Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
In een van daardie vreemde toevallighede van die geskiedenis, die Streetcar Unie President Sherman C. Patterson is deur 'n unie masjinis vernoem Edward levenslustig gesteek nadat 'n salon meningsverskil. In 'n tyd toe 'n paar van sy teenstanders in die 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
William Muldoon, 'n voormalige New York City speurder, het die Wêreld Grieks-Romeinse stoei kampioenskap deur die verslaan Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon geheers vir tien jaar voor sy aftrede as kampioen. Na sy aftrede, Hy het 'n lewe as 'n persoonlike afrigter te maak. Muldoon trained wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for his
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, Julie 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, wat
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. Grandpa
Tom Hyer het die Amerikaanse Kale Knuckle Prizefighting kampioenskap in 1841. Soos die meeste prizefighting kampioene van die Negentiende Eeu, hy het nie baie dikwels veg. Hyer normaalweg sy rekeninge betaal as 'n wetstoepasser vir politieke partye in New York. Oorspronklik, Hyer het sy talente vir die Whigs aangewend, maar sou trou na die “Weet niks Party” saam met sy vriend William
Die geheim van sukses in die martial arts of enige gebied van die lewe is om die basiese beginsels te bemeester. Terwyl hierdie stelling klink intuïtiewe, baie min mense wat dit werklik doen. Many practitioners find the basics “boring” and want to move onto more advanced moves. Die probleem met hierdie benadering is die klem op 'n 1 percent move over a 99 persent beweeg. Taking Taekwondo
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, In Die lyn van die reg: St. Louis polisiebeamptes wat die hoogste offer gemaak deur Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath en groot Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. With his hair parted down the middle and a big mustache, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
Op Oukersaand, 1937, die tweede Mnr. Moto fliek, Dankie, Mnr. Motion (1937) staring Peter Lorre, debut. Internasionale Agent Mnr. Moto streef Chinese kulturele skatte van internasionale misdadigers te beskerm. Die Sewe-rolle sal die skuilplek vir die graf van Genghis Khan openbaar. Genghis Khan se krygers berig begrawe groot skat met hul dood leier. Mnr. Moto se vriend Prins
Op Oktober 12, 1853, 23 year-old John Morrissey would meet 40 year-old “Yankee” Sullivan for the American and possibly World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Sullivan had been considered the champion since Tom Hyer, who had beaten Sullivan previously, retired instead of fighting Sullivan in a rematch. Sullivan claimed the title and was backed by Hyer, who had made peace with Sullivan.