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General William Tecumseh Sherman av inbördeskriget berömmelse hade djupa rötter i St. Louis sträcker sig tillbaka till 1843. Som en soldat, the US Army assigned Sherman to Jefferson Barracks. Sherman was also involved in St. Louis businesses as the St. Louis Street tåg Företag president tills han lämnade St. Louis for the Civil War in 1861. After the war,
3 times over the last 150 år, martial artists created more modern versions of older martial arts. Unlike many prior systems, the innovators of these modern martial arts chose to share this information with outsiders and spread their arts around the world. Jigoro Kano’s dissemination of Judo is the best case study for how to develop and spread a martial
Stanislaus Zbyszko föddes Stanislaw Jan Cygankiewicz på April 1, 1880 i Jodlow, Polen, som var en del av Österrike-Ungern. Zbyszko chose the ring name Stanislaus Zbyszko because it was the name of a fictional Polish knight. En artikel i Walla Walla, Tidningen Washington, The Evening Statesman’s on Tuesday, Februari 8, 1910, publicized Zbyszko’s university and intellectual accomplishments.
The Lodger: En berättelse om London Fog (1927) är en av Alfred Hitchcocks tidiga stumfilmer. Hitchcock filmed an adaptation of the Marie Belloc Lowndes story and play based on the Jack the Ripper murders. Hitchcock regisserade filmen i 1926. It was released in February 1927 i London. It did not make it to the United States until
På April 5, 1920, Frederick Charles Smith, också känd som “Red-Headed Bandit”, gick in i Easton-Taylor Trust Company vid 4474 Easton Avenue. Smith hade en revolver i varje hand och krävde pengar från kassan. Fearing for his life, the clerk promptly dropped $15,309 i en säck. John Lanigan, the bank’s president, sat in his office off the lobby
George Hackenschmidt (1877-1968) var ett världsrekord hålla tyngdlyftare och World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion innan brottning var uppgjort och lyftare använde steroider. Hackenschmidt uppnått en nivå av storhet beror på flera faktorer. Han uppnådde en hög nivå av fysisk kondition. His physical condition allowed him to be the most successful wrestler of his era. A few wrestlers may have been
Jag tidigare skrev om en incident där en Detective Sergeant för St. Louis polis blev skjuten under ett rånförsök. Unlike a number of other incidents in Gilded Age St. Louis historia, Detective Sergeant James Martin King’s home in January 1920 still exists. The home is still in excellent condition. 4973 Lotus Avenue was the home of Sgt. King in
Sherlock Holmes in The Pearl of Death (1944) is the ninth of fourteen movies in the series starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. I denna film, Holmes is battling archcriminal Giles Conover, played by Miles Mander. Conover is attempting to steal a valuable pearl from the British Museum. Han får hjälp i sina brott av medbrottslingarna Naomi Drake och The
En kall januarinatt i 1920, the deadliest year for St. Louis Police, kicked off violently. Two not so-bright robbers attempted to rob one of the largest and bravest officers on the St. Louis polisen. St. Louis Police Detective Sergeant James Martin konungen gick till hans hem på 4973 Lotus Avenue via N. Kings Boulevard, when two
Jag hörde först talas om Chang Apana i en featurette på en av Charlie Chan dvd-uppsättningar. I knew a real life detective inspired Earl Derr Biggers to create Charlie Chan. I did not know who the man was. Chang Apana was that man. Chang Apana (born Ah Ping Chang) December 26, 1871 on the island of Oahu was