This opinion is supported by one of the nation's leading psychiatrists, Dr. Maurice E. Linden, director of the Mental Health Division of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

This is particularly true in large centers of Jewish population like New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia Transportation Co. is investigating the part its organization played in reviewing the project.

The second agreement permits the authority to sell a 520-acre tract west of Stage 1 Residential to Philadelphia Builders Eastwick Corp., a firm composed of 10 Philadelphia area builders, which is interested in developing part of the project.

`` Meet the Artist '' is the invitation issued by members of the Greater Philadelphia Section of the National Council of Jewish Women as they arrange for an annual exhibit and sale of paintings and sculpture at the Philmont Country Club on April 8 and 9.

The most famous undergraduate of South Philadelphia High School is a current bobby-sox idol, Dreamboat Cacophonist Fabian ( real name: Fabian Forte ), 17, and last week it developed that he will remain an undergraduate for a while.

The principal of the school announced that -- despite the help of private tutors in Hollywood and Philadelphia -- Fabian is a 10-o'clock scholar in English and mathematics.

* 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

* 215: 511 Philadelphia, PA was deprecated by state-wide use of 511 as road info in 2009 ; PA is the 36th state to adopt the system.

* The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* 1808 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown ( now Louisville ) by Pope Pius VII.

Ned Cuthbert, playing for the Philadelphia Keystones in either 1863 or 1865, is documented as the first baseball player to steal a base in a baseball game, although the term stolen base was not used until 1871.

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

That rare type of achievement by a woman prompted one local newspaper to state, " It is a legitimate source of pride to Philadelphia that one of its most cherished institutions has made this innovation.

Philadelphia Dental College was founded in 1863 and is the second in the United States.

Drexel University ( DU ) is a private research university with the main campus located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

It now is on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

In 1889 he became the subject of the largest painting ever made by the Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins, called The Agnew Clinic, in which he is shown conducting a mastectomy operation before a gallery of students and doctors.

He died at Philadelphia on March 22, 1892, and is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

Lookingglass Alice was performed in New York City, Philadelphia and is currently in an open-ended run in Chicago.

He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, which is a museum dedicated to the U. S. Constitution.

She designed the two-piece uniforms currently worn by the Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders.

Cabaret is currently undergoing a renaissance of sorts in the United States, particularly in New Orleans, Seattle, Philadelphia, Orlando, Tulsa, Asheville, North Carolina and Portland, Oregon, as new generations of performers reinterpret the old forms in both music and theatre.

* Larry Brackins, an American football wide receiver who is currently a member of the Philadelphia Soul of the Arena Football League was born and raised in Dothan and graduated from Dothan High School.

He currently stars as Frank Reynolds on the FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

NFL running back Brian Westbrook, known for playing for the Philadelphia Eagles and currently playing for the San Francisco 49ers, grew up in Clinton.

* Jason Babin First round NFL draft pick, currently with Philadelphia Eagles

* Vai Sikahema ( born 1962 ), former Pro Bowl punt returner for the Philadelphia Eagles, currently head sportscaster for NBC News.

* Robert Esche, a professional ice hockey goaltender, currently with the Aq Bars Kazan and formerly with the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers

In the 1950s, Haverford was the first institution in America to teach modern laboratory biology ( molecular biology ) to undergraduates ; within the department of physics is the only National Academy of Sciences member to currently teach at a liberal arts college ; The school is connected to center city Philadelphia by the Paoli / Thorndale Line commuter rail system and Norristown High Speed Line ( R100 ).

The majority of these recordings are currently being transferred to the digital medium at George Blood Audio and Video in Philadelphia.

He is currently a Penn AC professional rower in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and plans on being in the 2012 Olympics in London, England.

The fused liver of the Bunker brothers was preserved and is currently on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

They are currently known as the Philadelphia 76ers.

Sandberg is currently the manager of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the AAA affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Other than the RMS Queen Mary 2, remaining modern ocean liners are: The United States, currently laid up in Philadelphia, the Queen Elizabeth 2, which is to be converted into a floating hotel in Dubai, the Rotterdam now moored in Rotterdam as a museum / hotel., the Veronica, ( former S. S Kungsholm ) which was converted into a floating hotel in Duqm Oman, and the MS Marco Polo ( former MS Alexandr Pushkin ) which is currently used for cruising.

It's currently being argued that if Baltimore does not expand its convention center, the city could " fall off the map as a potential convention choice ," especially since the cities with which Baltimore competes with, Washington D. C. ( recently built and opened the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and has announced plans to open a 1, 175-room Marriott Marquis hotel with 100, 000 SF of convention and meeting space in 2013 ), Philadelphia ( recently opened its newly expanded convention center of over 700, 000 SF of meeting and convention space ), and Nashville ( currently building a 1. 2 million SF convention center and a convention headquarters hotel currently slated to open in 2013 ) has or are in the process of expanding its convention and hotel space.

The station currently transmits a strongly-directional pattern, aiming most of its signal to the south-southwest portions of Philadelphia with lower power in other directions.

As of December 2009, the PPM is currently measured in thirty-three markets including: Houston, Philadelphia, New York, Atlanta, Detroit, Long Island, Middlesex-Somerset-Union, Chicago, Los Angeles, Riverside-San Bernardino, San Francisco, Jacksonville, Baltimore, and San Jose.

Fredua Koranteng " Freddy " Adu ( born June 2, 1989 ) is a Ghanaian-born American soccer player who currently plays for Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer.