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April 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
I løpet av april 1885, St. Louis opplevde en av sine mest oppsiktsvekkende drapene. To engelske reisende hadde sjekket inn på Southern Hotel i begynnelsen av april 1885. C. Arthur Preller og H. M. Brooks, som skulle av aliaset Dr. Maxwell, syntes å være svært vennlig. Selv om de hadde separate rom, they often stayed in the same room together. At
På mandag, March 5, 1900, St. Louis Police Officers Thomas Meagher and Thomas Degnan apprehended men who robbed an East St. Louis Officer of his gun. Ed Sullivan, en 22 year-old transient, robbed an East St. Louis Police Officer of his gun, jewelry and possessions in late February 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “the Benicia Boy”. Despite an 0-1-1 record as a professional fighter, Heenan claimed the World Prizefighting Championship based on a draw with Tom Sayer in an 1860 English prize-fight. Heenan’s first professional fight had been with the reigning World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey’s last professional fight
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” i St. Louis during the 1904 Verdensutstillingen. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
Sherlock Holmes i Washington (1943) er den tredje av tolv Universal Picture produksjoner av Sherlock Holmes serien. Basil Rathbone og Nigel Bruce spilte rollen som Holmes og Watson henholdsvis i to filmer for Twentieth-Century Fox og tolv mer for Universal Pictures. Denne filmen er igjen satt i 1940. Holmes and Watson have traveled to Washington, D.C. to keep secret
På lørdag, March 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
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
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939) er den tredje Twentieth-Century Fox film med Sidney Toler som Charlie Chan. Inspector Chan and Jimmy Chan, spilt av Victor Sen Yung, are flying to the San Francisco World Exposition in 1939 as the film opens. Den humpete tur gjør Jimmy veldig nervøs. Also on the flight is Charlie’s friend Paul Essex, played
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, The Way to Live in Health and Strength (affiliate link) 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