Robber Helps Catch Killer

Десмонд-1904-херојства

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.

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Theodore Roosevelt Wins 6 States in 1912

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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. <Спан ббок_к = "289" ббок_и = "553" ббок_в = "56" ббок_х = "20" фсизе = "14" фвеигхт = "3" црвено = "255" зелено = "255" плави = "255" алфа = ", once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Рузвелт је изабрао свог војног секретара и бившег гувернера Филипина

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Начин да се живи у здравље и снагу

Џорџ Хакеншмит одело

For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, Начин да се живи у здравље и снагу (аффилиате линк) 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 years until losing his

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Аматерски Слеутх Браве Динамитардс

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Недеља ујутро, Август 12, 1900, Свети. Луис Полиција је ухапсила четворицу бивших транзитне линије трамвај радника због дизања у ваздух линију Маслиново Стреет на Мериленд авенији између Н. Таилор и Н. Еуклид Авенуес на претходне ноћи у 11:00 сати увече. Полиција је ухапсила Маурице Бреннан, И Фред. Нортхваи, Јамес Шварц и Џејмс Финнесеи. Полиција је пронашла 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet

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Union President Stabbed In 1900 Штрајк

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У једном од оних чудних случајности историје, Трамвај Унија Председник Шерман Ц. Патерсон је избоден од стране синдиката машиниста по имену Едвард Цанти после салону неслагања. У време када је неколико његових противника у 1900 Свети. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by

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Вилијам Малдун и Његово здравље Фарма

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Вилијам Мулдоон, бивши Њујорк детектив, освојио Светско првенство у рвању грчко-римску победом Тхиебауд Бауера. Малдун је владао десет година пре одласка у пензију као шампион. Након пензионисања, је почео да живи као лични тренер. Muldoon trained wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for his

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Girlfriend Kills St. Louis Officer

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On Monday evening, Јул 16, 1917, Свети. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 Н. 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, who

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Herman Johannpeter (1878 – 1921)

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When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Ли” Елис’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Јулес”, Julius Johannpeter. Grandpa lived with Uncle Jules from the time he left Missouri Military Academy in 1932 until he married my grandmother, Alvina Ellis nee Mosblech in 1938. Grandpa

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Tom Hyer Beats Yankee Sullivan

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Tom Hyer won the American Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship in 1841. Like most prizefighting champions of the Nineteenth Century, he did not fight very often. Hyer normally paid his bills as an enforcer for political parties in New York. Првобитно, Хајер је користио своје таленте за Виговце, али би променио оданост “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William

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Muldoon Too Strong for French Wrestler

Виллиам-Мулдоон

Јуна 4, 1883, the Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion William Muldoon faced skilled French wrestler Jules Rigal in San Francisco, California. When the wrestlers stripped to their trunks for the match, it was obvious Muldoon’s power would prove a formidable challenge to Rigal. Muldoon stood around 6 feet tall and weighed between 193 и 210 pounds during his career.

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