Muldoon Fails to Throw Sorakichi 5 Times

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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. Mayıs 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, kim

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SailorArt Thomas vs. Ray Zills

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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, “SailorArt 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

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Stecher Beats Cutler for American Title

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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

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British Intelligence (1940)

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On January 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. İngiliz iken

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St. Francis de Sales Dedicated in 1908

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Kasım 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. Louis Başpiskoposluğu kiliseyi adadı

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1915 New York Wrestling Tournament

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Uluslararası Güreş Turnuvası Mayıs tarihleri ​​arasında iki aşamada oluştu 19, 1915 ve Aralık 31, 1915. Elli güreşçiler Dünya Greko-Romen Şampiyonu Aleksander dahil turnuvanın ilk aşamasında rekabet olur “Alex” Aberg. Ikinci taksit vardı 40 kadar dahil ve yıldız Ed'e gelen güreşçiler “Strangler” Demir kama, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. The

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Suç Memuru Printz'i Vurdu

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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. Charles Sanders'ın eylemlerinin Printz'in dikkatini çekip çekmediği belli değil, ya da Printz az önce Sanders'a rastladı. Whatever the circumstances, Printz, Sanders'ın yanına yürüdü, who had a revolver in his right hand. Ne Zaman

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