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At one point before I bought my own house, I thought home repairs were one of my skills. I helped my grandfather, Gilbert Ellis, make repairs to our house and the flat he lived in. Grandpa Ellis taught me how to replace electrical outlets, washers on sinks and build lots of things with wood. I put together lots of prefabricated
Oíche Nollag 1902, dhá bhaile beag, beag-am, d’oscail fir holdup sábháilte an Aontais, Banc Missouri. Tar éis bagairt ar roinnt saoránach, rinne siad amach le breis $15,000. Bhí na fir sách sábháilte ar feadh cúpla mí go dtí gur glaodh Gníomhaireacht Bleachtaireachta Pinkerton isteach. Bhí gníomhaireacht náisiúnta ag na Pinkertons, a bhí an rud is gaire don Aontaithe
Ar Márta 16, 1945, Universal Pictures released The House of Fear (1945), the eighth of twelve Sherlock Holmes films produced by the studio. Basil Rathbone returned as Holmes for the tenth time. Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes twice for Twentieth Century – Fox before Universal started producing the series. Despite its late entry into the series, an scannán (nasc affiliate) stands
Léigh mé Choque le déanaí: An Scéal Untold de Jiu-Jitsu sa Bhrasaíl, Imleabhar 1 le Roberto Pedreira (Nasc cleamhnaithe Amazon), a insíonn scéal eile faoi thús BJJ ná mar a dúradh linn in agallaimh éagsúla le baill den teaghlach Gracie. “Turraing” aistríonn go “suaite” i bPortaingéilis na Brasaíle. Cé go ndéanann Pedreira taighde iomlán agus luann sé foinsí príomhúla, nuachtáin Brasaíle den chuid is mó,
Throid Fred Beell go proifisiúnta ó 1900 to 1919. Tar éis dó clú finscéalach a fhorbairt mar gheall ar chuid dá bhua ar Martin “Feirmeoir” Dónna, Dan McLeod agus Frank Gotch, Chuaigh Beell ar scor agus é ag druidim 43 bliana d'aois. Bheadh bás gan choinne mar thoradh ar a ghairm bheatha iar wrestála ag 57. D'éirigh le Fred Beell a bheith ina wrestler gairmiúil inniúil
Growing up I heard lots of stories about my Great Grandmother Caroline “Lee” Ellis from my mother. She spent lots of time with her grandmother who lived in St. Louis. Grandpa Ellis moved to Illinois a couple of times during the 1940s and 1950s. Mom would come back to St. Louis frequently to see Great Grandma Ellis. Grandma and Grandpa
Frank Gotch was famous for defeating George Hackenschmidt, an wrestler curadh domhanda agus weightlifter i 1908 and the 1911 rematch. Bhí Gotch an teideal ar feadh cúig bliana agus defeated gach duine dá dtagann. Ag an aois óg de 35, Gotch cinneadh dul ar scor. Chun a chluiche deireanach, he would take on another famous European wrestler and weightlifter, George Lurich. George Lurich
Ar Samhain 13, 1930, Roland V. West released The Bat Whispers (1930), the talkie version of his silent classic, An Ialtóg (1926). The film follows faithfully the script of the original. Mar sin féin, West is able to experiment with film techniques like tracking shots, still a novelty in early sound cinema. Editing still dominated as the continuity and story moving technique.
Timpeall 10 am on Thursday, Aibreán 10, 1919, five heavily armed men burst into the Baden Bank. The bandits confronted M.W. Muntzel, the cashier, and demanded access to the vault. They rounded up the four other employees as Muntzel led the group to the vault. The robbers wore colored bandanas to obscure their features. While two of the five men
Ar Dé hAoine, Bealtaine 12, 1905, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt toured the United States after defeating reigning American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. One of Hackenschmidt’s stops was the “Gateway to the West”, St. Louis, Missouri. Hackenschmidt agreed to throw three wrestlers in under 90 minutes. He accomplished this feat in less than 19 minutes after the third wrestler