The Woman in Green (1945)

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The Woman in Green (1945) is the ninth of twelve Sherlock Holmes (affiliate länk) produced by Universal Pictures. Basil Rathbone returns as Holmes in the eleventh of fourteen turns as the English sleuth. The film is one of the few “B” series films, which could have been an “A” film. Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of several young London women.

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Self-Defense Instruction

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The problem with too much martial arts’ self-defense instruction is that they are low percentage defenses against unrealistic attacks taught by some instructors, who have limited knowledge of street attacks. Vissa system skapades för gata eller militär utbildning och är bättre än andra. Emellertid, the insularity of too many martial arts keep some instructors from exploring defenses for different

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The Bat (1926)

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Roland V. West köpt rättigheterna och regisserade The Bat (1926) (affiliate länk), ett av de första “gamla mörka hus” mysterier för United Artist in 1926. Arthur Edeson var filmfotograf för både denna film och den gamla mörka hus (1932), som har liknande expressionistiska element. Båda filmerna anges i stora herrgårdar, som har sett bättre dagar. Nyckeln

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Herman Johannpeter (1878 – 1921)

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When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Lee” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Stud”, Julius Johannpeter. Grandpa lived with Uncle Jules from the time he left Missouri Military Academy in 1932 until he married my grandmother, Alvina Ellis nee Mosblech in 1938. Morfar

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