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May 15, 1999. Camp William Penn was a Union Army training camp located in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania from 1863 to 1865 during the American Civil War. The camp was notable for being the first training ground dedicated to African American troops who enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War. Some 11,000 free blacks and escaped slaves ...
Wharton School Press was launched in 2011 by Stephen J. Kobrin, William H. Wurster Emeritus Professor of Multinational Management, who retired from his role as executive director in 2018. At its inception, the Press was called Wharton Digital Press, which was created to experiment with the emerging digital publishing technologies. [2]
Pennsylvania portal Articles and categories related to notable school superintendents in Pennsylvania . The main article for this category is Education in Pennsylvania .
Career. Born in Pittsburgh, Lyons was a life member of The Actors Studio. [2] His first of seven Broadway appearances was in February 1943, in a short-lived production of This Rock. He co-starred in the Broadway production of Witness for the Prosecution for two years (1954–56). [3] His other Broadway credits are Harriet (1943–44), Death of ...
Beverly Tyler (born Beverly Jean Saul, July 5, 1927 – November 23, 2005), was an American film actress and singer who was a minor MGM leading lady who appeared in mostly B movies in the 1940s and 1950s.
Allegheny Airlines Flight 737. / 41.86000°N 78.72861°W / 41.86000; -78.72861. Allegheny Airlines Flight 737 was a Convair CV-580 (aircraft registration N5825), [2] that crashed while attempting to land at Bradford Regional Airport in Bradford, Pennsylvania on January 6, 1969. Eleven of the 28 occupants on board were killed.
The Stourbridge Lion was a railroad steam locomotive. It was the first locomotive and the first foreign built locomotive to be operated in the United States, and one of the first locomotives to operate outside Britain. It takes its name from the lion 's face painted on the front, and Stourbridge in England, where it was manufactured by the firm ...
The Philadelphia Lazaretto was the Second quarantine hospital in the United States, built in 1799, in Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. [3] The site was originally inhabited by the Lenni Lenape, and then the first Swedish settlers. Nearby Province Island was the site of the confinement of the Christian Moravian Indians who were ...