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.
Dr. Albert Barnes acquired seventeen Gritchenko's paintings for his collection, now The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
Trower then transferred to London Rowing Club and in August 1876 Trower, together with Gulston, R H Labat, and J Rowell went to Philadelphia on the steam ship Wyoming to take part in the town's centennial regatta.
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.
After a poor performance in the U.S. Open in 1953, he entered the Philadelphia Candidates' Tournament for the U.S. Championship and came through with a first place finish and another over-2600 performance.
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.
In 1964, the West Chester Bypass was completed around this Philadelphia suburb and the prior routing of US 322 became a business loop.
He married Margaret Ethel Austin (1856–1928) of Clough Jordon, Tipperary, Ireland, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 3 October 1882.
Upon their arrival in Philadelphia they formed their own club which was known as Irish Philadelphia Celtic.
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.
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.
"He was an obstinate, impetuous and rather vain little person with reddish hair; enormously wealthy, endlessly touchy, extremely intelligent and vastly attractive … he liked America, he understood it and enjoyed it; he was tremendously popular at Philadelphia, and at Washington when he condescended to appear there; he was on intimate terms at the President's House.
In West Philadelphia's Parkside community Columbia Avenue runs between North 51st and Lindenwood Streets; between North Peach and 54th Streets in Wynnefield; North 59th and 63rd Streets in Overbrook; and its final portion between Wynnewood Road and North 64th Street also in Overbrook.
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.
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.
Bowers was a member of the Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee, representing the 8th district of the Pennsylvania State Senate, and a former resident of 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".
Although a registered Democrat and elected Montgomery County precinct committeeman at the time, Richardson was nominated to run for the position of Pennsylvania Auditor General in 1980 on the Philadelphia-based Consumer Party's ballot line.
After graduating from the law school, he began his legal career at what became the Philadelphia law firm of Farage & Shrager.
From this point, Fontaine attracted a better class of fighter, beginning with his first fight outside Canada, travelling to Philadelphia in a win over experienced American Bobby Marriott.
Litfin was succeeded as president on July 1, 2010 by Philip Ryken, formerly senior pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and 1988 graduate of Wheaton.
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).
Upon marriage she moved to Philadelphia and gave birth to two mulatto children; however, she soon gave up the married life to go "roving".
They lived together first at the Red Rose Inn (they were called the Red Rose girls by Pyle) and later at Cogslea, their home in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia.
Eric von Rosen's father was Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen and his mother was Ella Carlton Moore of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The town hall was modeled after Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
Ayer taught in district schools and spent one year studying at the University of Rochester before moving to Philadelphia.
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.
The idea for the song was inspired by an old train depot in Stuart's home town of Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Their first album Bareback, produced by Joe Boyd, was well received and was named Record of the Month for WXPN in Philadelphia.
The program, one of the first on ABC, was televised from Town Hall in Center City.
Wilson retired from government service in 1913 and settled in Philadelphia.
In 1918, she came back to the United States and studied social work in Boston and Philadelphia until hired by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York as head of the Department of Social Services at the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) where she remained until 1938.
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.
James Curtis Booth (28 July 1810 – 21 March 1888) was a United States chemist who was the melter and refiner at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia for many years.
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.
Michaels was arrested on July 3, 2005, after allegedly punching a police officer as he left a nightclub in Old City, 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 1849 and 1850, he created and published a series of American views, including views of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Havana.
He was born in Germany and emigrated to the Philadelphia in 1790 after spending almost 10 years in England and some time in New York.
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.
Seiss held pastorates in Virginia and Maryland until 1858, when he accepted a position at St. John's English Lutheran church in Philadelphia.
He was born in Philadelphia, where he operated a publishing business from 1854 to 1907.
In Philadelphia, Montreal, and Oakland, California, her efforts led to the teaching of cookery in the public schools.
While attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia where she studied painting, drawing, and sculpture, Lehmer was inspired by the works of an earlier alumnus, David Lynch, to pursue her interest in film making.
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.
In 2002, Swain began the Moms on the Move show on NBC10 in Philadelphia, USA.
He was born on 31 August 1887 in Philadelphia to Betsey Holmes Marshall and David Christopher Reid.
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On May 4, 1912 he started from Hempstead, Long Island intending to fly to Philadelphia.
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.
Matthew Savoca (born June 16, 1982) is an American novelist, poet, and short story writer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Some time after his retirement (in 1948), he opened a boxing gym in Philadelphia, Mighty Mick's Boxing, and began to train fighters.
Heaton cited example after example of mint-marked coins that were much scarcer than Philadelphia products and that should bring high premiums.
Located between the Roxborough section of Philadelphia and the Whitemarsh Township community of Spring Mill, Miquon is approximately bounded by Barren Hill Road, Ridge Pike, Manor Road, and the Schuylkill River.
He helped found the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School in West Philadelphia in 1895, which he led as chief-of-staff and medical director until he retired in 1933.
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He did post-graduate training at hospitals in Philadelphia, including the Pennsylvania University Hospital and later at Guy's Hospital, Queen's Hospital, and St Thomas' Hospital in London.
Alumit's play Mr. and Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing was produced by Teatro Ng Tanan in San Francisco and also in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Boston, and Philadelphia.
The text was written by Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia.
He is an alumnus of the Hyderabad Public School (HPS), Begumpet (1971–1979), an Electronics & Communications Engineering graduate (BE) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh (1979–1983) and an MBA from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA (1983–1985).
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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His shop was at the southeast corner of Front and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, then called “Peter Stretch’s Corner at the Sign of the Dial".
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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.
Philip Mark "Phil" Jasner (March 24, 1942 – December 3, 2010) was an award-winning sports journalist in Philadelphia.
The American Bridge Company built the swing span on the fender in its open position, avoiding interference with river traffic.
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.
His father was a well-known minister and his grandfather had been the first provost of the College of Philadelphia.
He and his wife Anna Friend Watson and their sons Robert and Frank lived near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Rudolf Höber (born 27 December 1873, Stettin, Germany; died 5 September 1953, Philadelphia, USA) was a German physician-investigator in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Stevens was reported to have left the show in 1960 because his family moved from Burbank to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, although Barbara Billingsley, who played "June Cleaver" on the series, said in a TV Archive interview that Stevens was dropped because his overbearing mother caused grief for the producers of the series {TV Legends interview}
He was rector of St. Luke's Church, Kensington, Philadelphia (1914-1918), chaplain to an American Red Cross evacuation hospital in France, and superintendent of missions, Bucks County, Pennsylvania before consecration as bishop coadjutor of Vermont on February 17, 1925.
Wherry sent specimens to Louis Burk, a Philadelphia horticulturalist, who confirmed Wherry's field observations in greenhouse-grown plants.
In the area of Performing Arts, the school has brought a number of productions to fruition over the years, the most recent being Philadelphia, Here I Come! and The Phantom of the Opera.
Details were found by Martin Wilson in the American Weekly Mercury, a Philadelphia newspaper dated 20 to 27 September 1733.
Her first feature film was Night Catches Us, a portrayal of former Black Panthers reuniting in 1976 Philadelphia.
Mychalewych attended the School of Applied Arts in St. Paul, and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
The headquarters of the NSCDA/PA is located on Latimer Street in Center City, Philadelphia.
Defendants included the City of Philadelphia and its Department of Human Services, which had sent the troubled youth to the facility.
He was educated at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential (IAHP), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Plants under that name were raised at the Morris Arboretum, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from grafts made in 1945 from a tree at Haverford College, itself a graft from the Shackamaxon Treaty Elm (felled by a storm in 1810) in what was later named Penn Treaty Park, Kensington, Pa.
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.
Millward was born in the old district of Northern Liberties in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
WNAI is in the Philadelphia media market, and it carries programming from the Home Shopping Network.
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In 2009 World Inferno performed this work at festivals such as Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, Philadelphia's Live Arts Festival, Montclair State University's Peak Performances series, and South Carolina's Spoleto Festival USA.
Three men funded the company's early efforts: Philadelphia attorney George Pew and Oklahoma City brothers William and Rufus Travis Amis.
Arthur's Home Magazine (1852-ca.1898) or Ladies' Home Magazine was an American periodical published in Philadelphia by Timothy Shay Arthur.
On June 20, 2012, Giroux was named the cover athlete for NHL 13 at the NHL awards in Las Vegas; he became the first Philadelphia Flyer on an EA Sports NHL video game cover since Eric Lindros on NHL 99.
Clayton Scrivner (born November 15, 1976 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the drummer for the Salt Lake City band The Rodeo Boys.
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.
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.
She has lived in Franconia, New Hampshire; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Moorestown, New Jersey.
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.
The album garnered three Billboard R&B chart hits including "Today's Your Lucky Day," "Don't Give Me Up," and "I Really Love You." Saunders also co-lead with Harold on the track "What We Both Need (Is Love)" which was popular on local Philadelphia radio station WDAS-FM in Philadelphia.
He worked with the Police Commissioners of New York City, Philadelphia and Miami as well as the Department of Justice.
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.
In 1861, Leonard visited Philadelphia, where he played a match against William Dwight, who later became a general in the Union Army.
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.
He studied carefully the languages, manners, and customs of the Indians, particularly the Delawares, and after he had become a member of the American Philosophical Society, at Philadelphia, several of his contributions of Indian archaeology were published in their transactions.
At Liverpool he purchased a vessel fully manned, and with a considerable number of passengers on board (several families of which we shall have occasion to notice in this work), he sailed again for Philadelphia, where he arrived in the summer of 1758.
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.
She was named, along with Alexandria Karlsen as one of several women connected with Philadelphia businessman Andrew Yao, who was convicted of bankruptcy fraud, and later plead guilty to ten counts of fraud and money laundering for lying about and concealing gambling expenditures and extravagant gifts to former Playboy and Penthouse models.
The Kensington Renewal Initiative (KRI) is a Philadelphia-based advocacy and community development organization founded by film director, Jamie Moffett.
He also attended medical lectures given by Dr. Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1812.
Aided by French-born writer and poet Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, who served as the studio's publicity manager, in 1910 Siegmund Lubin built a state of the art studio on the corner of Indiana avenue and Twentieth Street in Philadelphia that became known as "Lubinville."
Her father, Charles Willing, was the mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1748 to 1754, and her great-grandfather, Edward Shippen, was the second mayor of Philadelphia from 1701 to 1703.
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.
Lake Nockamixon was intended to fill a gap in between the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas.
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.
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.
Samuel Rowland Fisher (1745 – 1834), Philadelphia merchant in Revolutionary times
Fisher's father Joshua moved the family to Philadelphia in 1746 and established a home and large mercantile business at 110 S Front St., soon after starting the first packet line of ships to sail regularly between Philadelphia and London.
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.
In 1774 his first American customer was the leading Philadelphia merchant, Willing, Morris & Co.; its influential partners included Robert Morris, a future financial architect of American independence from Britain, and Thomas Willing, a future president of the Bank of the United States.
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.
Although the company had success in the Top 40 rock and roll format with WJBK in Detroit and WIBG "Wibbage" in Philadelphia, most of its radio stations, including WJW and WSPD, featured more conservative music formats, typically middle-of-the-road (MOR) or beautiful music.
The downtown Philadelphia Greyhound bus terminal is immediately to the north, at 10th and Filbert Streets.
Ned Buntline wrote The Mysteries and Miseries of New York in 1848, but the leading American writer in the genre was George Lippard whose best seller was The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall: a Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Crime (1844); he went on to found the paper The Quaker City as a vehicle for more of his mysteries and miseries.
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.
Under the aegis of noted landscape architect Robert Morris Copeland, he relocated to Philadelphia in 1872, to work on development of the planned community of Ridley Park, Pennsylvania.
At the breaking out of the American Civil War, he joined the Union League of Philadelphia, and gave his entire sympathies to the Union cause.
The musical pieces of the composer have been performed by such orchestras as Philadelphia & Boston Symphony Orchestra, State Symphonic Orchestra of USSR, Orchestra of Valery Gergiev, Bolshoy Symphonic Orchestra of Russia n.a. Tchaikovsky, Orchestra of Cinematography conducted by Sergei Skripka, Saint Petersburg State Philharmonic Orchestra n.a Dmitri Shostakovich.
Byrd III eventually fathered five children by his first wife (Eliza Carter, m. 1748, d. 1760), and fathered ten more by his second wife, Mary Willing, daughter of Charles Willing of Philadelphia.