Question of the Week

What influential Philadelphia publishing house once produced The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies’ Home Journal?
10/3/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: 19th century, 20th century, Business, Industry, Philadelphia
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The Gondos Company, a general contracting firm, designed which two famous hotels in Atlantic City, NJ?
9/26/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: 20th century, Business, Industry, Philadelphia
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What is the name of the first college chartered in the United States under the Constitution? Hint: the charter was signed in September 1783.
9/19/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: 18th century, Education, Pennsylvania
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Organized in 1894 by prominent Philadelphia women, what club sought to promote “by education and active cooperation a higher public spirit and better public order”?
9/12/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: 18th century, 19th century, Arts and Culture, Community and Public Service, Philadelphia
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Why was prominent Philadelphia Quaker James Pemberton exiled to Virginia in September 1777?
9/4/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: American Revolution, Colonial period, Pennsylvania, Politics
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What African American artist supervised the Graphic Art Division of the Works Progress (later Work Project) Administration in Philadelphia?
8/28/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: African American, Arts and Culture
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What Philadelphia architect designed City Hall?
8/21/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: Architecture, Arts and Culture, Pennsylvania
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On August 19, 1812, the USS Constitution defeated the HMS Guerriere and subsequently earned a nickname that it has held to this day. What is that nickname?
8/14/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: War of 1812
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Who is known as the "financier of the Civil War," raising as much as one billion dollars for Union war efforts?
8/7/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: Civil War, Economics, Industry
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On July 31, 1777, a wealthy Frenchman was named a major general in the Continental army at age 19. Can you name him?
7/31/11
Author: Cary Hutto

Topics: American Revolution, Colonial period
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