Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Theodore Roosevelt fixo unha decisión moi grave o día da elección 1904. El anunciou, tras ser elixido para a presidencia no seu propio dereito tras ascender á oficina despois do asasinato de William McKinley que non estaba a competir a un novo mandato en 1908. Roosevelt servira case un mandato completo antes da súa elección como McKinley foi asasinado en setembro 1901.
O venres, Outubro 21, 1904, one of the greatest tragedies in St. Louis Police history occurred when two train robbers and three St. Louis Police detectives died in a shootout. The gunfight occurred in a small hotel room on Pine Street. Two days later on Sunday, Outubro 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
An age old question in combat sports is “Who will win between a boxer and a wrestler?” The speculation around this question led to several boxer versus wrestler matches through out history, most notably the disaster between Muhammad Ali and Antonio Inoki in 1976. The matches are mostly no-win affairs except at the box office, which is why both promoters
During April 1885, St. Louis experienced one of its most sensational murders. Two English travelers had checked into the Southern Hotel in early April 1885. C. Arthur Preller and H. M. Brooks, who was going by the alias of Dr. Maxwell, appeared to be very friendly. Although they had separate rooms, they often stayed in the same room together. En
O luns, Marzo 5, 1900, St. Louis Oficiais de Policía Thomas Meagher e Thomas Degnan aprehendido homes que roubaron un East St. Louis Officer da súa arma. Ed Sullivan, unha 22 transitoria year-old, roubou unha East St. Louis Policía de súa arma, xoias e bens a finais de febreiro 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “the Benicia Boy”. Despite an 0-1-1 record as a professional fighter, Heenan claimed the World Prizefighting Championship based on a draw with Tom Sayer in an 1860 English prize-fight. Heenan’s first professional fight had been with the reigning World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey’s last professional fight
Frank Gotch took the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Tom Jenkins in December 1903. Gotch intended on following up this triumph with a match for World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from George Hackenschmidt. Gotch wanted to meet “Cabeza” en St. Louis during the 1904 Feira Mundial. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
Charlie Chan na Illa do Tesouro (1939) é a terceira película de Fox do século XX, protagonizado por Sidney Tolerancia como Charlie Chan. O inspector Chan e Jimmy Chan, interpretado por Victor Sen Yung, voan á Exposición Mundial de San Francisco en 1939 mentres se abre a película. The bumpy ride is making Jimmy very nervous. Tamén está no voo o amigo de Charlie, Paul Essex, played
O sábado, Marzo 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Louis’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Moran and the detectives
H. H. Holmes foi serial killer coñecido primeiro de América na definición moderna da palabra. Holmes operador “Castelo Murder”, un hotel de Chicago durante o 1893 Feira Mundial de Chicago. Holmes acabaría por ser condenado por dezaseis asasinatos, pero pode asasinar máis de 100 persoas durante a súa operación do hotel. What is less well known is that St.