Theodore Roosevelt Wins 6 States in 1912

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After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. Egter, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines

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Metropolis (1927)

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Januarie 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) (Koste skakel). 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 sterre. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning

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Baas Butler en die St. Louis masjien

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Wanneer dit kom by die masjien politiek en georganiseerde misdaad, Kansas City was nog altyd uitgestof St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City was ook die tuiste van verskeie hoë-profiel Gang skietery. St. Louis’ laaste georganiseerde misdaad leier in hegtenis geneem is vir die speel van kaarte. We did have a Democratic party political machine around

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Detective Desmond Catches Eddie Guerin

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Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. Louis”, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. Louis Polisie geskiedenis, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French

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The Fat Man (1950)

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Sedert die begin van die kommersiële film maak, produksie maatskappye is altyd op soek na nuwe inhoud. Film maatskappye het altyd gebruik populêre boeke as 'n bron van die inhoud en inspirasie. Sedert die 1950's, gewilde TV-programme verskaf film aanpassings en inspirasie. In die vroeë dae van praat films, gewilde radioprogramme gelei tot baie film aanpassings. Lum en Abner, Jack Benny,

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Laura (1944): A Dark Tale of Love

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Laura (1944) is the story of an ambitious young woman pulled into the middle of a murder investigation by both amorous suitors and jealous women. Laura Hunt, uitgebeeld deur Gene Tierney, is an advertising executive about to marry a shiftless seducer, Shelby Carpenter, portrayed by Vincent Price. To complicate matters, her aunt Anne Treadwell is in love with the seducer

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