Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/b7uzv9/Episode_30abul2.mp3Podcast: Spelen in een nieuw venster | DownloadIn this episode, we discuss the Dick Shikat double-cross
Wie is de grootste legitieme professionele worstelaar die in de Verenigde Staten worstelt?? How do
Rarely does one fundamentally alter their profession but Stanislaus Zbyszko did just that on April
Tom Hyer won the American Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship in 1841. Like most prizefighting champions
Gevaarlijke Geld (1946) is de tweede aan Charlie Chan film met Sidney Toler van Monogram Pictures duren. Na de dood van Sidney Toler's, Roland Winters zou de rol voor negen meer films te nemen. Deze film (affiliate link) allows us to appreciate Toler’s portrayal of Inspector Chan for close to the last time. This film was the tenth for Monogram and his
Op zaterdag, Maart 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Louis’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Moran and the detectives
On a March night in San Francisco, heavyweight contender Marvin Hart proved pure aggressiveness could sometimes win a decision. After 20 rounds of boxing, referee Greggains, the only judge, awarded the decision over the great Jack Johnson to Hart. Hart met Johnson on March 28, 1905. Johnson entered the ring as the betting favorite. He also entered as one of
H. H. Holmes was America’s first known serial killer in the modern definition of the word. Holmes operated “the Murder Castle”, a Chicago hotel during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Holmes would eventually be convicted of sixteen murders but may have murdered more than 100 people during his operation of the hotel. What is less well known is that St.
Ik ontmoette mijn vrouw op de bruiloft van mijn zus in september 1995. I had known Tam as my little sister’s best friend for 10 years but I did not really see her as the woman she had become until this day in late September. I actually got to know her better because I was on wolf duty this day although it
De Gorilla (1939) is een komedie-mysterie “B” film (affiliate link) starring the Ritz Brothers, Joseph Calleia, Bela Lugosi en Lionell Atwill. De film werd geproduceerd door Twentieth-Century Fox voordat ze stoppen met het maken van “B” films, the first film on a double bill. De Ritz Brothers waren actief tussen 1925 en 1960, when Al Ritz the oldest brother passed away. De
Sunday morning, Augustus 12, 1900, St. Louis Police arrested four former Transit Line streetcar workers for blowing up the Olive Street line on Maryland Avenue between N. Taylor and N. Euclid Avenues on the previous night at 11:00 p.m. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
The Woman in Green (1945) is the ninth of twelve Sherlock Holmes (affiliate link) produced by Universal Pictures. Basil Rathbone returns as Holmes in the eleventh of fourteen turns as the English sleuth. The film is one of the few “B” series films, which could have been an “Een” film. Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of several young London women.
In one of those strange coincidences of history, the Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson was stabbed by a union machinist named Edward Canty after a saloon disagreement. At a time when several of his opponents in the 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
Roland V. West kocht de rechten en regisseerde The Bat (1926) (affiliate link), een van de eerste “oud donker huis” mysteries voor United Artist in 1926. Arthur Edeson was de cameraman voor zowel deze film en The Old Dark House (1932), die vergelijkbaar zijn expressionistische elementen te delen. Beide films zijn in grote herenhuizen, which have seen better days. The key