Taisteluurheiluhistorioitsija ja kamppailutaiteilija
H. H. Holmes was America’s first known serial killer in the modern definition of the word. Holmes operated “the Murder Castle”, a Chicago hotel during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Holmes would eventually be convicted of sixteen murders but may have murdered more than 100 people during his operation of the hotel. What is less well known is that St.
I met my wife at my sister’s wedding in September 1995. I had known Tam as my little sister’s best friend for 10 years but I did not really see her as the woman she had become until this day in late September. I actually got to know her better because I was on wolf duty this day although it
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939) is the third Twentieth-Century Fox film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. Tarkastaja Chan ja Jimmy Chan, soitti Victor Sen Yung, lentävät San Franciscon maailmannäyttelyyn 1939 kun elokuva avautuu. The bumpy ride is making Jimmy very nervous. Lennossa on myös Charlien ystävä Paul Essex, played
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, Way to Live in terveyttä ja voimaa (affiliate link) by Georg Hackenschmidt. Georg Hackenschmidt set many weightlifitng world records before focusing on professional wrestling. Hackenschmidt would win the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1901. Hackenschmidt would reign as undefeated World Champion for 7 vuotta omansa menettämiseen
Sunday morning, Elokuu 12, 1900, St. Louis Police arrested four former Transit Line streetcar workers for blowing up the Olive Street line on Maryland Avenue between N. Taylor and N. Euclid Avenues on the previous night at 11:00 p.m. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
In one of those strange coincidences of history, the Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson was stabbed by a union machinist named Edward Canty after a saloon disagreement. At a time when several of his opponents in the 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
William Muldoon, entinen New Yorkissa etsivä, voitti World kreikkalais-roomalaisen painin mestaruuden voittamalla Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon hallitsi kymmenen vuotta ennen eläkkeelle mestari. Jäätyään eläkkeelle, hän alkoi tehdä elantonsa personal trainer. Muldoon trained many wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for
After you earn your Green Rank, you will have completed your first year of training. Congratulations. On average, 75 percent of students who started with you have already quit training. Lucky for you, they will be much better targets for criminals. A humorous anecdote is told about two campers worried about a bear attack. One of the campers tells his
Maanantai-iltana, Heinäkuu 16, 1917, St. Louis Poliisi Julius H. Petring määritetty North Market Division tuli vuokratalo klo 2301 N. Market Street. Petring kysyi haltija William Dietrich vuokrata tilaa hänelle ja hänen vaimonsa. Hänen “vaimo” oli hänen äskettäin eronnut tyttöystävänsä Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring oli tapaillut Freda Hagenmeyer, jotka
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Lee” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Jules”, Julius Johannpeter. Grandpa lived with Uncle Jules from the time he left Missouri Military Academy in 1932 until he married my grandmother, Alvina Ellis nee Mosblech in 1938. Ukki