Prelude to 1912 Presidential Election

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Theodore Roosevelt gerði örlagaríka ákvörðun um kjördag 1904. Hann tilkynnti eftir að hafa verið kjörinn til formennsku í eigin rétti sínum eftir stíg upp til skrifstofu á morðið á William McKinley að hann myndi ekki hlaupa fyrir annað orð í 1908. Roosevelt had served almost a full term before his election as McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.

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Heenan Loses to King in Last Bout

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John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “sem 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

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Gotch Wanted Hack in St. Louis

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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 “Hakk” í St. Louis during the 1904 Fair heims. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 í Chicago,

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Sherlock Holmes í Washington (1943)

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Sherlock Holmes í Washington (1943) er þriðja af tólf Universal Picture framleiðslu á Sherlock Holmes kosningaréttur. Basil Rathbone og Nigel Bruce stjörnumerkt sem Holmes og Watson sig í tveimur kvikmynda fyrir Twentieth-Century Fox og tólf meira fyrir Universal Pictures. Þessi mynd er aftur sett í kringum 1940. Holmes og Watson hafa ferðast til Washington, D.C. to keep secret

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