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. Fodd bynnag,, 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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Ar Ionawr 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) (cyswllt Affiliate). 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 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning

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Boss Butler a St. Louis Peiriant

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Pan ddaw i wleidyddiaeth beiriant a throseddau cyfundrefnol, Kansas City bob amser wedi outshone St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Roedd Kansas City hefyd yn gartref i nifer o shootings gangiau proffil uchel. St. Louis’ arweinydd troseddau cyfundrefnol diwethaf ei arestio am chwarae cardiau. 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 Police history, 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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Since the beginning of commercial film making, production companies are always looking for new content. Film companies have always used popular books as a source of content and inspiration. Since the 1950s, popular television shows provided film adaptations and inspiration. In the early days of talking films, popular radio shows led to many film adaptations. Lum and Abner, Jack Benny,

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