Prelude to 1912 Eleição Presidencial

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Theodore Roosevelt fez uma decisão fatal no dia da eleição 1904. Ele anunciou, após ter sido eleito para a Presidência em seu próprio direito depois de ascender ao escritório após o assassinato de William McKinley que ele não iria concorrer a um novo mandato em 1908. Roosevelt had served almost a full term before his election as McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.

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The Shadow Returns (1946)

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In the first of the three Shadow films from Monogram Pictures starring Kane Richomond, a number of citizens have fallen from windows to their death. Two of the men seemingly commit suicide in front of Lamont Cranston, the Shadow, and Inspector Cordonna played by Joseph Crehan. Crehan was a character actor who often played policeman in films such as The

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Detective Tracy Transportes Trunk Murderer

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No mês de abril 1885, St. Louis viveu um dos seus assassinatos mais sensacionais. Dois viajantes ingleses tinha verificado para o Hotel Sul no início de abril 1885. C. Arthur Preller e H. M. Brooks, que estava indo pelo pseudônimo de Dr.. Maxwell, parecia ser muito amigável. Embora eles tivessem quartos separados, they often stayed in the same room together. Em

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St. Louis Police Nab Robber of Policeman

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Na segunda-feira, Março 5, 1900, St. Louis Police Officers Thomas Meagher and Thomas Degnan apprehended men who robbed an East St. Louis Officer of his gun. Ed Sullivan, um 22 year-old transient, robbed an East St. Louis Police Officer of his gun, jewelry and possessions in late February 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive

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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 “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

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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 “Hack” em St. Louis during the 1904 Feira Mundial. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,

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Sherlock Holmes em Washington (1943)

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Sherlock Holmes em Washington (1943) é o terceiro dos doze Imagem Universal produções da franquia Sherlock Holmes. Basil Rathbone e Nigel Bruce estrelou como Holmes e Watson, respectivamente, em dois filmes para a Twentieth-Century Fox e mais doze para a Universal Pictures. Este filme é novamente definido na década de 1940. Holmes and Watson have traveled to Washington, D.C. to keep secret

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