Jack Johnson e A Loita do Século

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After Jack Johnson became champion, a lack of strong contenders caused public pressure to mount on James J. Jeffires, o ex-campión dos pesos pesados ​​xubilado, to end his retirement and fight Johnson. Jeffries was considered the first and most credible of the “Esperanza Branca” contendentes. No seu auxe, Jeffries probably couldn’t beat Johnson. En 35 years of age and nearly 300

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Ira Cooper Unravels Money Order Theft

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On February 22, 1924, unknown suspects took $20,000.00 in American Express Company money orders from the Mercantile Trust Company in Downtown St. Louis. Inicialmente, the American Bankers Association hired private detectives. After the detectives were unable to discover any serious leads, the association turned the case over to the St. Louis Departamento de Policía. When the bank association turned over the

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Hannah McLaughlin Desmond (1879 – 1904)

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En xaneiro de 7, 1903, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond married 24-year-old Hannah McLaughlin in a ceremony he hoped to keep secret. The 46-year-old Desmond always said he would never marry due to the dangers of his job. Porén, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, o St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an

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Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (1941)

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En decembro de 27, 1941, Republic Pictures released the first chapter of the fourth Dick Tracy serial, Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (1941). Once again, Ralph Byrd played Detective Dick Tracy. In this series, Dick Tracy works with “The Commission” to attack crime but suspects one of the members of the commission is the mysterious Ghost. The Ghost’s henchman Lucifer, played

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Historias de orixe: Realidade ou ficción?

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Cando comecei a adestrar en artes marciais 1995, as historias ligadas á fundación da maioría das artes marciais foron bastante fantásticas con proezas sobrehumanas de destreza física e capacidade de loita atribuídas aos seus fundadores.. Xa sexa Kung Fu, Karate ou Judo, o fundador tomou as habilidades aprendidas en artes marciais anteriores, modificouno e derrotou a todos. Estas afirmacións son

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