Istoricul sporturilor de luptă și artist marțial
A fost foarte frig în dimineața de duminică, Decembrie 5, 1880, about 2 a.m., when St. Ofițerul de poliție Louis Sheehan a găsit ușa de la intrare deschisă pentru John R. Casa lui Lionberger. Din cauza frigului amar, Sheehan se temea că hoții au intrat în reședință. Sheehan a sunat în mod repetat, dar nu a putut să trezească pe nimeni înăuntru. Sheehan a început să-și bată băţul de noapte de
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) se bazează vag pe aventura Musgrave Ritual. Nuvela a fost publicată în revista Strand în luna mai 1893. Mai târziu a fost compilat în Memoriile lui Sherlock Holmes. În povestea, Musgrave conacul a avut loc un secret că chiar e de locuitori nu știu. This film follows the same plot line
Puține evenimente l-au șocat pe St. Lui Louis îi place moartea de serviciu a Lt. Sidney Sears în iunie 1924. Pentru aproape 30 ani, Lt. Sears a fost considerat cea mai bună lovitură de pistol de pe St. Louis Departamentul de Poliție. În 1904, Sears a fost și campion național la pistol al Statelor Unite. Pentru ca cineva să-l omoare pe Lt. Sears într-un schimb de focuri a fost considerat imposibil.
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Louis Place cartier. 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. Aceste imagini sunt
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) joaca
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Since fans only considered Clarence Whistler skilled enough to really threaten his reign, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. La data de 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, care
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