London was selected ahead of Baltimore, Minneapolis, Lausanne, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia.

On June 28, 2007, the Miami Heat selected Colorado State forward Jason Smith with the 20th overall selection then traded him to the Philadelphia 76ers for the draft rights to the 21st overall selection, guard Daequan Cook from Ohio State, and cash considerations.

In a second draft-day trade, the Bulls selected Rodney Carney and traded him to the Philadelphia 76ers for guard Thabo Sefolosha.

But the terms of the grant clearly indicate that Charles II and William Penn assumed the 40th parallel would intersect the Twelve-Mile Circle around New Castle, Delaware when in fact it falls north of the original boundaries of the City of Philadelphia, the site of which Penn had already selected for his colony's capital city.

He was selected in the first round of the 1985 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL.

The selection process for the 1920 Summer Olympics consisted of six bids, and saw Antwerp be selected ahead of Amsterdam, Atlanta, Budapest, Cleveland, Havana, Lyon and Philadelphia.

As a linebacker at Baylor University, Field was selected in the 1981 draft by the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.

* Tony Franklin ( placekicker ) played for the Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots, and Miami Dolphins ; this barefoot kicker set 18 NCAA records playing at Texas A & M, led the NFL in scoring ( 140 points ) and field goals made ( 32 ) in 1986, and was selected to represent the AFC in the Pro Bowl.

The Met continued to perform annually in Philadelphia for nearly eighty years, taking the entire company to the city on selected Tuesday nights throughout the opera season.

The Philadelphia Eagles selected him but did not think they would be able to meet his reported salary demands of $ 1, 000 per game.

He was selected in the first round ( fourteenth overall ) of the 1950 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles and fourth round ( forty-second overall ) selection of the Minneapolis Lakers in the 1950 NBA Draft.

Following two successful years at Georgetown, Iverson declared eligibility for the 1996 NBA Draft, and was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers with the number one pick.

Philadelphia was selected as the temporary United States capital for ten years starting in 1790.

As site of the Continental Congress and signing of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia was selected to host the 1976 NBA All-Star Game, the 1976 National Hockey League All-Star Game, the 1976 NCAA Final Four, and the 1976 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at which President Ford threw out the first pitch.

The Philadelphia Eagles selected him with the second overall pick in the 1999 NFL Draft.

After initially playing two professional seasons for the Memphis Showboats of the United States Football League ( USFL ), he was selected in the first round of the 1985 Supplemental Draft, and then played for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers and Carolina Panthers, becoming one of the most decorated players in NFL history.

He was selected to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game for the twelfth time in his career, and he participated in the Century 21 Home Run Derby on the day before the All-Star game, finishing second to Bobby Abreu of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Philadelphia withdrew its bid after being selected as the host of the 2000 Republican National Convention.

During his 12-year career, McQuinn played for the Cincinnati Reds ( 1936 ), St. Louis Browns ( 1938 – 45 ), Philadelphia Athletics ( 1946 ) and New York Yankees ( 1947 – 48 ), and was selected for the All-Star seven times.

Van Horn was selected with the second pick of the 1997 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers and was traded to the New Jersey Nets on a draft night trade.

Stackhouse was selected in the first round of the 1995 NBA Draft with the third pick by the Philadelphia 76ers.

Had Philadelphia been selected and Franklin Field used, the stadium would have had to return to a grass surface, or perhaps use a temporary grass field as was done at two World Cup sites — Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan.

Before landing in Philadelphia in 2000, Pérez had played for the Toronto Blue Jays from 1995 to 1998, where he was selected under the provisions of the Rule 5 draft.

Under Thompson, 26 players were chosen in the NBA Draft, eight in the first round including two players selected first overall, Ewing by the New York Knicks in 1985 and Iverson by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1996.

Audubon resumed his bird studies and created his own nature museum, perhaps inspired by the great museum of natural history created by Charles Willson Peale in Philadelphia.

by Preserved Smith, Charles Michael Jacobs, The Lutheran Publication Society, Philadelphia, Pa. 1913, 1918. vol. I ( 1507 – 1521 ) and vol. 2 ( 1521 – 1530 ) from Google Books.

In the United States, naturally occurring airborne yeasts were used almost exclusively until commercial yeast was marketed at the Centennial Exposition in 1876 in Philadelphia, where Charles L. Fleischmann exhibited the product and a process to use it, as well as serving the resultant baked bread.

by Preserved Smith, Charles Michael Jacobs, The Lutheran Publication Society, Philadelphia, Pa. 1913, 1918. vol. I ( 1507 – 1521 ) and vol. 2 ( 1521 – 1530 ) from Google Books.

Born at Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, he attended school in Philadelphia with future naval heroes Stephen Decatur and Charles Stewart.

Appleton was born in Los Angeles, California on January 4, 1939 to Jewish parents: Helen Jacobs Appleton ( born Philadelphia, 1908 ) and Charles Leonard Appleton ( born Haim Eppel Boim in Kishenov, Moldavia, 1900 ).

Charles Tyson Yerkes ( June 25, 1837 – December 29, 1905 ) was an American financier, born in Philadelphia.

Both the Chief of Detectives, Jack Barrett, and the Chief of Police, Charles H. Ramsey, have since left the force in D. C. Ramsey became head of the Philadelphia Police Department ; Barrett, who became an analyst for an intelligence support firm in Arlington, Virginia, stated in hindsight that the media had imposed " enormous amounts of pressure " on the D. C. police.

Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. ( born June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia ) is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major figures in the architecture of the twentieth century.

" In his History of the Philadelphia Stage, Volume IV ( 1878 ), Charles Durang wrote, " Bannister ably preserved the beauties of its poetry, the intensity of its incidents, and excluded the horrors with infinite skill, yet preserved all the interest of the drama.

In 1979 Charles Berlitz and his co-author ufologist William L. Moore published The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility, which purported to be a factual account.

Freight trains run into Delaware from Snow Hill on the Worcester Railroad, and the main line ( formerly Pennsylvania Railroad ) from Philadelphia to Cape Charles, Virginia and Norfolk runs through the southeastern corner of the county.

After a disappointing 1983 – 84 season, which ended with a five-game loss to the upstart New Jersey Nets in the first round of the playoffs, Charles Barkley arrived in Philadelphia for the 1984 – 85 season.

That move, along with the 1987 NBA Draft of Ken Norman, the 1988 draftings of Danny Manning and Charles Smith ( Smith was acquired from Philadelphia in exchange for the draft rights to Hersey Hawkins ), and the 1990 NBA Draft of Loy Vaught, formed a nucleus that made the franchise a playoff contender.

Louis Philippe also visited the United States for four years, staying in Philadelphia ( where his brothers Antoine and Louis Charles were in exile ), New York City ( where he most likely stayed at the Somerindyck family estate on Broadway and 75th Street with other exiled princes ), and Boston.

The lives of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon are the subject of Sailing to Philadelphia, the title track on Mark Knopfler ’ s 2000 second solo album.

* St. Conrad, or Mid-America ( 1977 ), based in Denver, Colorado serving Illinois, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri, with missions in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Papua New Guinea ( a friar of this provice, Charles J. Chaput, was installed as the Archbishop of Philadelphia on 8 September 2011 )

The Town of Delmar grew slowly until 1884 when the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Co. completed a railroad from Pocomoke City, Maryland to Cape Charles, Virginia and also established a ferry service across the Chesapeake Bay between Cape Charles and Norfolk, Virginia.

According to the 1878 survey of Anne Arundel County prepared by G. M. Hopkins, Civil Engineer ( CE ) of Philadelphia, the area that is located along the West Branch of the Patapsco River and is now known as Pumphrey was owned in large part by Charles Pumphrey.

The Town of Delmar grew slowly until 1884 when the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Co. completed a railroad from Pocomoke City, Maryland to Cape Charles, Virginia and also established a ferry service across the Chesapeake Bay between Cape Charles and Norfolk, Virginia.

Charles Dahlgren was among the recent migrants ; from Philadelphia, he had made his fortune before the war.