Evan Lewis Strangles Tom Cannon

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Avgusta 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis met the British Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the legitimate wrestling era, other wrestlers feared the powerful Lewis because of his stranglehold. Lewis employed a carotid arterial strangle known as the rear naked choke in Judo. Vsaj tako sem prvotno mislil in večina zgodovinarjev je citirala. Moderno

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Julius W. Johannpeter, Air Pioneer

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bratranec mojega dedka, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, je bil eden od St. Louis’ letal, pionirji. Julius, ki je bil znan v družini kot “Pankerji”, pridružil Air National Guard v sredini 1920. On bi naročil kot poročnik. Julius letela letala tako za vojaško in civilno zraka zbora. Večina moških v svoji enoti, ki je vključevala Charles

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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. Gospod. 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” Aberg. 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 from hated rival

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Mati se spoveduje načelniku Desmondu

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Nad njegovim 17 letna kariera, St. Louis, vodja detektivov William Desmond, se je ukvarjal s številnimi kriminalčevimi družinskimi člani. Nekateri družinski člani so bili tako slabi ali slabši kot kriminalni načelnik Desmond in njegovi možje, ki so jih zaprli. Vendar, veliko družinskih članov je bilo poštenih, pridni ljudje, ki so se trudili razumeti, kaj je šlo narobe z njihovo ljubljeno osebo. Na začetku svoje kariere

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Detective Desmond Stops Jail Escape

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On the morning of Wednesday, Julij 8, 1885, the Coroner’s Clerk Jimmy Spaulding rushed into the Police Court at the Four Courts building. Spaulding announced one of the jail inmates waiting in the holding pen had just escaped. While most of the members of court sat stunned, Detective Billy Desmond jumped to his feet and rushed out of the courtroom.

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Bat (1926)

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Roland V. West kupil pravice in režiral The Bat (1926), eden izmed prvih “old dark house” Skrivnosti za Združeno umetnika v 1926. Arthur Edeson bil snemalec tako za ta film in The Old Dark House (1932), ki imajo podobne ekspresionističnih prvin. Oba filma sta določena v velikih palač, ki so videli boljše dni. The key to the

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