General Sherman’s St. Louis Home

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General William Tecumseh Sherman od građanskog rata slave imala duboke korijene u St. Louis istezanje natrag 1843. Kao vojnik, the US Army assigned Sherman to Jefferson Barracks. Sherman was also involved in St. Louis businesses as the St. Louis Street Railroad Company predsjednik, dok nije otišao St. Louis for the Civil War in 1861.   After the war,

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How To Spread A Martial Art

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3 times over the last 150 godina, martial artists created more modern versions of older martial arts. Unlike many prior systems, the innovators of these modern martial arts chose to share this information with outsiders and spread their arts around the world. Jigoro Kano’s dissemination of Judo is the best case study for how to develop and spread a martial

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Zbyszko and the Last Shoot Match

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Stanislav Zbyszko rođen Stanislaw Jan Cygankiewicz travnja 1, 1880 u Jodlow, Poljska, koja je bila dio Austro-Ugarske Monarhije. Zbyszko chose the ring name Stanislaus Zbyszko because it was the name of a fictional Polish knight. Članak u Walla Walla, Washington novina, The Evening Statesman’s on Tuesday, Veljača 8, 1910, publicized Zbyszko’s university and intellectual accomplishments.

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Prizefighters Meet in Liverpool Pub

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For the October 5, 1861 edition of the Cincinnati Daily Press, editors pulled a story off the wire service from the Spirit of the Times. The wire story reported on a fight between former English prizefighting champion Tom Sayers and current English champion Jem Mace. Both Sayers and Mace were touring with English circuses, kad su se zaustavili kod a

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Hack and What It Takes To Be Great

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George Hackenschmidt (1877-1968) was a world record holding weightlifter and World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion before wrestling was prearranged and lifters were using steroids. Hackenschmidt achieved a level of greatness due to several factors. He achieved a high level of physical fitness. His physical condition allowed him to be the most successful wrestler of his era. A few wrestlers may have been

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Robbers Kill Detective Sergeant in 1920

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Na hladnom siječanjske noći u 1920, the deadliest year for St. Louis policije, kicked off violently. Two not so-bright robbers attempted to rob one of the largest and bravest officers on the St. Odjel Louis policije. St. Louis Police Detective Sergeant James Martin King was walking to his home at 4973 Lotus Avenue via N. KINGSHIGHWAY Boulevard, when two

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Charlie Chan’s Secret (1936)

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The series of the Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland were probably the strongest films in the Charlie Chan series. Sidney Toler made several good films also but eventually the series would become low-budget “B” films produced by Monogram Pictures. Charlie Chan’s Secret (1936) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values are better

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