Istoricul sporturilor de luptă și artist marțial
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 la Treasure Island (1939) este al treilea Twentieth-Century Fox filmul încearcă Sidney Toler ca Charlie Chan. Inspectorul Chan și Jimmy Chan, jucat de Victor Sen Yung, zboară la Expoziția Mondială de la San Francisco din 1939 pe măsură ce filmul se deschide. Plimbare cu hopuri face Jimmy foarte nervos. Tot în zbor se află și prietenul lui Charlie, Paul Essex, played
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, Modul de a trăi în sănătate și putere (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 years until losing his
Sunday morning, August 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, un fost detectiv din New York, a castigat Campionatul Mondial de Lupte greco-romane prin înfrângerea Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon a domnit timp de zece ani înainte de culcare ca campion. Dupa ce sa retras, el a început să facă o viață ca un antrenor personal. 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, Iulie 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. His “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, care
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Sub vânt” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Herghelie”, 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. Bunic