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A housewife in Philadelphia during the Civil War, Ellen Emlen compiled a cookbook in 1865. How many recipes did she record?

11/13/11
Author Cary Hutto

Topics : 18th century, Arts and Culture, Civil War, Philadelphia
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Where was one of the oldest and largest iron ore deposits in America found in the 1730s?

11/6/11
Author Cary Hutto

Topics : 18th century, 19th century, American Revolution, Industry, Pennsylvania
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Philadelphian Charles Godfrey Leland was a journalist, editor, poet, and soldier during the Civil War. What is he most remembered for writing and researching?

10/31/11
Author Cary Hutto

Topics : 19th century, Civil War, Industry, Philadelphia
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What ship carried William Penn and some of the first settlers to Pennsylvania across the Atlantic Ocean in 1682?

10/24/11
Author Cary Hutto

Topics : Colonial period, Immigration, Pennsylvania
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Who was the first Democratic mayor elected in Philadelphia in the twentieth century?

10/17/11
Author Cary Hutto

Topics : 20th century, Government and civics, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Politics
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In 1821, Thomas P. Cope began a freight and passenger service that sailed between what two port cities in Pennsylvania and England?

10/10/11
Author Cary Hutto

Topics : 18th century, 19th century, Abolition, Community and Public Service, Education, Government and civics, Industry, Philadelphia
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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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