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Jan 26, 1926: Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates his new invention, the “televisor”, for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times at his laboratory on Frith Street in Soho, London.

This "television" technology can display film at a rate of five frames per second.

”The image as transmitted was faint and often blurred,” writes a reporter who witnesses the historic event, “but substantiated a claim that…it is possible to transmit and reproduce instantly the details of movement, and such things as the play of expression on the face.”

The first face seen on the televisor is that of a ventriloquist’s dummy called Stooky Bill, its face painted white for better contrast. The first human to “go live”—on a viewfinder 3 yards from the camera—is Oliver Hutchinson, the businessman who has backed Laird’s endeavor.



Modulations of light from the scanned lines are transmitted by radio signal to a second disk, spinning in synchronization with the first. A neon lamp flashes the impulses onto a glass screen, "so rapidly that the whole image appears simultaneously to the eye," the Times says. The televisor’s screen is no bigger than 2 inches square, the size of a matchbox. This still represents a leap beyond what his device did last year, when it transmitted silhouette images of simple images such as the letter "H."

“A wretched nonentity working with soap boxes in a garret,” as Baird describes himself, has now achieved something major companies have not. The closest a U.S. inventor has come to television has been Charles Francis Jenkins’ “telarama,” which projects silhouette pictures. Baird, 37, has many “firsts” ahead of him: the first long-distance television broadcast (1927), first color TV and trans-Atlantic TV (1928) and first 3-D television (1941). Other inventors will surpass his disk-based system by inventing the more efficient cathode-ray tube.


And the following year in April 1927 a company was set up to commercialize his invention. Baird's mechanical system did improve dramatically from 1927 to 1936 and became temporarily watchable for limited programming, many Britons enjoyed the 240-line BBC broadcasts in 1936.


Jan 26, 1926: Clerical workers of New York’s Financial District practice the Charleston for a number they will perform in the upcoming "Wall Street Follies." They are Evelyn Crane, Helen Bird, and Ethel Hale.


"Wall Street Follies" was a series of amateur theatrical productions, typically produced for charity, that satirized the finance industry.

Whereas the professional, high-budget Ziegfeld Follies—and the booming, reckless financial world of the Roaring Twenties intersected. These revues were often funded by, and catered to, wealthy Wall Street brokers.

Fanny Brice and the "Wall Street" Scandal: Iconic Follies star Fanny Brice was married to Nicky Arnstein, a con man involved in a 1920 conspiracy to sell $5 million in stolen Wall Street bonds. Brice funded his legal defense, a scandal that captivated the public and was later dramatized in Funny Girl.

Due to legal troubles, Ziegfeld was forced to use different titles for his 1926 show, which was briefly known as No Foolin' before the court battles allowed it to tour as the Ziegfeld Follies of 1926.

Gold Diggers of 1933 - "We're in the Money"




Jan 26, 1926: The garter flask has become the flapper’s secret weapon in the war on Prohibition. The dancer Mlle. Rhea, now performing at the Keith’s vaudeville show in Washington, D.C., demonstrates the ease of reaching for a forbidden drink.


"Everybody has one now!” writes Ethel Pincus of the Buffalo Times, noting that silver flasks are the most fashionable. “Jewelers can't supply enough of the four-ouncers. No more does the handsome raccooned sheik pass the quart bottles to his fair Sheba when they go dancing.

“No! 'cause more than once a slim and dainty maiden tripped, and—crash! Gin was seen and smelled! ‘Smuch better thish way. No? You see..a garter flask poised invitingly on each leg and fastened there by a bright silken and feathered garter, what male could resist?”


Jan 26, 1926: Attempts are made to broadcast radio transmissions from the Northeast U.S. that are powerful enough to be heard in the Soviet Union. A playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by WGY of Schenectady, N.Y., is heard clearly at a government station outside Moscow.




Rare aesthetic: 2000s EU unity and co-operation.


Concorde entered service on January 21, 1976; retired on October 24, 2003.


"By order of the Emperor, General Thomas Homanius has been dispatched to Minneapolis, with authority to act in the emperor’s name, to quell the rebellion therein, and to punish all enemies of the state. No disorder will be tolerated." One year ago today, Tom Homan when asked if there are going to be MASS deportations every single day for the next 4 years:


Answer: "Yes"


"The traitor Walz has fled to Canada. Glorious Trump follows. The Super Bowl will be held on the second Sunday of the second month. No prostitutes, actors, or unclean tradesmen may attend."


Davy Crockett and SADM. Special Atomic Demolition Munition or "Backpack Nuke" (SADM, 1964-88) for Dam & bridge annihilation or crowd vaporization. Nothing like having a 98lb nuke strapped between your legs. What a rush!



In the perspective of purely Tom Clancy thought, he did blow-up the Minnesota Vikings with a nuke in SUM OF ALL FEARS.


Cat fight in the EU theater...


The 5 hardest jobs in Brussels

These unelected EU bureaucrats got drunk on their own Russophobia propaganda and now they're drowning in their own vomit.

My prediction is that they (Brussels gang) along with Mark Rutte, Starmer, Macron, Merz will all eventually fall like dominoes.


It has finally dawned on Strasbourg’s blob that the European dream is dead


President Putin to President Trump, NATO & the European states: “What is happening around Greenland does not concern us in any way.”
The Kremlin

The Financial Times reply: Are you kidding? Shock.

Trump being Trump will annex Greenland to embarrass the EURO leaders as a way of showing the Europeans, "See, look what I've done and YOUR leaders couldn't do a damn thing to stop me. Get rid of them and elect better leaders."