Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
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Toe Wladek Zbyszko van die Verenigde State na Brasilië gereis het vir 'n winsgewende toer
Wie is die grootste wettige professionele stoeier om in die Verenigde State te stoei?? Hoe doen
Op April 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
Fred Beell het professioneel gestoei van 1900 te 1919. Nadat hy 'n legendariese reputasie ontwikkel het weens sommige van sy oorwinnings oor Martin “Boer” Burns, Dan McLeod en Frank Gotch, Beell het afgetree toe hy nader gekom het 43 jaar oud. Sy post stoei loopbaan sou lei tot sy onverwagte dood by 57. Fred Beell het lang kanse oorkom om 'n bekwame professionele stoeier te word
Growing up I heard lots of stories about my Great Grandmother Caroline “Lee” Ellis from my mother. She spent lots of time with her grandmother who lived in St. Louis. Grandpa Ellis moved to Illinois a couple of times during the 1940s and 1950s. Mom would come back to St. Louis frequently to see Great Grandma Ellis. Grandma and Grandpa
Frank Gotch was famous for defeating George Hackenschmidt, die wêreldkampioen stoeier en gewigopteller in 1908 and the 1911 rematch. Gotch gehou om die titel vir vyf jaar en al die nuwelinge verslaan. Op die jong ouderdom van 35, Gotch besluit om af te tree. Vir sy laaste wedstryd, he would take on another famous European wrestler and weightlifter, George Lurich. George Lurich
Op November 13, 1930, Roland V. West released The Bat Whispers (1930), the talkie version of his silent classic, Die Bat (1926). The film follows faithfully the script of the original. Egter, West is able to experiment with film techniques like tracking shots, still a novelty in early sound cinema. Editing still dominated as the continuity and story moving technique.
Rondom 10 is Donderdag, April 10, 1919, vyf swaar gewapende mans het by die Baden Bank ingebars. Die bandiete het M.W. Munzel, die kassier, en het toegang tot die kluis geëis. Hulle het die vier ander werknemers bymekaargemaak toe Muntzel die groep na die kluis gelei het. Die rowers het gekleurde bandanas gedra om hul gelaatstrekke te verbloem. Terwyl twee van die vyf mans
Op Vrydag, Mei 12, 1905, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt toured the United States after defeating reigning American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. One of Hackenschmidt’s stops was the “Gateway na die Weste”, St. Louis, Missouri. Hackenschmidt agreed to throw three wrestlers in under 90 minute. He accomplished this feat in less than 19 minutes after the third wrestler
Universal Pictures released the thirteenth of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes on February 1, 1946. Twentieth Century-Fox produced the first two films. Universal produced the final 12 films. Terror By Night (1946) finds Holmes hired to protect the Star of Rhodesia diamond on a train bound for Scotland. Rodney Carstairs hires Holmes to protect the
Ad Santel entered professional wrestling a generation too late. By the time he started wrestling in the 1910s, professional wrestling transitioned from contests to prearranged exhibitions. Santel possessed strong submission skills, which would have allowed him to beat most of the wrestlers in legitimate wrestling contests. Santel did take part in several legitimate contests with Japanese jujitsu practitioners. He used
Op Mei 20, 1947, Ralph Byrd teruggekeer na die Dick Tracy franchise in Dick Tracy se Dilemma (1947). Dit was welkome nuus vir aanhangers van die franchise hoewel Chester Gould was 'n noemenswaardige uitsondering. Gould het die Tracy karakter vir die komiese bladsy van die Detroit Mirror. Na afloop van die Chicago Tribune opgetel die komiese vir sindikasie, dit se gewildheid ontplof. Gould
Augustus 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. In 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. In 1847, die