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Universal Pictures released the thirteenth of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes on February 1, 1946. Twentieth Century-Fox produced the first two films. Universal produced the final 12 filma. Terror By Night (1946) finds Holmes hired to protect the Star of Rhodesia diamond on a train bound for Scotland. Rodney Carstairs punëson Holmes për të mbrojtur
Ad Santel entered professional wrestling a generation too late. By the time he started wrestling in the 1910s, professional wrestling transitioned from contests to prearranged exhibitions. Santel possessed strong submission skills, which would have allowed him to beat most of the wrestlers in legitimate wrestling contests. Santel mori pjesë në disa gara legjitime me praktikuesit japonezë jujitsu. Ai përdori
Në maj 20, 1947, Ralph Byrd returned to the Dick Tracy franchise in Dick Tracy’s Dilemma (1947). It was welcome news for fans of the franchise although Chester Gould was a notable exception. Gould created the Tracy character for the comic page of the Detroit Mirror. After the Chicago Tribune picked up the comic for syndication, it’s popularity exploded. Gould
Më gusht 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. Në 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. Në 1847, the
Në fund 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko udhëtoi për në Shtetet e Bashkuara për të sfiduar Botëror Heavyweight Champion mundjes Frank Gotch. Para takimit Gotch, Zbyszko vizitoi Shtetet e Bashkuara dhe luftuan shumë mundësit lokale në të gjithë pjesën e hershme të 1910. Zbyszko do të udhëtojë 37,000 milje. Herët në turneun e tij, Zbyszko takua Frank Gotch në një ndeshje të metë. Zbyszko mundi Gotch, who was
My second great-grandfather August H. Elker was born in Hanover, Germany on May 22, 1848 in the year of revolutions in Europe. Whether related to the revolutions or not, August’s family travelled to America in 1854. After landing in New York City, the Elker family made its way to St. Louis, Misuri. St. Louis had a large German Catholic community, which
Oliver Leonard Kirk has the distinction of being the only Olympic boxer to win a gold medal in two separate weight classes in the same Olympic Games. Oliver Kirk accomplished this feat at his hometown Olympics in 1904. St. Louis hosted the third Olympiad during the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Arthur Wontner është ndoshta filmi më i mirë i portrayer Sherlock Holmes. Shëtitje e tij të pestë dhe të fundit si Holmes në Vrasje në Baskervilles (1937). Filmi u lirua në Mbretërinë e Bashkuar në 1937 por nuk u lirua në Amerikë deri janar 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
Të enjten, Janar 27, 1904, Tom Jenkins mbrojti kampionatin e tij amerikan të mundjes kundër një mundësi të ardhshëm nga Iowa. After the first fall, Tifozët e kuptuan se ishte ndeshja më e vështirë e Frank Alvin Gotch, the Humboldt, Iowa farm boy who would defeat Georg Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908, was Jenkins’ challenger. Jenkins kishte mundur Gotch's
After several months of wrangling, Clarence Whistler met Duncan C. Ross on Monday, Nëntor 7, 1881 in a best three-out-of-five falls match. Two falls were to be conducted in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, which both men were considered adept at. Two falls were to be conducted in collar-and-elbow wrestling, which was a Ross speciality. The final fall would be conducted in Greco-Roman