Jack Johnson, American Boxing Pioneer

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Jack Johnson hefur alltaf verið erfitt viðfangsefni fyrir mig. Ég dáist hugrekki hans og styrk í frammi hatri og bigotry í tíma þegar að gera það setja líf sitt í hættu. Hann neitaði að uppfylla og tók sér stöðu á óæðri hvíta Bandaríkjamenn. Enn, like many human beings he was a flawed man. He beat his first wife

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William Muldoon Uses Long Copy

Hversu oft hefur þú heyrt best að nota stutt afrit eða lengri eintak fyrir markaðssetningu Internet. Copy editors will advocate short copy, while other copy writers advocate long copy. Einn maður sem trúði á notkun langan eintak til að selja þjónustu sína var William Muldoon. Muldoon was the Greco-Roman World Wrestling Champion until he retired to become a

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Mr. Moto’s Last Warning (1939)

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In the sixth of eight Mr. Moto films released between 1937 og 1939, Interpol police officer Kentaro Moto pursues a group of international saboteurs. Twentieth Century – Fox Film Corporation released Mr. Moto’s Last Warning (1939) (tengja hlekkur) on January 20, 1939. Peter Lorre returns as the cerebral but deadly Mr. Hreyfing. Ricardo Cortez plays Fabian the Great, a ventriloquist,

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Wrestler Saves Drowning Priest

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George Baptiste spent about twenty years serving as St. Louis’ resident all-around athlete before taking over the company, Baptiste Tent and Awning, founded by his father Alexander Baptiste. Besides plying his trade as an occasional but accomplished professional wrestler, Baptise was a powerful swimmer. Ágúst 11, 1900, Baptiste used his swimming skills to save another St. Louisan from drowning.

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A Tale of Two Turnvereine Halls

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The fate of much of St. Louis’ historic buildings prove the old real estate adage. It’s all about location, location, location. If the building is in the South St. Louis, it has a better chance of being saved than a building on the North Side. The same could be said for buildings located in the center of the city except

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Seymour Hicks í Scrooge (1935)

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Skröggur (1935) er Twickenham Studios útgáfa af Charles Dickens’ klassískt, A Christmas Carol. Seymour Hicks spilar Ebenezer Scrooge, á miserly eigandi London Business. Hann ræður aðstoðarmaður heitir Bob Cratchit. Skröggur mun að lokum að uppfylla þrjú drauga á aðfangadagskvöld, who will cause a miraculous change in Scrooge’s attitude towards Christmas and his assistant. Seymour Hicks was born

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Kjölfar Union Bank rán

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Á föstudaginn, Mars 13, 1903, the Franklin County Judge William Davidson arraigned William Rudolph and George Collins for the robbery of the Union Bank and the murder of Pinkerton Detective Charles Schumacher. Rudolph og Collins flytja “ekki sekur”. Dómari Davidson úthlutað þremur Lögmenn til að tákna Rudolph og Collins. William Rudolph gaf játningu til St. Louis fjölmiðla, which was

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