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Huhtikuun 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
Over the next three weeks, I will be releasing posts, which are excerpts from the book I’m currently working on and one from a previously published book. The following unedited story is from the book I’m working on which will be released in the Fall or early Winter 2017. William Rudolph proved elusive after his Independence Day escape from the
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) is loosely based on The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. The short story was published in The Strand Magazine during May 1893. It was later compiled in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. In the story, the Musgrave Mansion held a secret that even it’s inhabitants did not know. This film follows the same plot line
Few events shocked St. Louis like the line of duty death of Lt. Sidney Sears in June 1924. For almost 30 vuotta, Lt. Sears was considered the best pistol shot on the St. Louis Police Department. Sisään 1904, Sears was also National Pistol Champion of the United States. For someone to kill Lt. Sears in a shootout was considered impossible.
Kate Chopin, tytär merkittävä ranskalainen perhe ja tuolloin paikallinen kirjailija, romahti St. Ludvig 1904 Maailmannäyttely August 20, 1904. Madame Chopin oli vain 54 vuotias ja kärsi aivoverenvuotoon tai aneurism. Hän kuoli kotonaan on McPherson Avenue August 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
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) pääosassa
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. Toukokuun 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, jotka
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) is the final entry in “B” film series. RKO Pictures otti sarjan yli tasavalta Pictures, joka julkaisi alkuperäisen Dick Tracy sarjoja 1930-luvun lopulla ja 1940-luvun alussa. RKO Pictures julkaisi elokuva teattereihin syyskuussa 26, 1947. RKO toi Boris Karloff pelaamaan hirvittävä, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
Tiistaina, Heinäkuu 4, 1916, former St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond passed away after an illness of two years. Desmond was in Alexian Brothers Hospital from October 1915 until his death on Independence Day 1916. The 59-year-old Desmond left a 12-year-old son, William Desmond, Jr. Chief Desmond’s wife died several years before him. For 17 years from 1890
When Twentieth Century-Fox decided to drop the Charlie Chan series after Castle in the Desert (1942), Sidney Toler purchased the rights to the series and took it to Monogram Pictures. After making 11 films with Twentieth Century-Fox, Toler would make 11 Charlie Chan films with Monogram Pictures. Shadows Over Chinatown (1946) was the ninth film that Toler made for Monogram
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