Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportsutøver
Januar 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, tar ham
Vi inkluderte fire eller flere kampsport i vår academy læreplan. Når jeg ser på disse kunst, Jeg ser en tydelig grunn til at jeg studerte hver enkelt. Disse arts dekning slående, grappling, bakken slåss og en praktisk selvforsvar våpen, stokk. Jeg begynte å studere Shotokan karate i høsten 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. Ofte skrevet som Edward, men uttalt som å sette sammen hjelpemiddel og menighet, Eduard was as unique as his name. Jeg slet med å skrive mye om ham fordi historiene jeg hørte om ham
Når det gjelder maskin politikk og organisert kriminalitet, Kansas City har alltid outshone St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City var også hjem til flere høyprofilerte gangland skytingen. St. Louis’ siste organisert kriminalitet leder ble arrestert for å spille kort. 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, April 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell ble ansatt som mekaniker ved
Uker siden, Jeg lette etter en kopi av Ivanhoe av Sir Walter Scott fra min bestefars gamle bibliotek. Bestefar Gilbert P. Ellis hadde et bibliotek som han ga meg på begynnelsen av 1990-tallet. Disse bøkene og skrivebordet hans er skatter som vil bo hos meg til den dagen jeg dør. Som barn, Jeg pleide å sitte i hans
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 Politiet historie, 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. However, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
William Muldoon, Verdens gresk-romersk bryting Champion og fysisk kultur talsmann, kom til Los Angeles på tirsdag, April 15, 1884 å møte den lokale wrestler Fred Bauer. Kampen ble spilt på den lokale Turnvereine Hall i Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
On Tuesday, 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