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Philadelphian Cricketers
Philadelphian is most commonly used to describe someone who is from (or a resident of) the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. * List of people from Philadelphia "Philadelphian" may also refer to: * Old Philadelphians, members of the First Families of Philadelphia considered part of the historic core of the East Coast establishment * Philadelphians, a 17th-century Protestant religious sect (sometimes called the "Philadelphian Society", or the "Philadelphia Society") * Philadelphian cricket team, a first-class cricket team from the turn of the 20th century * a train operated by Amtrak as part of the '' Clocker'' service See also * * * Philadelphion, a public square located in Constantinople * Philadelphia (other) * Phillies (other) * Philly (other) Philly is a common informal name for Philadelphia, a major city in Pennsylvania, United States. Philly may also refer to: People *Phillip Philly Brown (born 1991), American football player *Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People From Philadelphia
The following is a list of notable people presently or previously associated with the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Academia *Joseph Addison Alexander (1809–1860), former clergyman and biblical scholar * E. Digby Baltzell (1915–1996), former sociologist, author, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania *Ellen Bass (born 1947), professor, poet, and author * Leon Bass (1925–2015), former educator and Benjamin Franklin High School principal *Aaron Beck (1921–2021), former psychiatrist, inventor of cognitive therapy, and Penn School of Medicine professor * Algernon Sydney Biddle (1847–1891), former lawyer and Penn Law School professor *Ray Birdwhistell (1918–1994), former anthropologist, University of Pennsylvania professor, and inventor of kinesics *Atherton Blight (1834–1909), former lawyer, businessperson, author, diarist, philanthropist, and Art Club of Philadelphia founding member *Alfred Bloom, linguist, professor, and Swarthmore College president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Philadelphians
Old Philadelphians, also called Proper PhiladelphiansSee generally, Baltzell, Nalle , "Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia" and "Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class." or Perennial Philadelphians, are the First Families of Philadelphia, that class of Pennsylvanians who claim hereditary and cultural descent mainly from England, Wales and Germany, and who founded the city of Philadelphia. They settled the state of Pennsylvania. They are considered part of the historic core of the East Coast establishment, along with other wealthy families such as Boston Brahmins of Boston and The Four Hundred of New York City.See generally, Burt. These families were influential in the development and leadership of arts, culture, science, medicine, law, politics, industry and trade in the United States. They were almost exclusively white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs), and most belonged to the Episcopal church and Quakerism. Families In 1963, Nathaniel Burt, a chroni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphians
The Philadelphians, or the Philadelphian Society, were a 17th-century English dissenter group. They were organized around John Pordage (1607–1681), an Anglican priest from Bradfield, Berkshire, who had been ejected from his parish in 1655 because of differing views, but then reinstated in 1660 during the English Restoration. Pordage was attracted to the ideas of Jakob Böhme, a Lutheran theosophist and Christian mystic. Origins A group of followers came to Pordage, including Ann Bathurst and led by Mrs. Jane Leade (1624–1704), who experienced a number of visions and later published them in her book ''A Fountain of Gardens''. The group incorporated as The Philadelphian Society for the Advancement of Piety and Divine Philosophy in 1694 (their name was inspired by the Philadelphians mentioned in the Book of Revelation.) They rejected the idea of being a church, preferring the term society, and none of the members ceased their memberships in existing churches. Together, the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphian Cricket Team
The Philadelphian cricket team was a team that represented Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in first-class cricket between 1878 and 1913. Even with the United States having played the first ever international cricket match against Canada in 1844, the sport began a slow decline in the U.S. This decline was furthered by the rise in popularity of baseball. In Philadelphia, however, the sport remained very popular and from the end of the 19th century until the outbreak of World War I, the city produced a first class team that rivaled many others in the world. The team was composed of players from the four chief cricket clubs in Philadelphia–Germantown, Merion, Belmont, and Philadelphia. Players from smaller clubs, such as Tioga and Moorestown, and local colleges, such as Haverford and Penn, also played for the Philadelphians. Over its 35 years, the team played in 88 first-class cricket matches. Of those, 29 were won, 45 were lost, 13 were drawn and one game was abandoned before c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clocker (Amtrak)
The ''Clocker'' was a passenger train service between Philadelphia and New York City on the Northeast Corridor at first by the Pennsylvania Railroad and later by Amtrak. The service was nicknamed the ''Clocker'' by riders as trains were scheduled to leave each terminal at the top of the hour. The name was eventually adopted into official use by Amtrak in 1981. The service was briefly renamed ''Acela Commuter'' in 1999 before the name reverted to ''Clocker'' in 2003. Amtrak discontinued the service on October 28, 2005, and it was partially replaced by New Jersey Transit express trains between Trenton, NJ and New York City at times approximating the ''Clocker'' schedule. History Pennsylvania Railroad The ''Clocker'' was originally a Pennsylvania Railroad express train service between New York and Broad Street Station in Philadelphia;; 15 the name was unofficial, and PRR timetables didn't use it. Soon after New York Penn Station opened in 1910, the express trains began de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphion
The Philadelphion was a public square located in Constantinople. Location After passing the Forum of Theodosius, the Mese Odos (the main road of Constantinople) branched into two directions. One led to the quarter known today as Yedikule, via the Aksaray and Cerrahpaşa quarters. The other passed through the quarters of Şehzadebaşı and Fatih until reaching the quarter of Edirnekapı (formerly the Gate of Charisius). The space where the road forked was thought to be the physical centre, or ''mesomphalos'', of the city. History According to the 8th-century ''Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai'', the site of the later Philadelphion was originally known as the Proteichisma ("fore-wall"), and the site of a gate in the city wall built by Emperor Carus (r. 282–283). Raymond Janin suggested that this Proteichisma was an outer defensive wall protecting the wall erected by Septimius Severus (r. 193–211) during his rebuilding of Byzantium, possibly indicating that the city had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia (other)
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia may also refer to: Places United States *Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, a county coterminous with the city of the same name **Center City, Philadelphia, the old city of Philadelphia before consolidation with the county * Philadelphia, Illinois * Philadelphia, Indiana *Philadelphia, Mississippi *Philadelphia (town), New York ** Philadelphia (village), New York * Philadelphia, Tennessee Other places Ancient *Amman, the capital of Jordan, called Philadelphia during the Hellenistic and Roman periods * Philadelphia (Cilicia), a town and bishopric of ancient Cilicia * Philadelphia (Lydia) or Alaşehir, home of one of the seven churches of Asia Minor in the Book of Revelation * Philadelphia (Faiyum), ancient Egyptian settlement established by Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the 3rd century BC Present * Philadelphia, Tyne and Wear, a village north of Houghton-le-Spring, City of Sunderland, Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillies (other)
The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. Phillies may also refer to: Sports *Reading Fightin Phils, formerly the Reading Phillies, an Eastern League baseball team and AA-level farm team of the Major League club *Clearwater Threshers, formerly the Clearwater Phillies, a Florida State League baseball team and high-A-level farm team of the Major League club *Florida Complex League Phillies, formerly the GCL Phillies, a Gulf Coast League baseball team and farm team of the Major League club *VSL Phillies, a Venezuelan Summer League baseball team and farm team of the Major League club *Dominican Summer Phillies, a Dominican Summer League baseball team and farm team of the Major League club *Philadelphia Phillies (NFL), the National Football League (1902) team Other uses *Phillies cigars, an American brand of cigars See also * *Philly (other) *Philadelphia (other) Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
