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Mother. Cleopatra VII Philopator. Ptolemy Philadelphus ( Greek: Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Φιλάδελφος, Ptolemaios Philadelphos, "Ptolemy the brother-loving", August/September 36 BC – 29 BC) was a Ptolemaic prince and was the youngest and fourth [1] child of Greek Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and her third with Roman ...
William Cramp, of German descent, was born in the Kensington district of Philadelphia in 1807. In 1855, his sons Charles Henry (born 1828) and William C., became partners with their father. In 1872, his other sons Samuel H., Jacob C., and Theodore were taken into the firm.
William Temple Franklin Jr, known as Temple Franklin, (February 22, 1760 – May 25, 1823) was an American diplomat and real estate speculator who is best known for his involvement with the American diplomatic mission in France during the American Revolutionary War. Beginning at the age of 16, he served as secretary to his grandfather Benjamin ...
The Masonic Temple is a historic Masonic building in Philadelphia. Located at 1 North Broad Street, directly across from Philadelphia City Hall, it serves as the headquarters of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Free and Accepted Masons. The Temple features the Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania, and receives thousands of visitors every ...
The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, [2] was the destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during a standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization. Philadelphia police dropped two explosive devices from a ...
Gholam Ali Safai Bushehri ( Persian: غلامعلی صفایی بوشهری) (born: 1959, Bushehr) [1] [2] is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who is the representative of Vali-e-Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist) in Bushehr Province, and the Imam of Friday Prayer in Bushehr, [3] who has been appointed to these positions by the decree of ...
Francis Folger Franklin (October 20, 1732 – November 21, 1736) [a] was the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read . In 1736, four-year-old Francis contracted the smallpox virus and died shortly thereafter. Benjamin Franklin, who had been inoculated earlier in his own life, had intended for his son to be ...
Congregation Rodeph Shalom ( Hebrew: רודף שלום, lit. 'Pursuer of Peace'), is an historic Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Established in 1795, it is the oldest Ashkenazic synagogue in the Western Hemisphere.