Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Posts about miscellaneous history.
After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. Emellertid, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt valde sin krigsminister och tidigare guvernör i Filippinerna
En kall januarinatt i 1904, när staden St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Det var 5:45 p.m. den 13 januari på gamla Brown Shoe Company fabrik i hörnet av Washington Avenue och North Eleventh Street. Time for the men to
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. På Augusti 11, 1900, Baptiste used his swimming skills to save another St. Louisan from drowning.
Ödet för mycket av St. Louis’ historiska byggnader bevisa gamla fastigheter ordspråket. Det handlar om plats, läge, läge. Om byggnaden ligger i South St. Louis, den har en bättre chans att räddas än en byggnad på norra sidan. The same could be said for buildings located in the center of the city except
General William Tecumseh Sherman av inbördeskriget berömmelse hade djupa rötter i St. Louis sträcker sig tillbaka till 1843. Som en soldat, Den amerikanska armén tilldelade Sherman till Jefferson Barracks. Sherman var också involverad i ST. Louis businesses as the St. Louis Street tåg Företag president tills han lämnade St. Louis for the Civil War in 1861. After the war,
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
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
Detta är en berättelse om 1942-44 Hebert Street, which is in the Old North St. Louis stadsdelen St. Louis, MO. Like its neighbors, denna struktur har sett bättre dagar. Jag blev intresserad av byggnaden eftersom min mormor bodde på denna adress i 1930. My maternal grandfather’s family lived in the northern part of St. Louis during his