Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Op april 13, 1936, Ed "Strangler" Lewis worstelde zijn laatste legitieme wedstrijd met Lee Wykoff
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Op oktober 20, 1916, Ad Santel, een bekende "hoer" of ervaren onderwerpingsworstelaar, ontmoette taro
Wie is de grootste legitieme professionele worstelaar die in de Verenigde Staten worstelt?? How do
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) is losjes gebaseerd op The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. De novelle werd in mei gepubliceerd in The Strand Magazine 1893. Het werd later gebundeld in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. In het verhaal, de Musgrave Mansion hield een geheim dat zelfs haar bewoners niet wist. This film follows the same plot line
Weinig gebeurtenissen geschokt St. Louis, zoals de lijn van het recht dood van Lt. Sidney Sears in juni 1924. Voor bijna 30 jaren, Lt. Sears werd beschouwd als de beste pistool geschoten op het St. Louis Police Department. In 1904, Sears was ook National Pistol Kampioen van de Verenigde Staten. Voor iemand naar Lt doden. Sears in een shootout onmogelijk werd beschouwd.
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Op mei 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, wanneer hij
I’ve been on an Alan Ladd kick lately. When I was still in college, I watched a number of Alan Ladd films one summer. I’ve been watching them over again the last few weeks on Amazon Prime. I’ll share some of these films over the next few months. The first film I watched was Thunder in the East (1951) starring
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Since fans only considered Clarence Whistler skilled enough to really threaten his reign, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Op mei 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, die
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) is the final entry in “B” film series. RKO Pictures took the series over from Republic Pictures, who released the original Dick Tracy serials in the late 1930s and early 1940s. RKO Pictures released the film to theaters on September 26, 1947. RKO brought Boris Karloff in to play Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
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 during 1979, “Sailor” Art 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
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
1909 was waarschijnlijk het slechtste jaar van het leven Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman's. Hij verloor zowel zijn tien maanden oude dochter Ida May Zimmerman en zijn tweede vrouw Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Voor de dood van Parker in de Kaap Giraurdeau Tornado van 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909
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. Terwijl Brits