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Da Wladek Zbyszko rejste fra USA til Brasilien for en lukrativ tur videre
William Muldoon var verdensmester i sværvægt baseret på hans nederlag af Thiebaud Bauer i? Hvordan
On April 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
På fredag, Maj 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 to the West”, St. Louis, Missouri. Hackenschmidt agreed to throw three wrestlers in under 90 minutter. 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 film. 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. Han brugte
Den maj 20, 1947, Ralph Byrd tilbage til Dick Tracy franchise i Dick Tracy dilemma (1947). Det var gode nyheder for fans af franchisen selv Chester Gould var en bemærkelsesværdig undtagelse. Gould skabte Tracy tegn for den komiske side af Detroit Mirror. Efter Chicago Tribune afhentet tegneserien for syndikering, det popularitet eksploderede. Gould
Den August 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. I 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. I 1847, den
I slutningen af 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko traveled to the United States to challenge World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. Prior to meeting Gotch, Zbyszko toured the United States and battled many local wrestlers throughout the early part of 1910. Zbyszko would travel 37,000 miles. Early in his tour, Zbyszko met Frank Gotch in a handicap match. Zbyszko defeated Gotch, som var
My second great-grandfather August H. Elker was born in Hanover, Germany on May 22, 1848 in the year of revolutions in Europe. Whether related to the revolutions or not, August’s family travelled to America in 1854. After landing in New York City, the Elker family made its way to St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis had a large German Catholic community, som
Oliver Leonard Kirk har den ære at være den eneste olympiske bokser til at vinde en guldmedalje i to separate vægtklasser i de samme olympiske lege. Oliver Kirk opnået dette kunststykke ved sin hjemby OL i 1904. St. Louis var vært for tredje olympiade under 1904 Verdensudstillingen Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Arthur Wontner er nok den bedste film skildrer af Sherlock Holmes. Hans femte og sidste udflugt som Holmes i Murder på Baskervilles (1937). Filmen blev udgivet i Det Forenede Kongerige i 1937 men blev ikke udgivet i Amerika indtil januar 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
På torsdag, Januar 27, 1904, Tom Jenkins forsvarede sit amerikanske wrestlingmesterskab mod en kommende wrestler fra Iowa. After the first fall, fansene indså, at det var den hårdeste kamp af c Frank Alvin Gotch, the Humboldt, Iowa farm boy who would defeat Georg Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908, was Jenkins’ challenger. Jenkins havde besejret Gotch's