Historyk sportów walki i artysta sztuk walki
On January 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, zabiera go
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. Często pisane jako Edward, ale wymawiane jak połączenie pomocy i ochrony, Eduard was as unique as his name. Miałem trudności z napisaniem o nim zbyt wiele, ponieważ słyszałem o nim historie
Jeśli chodzi o politykę maszyn i przestępczością zorganizowaną, Kansas City zawsze przyćmił St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City był także domem dla wielu głośnych strzelanin Gangland. St. Louis’ ostatni przywódca przestępczości zorganizowanej został aresztowany za karty do gry. 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, Kwiecień 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell był zatrudniony jako mechanik w firmie
Tygodnie temu, Szukałem egzemplarza Ivanhoe Sir Waltera Scotta ze starej biblioteki mojego dziadka. Dziadek Gilbert P. Ellis miał bibliotekę, którą podarował mi na początku lat 90. Te książki i jego biurko to skarby, które zostaną ze mną aż do śmierci. Jako dzieciak, Siedziałam w jego
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 Policji, 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. Jednak, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
William Muldoon, Wrestling mistrz świata grecko-rzymskiego i propagator kultury fizycznej, przybył do Los Angeles we wtorek, Kwiecień 15, 1884 zmierzyć się z lokalnym zapaśnik Fred Bauer. Mecz odbył się na miejscowym Turnvereine Hall w Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
We wtorek, Listopad 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