Evan Lewis strangles Tom Cannon

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Ágúst 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis hitti breska Glíma Champion Tom Cannon í Cincinnati, Ohio. Á lögmætum Glíma tímum, aðrar wrestlers óttuðust öflugur Lewis vegna stranglehold hans. Lewis starfandi carotid slagæð kyrkja þekktur sem aftari nakinn choke í Judo. Það var allavega það sem ég hugsaði upphaflega og flestir sagnfræðingar hafa vitnað í. Nútímalegt

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Julius W. Johannpeter, Air Pioneer

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Fyrsti frændi afa míns, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, var einn af St. Louis’ brautryðjendur flugvéla. Julius, sem var þekktur í fjölskyldunni sem “Punks”, gekk til liðs við þjóðvarðliðið um miðjan 1920. Hann yrði skipaður undirforingi. Júlíus flaug flugvélum bæði fyrir herinn og borgaralega flugherinn. Flestir menn í herdeild hans, sem innihélt Charles

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William Rudolph and Union Bank Robbery

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During the last week of December 1902, William Rudolph, a recently returned miner to Franklin County, and George Collins robbed the Union Bank in Union, MO. They robbed it overnight, when no one was present by blowing up the safe. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff

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Chief Desmond Discovers Murder

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On February 10, 1897, 60-year-old William H. Stewart, a civil engineer, died in St. Louis City Hospital. Stewart passed away from a morphine overdose. St. Louis Police originally thought it was a case of suicide or accidental overdose. Stewart lived with his son-in-law F.C. Bennett at 2634 Dickson Street. Mr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.

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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” Åberg. 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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Zbyszko “Wins” World Title in 1921

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Polish wrestler and strongman Stanislaus Zbyszko first came to the United States in 1909 to campaign for a shot at World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. He received and lost the match in a legitimate contest during 1910. Zbyszko continued wrestling for a few more years and actually won the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1914 frá hatuðum keppinaut

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Móðir játar Desmond yfirmanni

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Yfir hans 17 árs feril, St. William Desmond, rannsóknarlögreglustjóri Louis, tókst á við marga fjölskyldumeðlimi glæpamannsins. Sumir fjölskyldumeðlimir voru jafn slæmir eða verri en glæpamaðurinn Desmond og menn hans höfðu læst inni. Þó, margir fjölskyldumeðlimir voru heiðarlegir, duglegt fólk, sem átti erfitt með að skilja hvað fór úrskeiðis hjá ástvini þeirra. Snemma á ferlinum

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The Bat (1926)

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Roland V. West keypt rétt og beint kylfu (1926), eitt af fyrstu “gamla dökk hús” leyndardóma fyrir United listamaður í 1926. Arthur Edeson var kvikmyndatökumaður, bæði í kvikmynd og gamla Dark House (1932), sem deila svipuðum þætti expressjóníska. Báðar myndirnar eru settar í stórum Mansions, sem hafa séð betri daga. The key to the

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