Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Weken geleden, Ik was op zoek naar een exemplaar van Ivanhoe van Sir Walter Scott uit de oude bibliotheek van mijn grootvader. Opa GilbertP. Ellis had een bibliotheek die hij gaf me in het begin van de jaren 1990. Deze boeken en zijn bureau zijn schatten die bij me zal blijven tot de dag dat ik sterf. Als kind, Ik heb in de zijne gezeten
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. Geschiedenis Louis Politie, 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. Echter, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
William Muldoon, de Wereld Grieks-Romeins worstelen kampioen en fysieke cultuur voorstander, kwam naar Los Angeles op dinsdag, April 15, 1884 aan de lokale worstelaar Fred Bauer geconfronteerd. De wedstrijd vond plaats op het lokale Turnvereine Hall in Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
Op dinsdag, November 5, 1901, St. Louis Police captured Ben Kilpatrick and Laura Bullion for their part in the Great Northern train robbery in Montana on July 2, 1901. Before the case was settled, Kilpatrick would serve 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. Ik heb onlangs informatie gevonden over de Story-familie, one of the branches of the family my research had not turned up as much information on. Voor de jaren, Ik kon mijn overgrootmoeder Dollie Zimmerman niet vinden
On the morning of Saturday, April 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. De tijd
Op december 1, 1938 bij 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 jaar. 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. Ik
Gebouwen zijn slechts stapels planken en stenen, zonder de verhalen die eraan vastzitten. During November 1912, St. Louis-politieagent Arthur Huddleston werd vermoord door voorwaardelijk vrijgelaten moordenaar Albert Whitefield. Whitefield had zijn common law-vrouw verrast, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for