Mwanahistoria wa Michezo ya Vita na Msanii wa Vita
Kulikuwa na baridi sana asubuhi ya Jumapili, Desemba 5, 1880, about 2 a.m., when St. Afisa wa Polisi wa Louis Sheehan alipata mlango wa mbele ukiwa wazi kwa John R. Nyumbani kwa Lionberger. Kutokana na baridi kali, Sheehan aliogopa wezi walikuwa wameingia kwenye makazi. Sheehan aligonga kengele mara kwa mara lakini hakuweza kumwamsha mtu yeyote mle ndani. Sheehan alianza kurap fimbo yake ya usiku dhidi ya
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 nyuso Kifo (1943) ni loosely misingi ya Adventure ya Musgrave Ritual. hadithi short ilichapishwa katika Magazine Strand wakati wa Mei 1893. Ilikuwa baadaye ulioandaliwa katika Memoirs ya Sherlock Holmes. Katika hadithi, Musgrave Mansion uliofanyika siri kwamba hata ni wenyeji hakujua. This film follows the same plot line
Matukio machache yalishtua St. Louis kama mstari wa jukumu la kifo cha Lt. Sidney Sears mwezi Juni 1924. Kwa karibu 30 miaka, Lt. Sears ilizingatiwa kuwa bastola bora zaidi kwenye uwanja wa St. Louis Idara ya Polisi. In 1904, Sears pia alikuwa Bingwa wa Kitaifa wa Bastola wa Merika. Kwa mtu kumuua Lt. Sears katika mikwaju ya risasi ilionekana kuwa haiwezekani.
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Louis Nafasi ya jirani. 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. These pictures are
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) nyota
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Kwa kuwa mashabiki walimchukulia tu Clarence Whistler kuwa na ujuzi wa kutosha kutishia utawala wake, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. 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