Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
The series of the Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland were probably the strongest films in the Charlie Chan series. Sidney Toler made several good films also but eventually the series would become low-budget “B” films produced by Monogram Pictures. Charlie Chan se geheime (1936) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values are better
Ek het baie tyd spandeer om verskillende rangstelsels te bestudeer. Die rangstelsel blyk 'n moderne konsep te wees wat deur Dr. Jigaro Kano, 'n opvoeder, wat 'n stelsel van gradering wou hê om studente te skei. Oor die volgende eeu, talle style het die gordelrangstelsel aangeneem, maar die enigste gemeenskaplikheid was die gordelstelsels bedoel wat die skepper besluit het
On Thursday, Junie 12, 1919, Earl Hunter en Charles Bergman, a parolee and ex-convict, held up the Meramec Trust Company shortly after it opened at 07:00 voormiddag. The robbery was not well planned and even more poorly executed. The corner of Virginia Avenue and Meramec Street was one of the busiest street car blocks in the city. The robbers had
One of the things that always impressed me about the Gracies is how they were able to turn out generation after generation of top-notch instructors. Na die lees van 'n aantal artikels oor hul oorspronklike band stelsel, ens, Ek het begin om van hul metodes met ons eie studente aan te pas. Once the student reaches Green Belt, we allow them to start
While doing research, I found this picture of the Manassa Mauler training for his July 4th, 1919 title fight with Jess Willard, the World Heavyweight Boxing Champions. Willard had knocked out the great Jack Johnson in 1915 to become champion. Willard was a giant of a man at 6’06” en 235 pond. He posed a threat to anyone based on size alone. Egter,
My great grandfather Parker was the victim of one of the largest natural disasters to hit Cape Girardeau, MO, die 1949 tornado. It hit the city on Saturday, Mei 21, 1949 op 06:54 namiddag. Deur 7:00 p.m., Parker Zimmerman was dead at 74 jaar oud. I always found my great grandfather interesting because he led such a varied life
While watching the Facebook Prelims for UFC 161, I observed a trend that happens often in mixed martial arts competition. One of the competitors would get a dominant position but would sacrifice it to chase a submission. He caught the other competitor in close to ten submissions but the other man escaped all ten and one a close split decision.
A number of the old Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes movies have recently become available on DVDs and streaming. The Universal series, is well done for a “B” film-reeks. This film would have warmed the audience up for the main feature like Double Indemnity (1944). In the The Scarlet Claw (1944), Sherlock Holmes, played by Rathbone, is in Quebec,
William Dillon het gereageer op berigte oor die moord Beampte McKenna deur die Lewis Brothers. Dillon het geglo dat die Lewis Brothers, wat die motor en draad diewe, was verantwoordelik vir die McKenna se dood. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. Hy het gesien hoe twee van die Lewis-broers die motorhuis in die Ford binnekom. Dillon entered the garage
Voor Vrydag, April 7, 1916 was oor, die Lewis-broers sou doodmaak twee St. Louis Polisiebeamptes, John McKenna en William Dillon. McKenna was die eerste om te val, toe hy onderbreek die broers probeer draad om te steel, a valuable commodity during World War I. Dillon doodgemaak sou word ondersoek McKenna se moord. McKenna was assigned to look for the wire thieves,