The 1904 Attempted St. Louis Jail Break

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Џорџ Колинс, други пљачкаш банке укључене у Унији, МО пљачка банке на дан 26, 1902, покушао да побегне СТ. Луј Затвор у јануару 1904. Поред рада са осталим затвореницима на прави рупу у зиду затвора, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use

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Murder at the Baskervilles (1937)

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Arthur Wontner is arguably the best film portrayer of Sherlock Holmes. His fifth and final outing as Holmes in Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). The film was released in the United Kingdom in 1937 but was not released in America until January 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the

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William Muldoon Promotes Health System

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In a testament to his foresight and vision, the World Wrestling Champion William Muldoon was preparing to be a fitness trainer even while at the height of his powers as a wrestler. Muldoon held the championship from 1880 until he retired in 1890. During his reign, he often gave exhibitions to attract attention to his way of training. The Saturday,

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Сцарлет Пимпернел (1935)

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Хтео сам да пишем о једном од мојих омиљених филмова, Сцарлет Пимпернел (1935). То је адаптација романа од истог имена, written by Baroness Orczy. Филм (аффилиате линк) тиче енглеског вршњака, који ризикује свој живот спасавајући француске аристократи из гиљотине. Прича је компликована чињеницом да је вршњак ожењен

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Ghost of the Old Castle

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Септембар 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Лоуис’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. Свети. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Лоуис’ South

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Metropolis (1927)

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On January 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (ИМДБ), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning of the

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Julius Johannpeter (1875-1961)

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Јулије “Ујка Јулес” Johannpeter was born in St. Чарлс, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Ујка Јулес” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Ли” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee had the challenge of raising her two-year-old son Gilbert as a single

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Sergeant York (1941)

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Септембар 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). Филм (аффилиате линк) прича причу о нареднику Алвину Ц. York, a reluctant World War I hero from the small town of Pall Mall, Tennessee. Western film veteran Gary Cooper stars as Sergeant York. The film begins with the contrast of a Sunday church service and the

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Detective Desmond Gets His Men

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Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Одељење Луј Метрополитан полиције. During February 1890, Detective Desmond’s persistent efforts to locate two confidence men paid off with the arrest of both men. “Kinch” Keegan and “Thatch” Grady were brother-in-laws and accomplices in several confidence games. On January

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Господин. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

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On July 7, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox Films released the final Mr. Кретање “Б” film starring Peter Lorre as Inspector Kentaro Moto. Господин. Moto Takes a Vacation finds Mr. Moto accompanying the Queen of Sheba’s Crown from its discovery in an Egyptian archaeological site to a San Francisco museum. Господин. Moto suspects the arch criminal Metaxess, who authorities believed was dead, intends

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