Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Hai semanas, Buscaba un exemplar de Ivanhoe de Sir Walter Scott da antiga biblioteca do meu avó. O avó Gilbert P. Ellis tiña unha biblioteca que me regalou a principios dos 90. Estes libros e o seu escritorio son tesouros que permanecerán comigo ata o día da miña morte. De neno, Eu adoitaba sentarme no seu
Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. Louis”, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. Historia Louis Policía, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French
At our fantasy football draft this year, one of the other owners asked me who I thought was the best mixed martial artist of all time. I told him that based on skill, the greatest mixed martial artist of all time was Jon “Bones” Jones. Porén, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
William Muldoon, Wrestling Campión do Mundo Greco-romano e defensor da cultura física, chegou a Los Angeles o martes, Abril 15, 1884 para afrontar o loitador local, Fred Bauer. O partido tivo lugar o Turnvereine Municipal lugar en Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
O martes, Novembro 5, 1901, St. Louis Policía capturou Ben Kilpatrick e Laura Bullion pola súa parte no roubo de tren Grande do Norte, en Montana en xullo 2, 1901. Before the case was settled, Kilpatrick serviría 10 years and Laura Bullion would serve three and a half years in the Missouri Penitentiary but it would take several weeks for
Gilford Dudley Story (1797 – 1870) is my third great-grandfather. There are six generations between the two of us. Recentemente puiden atopar información sobre a familia Story, one of the branches of the family my research had not turned up as much information on. Durante anos, Non puiden atopar a miña bisavoa Dollie Zimmerman nee
On the morning of Saturday, Abril 22, 1922, a green Paige automobile pulled up in front of the Morris Packing Company at 3000 S. Broadway. One man emerged, looked around and waived for his companion to exit the back seat. After hesitating for a few seconds, the other man exited as the automobile crawled down the busy street. The time
En decembro de 1, 1938 en 5:15 am, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 anos de idade. While enjoying robust strength his whole life, Baptiste’s doctor discovered he had stomach cancer in June 1938. The doctor operated on Baptiste but was unable to remove all the cancer. Baptiste had been living at his country home
Last Monday, I was able to scratch a big item off my bucket list. I attended a Liverpool Football Club game in person. Liverpool FC came to my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri on August 1, 2016 to play a preseason game with AS Roma. My daughter Caity attended the match with me, which made the day extra special. Eu
Buildings are just piles of boards and bricks without the stories that are attached to them. During November 1912, St. Louis Police Officer Arthur Huddleston was killed by paroled murderer Albert Whitefield. Whitefield had surprised his common-law wife, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for