Historiador de esportes de combate e artista marcial
Em abril de 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Em outubro 20, 1916, Ad Santel, uma famosa “prostituta” ou lutadora de finalização habilidosa, met Taro
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Frank Gotch took the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Tom Jenkins in December 1903. Gotch intended on following up this triumph with a match for World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from George Hackenschmidt. Gotch wanted to meet “Hack” em St. Louis during the 1904 Feira Mundial. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939) is the third Twentieth-Century Fox film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. Inspetor Chan e Jimmy Chan, interpretado por Victor Sen Yung, estão voando para a Exposição Mundial de São Francisco em 1939 enquanto o filme abre. The bumpy ride is making Jimmy very nervous. Também no vôo está Paul Essex, amigo de Charlie., played
No sábado, Março 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 e os detetives
H. H. Holmes foi primeiro serial killer conhecido da América na definição moderna da palavra. Holmes operado “Castelo Murder”, um hotel de Chicago, durante o 1893 Feira Mundial de Chicago. Holmes acabaria por ser condenado por dezesseis crimes, mas pode ter assassinado mais de 100 pessoas durante sua operação do hotel. What is less well known is that St.
After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. However, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, The Way to Live in Health and Strength (link de afiliado) by Georg Hackenschmidt. Georg Hackenschmidt set many weightlifitng world records before focusing on professional wrestling. Hackenschmidt would win the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1901. Hackenschmidt would reign as undefeated World Champion for 7 anos até perder o
Sunday morning, Agosto 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
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
William Muldoon, um ex-detetive de Nova York, venceu o Campeonato Mundial de Luta Greco-Romana, derrotando Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon reinou por dez anos antes de se aposentar como campeão. Depois de se aposentar, ele começou a ganhar a vida como um personal trainer. Muldoon trained wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for his
On Monday evening, Julho 16, 1917, St. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 N. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. His “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, que