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Travanj 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
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, Travanj 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell was employed as a mechanic at
Weeks ago, I was looking for a copy of Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott from my grandfather’s old library. Grandpa 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, I used to sit in his
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 Policija Povijest, 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. Međutim, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
William Muldoon, Svjetska hrvanju grčko-rimskim prvak i fizičke kulture zagovornik, došao u Los Angelesu u utorak, Travanj 15, 1884 suočiti s lokalnom hrvač Fred Bauer. Utakmica dogodio na lokalnoj Turnvereine Hall u Los Angelesu. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
U utorak, Studeni 5, 1901, St. Louis Police captured Ben Kilpatrick and Laura Bullion for their part in the Great Northern train robbery in Montana on July 2, 1901. Before the case was settled, Kilpatrick would serve 10 years and Laura Bullion would serve three and a half years in the Missouri Penitentiary but it would take several weeks for
Gilford Dudley Story (1797 – 1870) is my third great-grandfather. There are six generations between the two of us. Nedavno sam uspio pronaći podatke o obitelji Story, one of the branches of the family my research had not turned up as much information on. Godinama, Nisam mogao pronaći svoju prabaku Dollie Zimmerman rođ
On the morning of Saturday, Travanj 22, 1922, a green Paige automobile pulled up in front of the Morris Packing Company at 3000 S. Brodvej. 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. Vrijeme
U prosincu 1, 1938 na 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 godina. 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. Ja