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Philadelphia was an independent, neutral city under the influence of the Latin Knights of Rhodes, when taken in 1390 by Sultan Bayezid I and an auxiliary Christian force under the Byzantine emperor Manuel II after a prolonged resistance, by which time all the other cities of Asia Minor had surrendered to the Ottomans.
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Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.
`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.
If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.
That achievement was his creation of the universal grinding machine, which made its appearance in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.
It was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.
The increase also was opposed by Leonard Kaplan, spokesman for the Home Builders Association of Philadelphia, on behalf of association members who operate apartment houses.
The corporation was formed by the Reynolds Metal Co. and the Samuel A. and Henry A. Berger firm, a Philadelphia builder, for work in the project.
-- Nick Skorich, the line coach for the football champion Philadelphia Eagles, was elevated today to head coach.
South Philadelphia High's principal added that the current delay was caused by the `` pressure '' of a movie that the toneless lad was making.
Deemed too static when it was first heard in `` Lady Be Good '' in Philadelphia in 1924, it was dropped from the score.
It was heard again in Philadelphia in 1927 in the first version of `` Strike Up The Band '' and again abandoned shortly before the entire show was given up.
The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Interestingly, the London Confession of 1689 was later used by Calvinistic Baptists in America ( called the Philadelphia Baptist Confession ), whereas the Standard Confession of 1660 was used by the American heirs of the English General Baptists, who soon came to be known as Free Will Baptists.
* 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.
Organized sports competition on Sundays was illegal in Pennsylvania until 1931, when challenged by the Philadelphia A's, the laws were changed permitting only baseball to be played on Sundays.
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.
One of the incidents which led to the creation of the Basel Convention was the Khian Sea waste disposal incident, in which a ship carrying incinerator ash from the city of Philadelphia in the United States after having dumped half of its load on a beach in Haiti, was forced away where it sailed for many months, changing its name several times.
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They all were members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church ( AME ), a century-old independent black denomination founded by free blacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early nineteenth century.
Most notable among the former League chapters which were spun off was the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, which served as a model for subsequent SF societies formed independent of the League history.
* April 11, 1816 – In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches.
* April 11 – In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches.
These transportation links and geographic proximity give Wilmington some of the characteristics of a satellite city to Philadelphia, but Wilmington's long history as the most important city in Delaware, its significant urban core, and its independent value as a business destination makes it more properly considered a small but independent city in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in International Plaza ( Scott Plaza ) in Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in Greater Philadelphia.
In 1893, Taylor opened an independent consulting practice in Philadelphia.
She continued to make scientific breakthroughs as an independent investigator at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia and as an adjunct associate professor of Human Genetics at University of Pennsylvania.
The RPCES brought two important things: a more nationally-based membership, and a college and seminary, the latter of which the PCA did not yet have, relying instead on independent evangelical institutions such as Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi and Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.
* Union Quakers of Philadelphia, a defunct American football team which played as an independent for one season ( 1921 )
* Chestnut Hill Academy, Pre-K to 12 all-male independent college preparatory school located in northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
WWJT-LP, channel 7, is a low power independent television station serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Wanting to establish a black congregation independent of white control, Jones in 1792 founded the congregation of the African Church in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Freeway 2 was released under the independent label Real Talk Ent.
The show returned to Philadelphia in 1988 ; by then, Viacom syndicated the show to independent stations & affiliates of the young Fox network.
In 1964, the school became independent of the museum and renamed itself the Philadelphia College of Art ( PCA ).
In 1787, Richard Allen and his colleagues in Philadelphia broke away from the Methodist Church and in 1815 founded the African Methodist Episcopal ( AME ) Church, which, along with independent black Baptist congregations, flourished as the century progressed.
He signed the non-importation agreement boycotting British goods in protest of the Boston Port Act, and helped form an independent militia unit, the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, on November 2, 1774.
As a result, he won a recording contract with the Philadelphia based independent label BBS, where he recorded the song " Here in My Heart ".
Originally an independent team sponsored by the Young Men's Hebrew Association ( YMHA ), the players found a new home in 1921 at the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association when the YMHA withdrew its sponsorship.
Several independent, immigrant-owned Chinatown bus lines run from D. C. to the Chinatowns in Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston.
The cavalry combined, in whole or in part, elements of Captain Kinloch's independent troop of New York Dragoons, the Philadelphia Light Dragoons, Emmerich's Chasseurs, the Prince of Wales ' American Volunteers, and the 16th Light Dragoons.
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