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Þegar Wladek Zbyszko ferðaðist frá Bandaríkjunum til Brasilíu í ábatasama ferð
Hver er mesti lögmæti atvinnuglímumaðurinn til að glíma í Bandaríkjunum? How do
Apríl 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
Á föstudaginn, Maí 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 mínútur. 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 kvikmyndir. 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. Hann notaði
Á maí 20, 1947, Ralph Byrd aftur til Dick Tracy kosningaréttur í ógöngur Dick Tracy er (1947). Það voru velkomnir fréttir fyrir aðdáendur kosningaréttur þótt Chester Gould var athyglisverð undantekning. Gould skapaði Tracy staf fyrir grínisti síðu Detroit Mirror. Eftir Chicago Tribune tók upp grínisti fréttaskot, Það er vinsældir sprakk. Gould
Ágúst 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. Í 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. Í 1847, á
Í seint 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko ferðast til Bandaríkjanna til að skora heim Heavyweight glímukappi Frank Gotch. Áður en fundur Gotch, Zbyszko tónleikaferð til Bandaríkjanna og berjast mörgum staðbundnum wrestlers allan fyrri hluta 1910. Zbyszko myndi ferðast 37,000 kílómetra. Snemma í ferð hans, Zbyszko hitti Frank Gotch í fötlunar leik. Zbyszko sigraði Gotch, sem 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, sem
Oliver Leonard Kirk has the distinction of being the only Olympic boxer to win a gold medal in two separate weight classes in the same Olympic Games. Oliver Kirk accomplished this feat at his hometown Olympics in 1904. St. Louis hosted the third Olympiad during the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Arthur Wontner is arguably the best film portrayer of Sherlock Holmes. His fifth and final outing as Holmes in Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). The film was released in the United Kingdom in 1937 but was not released in America until January 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
Á fimmtudaginn, Janúar 27, 1904, Tom Jenkins varði bandaríska glímumeistaramótið sitt gegn upprennandi glímumanni frá Iowa. After the first fall, aðdáendurnir áttuðu sig á því að þetta var erfiðasti leikurinn á 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 hafði sigrað Gotch's