Turn-of-the-century American wrestler Martin "Farmer" Burns was famous for such prodigious muscular development of the neck that he often had himself hung by a noose for show. Defeated the original "Strangler" Evan Lewis for the Catch-as-Catch-Can Heavyweight Championship in 1889; also famous for training the formidable Frank Gotch.
Turn-of-the-century American wrestler Martin "Farmer" Burns was famous for such prodigious muscular development of the neck that he often had himself hung by a noose for show. Defeated the original "Strangler" Evan Lewis for the Catch-as-Catch-Can Heavyweight Championship in 1889; also famous for training the formidable Frank Gotch.
Turn-of-the-century American wrestler Martin "Farmer" Burns was famous for such prodigious muscular development of the neck that he often had himself hung by a noose for show. Defeated the original "Strangler" Evan Lewis for the Catch-as-Catch-Can Heavyweight Championship in 1889; also famous for training the formidable Frank Gotch.
The Black Hand, also known as "Unification or Death" — a secret society of assassins within the Serbian military who sought to liberate the Kingdom of Serbia and other ethnically-Serbian territories from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Through agents including Gavrilo Princep, Unification or Death murdered Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sofie, beginning the falling domino chain that led to the start of World War I.
