Mwanahistoria wa Michezo ya Vita na Msanii wa Vita
Aprili 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Mnamo Oktoba 20, 1916, Ad Santel, "mshikaji ndoano" aliyejulikana au mwanamieleka mwenye ujuzi, met Taro
Ambaye ni mwanamieleka mkubwa halali wa kitaalamu kumenyana nchini Marekani? Jinsi gani
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.
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. Hata hivyo, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt alichukua Katibu wake wa Vita na Gavana wa zamani wa Phillipines
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, The Way to Live in Health and Strength (affiliate kiungo) 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
Sunday morning, Agosti 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, zamani upelelezi New York City, alishinda michuano ya Wrestling World Greco Kirumi kwa kuwashinda Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon akatawala miaka kumi kabla ya kustaafu kama bingwa. Baada ya kustaafu, alianza kufanya kuishi kama mkufunzi binafsi. Muldoon trained wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for his
On Monday evening, Julai 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, who
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Lee” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Jules”, 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. Babu
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. Awali, HYER walioajiriwa vipaji yake kwa Whigs lakini bila kubadili visasi kwa “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William
On June 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 na 210 wakati wa kazi yake paundi.