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Trời rất lạnh vào sáng chủ nhật, Tháng mười hai 5, 1880, about 2 sáng, when St. Louis Police Officer Sheehan found the front door open to John R. Lionberger’s home. Do cái lạnh buốt, Sheehan sợ kẻ trộm đã bước vào nơi cư trú. Sheehan bấm chuông liên tục nhưng không thể đánh thức bất kỳ ai trong. Sheehan began rapping his night stick against the
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 chết (1943) là dựa trên Cuộc phiêu lưu của các Musgrave Ritual. Truyện ngắn được xuất bản trong Tạp chí Strand trong tháng 1893. Sau đó nó đã được biên soạn trong Hồi ức của Sherlock Holmes. Trong câu chuyện, các Musgrave Mansion được tổ chức bí mật mà ngay cả cư dân nó không biết. This film follows the same plot line
Few events shocked St. Louis like the line of duty death of Lt. Sidney Sears in June 1924. For almost 30 năm, Lt. Sears was considered the best pistol shot on the St. Louis Police Department. Trong 1904, Sears was also National Pistol Champion of the United States. For someone to kill Lt. Sears in a shootout was considered impossible.
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. 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) starring
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Vì người hâm mộ chỉ coi Clarence Whistler đủ kỹ năng để thực sự đe dọa triều đại của anh ấy, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Ngày 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, ai
Dick Tracy Meets khủng khiếp (1947) là mục cuối cùng trong “B” loạt phim. RKO Hình ảnh mất hàng loạt các từ trên Republic Hình ảnh, người phát hành serial Dick Tracy gốc vào những năm cuối thập niên 1930 và đầu những năm 1940. RKO Hình ảnh phát hành bộ phim tại các rạp vào ngày 26, 1947. RKO mang Boris Karloff vào để chơi khủng khiếp, 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