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. Emellertid, 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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På Januari 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) (affiliate länk). 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 och St. Louis Machine

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När det gäller maskin politik och organiserad brottslighet, Kansas City har alltid utklassade St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City var också hem till flera uppmärksammade gangstervärlden skottlossning. St. Louis’ sist organiserad brottslighet ledare greps för spelkort. 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 historia, 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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Sedan början av kommersiella filmskapande, produktionsbolag letar alltid efter nytt innehåll. Filmbolag har alltid använt populära böcker som en källa till innehåll och inspiration. Sedan 1950-talet, populära tv-program som filmanpassningar och inspiration. I början av talande filmer, popular radio shows led to many film adaptations. Lum and 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, spelad av 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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