Its headquarters are in the city of Aberdeen, where Group functions including legal, group information and human resources are located, and has its major investment desks in London, Philadelphia and Singapore.
Influenced by William Penn's design of Philadelphia, Light set out the city of Adelaide on a grid of one square mile, interspaced by wide boulevards and incorporating five large public squares.
He was the great uncle of the Author Alfred J. Betz from Philadelphia, and great nephew of Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz the discoverer of the pyramidal cell.
Dr. Albert Barnes acquired seventeen Gritchenko's paintings for his collection, now The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
Ange Mlinko (born Philadelphia) is an American poet.
Some believe it is a combination of "Ark-", the name of an early settlement in nearby Winston County, and "-adelphia", a pseudo-Greek combination meaning "brother-place," likely taken from Philadelphia.
He died suddenly on March 23, 1921, at the Adelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, of "heart disease".
During the early 1980s, Bahamasair unsuccessfully tried to expand to the Northeast United States, opening flights to Philadelphia, Washington DC (Dulles) and Newark, New Jersey.
He married Margaret Ethel Austin (1856–1928) of Clough Jordon, Tipperary, Ireland, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 3 October 1882.
Liu was born in Hong Kong, moved to the United States when she was three years old, and was raised in Philadelphia.
He then emigrated to America, where he played from 1913-1917 in Philadelphia, and then a year in New York's Yidishe kunst teater (Jewish art theater) and then in Boris Thomashevsky's National Theater and then Kessler's Second Avenue Theater and the Public Theater.
During his tour he met, courted and married Elizabeth Mitchell of Philadelphia.
The Šajin Lama (Supreme Lama) of the Kalmyks is Erdne Ombadykow, a Philadelphia-born man of Kalmykian origin who was brought up as a Buddhist monk in a Tibetan monastery in India from the age of seven and who was recognized by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of the Buddhist saint Telo Rinpoche.
In 2008, the theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s “The Price” which starred Robert Prosky and his two sons, transferred to The Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, the nation’s oldest theatre, and then to Theatre J in Washington D.C. to be part of a national Miller celebration.
Celia Logan Connelly (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1837; died New York City, New York, June 18, 1904) was an American actress, playwright, and writer, and a member of the Logan family of actors and writers.
Similar devices planned by Ben Franklin were used in the Delaware River near Philadelphia, in between Fort Mifflin and Fort Mercer.
The amazing story of a Swedish-American family that came all the way from Knäred, Halland, Sweden, to America in 1846 with the boat Superb, starting their uncertain journey to the new future in Gothenburg to arrive in Philadelphia.
He was an avid yachtman who was a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia; the New York Yacht Club; and the Eastern Yacht Club and the Corinthian, both of Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Clarence Wilbur Taber (1870–1967) was an American businessman best known for publishing Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary with the F.A. Davis Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Brown organized the JACA in January 1910 and listed its primary office in Philadelphia's West Parkside neighborhood, with 250 members, branches in New York and Baltimore, and with the express purpose of, "Settling on farms and mutual aid".
The CB class railcar or Budd railcar are a type of diesel railcar built by Budd Company, Philadelphia for the Commonwealth Railways, Australia in 1951.
During his term the last link of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad was opened, establishing it as the primary transportation route between Baltimore and Philadelphia.
It has also been collected at shipping points near Philadelphia but has not been seen there in about a century.
After graduating from the law school, he began his legal career at what became the Philadelphia law firm of Farage & Shrager.
These locations act as fresh food pick up locations currently in five cities across the U.S. including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.
It was later awarded first prize at similar competitions in Philadelphia in 1876 and Paris in 1878.
Dyslexicon is the second and final album by the Philadelphia grunge band Dandelion, released in 1995.
Instead of traveling to the then-capital of Philadelphia to present himself to U.S. President George Washington for accreditation, Genêt stayed in South Carolina.
From 1900 to 1903 he worked at William Cramp & Sons' Ship and Engine Building Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and then, in 1903, worked at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio.
Robins was educated in Philadelphia at the Broad Street Military College (sometimes referred to as "institute" or "academy"; it no longer exists).
In 1914 Einar was awarded a commission by Joseph Bunford Samuel to create a statue of Icelandic explorer Þorfinnur Karlsefni (Thorfinn Karlsefni) for placement in Philadelphia.
Dr. Frankel has also written libretti for two oratorios composed by Andrea Clearfield, Women of Valor and The Golem Psalms. The first was premiered in Los Angeles in 2002; the second in Philadelphia in 2006.
A charter member of Americans for Democratic Action (founded in 1947), she later became the first woman to serve as head of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Jewish Committee.
Raised in Verona, New Jersey, Eugénie has lived in several locations on the Eastern Seaboard including Princeton, Philadelphia and Boston.
The line, opened on February 2, 1878, as the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad, was built to block the construction of the parallel National Railway, later home to the Reading Railroad's (RDG) Newark, New Jersey service.
In August 1876 Guslon, together with R H Labat, A Trower and J Rowell went to Philadelphia on the steam ship Wyoming to take part in the town's centennial regatta.
Since 2004, he has been a partner at the Philadelphia law firm of Raynes McCarty, where he handles complex civil litigation involving tort, insurance and civil rights claims.
Their first album Bareback, produced by Joe Boyd, was well received and was named Record of the Month for WXPN in Philadelphia.
The shooting schedule was completed in 2008 and included locations in and around Philadelphia including Prospect Park, Center City and Cabrini College.
Most of his family had moved to the U.S. where they settled in Philadelphia and Brittan decided to join them.
Wilson retired from government service in 1913 and settled in Philadelphia.
The Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia is a local film festival based in Philadelphia, PA.
In 1873 he came to the U.S. and continued his studies at the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
In 2004 Checchio earned a master's degree in business administration from La Salle University in Philadelphia.
In 1931 at the age of 48 years James McBey married Marguerite Loeb, a photographer and bookbinder from Philadelphia, and in 1942 he became an American citizen.
He received a Bachelor of Divinity from the Westminster Theological Seminary, Chestnut Hill, outside Philadelphia.
He wrote a two-person play, Chatoyant, in 1977, opening and performing it in the Philadelphia area (with music played by Terry Gross on Fresh Air).
A Philadelphia native, Auklandus has received recognition for her work, including nominations for the R.A.C. Squiddy Award for Favorite Comics Writer in 1995, 1996 and 1998.
In 1802, his family, who were part of the Quakers (his mother was a member of the well-known Benezet family), emigrated to America and settled in Philadelphia.
Gibbon received his AB from Princeton University in 1923 and his MD from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1927.
While librarian to the Law Association of Philadelphia, he compiled three volumes of decisions of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which sat in that city.
Born in York County, Canada West, Armstrong was educated in National School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia, PA.
At the invitation of the Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Thomas J. Garland, Newton entered the ministry of the Episcopal Church in September 1925, and came to the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Overbrook, Philadelphia, PA, as special minister.
Born in Philadelphia, and first studied there, but like his compatriot and friend, James McNeill Whistler, he afterwards went to Europe and made his home in London.
Seiss held pastorates in Virginia and Maryland until 1858, when he accepted a position at St. John's English Lutheran church in Philadelphia.
They came together to curate an evening of music for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia to coincide with a Sun Ra exhibit, that was touring.
The 6-part show followed Lil' Kim's last 14 days of freedom before she entered the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a 366 day sentence.
Manayunk, Philadelphia, a neighborhood in the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The road would head into Philadelphia and possibly follow the path of the Manayunk Canal.
She and her husband now reside in Chester County, Philadelphia "in a century old Victorian country home" with their daughters and Golden Retrievers.
She was born in Mexico City where she started her musical studies; she later attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, then Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (PCPA), where she studied with Adeline Tomasone (Philadelphia Opera and Philadelphia Orchestra), and was awarded a Bachelor’s Degree Magna Cum Laude (1985).
Mark Dobies (born April 3, 1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor.
He was born on 31 August 1887 in Philadelphia to Betsey Holmes Marshall and David Christopher Reid.
In 1862 the presidency of Girard College, Philadelphia, was offered to him, and in 1869 the professorship of Latin in Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, but he declined both.
In 2004, Petersen played a game for the United States against Australia in an exhibition match in Philadelphia, qualifying for the American side under the parent rule.
In 1847 he went to Paris, where he studied lithography, drawing, and painting with M. Thurwanger, with whom he came to Philadelphia in 1849, and completed his studies.
Aronov has worked with Terrence McNally on the world premiere of Unusual Acts of Devotion in Philadelphia.
Some time after his retirement (in 1948), he opened a boxing gym in Philadelphia, Mighty Mick's Boxing, and began to train fighters.
Mindy Aloff (born December 1947 Philadelphia) is an American editor, journalist, essayist, and dance critic.
Heaton cited example after example of mint-marked coins that were much scarcer than Philadelphia products and that should bring high premiums.
The text was written by Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia.
The first settlers of Philadelphia were mainly artisans, many of them belonging to the English gentry, who sold their property and came to America to escape religious persecution.
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Before coming to Philadelphia, he had acquired an intimate knowledge of the art from some of the finest clockmakers in England — Thomas Tompion, George Graham, and Daniel Quare.
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Joseph, the youngest son of Peter, born in Philadelphia, 1709, was a founder of the Library Company of Philadelphia which was established through the influence of Benjamin Franklin in 1741.
In 1838, the PW&B built the first permanent bridge here to complete the first direct rail link from Philadelphia to Wilmington, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland.
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The American Bridge Company built the swing span on the fender in its open position, avoiding interference with river traffic.
The next record of Prosper de Mestre is not in Martinique, but in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as his parents had moved; this is where he received his schooling.
The Pulaski Expressway was to begin at an interchange with I-95 and the Betsy Ross Bridge in Northeast Philadelphia, where the road continues into New Jersey as Route 90.
Richard Bache (1737–1811), born in Settle, Yorkshire, England, immigrated to Philadelphia, in the colony of Pennsylvania, where he was a businessman, a marine insurance underwriter, and later served as head of the American Post Office.
Harlan was born in Philadelphia, to Joshua Harlan, a wealthy Quaker merchant, and his wife Sarah, one of their ten children.
His father was a well-known minister and his grandfather had been the first provost of the College of Philadelphia.
As First Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia Sprague run up a record of 69 homicide convictions out of 70 prosecutions.
He then visited BCI again as a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
He and his wife Anna Friend Watson and their sons Robert and Frank lived near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Samson Levy was a prominent Jewish merchant in Philadelphia during the Colonial Period.
Wherry sent specimens to Louis Burk, a Philadelphia horticulturalist, who confirmed Wherry's field observations in greenhouse-grown plants.
Stephen Vail (1780–1864) was a founding partner of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and the creator of the Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey.
He graduated near the bottom of his class at Erasmus Hall, and flunked out of Temple University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Details were found by Martin Wilson in the American Weekly Mercury, a Philadelphia newspaper dated 20 to 27 September 1733.
The society publishes the Swiss American Historical Society Review three times a year and meets annually, the location rotating between Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York.
Mychalewych attended the School of Applied Arts in St. Paul, and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
From here, it would head northeast through Montgomery County, bypassing the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia to the northwest.
Thomas Balch (Leesburg, Virginia, July 23, 1821 — Philadelphia, March 29, 1877) was an American historian, best known for his work on the American Revolutionary War, originally written in French and later translated into English as The French in America during the War of Independence of the United States, 1777-1783.
He was educated at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential (IAHP), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
(1959), The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, A Variorum Text, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Besides writing, Schoff also served as Secretary of the Commercial Museum of Philadelphia.
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Schoff, Wilfred H., The descendants of Jacob Schoff who came to Boston in 1752 and settled in Ashburnham in 1757 : with an account of the German immigration into colonial New England (Philadelphia : J. McGarrigle, 1910)
Ciancaglini enrolled in Community College of Philadelphia from 1996 until 1998 before rejoining a full schedule at La Salle University for the Fall of 1998 semester.
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While covering the issue for Philadelphia magazine, staff writer Jason Fagone "spoke to more than 30 sources" while preparing his article.
Millward was born in the old district of Northern Liberties in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Game 5 @ Chicago Stadium, Chicago (May 16): Chicago 117, Philadelphia 99
Units of the 111th Infantry trace their lineage back to 1747, when Benjamin Franklin first established his famed "Associators" in Philadelphia.
APC sponsored dozens of poetry readings in Philadelphia featuring personal appearances by such notable figures as Russia's Andrei Voznesensky, Noble Laureates Czeslaw Milosz and Derek Walcott and Canada’s Gaston Miron.
Arthur's Home Magazine (1852-ca.1898) or Ladies' Home Magazine was an American periodical published in Philadelphia by Timothy Shay Arthur.
Other memorials to the victims of the Beirut barracks bombing have been erected in the United States, including those at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
His mother was Mary Emma Corliss, whose uncle, George Henry Corliss, built the Centennial Engine that powered the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
Charles Zeuner (20 September 1795 Eisleben, Saxony - 7 November 1857 Philadelphia) was an organist and composer active in Germany for a time, and then in Boston and Philadelphia in the United States.
Clayton Scrivner (born November 15, 1976 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the drummer for the Salt Lake City band The Rodeo Boys.
To break the deadlock, Philadelphia Plaza Associates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
In 1865, he was charged with stealing two bags of gold worth $10,000 from the Bank of Commerce as well as a later robbery in Philadelphia but was acquitted in both cases.
East Oak Lane is defined by the borders of Cheltenham Avenue at the north (the border between Philadelphia and Cheltenham Township), Broad Street on the west, Godfrey Avenue at the south, and the Tacony Creek to the east.
Electric Love Muffin was a Philadelphia-based hard rocking quartet of the late 1980s that spiked the melodic thrash-pop of The Replacements, Soul Asylum and other indie bands of the period with touches of country/western, classic rock and prog-rock.
In the 18th century, Philadelphia was one of the most important cities both before and after the American Revolution and was a center of style and culture.
In the 1830s the region entered a boom period and began shipping coal by the Pennsylvania Canal, and by the 1840s even down the Lehigh Canal to Allentown, Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington, New York City, and other east coast cities and ports via the connecting engineering works of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company such as the upper Lehigh Canal, the Ashley Planes and the early Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, along with other railroads that flocked to or were born in the area.
On 23 June 1684, Lord Howard sailed from Virginia for Albany, New York with his daughter, Philadelphia, where he and New York Governor Thomas Dongan brokered a July peace treaty with the Iroquois.
In 1900, Bardeen was the state's 4th District delegate to the Republican National Committee; attending the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia that year.
In a recent episode of Antiques Roadshow on PBS, filmed in Philadelphia, a Sotter oil painting was appraised $120,000-$180,000, much to the delight of its visibly stunned owner.
He worked with the Police Commissioners of New York City, Philadelphia and Miami as well as the Department of Justice.
At a young age, Michael was active in community theater, portraying lead characters in the musicals Blood Brothers, The Music Man, and Damn Yankees, which were performed at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Henry B. Auchy (1861–1922) was a businessman famous for, along with Chester Albright, creating the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (later renamed Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 1904.
He was also concertmaster of four major ballet companies—the Pennsylvania Ballet from Philadelphia, the New York City Center Ballet, the Harkness Ballet of New York and the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto where he did all of the solo work for Rudolf Nureyev.
Castillo was the first meteorologist on "Good Day Philadelphia" at WTXF-TV, the Fox Network station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he also hosted segments and conducted man-on-the-street interviews.
Callison became a fan favorite in Philadelphia; Supreme Court Justice and lifelong Phillies follower Samuel Alito was one such fan, even stating that while as a boy rooting for the Phillies he "adopted Johnny Callison out there" (in right field).
The Rev. Thomas J. Reese, a frequent critic of the church hierarchy, indicates that he fits the mold of a “smiling conservative” in the vein of New York’s Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, who is “very gracious but still holds the same positions” as a more pugnacious cleric like Philadelphia's Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, who has not hesitated to call out Catholic politicians who dissent from church teachings on abortion.
The 1854 Act of Consolidation greatly expanded the City of Philadelphia to its present borders, coterminous with Philadelphia County.
In 1929 Maxwell retired from the stage and with the help of fellow magician, Lewis Davenport, opened a magic shop in Manhattan with later branches in Philadelphia and Boston.
Kakiouzis began playing basketball at the age of 8, with the Ionikos New Philadelphia Youth Academy of Ionikos, Greece.
1998 Philadelphia Wings 2–0 Baltimore Thunder (Best of 3 Games Series)
Only a few other cities feature a similarly elite unit, most notably Philadelphia and its Philadelphia Highway Patrol and Boston and its Boston Police Special Operations Unit.
Northwood is bounded on the north by Roosevelt Boulevard, on the northeast by Cheltenham Avenue, on the west by Oakland Cemetery and Greenwood Cemetery, Juniata Park and Frankford Creek, and on the southeast by Frankford Avenue.
They persuaded Éamon de Valera to support the Philadelphia branch of Clan na Gael against the New York branch led by John Devoy and Judge Daniel Cohalan in their struggle to focus the resources of the Friends of Irish Freedom to Irish independence rather than domestic American politics.
Previously, Paul worked as the Chief Meteorologist for WTVJ-TV (NBC6) in Miami, FL, and also worked as a meteorologist at KOMO-TV in Seattle, KYW-TV in Philadelphia, KENS in San Antonio, KREM (TV) in Spokane, and KDRV in Medford.
On October 22, 1946, Dovi died of natural causes at a New York City hospital, and Joseph "Joe" Ida was appointed by the Commission to run the Philadelphia family and its rackets.
It was carried by an early version of the NBC Television Network, and consisted of flagship W2XBS (now WNBC) in New York City, W3XE (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia and W2XB (now WRGB) in Schenectady/Albany.
After a short stay in New York, and then Philadelphia, he settled in Boston, where he produced busts of Washington Irving (1836) and Edward Livingston, and a large bronze of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch for Mount Auburn Cemetery (1847).
Born in Bronxville, New York and raised in Commack, New York on Long Island, Swenson studied at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and briefly at Hartt College of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut.
A former rector, The Rev. John Scott, was known for having performed an exorcism of the Philadelphia campaign headquarters of Richard Nixon, and was the founder of the Philadelphia Third Order Franciscans, a worldwide lay religious community.
After entering Francisville, Route 15 loops partially around the south side of Girard College, but rejoins Girard Avenue again, and passes by St. Joseph's Hospital.
He was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Belvidere, New Jersey, from November, 1866, till July, 1868, when he was called to the Walnut street church in West Philadelphia, which grew steadily under his pastoral care and earnest preaching.
Notable members have included C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General of the United States during the Reagan administration and one-time head of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The Best of the Davis Sisters is a double LP/single CD album by the famous Philadelphia gospel group, released in 1978 on LP (see 1978 in music) and in 2001 on CD (see 2001 in music).
Two songs on the album make reference to elements of works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, namely "Philadelphia" referring to 'Raskolnikov', the main character in Crime and Punishment, and "A Song from Under the Floorboards" of which the opening sentence is a paraphrase of the opening sentence in Notes from Underground'.
The company was reorganized in 1973, and as of 2008 owned or operated seventeen Broadway theaters in New York City, an off-Broadway theater — the Little Shubert — and the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia.
The Tyrones were a popular Philadelphia rock and roll group of the 1950s run by Tyrone DeNittis and featuring George Lesser that recorded a number of hit songs including "Blast Off" and "I'm Shook" and appeared singing "Blast Off" in the film Let's Rock.
Northbound service is available to the Trenton Transit Center with connections to New Jersey Transit Northeast Corridor Line, SEPTA trains to Philadelphia, and Amtrak trains.
Emanuel Lasker had virtually retired after retaining the Chess World Championship in 1897, in part due to his doctoral studies in mathematics, but defended his title against Frank J. Marshall from January 26 to April 6, 1907, in the USA, games being played in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago and Memphis.
WPPX maintains offices located on Main Street in Bala Cynwyd, and its transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.