Russian Civil War Snags Aberg and Lurich

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Estonia gave birth to three of the greatest wrestlers of the first two decades of the 20th Century: Georg Lurich, George Hackenschmidt and Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. As part of the Russian Empire at the time, Estonia contained a number of elementary and high schools with superior physical education programs. Lurich and Hackenschmidt both started out as weightlifters and transitioned into

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151 St. Louisians Wed on Thanksgiving

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Cov ntaub ntawv Missouri rau kev muab lais xees sib yuav nyob rau hauv ib hnub yog lawm hnub Wednesday, Kaum ib hlis 23, 1904 los ntawm 151 cov niam txiv ntawm cov me nyuam. Louis, leej twg xav mus khi cov pob caus Thanksgiving hnub 1904. Cov ntaub ntawv teev ib hnub twg yog 117 cov niam txiv teev nyob rau hauv St. Louis ua ntej Thanksgiving 1903. Txoj kev ncaj ncees rau cov kev sib raug zoo, R.J. Carroll, set up shop in

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Vim li cas peb siv Canes

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Cov kev pab cuam feem ntau self-defense ua yog siv ntau ciav los grappling rua kev. Ob peb lub self-defense siv hom kev kawm los ntawm ob yam. Ciav thiab grappling rau hom kev kawm ob yam yuav pab tau zoo tiam sis tej zaum ib tug nrog pab ib equalizer. Policeman muaj ntuj sticks thiab tasers vim li no. Cov kev cai ntawm teb chaws Mis Kas ban feem ntau riam phom, tiam sis yog ib tug uas raws li txoj cai muaj nyob qhov twg

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Hornleigh neeg soj ntsuam mus rau nws

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Saum ntuj 17, 1941, Xyoo pua twentieth – Hma liab thiaj tso peb thiab hnub Hornleigh kws soj ntsuam feature naam, Hornleigh neeg soj ntsuam mus rau nws. Tus series niam comedy thiab cov kev ua txhaum ua kom tsim tau ib yam khoom uas nws. Gordon Dam txog Harker plays kws soj ntsuam Hornleigh, Thaum Alistair Sims reprises nws lub luag hauj lwm raws li Sgt. Bingham. Naam (affiliate link) opens with Inspector Hornleigh dictating his memoirs to

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Detective Desmond yuav tsis khiav tawm tsev kaw neeg

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Hnub peb sawv ntxov, Lub Xya hli ntuj 8, 1885, tub soj ntsuam tus ntaus khoom Jimmy Spaulding rushed mus rau hauv tsev hais plaub tus tub ceev xwm hauv lub tsev hais plaub plaub lub tsev. Spaulding tshaj tawm ib lub nkuaj inmates hauv nkuaj cia tos twb nyuam qhuav dim hauv. Nrhiav tub tes tub taw hauv lub tsev hais plaub feem ntau zaum stunned, Detective Billy Desmond dhia ntawd kom nws lub taw thiab rushed ntawm lub courtroom.

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Me nyuam tub zoo nkauj Floyd. Louis nyiag

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Nyob rau hauv 1934, Charles ArthurPretty BoyFloyd ended his criminal career in an East Liverpool, Ohio corn field after a shoot out with FBI agents and local law enforcement officers. Txawm li cas los, in December 1925, he was inmate number 29078 at the Missouri Penitentiary. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office

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Policewomen Break Up Theft Ring in 1919

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Lub hnub hmo, Lub ob hlis ntuj 18, 1919, ib tsab ntawm tus me nyuam. Louis Dispatch tom qab detailed tus ntes ob tug txiv neej thiab poj niam ob rau hauv tub sab heev heev khoom khoom kim heev. Paub hais tias ib ntiv nplhaib tawm shoplifting ntawd ua hauj lwm ib nkawg ntawm cov hniav nyiaj hniav kub lub khw muag khoom noj, cov me nyuam. Louis ceev xwm muab ntau undercover tub ceev xwm cov poj niam mus ua raws li cov suspects. Their work resulted in the

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Neeg soj ntsuam Hornleigh ntawm nyiaj so koobtsheej (1939)

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Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 1, 1939, Twentieth xyoo pua-hma liab thiaj tso neeg soj ntsuam Hornleigh ntawm nyiaj so koobtsheej (1939), naam thib ob rau peb zaj duab xis koob. Harker Gordon Dam txog starred li cov Hornleigh kws soj ntsuam vaj Scotland. Naam opens Brighton-rau-tus-hiav txwv, qhov twg daus los te loj muaj cia neeg soj ntsuam cov Hornleigh thiab nws pab Sergeant Bingham, ua si los Alastair Sim, hauv cov thawj ob peb so haujlwm hnub. Following the rule in

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Desmond Fas tau ib Confession

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St. Louis Chief ntawm Detectives William Desmond yog paub tias kom nws muaj peev xwm tau confessions ntawm criminals. Tsis zoo li lwm detectives, leej twg yuav qee zaus siv lub cev sib thuam, Desmond eschewed cov “peb kawm ntawv”. Chief Desmond ntseeg tau ntaub ntawv los ntawm beating suspects unreliable kiag li. Desmond yuav pib muaj kev sib sab laj nrog cov nyaj. Tom qab muab nws tom yooj yim, Desmond yuav cia

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