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American wrestling was a gladiatorial sport in the 1920s and Singh and Goho were its ‘Oriental’ draws. 4 hours ago In July 1929, in a much-anticipated encounter in El Paso, Texas, Matty Matsuda, the Japanese-born champion welterweight wrestler, faced off against Basanta Singh, the Indian challenger who moonlighted as a hop and fruit farm labourer. It was a well-contested match, fought in the catch-as-catch-can style created in the 1870s by the British sports coach JG Chambers by combining several wrestling styles. Newspapers called the bout a “colourful exhibition of the grappling...

More than 40 years ago, when I helped manage the US libraries in Johannesburg and Soweto, we tried hard to have a good, albeit limited, mix of important US works of fiction, volumes on current, even contentious, non-fiction topics, crucial reference works, and a wide variety of major US periodicals. All of this, of course, was decades before the internet, and printed material was king. But one thing we also subscribed to was a uniquely South African periodical, the lugubrious title of which was usually shortened to Jacobsen’s Index. This publication listed everything the censors of the old...

Courtesy of the Library of Congress The life of pioneering journalist Nellie Bly will be celebrated during a virtual program Thursday evening. “Trailblazing Women in Journalism: The Legacy of Nellie Bly” is a partnership between the Heinz History Center and Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh. Bly was born in Apollo, Pa., about 35 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, in 1864. She’s best known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, following the fictional character’s journey in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days.”  “It takes a certain amount of abilit...

Global pandemic meets 500th anniversary of 1st global voyage by Christopher Torchia, The Associated Press Posted Dec 31, 2020 10:31 am EDT Last Updated Dec 31, 2020 at 10:44 am EDT The Statue of the Sentinel of Freedom, or the Lapu Lapu Monument, stands in Manila, Philippines, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. In 2018, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines designated April 27 as a national holiday to honor Lapu-Lapu, the chief whose men killed Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) MEXICO CITY — Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnav...

Global pandemic meets 500th anniversary of 1st global voyage The epic story invites appreciation for conflicting, overlapping perspectives on history and reflection on the rewards and perils of a connected world. Author: CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press Published: 12:55 PM EST December 31, 2020 Updated: 12:55 PM EST December 31, 2020 MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnavigation of the expedition led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. Five centuries later, the pandemic loo...