Sejarawan Olahraga Tempur dan Artis Bela Diri
1909 mungkin tahun terburuk dalam hidup Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman. Dia kehilangan kedua putri berusia sepuluh bulan itu Ida Mei Zimmerman dan istri keduanya Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Sebelum kematian Parker di Cape Giraurdeau Tornado dari 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909
Pada Januari 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. Sementara orang Inggris
Pada November 1908, three bishops and an abbot dedicated St. Francis de Sales Church, “the Cathedral of South St. Louis”. Built to serve the growing German Catholic population in St. Louis, the huge church would become the home to many families including my great grandparents, Eduard and Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 children. The St. Louis Archdiocese dedicated the church
The Tournament Gulat Internasional terjadi dalam dua tahap antara Mei 19, 1915 dan Desember 31, 1915. Lima puluh pegulat akan bersaing di fase pertama turnamen termasuk Dunia Yunani-Romawi Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Angsuran kedua memiliki 40 pegulat termasuk up dan datang star Ed “Pencekik” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. Itu
Sedikit orang yang tahu tentang prizefighter Paddy Ryan mungkin mengenalnya sebagai John L. Korban Sullivan. Sullivan mengalahkan Ryan untuk Heavyweight Championship di prizefighting 1882. Ryan adalah petarung yang baik. Ryan lahir pada bulan Maret 15, 1851 di Irlandia. Keluarganya pindah ke Troy, New York. Ryan dikenal melalui miliknya
On the evening of June 1, 1879, St. Louis Police Officer Charles Printz was walking his beat near 505 Marion Street on St. Louis’ South Side. Tidak jelas apakah tindakan Charles Sanders menarik perhatian Printz, atau Printz baru saja menemukan Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Printz menghampiri Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. When
Warner Baxter returns for a fourth time as Dr. Robert Ordway in The Crime Doctor’s Courage (1945). The newly married third wife of Gordon Carson asks Dr. Ordway to look into his first two wives’ mysterious deaths. Authorities declared both cases to be accidents. Kathleen Carson, played by Hillary Brooke, has begun to doubt the official verdict. Dr. Ordway arrives
Baru-baru ini, I was searching for information about my Great Uncle Francis’ marriage to my Great Aunt Rosemary Kalt. What I discovered was an unexpected genealogy treasure, a picture in the July 5 edisi St. Louis Star-Times of my great grandparents and 12 dari 14 Mosblech children. I had never seen a picture of my great grandparents, Eduard
Juve vs. Fantomas (1913) is Louis Feuillade’s second film adaptation of the popular crime series by Marcell Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre plays the role of Fantomas and his many aliases. Edmund Breon portrays Inspector Juve. George Melchior plays the role of Jerome Fandor, a young journalist, who assists Juve in his investigations of Fantomas. Juve and Fandor are
St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond had respect for the “old school criminals”, who plied their trade in St. Louis during the late 19th Century. However, he did not have the same degree of respect for the thug tactics of the “new school criminals”. These criminals made up for a lack of finesse with great violence. Chief Desmond said