Istoricul sporturilor de luptă și artist marțial
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Cine este cel mai mare luptător profesionist legitim care a luptat în Statele Unite? Cum
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
Banii periculos (1946) este al doilea la ultimul Charlie Chan filmul in care joaca Sidney Toler de la Monogram Pictures. După moartea lui Sidney Toler, Roland Winters va prelua rolul de mai mult de nouă filme. Acest film (affiliate link) ne permite să apreciem portretizarea Toler de Inspector Chan pentru aproape ultima dată. This film was the tenth for Monogram and his
Sâmbătă, Martie 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. După 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.
I met my wife at my sister’s wedding 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
Gorilla (1939) este o comedie-mister “B” film (affiliate link) starring the Ritz Brothers, Joseph Calleia, Bela Lugosi și Lionell Atwill. Filmul a fost produs de Twentieth-Century Fox înainte ca acestea să renunțe la procesul de luare a “B” filme, the first film on a double bill. The Ritz Brothers au fost active între 1925 și 1960, când Al Ritz cea mai veche fratele a murit. The
Sunday morning, August 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 “A” 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. Vest a cumpărat drepturile și regizat The Bat (1926) (affiliate link), unul dintre primii “casă veche întuneric” mistere pentru United Artist în 1926. Arthur Edeson a fost cineast atât pentru acest film și The Old închis Casa (1932), care împărtășesc elemente expresioniste similare. Ambele filme sunt stabilite în vile mari, which have seen better days. The key