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
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
Black Raven (1943) är en “B” film (affiliate länk) from Producers Releasing Corporation (Kina). George Zucco plays Amos Bradford aka the Raven, ägaren av Black Raven Inn. Bradford ends up hosting several unexpected guests, who are escaping a raging thunderstorm. The storm washed out all the bridges and stranded the visitors, which include a couple trying to elope,
My oldest son Kenneth will turn 18 this week. It is hard for me to believe he is a grown man already. It seems like five years ago he was a little guy running around and climbing on everything. When he was less than a year old, he could hang out of his exersaucer and pick up his toys off
När du når det frodigt av svart bälte, du kommer att få svårt om inte omöjligt att träna i klassen. Om du inte har massor av svarta bälten, som kan turas roterande, du kommer att tillbringa större delen av din tid på att lära. The window of training in class also closes the longer that you are a black belt. How do you continue
My second great-grandfather John Riley Deweese served as Welch Township Republican Committee Chairman in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri for most of his adult life. Besides holding party caucuses in his home, John Riley served as Road Commissioner in the 1910s. Residents mostly traversed the roads by horse and buggy. One of the mechanisms governments used to collect fees for road
This week my youngest son Caleb turns 16. I can’t believe it has been 16 years since I saw and held him for the first time. Caleb was the baby and waited until he had a good meal at Red Lobster before making his appearance in the world. When he was ready though, he didn’t wait around. He was born 40 minuter
På Juli 5, 1937, Associated British Picture Corporation released Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937), one of the last Bulldog Drummond feature films (affiliate länk). I denna film, John Davis Lodge plays Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond. Drummond is vacationing, when a Scottish scientist escapes from a couple of secret agents. The scientist throws a rock through the window of Drummond’s cabin.
Today would have been my maternal grandfather Gilbert P. Ellis’ 100th birthday. Grandpa Ellis only lived to 85 but he imparted 100 years worth of wisdom into the 32 years I knew him. I could write books about him but am going to focus today’s post on how he inspired me by refusing to grow old. Grandpa Ellis maintained his physical
På lördag, Mars 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Louis’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Moran and the detectives
På tisdag, Januari 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Roller, en Seattle läkare och pro brottare som var tillräckligt bra för att vinna det amerikanska Heavyweight, oförklarligt valt att prova sin hand på proffsboxning. Hans motståndare var vän och sparringpartner, “Denver” Ed Martin, who would win the Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete