Officer O’Keefe Saves Fellow Officer

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St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Gegužės 26, 1901, O’Keefe proved his toughness and quick thinking again by saving a fellow officer from an excited horse and shed fire. St. Louis Police Officer Joseph A. Gerk patrolled his beat on Eighteenth Street during the morning of May 26, 1901, kai jis

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Muldoon Fails to Throw Sorakichi 5 Times

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Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Kadangi gerbėjai Clarence'ą Whistlerį laikė pakankamai įgudusiu, kad iš tikrųjų keltų grėsmę jo karaliavimui, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Gegužės 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, kas

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SailorArt Thomas vs. Ray Zills

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When thinking about African American history month, I thought about the first great Black wrestler that I saw personally. When I started watching wrestling in St. Louis metu 1979, “SailorArt Thomas wrestled regularly on Wrestling at the Chase, our local weekly wrestling show. Wrestling at the Chase aired every Sunday at 11 a.m. on KPLR Channel 11. Although Thomas

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Stecher Beats Cutler for American Title

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When Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after beating Georg Lurich in his last match, promoters scrambled to find a successor. Samuel Rachmann tried to put forth his own champion by hosting the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Rachmann wanted his challenger Aberg to win the tournament and be recognized by the public as the

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1909 – Bad Metai PARKER Zimmerman

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1909 tikriausiai buvo blogiausi metai Parker Lonzo Batoras Zimmerman gyvenimo. Jis prarado abu savo dešimties mėnesių dukrelę Ida gegužės Zimmerman ir jo antrosios žmonos Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Prieš Parkerio mirties Žaliojo Giraurdeau Tornado į 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909

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British Intelligence (1940)

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On January 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. Nors britai

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