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Ia sangat sejuk pada pagi Ahad, Disember 5, 1880, about 2 a.m., when St. Pegawai Polis Louis Sheehan mendapati pintu hadapan terbuka kepada John R. rumah Lionberger. Disebabkan kesejukan yang pedih, Sheehan khuatir pencuri masuk ke dalam kediaman itu. Sheehan menekan loceng berulang kali tetapi tidak dapat menyedarkan sesiapa di dalam. Sheehan mula mengetuk tongkat malamnya pada
Over the next three weeks, I will be releasing posts, which are excerpts from the book I’m currently working on and one from a previously published book. The following unedited story is from the book I’m working on which will be released in the Fall or early Winter 2017. William Rudolph proved elusive after his Independence Day escape from the
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) longgar berdasarkan Pengembaraan daripada Musgrave Ritual. Cerpen yang telah diterbitkan dalam Majalah Strand pada bulan Mei 1893. Ia kemudiannya disusun dalam The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Dalam cerita, yang Musgrave Mansion mengadakan rahsia bahawa walaupun penduduk itu tidak tahu. This film follows the same plot line
Beberapa peristiwa mengejutkan St. Louis seperti kematian barisan tugas Lt. Sidney Sears pada bulan Jun 1924. Untuk hampir 30 tahun, Lt. Sears dianggap sebagai tembakan pistol terbaik di St. Jabatan Polis Louis. Dalam 1904, Sears juga merupakan Juara Pistol Kebangsaan Amerika Syarikat. Bagi seseorang untuk membunuh Lt. Sears dalam penembakan dianggap mustahil.
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Louis Place neighborhood. I originally wrote about the building in 2013 but it was demolished sometime before March 2015. The building is part of an area being developed for a government complex in St. Louis, so it was not able to be saved. Gambar-gambar ini adalah
I’ve been on an Alan Ladd kick lately. When I was still in college, I watched a number of Alan Ladd films one summer. I’ve been watching them over again the last few weeks on Amazon Prime. I’ll share some of these films over the next few months. The first film I watched was Thunder in the East (1951) dibintangi
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Oleh kerana peminat hanya menganggap Clarence Whistler cukup mahir untuk benar-benar mengancam pemerintahannya, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Pada Mei 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, who
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) is the final entry in “B” film series. RKO Pictures took the series over from Republic Pictures, who released the original Dick Tracy serials in the late 1930s and early 1940s. RKO Pictures released the film to theaters on September 26, 1947. RKO brought Boris Karloff in to play Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
When thinking about African American history month, I thought about the first great Black wrestler that I saw personally. When I started watching wrestling in St. Louis during 1979, “Sailor” Art Thomas wrestled regularly on Wrestling at the Chase, our local weekly wrestling show. Wrestling at the Chase aired every Sunday at 11 a.m. on KPLR Channel 11. Although Thomas
When Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after beating Georg Lurich in his last match, promoters scrambled to find a successor. Samuel Rachmann tried to put forth his own champion by hosting the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Rachmann wanted his challenger Aberg to win the tournament and be recognized by the public as the