Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
My oupa se eerste neef, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, was een van St. Louis’ vliegtuig pioniers. Julius, wat in die familie bekend was as “Punks”, het in die middel-1920's by die Air National Guard aangesluit. Hy sou as luitenant aangewys word. Julius het vliegtuie vir beide die militêre en burgerlike lugkorps gevlieg. Meeste van die mans in sy eenheid, wat Charles ingesluit het
Gedurende die laaste week van Desember 1902, William Rudolph, 'n onlangs teruggekeer mynwerker Franklin County, en George Collins beroof die Unie Bank in Unie, MO. Hulle beroof dit oornag, wanneer niemand teenwoordig deur die blaas van die kluis was. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
Terwyl 'n paar akteurs gespeel Charlie Chan voor Warner Oland en 'n paar uitgebeeld Inspekteur Chan na Roland Winters, die hoof van die Earl Derr Biggers’ Charlie Chan film aanpassings plaasgevind tussen 1931 te 1949. Warner Oland begin speel Charlie Chan in die swart Camel (1931). Na sy dood, Sidney Toler started playing the role of Charlie Chan in the
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. Mnr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
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
Op Woensdag, Januarie 10, 1900, St. Louis-polisiebeampte Paul Girard het op die hoek van S. Taylor en Lindell Boulevard, toe hy 'n man sien spring van die tweede verdieping van 4511 Lindell Boulevard. Bewus van onlangse inbrake in die ryk Central West End-woonbuurt, Girard het die man genader. Toe die mank man vir Girard sien, hy hardloop na S.
Op Saterdag, November 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 minute. After the easy victory, fans smelled a rat, when the “Indianapolis Cyclone” spoke with a Lancashire accent. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste as St. Louis’ wrestling champion in the mid-1890s. Wasem besete
On February 26, 1943, RKO Pictures released the third film based on the popular Lum and Abner radio show. Two Weeks To Live (1943) stars Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards and Norris Goff as Abner Peabody. Lauck and Goff, who also wrote the show, played the characters on radio beginning in 1931. The show began as a 15 minute radio
Oor syne 17 jaar loopbaan, St. William Desmond, speurhoof van Louis, het met baie misdadigers se familielede gehandel. Sommige familielede was so erg of erger as wat die kriminele hoof Desmond en sy manne toegesluit het. Egter, baie familielede was eerlik, hardwerkende mense, wat gesukkel het om te verstaan wat verkeerd gegaan het met hul geliefde. Vroeg in sy loopbaan
On the morning of Wednesday, Julie 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.