Nhà sử học và võ sĩ thể thao chiến đấu
Tuần trước, Tôi đang tìm bản sao cuốn Ivanhoe của Ngài Walter Scott từ thư viện cũ của ông tôi. Ông nội Gilbert P. Ellis có một thư viện mà anh ấy đã tặng tôi vào đầu những năm 1990. These books and his desk are treasures that will stay with me until the day I die. As a kid, Tôi đã từng ngồi trong chỗ của anh ấy
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. Louis lịch sử Cảnh sát, 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. Tuy nhiên, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
William Muldoon, Wrestling vô địch thế giới Hy Lạp-La Mã và người ủng hộ văn hóa vật lý, đến Los Angeles vào thứ ba, Tháng Tư 15, 1884 đối mặt với những đô vật địa phương Fred Bauer. Trận đấu đã diễn ra tại Hội trường Turnvereine địa phương ở Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
Vào thứ ba, Tháng Mười Một 5, 1901, St. Louis Cảnh sát bắt giữ Ben Kilpatrick và Laura Vàng phần của họ trong vụ cướp tàu Great Northern ở Montana vào ngày 2, 1901. Before the case was settled, Kilpatrick sẽ phục vụ 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. I have just recently been able to find information on the Story family, one of the branches of the family my research had not turned up as much information on. Trong nhiều năm qua, I could not find my great-grandmother Dollie Zimmerman nee
On the morning of Saturday, Tháng Tư 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
Ngày 1, 1938 khi 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 tuổi. 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. Tôi
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