Cīņas sporta vēsturnieks un cīņas mākslinieks
Janvārī 26, 1934, United Artists released Palooka (1934), a feature film based on the popular comic strip. Stuart Erwin plays Joe Palooka but Jimmy Durante steals the show as his manager Knobby Walsh. Joe Palooka is the son of former world boxing champion Pete Palooka. When Joe was a baby, his mother Mayme, played by Marjorie Rambeau, paņem viņu
We included four or more martial arts in our academy’s curriculum. When I look at these arts, I see a distinct reason that I studied each one. These arts cover striking, grappling, ground fighting and a practical self-defense weapon, the cane. I started studying Shotokan karate in the Fall of 1994. I switched to Taekwondo with my nephew in the Spring of 1995. Taekwondo brought
Eduard Mosblech is my maternal great-grandfather. Eduard was born in St. Louis, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. Bieži rakstīts kā Edvards, bet izrunāts kā palīdzības un palātas apvienošana, Eduard was as unique as his name. Man bija grūti rakstīt par viņu daudz stāstu dēļ, ko es dzirdēju par viņu
Kad runa ir par mašīnu politiku un organizēto noziedzību, Kansas City vienmēr ir outshone St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City ir arī mājvieta vairākiem augsta profila gangland šaušanu. St. Louis’ pēdējā organizētā noziedzība līderis bija arestēts par spēļu kārtis. We did have a Democratic party political machine around
21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, Aprīlis 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrels strādāja par mehāniķi plkst
Pirms nedēļām, Es meklēju sera Valtera Skota grāmatas Ivanhoe kopiju no mana vectēva vecās bibliotēkas. Vectēvs Gilberts P. Ellis had a library that he gave me in the early 1990s. These books and his desk are treasures that will stay with me until the day I die. As a kid, Es mēdzu sēdēt viņā
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 policijas vēsture, 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. Tomēr, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
William Muldoon, Pasaules Grieķu-romiešu cīņa čempions un fiziskā kultūra ierosmes, atnāca uz Losandželosu otrdien, Aprīlis 15, 1884 lai risinātu vietējo cīkstonis Fred Bauer. Spēle notika vietējā Turnvereine zālē Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
Otrdien, Novembris 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