Jack Johnson u l-ġlieda tas-Seklu

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After Jack Johnson became champion, a lack of strong contenders caused public pressure to mount on James J. Jeffires, l-eks champion heavyweight rtirati, to end his retirement and fight Johnson. Jeffries was considered the first and most credible of the “White Hope” kontendenti. Fil-prim tiegħu, Jeffries probably couldn’t beat Johnson. Fil 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. Initially, 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 Dipartiment tal-Pulizija. When the bank association turned over the

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Hannah McLaughlin Desmond (1879 – 1904)

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Fuq Jannar 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. Madankollu, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, San. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an

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Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (1941)

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Fuq Diċembru 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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Stejjer ta' Oriġini: Fatt jew Finzjoni?

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Meta l-ewwel bdejt nitħarreġ fl-arti marzjali fi 1995, l-istejjer marbuta mal-fundaturi tal-biċċa l-kbira tal-arti marzjali kienu pjuttost meraviljużi b'proeza superumana ta' ħila fiżika u ħila tal-ġlied attribwita lill-fundaturi tagħhom. Jekk Kung Fu, Karate jew Judo, il-fundatur ħa l-ħiliet li tgħallmu fl-arti marzjali preċedenti, immodifikaha u għeleb lil kulħadd. Dawn it-talbiet huma

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