Manassa Mauler Knocks Out Giant in 1919

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While doing research, I found this picture of the Manassa Mauler training for his July 4th, 1919 title fight with Jess Willard, the World Heavyweight Boxing Champions. Willard had knocked out the great Jack Johnson in 1915 to become champion. Willard was a giant of a man at 6’06” og 235 £. He posed a threat to anyone based on size alone. Þó,

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Auto Þjófar drepa annan lögreglumann

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William Dillon var að bregðast við tilkynningum um morðið á Officer McKenna af hálfu Lewis Brothers. Dillon talið að Lewis Brothers, sem voru farartæki og vír þjófnaður, voru ábyrgir fyrir dauða McKenna er. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. He observed two of the Lewis brothers enter the garage in the Ford. Dillon entered the garage

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Vír Þjófar drepa lögreglumann

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Áður Föstudagur, Apríl 7, 1916, var yfir, the Lewis bræður mundu drepa tvo St. Louis lögreglumenn, John McKenna og William Dillon. McKenna var fyrstur til að falla, þegar hann rjúfa bræður tilraun til að stela vír, a valuable commodity during World War I. The brothers would kill Dillon, while he investigated McKenna’s murder. The St. Louis Police Department assigned

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The Mad Doctor Meets the Somnambulist

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What happens is the first commercially successful art film. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) was released in January 1920 becoming a German and international sensation. It marked the beginning of the German film revival during the 1920s The German Expressionist Movement in German art strongly influenced this film. Expressionist painters drew buildings sloped at odd angles, oddly shaped furniture,

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