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.

After George Washington crossed the Delaware River on December 25, 1776, the fact that thousands of Hessian troops had been drawn to Mount Holly aided in the Continental Army's success in the Battle of Trenton the next day, a surprising American victory that helped turn the Army's fading morale after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Fort Washington just weeks before and the ignominious retreat through New Jersey.

These are in fact clear quartz pebbles that wash down from the Delaware River.

The term " Lower Counties " refers to the fact that they were below the fall line, or farther downstream, on the Delaware River than the counties constituting and integrally within Pennsylvania proper, such as Philadelphia, Chester and Bucks counties.

In this context, a representation is commonly a declaration of a specific fact that can be verified to be true or not, e. g., " seller represents that it is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the state of Delaware.

The fact that Pennsylvania is defined as not having a seacoast under U. S. Department of Commerce concepts could be considered to make Philadelphia one of the largest fresh water ports in the world, although the Delaware River is tidal as far as Trenton.

The name comes from the fact that a number of 18th and early 19th centuries German and German-American families bought up the fishing rights on both sides of the Delaware River from Trenton Falls down to Cape May, New Jersey.

It is nominally a circle with a supposed — yet in fact only approximate and variable — 12-mile radius, centered in the town of New Castle, Delaware.

The fact that the circle extends into the Delaware River makes for an unusual territorial possession.

In fact, the class of 2009 included the first graduating class from the Delaware campus and is currently ranked in the 98th percentile of all programs ( 148 and counting ) based on this year's board scores.

Despite the fact that a win over Army would give Navy a winning record, they would not be bowl eligible, as two of their five wins ( Villanova and Delaware ) were against teams from Division I-AA, which meant they did not count for bowl eligibility.

In fact, some of the series was filmed in and around Wilmington, Delaware, which has several " disadvantaged " sections.

As a matter of fact, Fogg and his plane didn't get beyond Pennsylvania in the race -- an engine oil leak forced him down -- but the flying service and school he started subsequently were first steps in paying off his wry-faced backers.

In fact, many of the classic streetcar suburbs are within the political boundaries of their respective cities, such as West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a part of which has is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District.

Pennsylvania state law forbids Deon from being involved in political matters due to the fact he is a partner in the Sands Casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Albion is " the most northwestern burough in Pennsylvania " and is home to " the most northwestern high school in Pennsylvania ", which is fitting due to the fact that their high school is called Northwestern.

Port Royal was, in fact, one of the first towns to be linked to the Pennsylvania Railroad system, as it lay along the Lewistown-to-Harrisburg stretch of the railroad — the first leg constructed after the new railroad was chartered.

The reason that several companies attempted to succeed in what proved to be a failing enterprise was the fact that the furnace was within easy distance of the Williamsport and Elmira Railroad which connected the industrial centers of Williamsport, Pennsylvania and Elmira, New York.

In fact, in 1997 Lewistown Area High joined a very small list of Pennsylvania schools to have both their Girls ’ and Boys ’ basketball teams reach the state championship game in the same season.

The poppet valve was also used on the American Pennsylvania Railroad's T1 duplex locomotives, although the valves commonly failed due to the fact that the locomotives were commonly operated in excess of, and the valves were not meant for the stresses of such speeds.

In fact, Pennsylvania State Constables were the very first form of Law Enforcement for the state of Pennsylvania.

The fact that the school attracted students from as far as Ohio and Pennsylvania is attributed to the reputation of Eaton.

Chew received the highest compliment Pennsylvania could pay him: he was appointed by Governor Thomas Mifflin as President of the High Court, despite the fact that he was by then close to seventy.

The broadcast of Dwyer's suicide became a topic for educators in Pennsylvania classrooms ; it led to questions about the practice of airing live news broadcasts in public school settings, despite the fact that the suicide was not shown live and that schools were cancelled for the day due to heavy snow.

While some have argued that the Pennsylvania System was Quaker-inspired, there is little evidence to support this ; the organization that promoted Eastern State's creation, the Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons ( today's Pennsylvania Prison Society ) was in fact less than half Quaker, and was led for nearly fifty years by Philadelphia's Anglican bishop, William White.

The fact that most of the original settlers of Berlin were not directly German but were Mennonites from Pennsylvania did not help, as their refusal to join the war effort ( because of their pacifism ) only increased tensions.

Instead, New York was ostensibly represented by the New York Majesty ( though its stadium was in fact in Reading, Pennsylvania ).

" In fact the Indians halted the survey before it was completed when it began to take into Pennsylvania Croghan's 1749 grant for 200, 000 acres.

In fact, the Jefferson College was going out of existence and its campus was being moved to Washington, Pennsylvania.

This can in part be explained by the fact that all these locations were on a strategic route from eastern settlements in Pennsylvania and Virginia ( and, later, Washington, D. C .) to the West.

A drill-across works by grouping ( summarizing ) the data along the keys of the ( shared ) conformed dimensions of each fact participating in the " drill across " followed by a join on the keys of these grouped ( summarized ) facts.

Although did not think of himself as a deist, he shared so many attitudes with deists that Gay calls him " a Deist in fact, if not in name ".

Software was commonly shared by individuals who used computers and by hardware manufacturers who welcomed the fact that people were making software that made their hardware useful.

In fact, when Bill Gates ' version of BASIC for the Altair was shared among the hacker community, Gates claimed to have lost a considerable sum of money because few users paid for the software.

Margaret Murray had mentioned this information in her 1933 book The God of the Witches, and Hutton theorised that Alex Sanders had taken it from there, enjoying the fact that he shared his name with the ancient Macedonian emperor.

The fact that genes were split or interrupted by introns was discovered independently in 1977 by Phillip Allen Sharp and Richard J. Roberts, for which they shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993.

The Labrador Duck was also known as a Pied Duck, a vernacular name that it shared with the Surf Scoter and the Common Goldeneye ( and even the American Oystercatcher ), a fact that has led to difficulties in interpreting old records of these species, and also as Skunk Duck.

The source or justification of this system may be thought to be, for instance, human nature, shared vulnerability to suffering, the demands of universal reason, what is common among existing moral codes, or the common mandates of religion ( although it can be argued that the latter is not in fact moral universalism because it may distinguish between Gods and mortals ).

The more recent and more common use of the name " global variables " in other languages is a more limited scoping of names, coming from the fact that unscoped variables are " globally " available to any programs running in the same process, but not shared among multiple processes.

In short, it is essential that a language is shareable, but this does not imply that for a language to function that it is in fact already shared.

In fact, Rousseau arguably shared Hobbes ' pessimistic view of humankind, except that as Rousseau saw it, Hobbes had made the error of assigning it to too early a stage in human evolution.

Garfield's detractors later used this letter, which Chase never personally disclosed, to foster widespread criticism of Garfield as a betrayer, despite the fact that Halleck and Lincoln shared the same concerns over Rosecrans's reluctance to attack, and that Garfield had openly conveyed his concerns to Rosecrans.

In fact love was something you shared with everyone, not just your sex partners.

His politics had in fact moved far towards the right — opinions he shared with Lawrence Durrell, a close friend since the 1950s — but he had felt shut out by the British establishment after his T. E. Lawrence book.

The basic form is a series of questions formulated as tests of logic and fact intended to help a person or group discover their beliefs about some topic, exploring the definitions or logoi ( singular logos ), seeking to characterize the general characteristics shared by various particular instances.

In fact, operational errors, chiefly in key choice, made the system less secure than it could have been ; in that way the Purple code shared the fate of the German Enigma machine.

Earlier in the documentary, Lopes mentioned that she felt the presence of a " spirit " following her, and was struck by the fact that the child killed in the accident shared her last name, even thinking that the spirit may have made a mistake by taking his life instead of hers.

It is explained that after first contact, Vulcan shared technology with Earth, but many Humans, such as Jonathan Archer, greatly resented the fact that Vulcans seemed to be holding back humanity's efforts at space travel.

It may in fact have been his love for Shakespeare, shared with the other young artist-heroes of 19th-century France, that drew Berlioz firmly into the brotherhood of Romanticism.

In fact, George Washington and Bolívar shared the same objective: independence for their people and the establishment of democratic states.

Due to their shared association with skiing and the fact that both place names referring to Ullr and Skaði appear most frequently in Sweden, some scholars have proposed a particular connection between the two gods.

In general, these things shared the fact that the choice of channel spacings and frequency stability was such that erbium doped fiber amplifiers ( EDFAs ) could not be utilized.

The origin of the name may be traced to the fact that some of the founding members of L0pht shared a common loft apartment in Boston.

In fact, L0pht originally shared a space with a hat-making business run by the spouses of Brian Oblivion and Count Zero, and the rental cost was divided between these.