Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
På April 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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På Oktober 20, 1916, Ad Santel, en noterad "fnask" eller skicklig submission wrestler, met Taro
Vem är den största legitima professionella brottaren att brottas i USA? Hur gör
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, när de stannade till vid en
På April 5, 1920, Frederick Charles Smith, också känd som “Red-Headed Bandit”, gick in i Easton-Taylor Trust Company vid 4474 Easton Avenue. Smith hade en revolver i varje hand och krävde pengar från kassan. Fearing for his life, the clerk promptly dropped $15,309 i en säck. John Lanigan, the bank’s president, sat in his office off the lobby
George Hackenschmidt (1877-1968) var ett världsrekord hålla tyngdlyftare och World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion innan brottning var uppgjort och lyftare använde steroider. Hackenschmidt uppnått en nivå av storhet beror på flera faktorer. Han uppnådde en hög nivå av fysisk kondition. His physical condition allowed him to be the most successful wrestler of his era. A few wrestlers may have been
Jag tidigare skrev om en incident där en Detective Sergeant för St. Louis polis blev skjuten under ett rånförsök. Unlike a number of other incidents in Gilded Age St. Louis historia, Detective Sergeant James Martin King’s home in January 1920 still exists. The home is still in excellent condition. 4973 Lotus Avenue was the home of Sgt. King in
En kall januarinatt i 1920, the deadliest year for St. Louis Police, kicked off violently. Two not so-bright robbers attempted to rob one of the largest and bravest officers on the St. Louis polisen. St. Louis Police Detective Sergeant James Martin konungen gick till hans hem på 4973 Lotus Avenue via N. Kings Boulevard, when two
Jag hörde först talas om Chang Apana i en featurette på en av Charlie Chan dvd-uppsättningar. I knew a real life detective inspired Earl Derr Biggers to create Charlie Chan. I did not know who the man was. Chang Apana was that man. Chang Apana (born Ah Ping Chang) December 26, 1871 on the island of Oahu was
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 hemlighet (1936) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values are better
I have spent a lot of time studying different rank systems. The rank system seems to be a modern concept started by Dr. Jigaro Kano, an educator, who wanted a system of grading to separate students. Over the next century, numerous styles adopted the belt rank system but the only commonality was the belt systems meant what the creator decided
På torsdag, Juni 12, 1919, Earl Hunter and Charles Bergman, en parolee och före detta straffånge, höll upp Meramec Trust Company strax efter det öppnade på 07:00 a.m. The robbery was not well planned and even more poorly executed. Hörnet av Virginia Avenue och Meramec Street var en av de mest trafikerade gata bilen block i staden. The robbers had
Chester Gould skapade Dick Tracy komiska remsan i 1931. Ursprungligen publicerat genom Detroit Metro, remsan flyttade till Chicago Tribune där det gjorde papper och Gould rika genom syndikering. Det var bara en tidsfråga innan Dick Tracy gjorde sin debut på vita duken. Ralph Byrd spelade Dick Tracy i fyra 15 chapter serials