Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Op April 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Op Oktober 20, 1916, Ad Santel, 'n bekende "haker" of vaardige voorleggingstoeier, met Taro
Wie is die grootste wettige professionele stoeier om in die Verenigde State te stoei?? Hoe doen
Wanneer dit kom by die masjien politiek en georganiseerde misdaad, Kansas City was nog altyd uitgestof St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City was ook die tuiste van verskeie hoë-profiel Gang skietery. St. Louis’ laaste georganiseerde misdaad leier in hegtenis geneem is vir die speel van kaarte. We did have a Democratic party political machine around
21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, April 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell was werksaam as werktuigkundige by
Weke gelede, Ek was op soek na 'n kopie van Ivanhoe deur Sir Walter Scott uit my oupa se ou biblioteek. Oupa Gilbert P. Ellis had a library that he gave me in the early 1990s. These books and his desk are treasures that will stay with me until the day I die. As a kid, Ek het in syne gesit
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 Polisie geskiedenis, 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
At our fantasy football draft this year, one of the other owners asked me who I thought was the best mixed martial artist of all time. I told him that based on skill, the greatest mixed martial artist of all time was Jon “Bones” Jones. Egter, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
William Muldoon, die Wêreld Grieks-Romeinse stoei kampioen en fisiese kultuur proponent, het na Los Angeles op Dinsdag, April 15, 1884 die plaaslike stoeier Fred Bauer tot aangesig. Die wedstryd het plaasgevind by die plaaslike Turnvereine Hall in Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
Op November 30, 1871, 'n groot skare mans het op tien treinwaens op die New Orleans geklim, Mobiele en Texas-spoorweg soos dit op Canalstraat in New Orleans gestop het, Louisiana. Die trein het voortgegaan na Montgomery-stasie naby Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, waar die skare die reën verlaat het en die bos ingegaan het. Such an odd procession
On the morning of Saturday, April 22, 1922, a green Paige automobile pulled up in front of the Morris Packing Company at 3000 S. Broadway. One man emerged, looked around and waived for his companion to exit the back seat. After hesitating for a few seconds, the other man exited as the automobile crawled down the busy street. The time
Op Desember 1, 1938 op 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 jaar oud. While enjoying robust strength his whole life, Baptiste’s doctor discovered he had stomach cancer in June 1938. The doctor operated on Baptiste but was unable to remove all the cancer. Baptiste had been living at his country home
Last Monday, I was able to scratch a big item off my bucket list. I attended a Liverpool Football Club game in person. Liverpool FC came to my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri on August 1, 2016 to play a preseason game with AS Roma. My daughter Caity attended the match with me, which made the day extra special. Ek