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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.
Bhuail mé le mo bhean chéile ag mo dheirfiúr bainise i mí Mheán Fómhair 1995. Bhí ar eolas agam Tam mar mo dheirfiúr beag an cara is fearr le haghaidh 10 blianta ach ní fhaca mé i ndáiríre léi mar an bhean go raibh sí chun bheith go dtí an lá seo i deireadh mhí Mheán Fómhair. I actually got to know her better because I was on wolf duty this day although it
Charlie Chan ag Treasure Island (1939) Is é an tríú scannán Fox Fichiú hAois-starring Sidney Toler mar Charlie Chan. Cigire Chan agus Jimmy Chan, a bhí ag Victor Sen Yung, ag eitilt go dtí an San Francisco World Exposition i 1939 mar a osclaíonn an scannán. Is é an turas cnapánach a dhéanamh Jimmy an-neirbhíseach. Ar an eitilt freisin tá cara Charlie Paul Essex, played
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, An Bealach a Beo i Sláinte agus Neart (nasc affiliate) 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 years until losing his
Sunday morning, Lúnasa 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, iar bleachtaireachta Nua-Eabhrac, bhuaigh an Craobh Domhanda Wrestling Greco-Roman ag bhuaigh Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon reigned ar feadh deich mbliana roimh scor mar a son. Tar éis dul ar scor, thosaigh sé a dhéanamh ina gcónaí mar oiliúnóir pearsanta. 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
On Monday evening, Iúil 16, 1917, St. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 N. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. A “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, a
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 “Graí”, 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. Grandpa