Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
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Vem är den största legitima professionella brottaren att brottas i USA? Hur gör
Rarely does one fundamentally alter their profession but Stanislaus Zbyszko did just that on April
Tom Hyer vann amerikanska Bare Knuckle PROFFSBOXNING Championship i 1841. Som de flesta prismästare
In a testament to his foresight and vision, the World Wrestling Champion William Muldoon was preparing to be a fitness trainer even while at the height of his powers as a wrestler. Muldoon held the championship from 1880 until he retired in 1890. During his reign, he often gave exhibitions to attract attention to his way of training. The Saturday,
På September 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Louis’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. The St. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Louis’ South
En vanlig myt i kampsporter är att en masterstudier för 40 år, utvecklar en nästan övermänsklig förståelse för självförsvar, skapar det perfekta systemet och visar sig generationer av oslagbara fighters. Innan populariteten av mixed martial arts, many of the magazines such as Black Belt were full of stories about which martial art was the best. If you polled
Arthur Wontner is arguably the best film portrayer of Sherlock Holmes. His fifth and final outing as Holmes in Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). The film (affiliate länk) was released in the United Kingdom in 1937 but was not released in America until January 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering
Julius “Uncle Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Uncle Jules” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Lee” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee had the challenge of raising her two-year-old son Gilbert as a single
Reginald Owen stars as Sherlock Holmes in one of the early American talking motion picture adaptations of Sherlock Holmes. En studie i rött (1933) (affiliate länk) sees Holmes trying to solve murders among a group of confederates. Arthur Wontner starred in several successful English adaptations of the series, which probably inspired Hollywood to follow suit. Tyvärr, Reginald Owen did not
På December 15, 1903, three men entered the Erie House at Fourth Street and Clark Avenue. The men beat up cook Victor Dauson before shooting hotel clerk Charles Harding. Dauson died from his injuries but Charles Harding recovered. De män tog $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 a.m. and surprised Harding,
Sam Hill, en Seattle affärsman, förde professor Yoshiaki Yamashita till USA i 1902. Professor Yamashita tänkt att hjälpa till att sprida Dr. Jigoro Kano relativt nya kampsporten Judo. Kompletterande Professor Yamashita var hans elev Mitsuyo Maeda. Maeda skulle gå på att undervisa Carlos Gracie i Brasilien. The Gracies modified the techniques into the art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Over
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, St. Louis had the distinction of being the largest city west of the Mississippi River. Pickpockets and thieves rode the rails to ply their illicit trade in the bustling metropolis. På September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.
Eight St. Louis Police Officers were killed in the line of duty during 1920. I was shocked to find a newspaper article about a Ninth officer being killed. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is good about recording all their line of duty deaths. When I found his Missouri Death Certificate, it cleared up the mystery. I came across the article in