היסטוריון ספורט קרבי ואמן לחימה
Posts about the history of St. לואיס, מיזורי, family history, סרט קלאסי, and miscellaneous history.
On March 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau released Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu was Murnau’s adaptation of the Dracula novel by Bram Stoker. Murnau neglected to purchase the rights to film the story from Stoker’s estate, which almost led to this film being lost to film viewers. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture. The
ג'ורג' קולינס, the second bank robber involved in the Union, MO bank robbery on December 26, 1902, ניסיתי להימלט סנט. כלא לואיס בינואר 1904. חוץ מעבודה עם האסירים האחרים על ביצוע חור בקיר של הכלא, הוא גם סידר עם סוהר יש מסורים שהוברחו אליו. Collins intended to use
ארתור Wontner הוא לטעון את portrayer הסרט הטוב ביותר של שרלוק הולמס. His fifth and final outing as Holmes in Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). הסרט שוחרר בבריטניה ב 1937 אבל לא שוחרר באמריקה עד לחודש ינואר 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
אני רוצה לכתוב על אחד הסרטים האהובים עליי, סקרלט פימפרנל (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, נכתב על ידי הברונית Orczy. The film (affiliate link) concerns an English peer, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. The story is complicated by the fact the peer is married to
On September 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. לואיס’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. סנט. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. לואיס’ South
On January 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDB), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 כוכבים. It is #104 on the Top 250. בנושא שהחברה נאבקה בו מאז תחילת ה
יוליוס “Uncle Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. צ'ארלס, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Uncle Jules” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “מחסה” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee had the challenge of raising her two-year-old son Gilbert as a single
On September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (affiliate link) tells the story of Sergeant Alvin C. York, a reluctant World War I hero from the small town of Pall Mall, Tennessee. Western film veteran Gary Cooper stars as Sergeant York. The film begins with the contrast of a Sunday church service and the
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. לואיס משטרת המטרופוליטן. During February 1890, Detective Desmond’s persistent efforts to locate two confidence men paid off with the arrest of both men. “Kinch” Keegan and “Thatch” Grady were brother-in-laws and accomplices in several confidence games. On January
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis had the distinction of being the largest city west of the Mississippi River. Pickpockets and thieves rode the rails to ply their illicit trade in the bustling metropolis. On September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.