated by both blues and rock guitarists." He was also known as "The Velvet Bulldozer" because of his smooth singing and large size - he stood taller than average, with sources reporting 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) or 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), and weighed 250 lb (110 kg) - and also because he drove a bulldozer in one of his day jobs early in his career. King was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1983. He was posthumously inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013. In 2011, he was ranked #13 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Eric Clapton has said that his work on the 1967 Cream album "Disraeli Gears" was inspired by Albert King, particularly the song "Strange Brew", in which Clapton copied note-for-note King's lead guitar solo on the song "Crosscut Saw". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/i-want-my-music-tv-dvd-late-1980s-vi1980.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Henrik Ibsen Documentary + Bonus Hedda Gabbler DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1879: Premieres: -- Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House premieres at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark. A Doll's House (Danish and Bokmal: Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879. The play is significant for the way it deals with the fate of a married woman, who at the time in Norway lacked reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world, despite the fact that Ibsen denies it was his intent to write a feminist play. It aroused a great sensation at the time, and caused a "storm of outraged controversy" that went beyond the theatre to the world newspapers and society. In 2006, the centennial of Ibsen's death, A Doll's House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play that year. UNESCO has inscribed Ibsen's autographed manuscripts of A Doll's House on the Memory of the World Register in 2001, in recognition of their historical value. The title of the play is most commonly translated as A Doll's House, though some scholars use A Doll House. John Simon says that A Doll's House is "the British term for what [Americans] call a 'dollhouse'". Egil Tornqvist says of the alternative title: "Rather than being superior to the traditional rendering, it simply sounds more idiomatic to Americans." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/henrik-ibsen-dvd-playwright-documentary.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Carla Thomas, often referred to as "The Queen Of Memphis Soul", African American singer, best known for her 1960s recordings for Atlantic and Stax including the hits "Because I Love You" (recorded with her father Rufus Thomas), Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" (1960), "B-A-B-Y" (1966) and "Tramp" (1967), a duet with Otis Redding, is #born Carla Venita Thomas in the Foote Homes Projects in Memphis, Tennessee. Carla's biggest influence was her father, Rufus. Besides accompanying him during his 'MC' days at the Palace Theater, Rufus also encouraged and believed in his daughter's ability. According to Carla, "My dad probably discovered I could sing before I did". He was also instrumental in setting the stage for her Teen Town Singers gig and for actively pursuing and promoting her breakthrough single, "Gee Whiz". Musically, Thomas was inspired by Jackie Wilson and Brenda Lee. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/dj-radio-airchecks-mp3-dvd-1950s60s70s-dis319506070.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1992: #DOTD: #RIP: Stella Adler, Jewish American beauty, actress and acting teacher of the Yiddish Theater's Adler dynasty (b. February 10, 1901) #dies of heart failure at the age of 91 in Los Angeles, California. She is buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, New York. Stella Adler was born in Manhattan's Lower East Side in New York City. She was the youngest daughter of Sara and Jacob P. Adler, the sister of Luther, Jay, Frances, and Julia Adler and half-sister of Charles Adler and Celia Adler, star of the Yiddish Theater. All five of her siblings were actors. The Adlers comprised the Jewish American Adler acting dynasty, which had its start in the Yiddish Theater District and was a significant part of the vibrant ethnic theatrical scene that thrived in New York from the late 19th century to the 1950s. Stella Adler became the most famous and influential member of her family. She began acting at the age of four as a part of the Independent Yiddish Art Company of her parents. She shifted to producing, directing, and teaching, founding the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City in 1949. Later in life she taught part time in Los Angeles, with the assistance of her protegee, actress Joanne Linville, who continued to teach Adler's technique. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-second-ave-yiddish-theatre-in-america-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Clive James' Fame In The 20th Century TV Series DVD Set MP4 USB Drive
Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1937: #BOTD: #HBD! Jane Fonda, American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, fitness guru and beauty, is #born Jane Seymour Fonda in New York City. She is a two-time Academy Award winner and two-time BAFTA Award winner. In 2014, she was the recipient of the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award. Her other major competitive awards include an Emmy Award for the 1984 TV film The Dollmaker, two BAFTA Awards for Julia and The China Syndrome and four Golden Globe Awards. Her first husband was Barbarella director Roger Vadim, who directed her in Barbarella (1968). In 1982, she released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling video of the time. It would be the first of 22 workout videos released by her over the next 13 years which would collectively sell over 17 million copies. Divorced from second husband Tom Hayden, she married billionaire media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 and retired from acting. Fonda was divorced from Turner in 2001. She returned to acting with her first film in 15 years, the 2005 comedy Monster in Law. In 2009, she returned to Broadway after a 45-year absence, in the play 33 Variations, which earned her a Tony Award nomination, while her recurring role in the HBO drama series The Newsroom (2012-2014), has earned her two Emmy Award nominations. She also released another five exercise videos between 2010 and 2012. She stars with Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen in the Netflix original series Grace and Frankie, which premiered in 2015. Fonda was a visible political activist in the counterculture era during the Vietnam War and later became involved in advocacy for women. On a 1972 visit to Hanoi, she infuriatingly said as she sat in the seat of an anti-aircraft gun that had been used to shoot down an American B-52 bomber and sid "I want to shoot down an empire", referring to the United States, as part of a North Vietnamese propaganda media event, an event that profoundly upset many American veterans, including those opposed to the war. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women, and describes herself as a feminist. In 2005, she, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem co-founded the Women's Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content. Fonda serves on the board of the organization. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/clive-james39-fame-in-the-20th-century-tv-series-dvd-set-mp4-usb-39204.html

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Today, December 21, 2024
December 21, 1950: #DOTD #RIP: Hattie Wyatt Caraway, American democratic politician who became the first woman elected to serve a full term as a United States Senator, the first to be re-elected, and the first woman to preside over the Senate (b. February 1, 1878) #dies while still in office in Falls Church, Virginia of a stroke sustained in January of that year, aged 72. She is buried in Oaklawn Cemetery in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Hattie Wyatt Caraway was born Hattie Wyatt near rural Bakerville in Humphreys County in west-central Tennessee. Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway;s husband Thaddeus Caraway was elected the U.S. Senator from Arkansas in 1920. Following his March 3, 1931 death, she filled the remainder of his term; following the precedent of appointing widows to temporarily take their husbands' places, Arkansas governor Harvey Parnell appointed Hattie Caraway to the vacant seat, and she was sworn into office on December 9. With the Democratic Party of Arkansas's backing, she easily won a special election in January 1932 for the remaining months of the term, becoming the first woman elected to the Senate. In May 1932, Caraway surprised Arkansas politicians by announcing that she would run for a full term in the upcoming election. Lacking any significant political backing, Caraway accepted the active support of fellow Senator Huey Long, of neighboring Louisiana. Caraway went on to win the general election in November, with the accompanying victory of Franklin D. Roosevelt as U.S. President. Caraway was reelected in 1948, and served a total of 14 years in the Senate. On her final day in the Senate, she received a rare standing ovation from her all-male colleagues. Roosevelt then appointed her to the Employees' Compensation Commission, and in 1946, President Harry S. Truman gave her a post on the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board, on which she served until she suffered a stroke in January 1950 that caused her death at the end of the year. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/women39s-suffrage-amp-the-women39s-movement-dvd-mp4-usb-39394.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Judy Garland In Concert & Conversation DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, December 21, 2024
December 21: Short Girl Appreciation Day: -- Don't come up short on ways to celebrate the small ladies in your life! If you're a short girl yourself, you know the genetic lottery you've won - they always make cute shoes in smaller sizes, your feet are never going to hang off the bed, and there are even health benefits associated with being a little vertically challenged. Go shorty, it's your holiday! When the cups are on the tallest shelf of the tallest cabinet, it's not always fun to be short. But how great it is that you're always at the top of the human pyramid? And when have you ever hit your head on a door frame? Short Girl Appreciation Day was started to celebrate the smaller ladies in our lives, and maybe help them grab that out-of-reach item. However, being a "short girl" has meant different things throughout the years and places! Tiny doorways in the 1700s proved that while a 5'2" woman today might be considered on the short side, they would have been completely average in a different time! Even average men between the 12th and 16th centuries would be considered short by today's standards. These days, the average female height is 5'4". Though buildings, roads, and cities are only getting larger worldwide, short women are keeping up! Today, women are taller on average than our ancestors even just 100 years ago. Still, women in Indonesia, Bolivia, and the Philippines are on the shorter end of the global average, hovering around just 5 feet! This proves that "short" totally depends on where you are. Short women make a huge impact. "America's Sweetheart" Judy Garland (Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz.") was only 4'11", "Miss Sassy" aka "The Divine One" Sarah Vaughn (Jazz Singer extraordinaire) came in at 5' 3 1/2, Emilia Clarke (Mother of Dragons!) stands only 5'2", as does makeup and reality TV mogul Kim Kardashian. Lady Gaga checks in at 5'1", and superstar Olympic gymnast Simone Biles is only 4'8". These ladies prove that whether it's onstage, on the Olympic podium, or anywhere else, being short does not stunt your success. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/judy-garland-in-concert-dvd-rare-tv-appearances.html