Cīņas sporta vēsturnieks un cīņas mākslinieks
1909 iespējams, bija vissliktākais gads Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman dzīvi. Viņš zaudēja gan viņa desmit mēnešu veca meita Ida maijs Zimmerman un viņa otrās sievas Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Pirms Parker nāves Cape Giraurdeau viesuļvētra 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. Es varu tikai iedomāties, cik grūti 1909
Janvārī 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. Kamēr briti
Novembrī 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. St. Luija arhidiecēze iesvētīja baznīcu
Starptautiskā Cīņas turnīrs notika divos posmos no maija 19, 1915 un decembrī 31, 1915. Piecdesmit cīkstoņi varētu konkurēt pirmajā posmā turnīra, tostarp Pasaules grieķu-romiešu čempionu Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Otrā daļa bija 40 cīkstoņi skaitā un tuvākajos star Ed “Strangler” Vilka ķetna, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. The
The few people who know about the prizefighter Paddy Ryan probably know him as John L. Sullivan’s victim. Sullivan beat Ryan for the Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship in 1882. Ryan was a good fighter in his own right though. Ryan was born on March 15, 1851 in Ireland. His family emigrated to Troy, New York. Ryan was known through out his
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. Nav skaidrs, vai Čārlza Sandersa darbības piesaistīja Printza uzmanību, vai arī Prints vienkārši uzdūrās Sandersam. Whatever the circumstances, Prints piegāja pie Sandersa, 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
Recently, 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 izdevums St. Louis Star-Times of my great grandparents and 12 of the 14 Mosblech children. I had never seen a picture of my great grandparents, Eduard
Juve vs. Fantomas (1913) ir Louis Feuillade otrā filma pielāgošanu tautas noziedzības sērijas, Marcell Allain un Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarra spēlē lomu Fantomas un viņa daudz pseidonīmi. Edmund Breon portretē Inspector Juve. George Melchior spēlē lomu Jerome Fandor, jauns žurnālists, kas palīdz Juve viņa izmeklēšanas Fantomas. Juve un Fandor ir
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. Tomēr, 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. Galvenais Desmonds teica