Topper Returns (1941)

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Pada bulan Maret 21, 1941, United Artists released the third Topper film (affiliate link), Topper Returns (1941). Roland Young plays Cosmo Topper, a middle aged businessman with the unique gift of seeing ghosts stuck in this world. This film is set in a large country home. The film begins with Gail Richards, played by Joan Blondell, and Ann Carrington, dimainkan oleh

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Wrestler Saves Drowning Priest

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George Baptiste spent about twenty years serving as St. Louis’ resident all-around athlete before taking over the company, Baptiste Tent and Awning, founded by his father Alexander Baptiste. Besides plying his trade as an occasional but accomplished professional wrestler, Baptise was a powerful swimmer. Pada Agustus 11, 1900, Baptiste used his swimming skills to save another St. Louisan from drowning.

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Prelude to 1912 Pilpres

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Theodore Roosevelt membuat keputusan yang menentukan pada Hari Pemilu 1904. Dia mengumumkan setelah terpilih menjadi Presiden di kanan sendiri setelah naik ke kantor setelah pembunuhan William McKinley bahwa ia tidak akan mencalonkan diri untuk masa jabatan lainnya dalam 1908. Roosevelt menjabat hampir istilah penuh sebelum pemilihannya sebagai McKinley dibunuh pada bulan September 1901.

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Ekspresionisme dan Nosferatu (1922)

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Pada bulan Maret 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau dirilis Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu (affilaite link) was Murnau’s adaptation of the Dracula novel by Bram Stoker. Murnau diabaikan untuk membeli hak untuk memfilmkan cerita dari real Stoker, yang hampir menyebabkan film ini hilang untuk film pemirsa. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture.

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British Intelligence (1940)

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Pada Januari 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). Film (affiliate link) 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.

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Heenan Loses to King in Last Bout

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John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “yang Benicia Boy”. Despite an 0-1-1 record as a professional fighter, Heenan claimed the World Prizefighting Championship based on a draw with Tom Sayer in an 1860 English prize-fight. Heenan’s first professional fight had been with the reigning World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey’s last professional fight

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