All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories
By Joe Lex
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Brief biographies of permanent residents of Laurel Hill East in Philadelphia and Laurel Hill West in Bala Cywnyd, Pennsylvania. Often educational, always entertaining.
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Benjamin Richards: Merchant, Mayor and Cemetery Cheerleader
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Nathan Dunn and His 10,000 Chinese Things
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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John Jay Smith: A Founder's Non-Cemetery Life
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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The First 20 Years of Laurel Hill
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Some Laurel Hill Founders: The First 20 Years
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Lon Jourdet: The Face of Early Quaker Basket Ball
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Basket Ball and Laurel Hill
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Hugh Craig, Jr.: The Glue That Held It All Together
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Joseph Lapsley Wilson: The Trooper as Horticulturalist
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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A. Loudon Snowden: The Man Who Did Everything
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Fairman Rogers: Horseman Extraordinaire
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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1st City Troop: The First 150 Years
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Happy 250th to the First City Troop
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Hell Hath No Fury
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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The Viper and the Vampire
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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John Hobbs: Victim of an Obsession
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Wives Who Kill, Edwardian Edition
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Mariticide for Beginners
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Raymond Pace Alexander & The Arsenic Murders
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Victor "Babe" Andreoli: Kill and Be Killed
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Willie Lanzetta & His Infamous Brethren
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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"Little Petey" Bisciotti & The Flag Day Massacre
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Evolution of Philadelphia Crime
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Thugs & Gangsters of Laurel Hill
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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John Henry Fow: Foghorn for the Talk, Ducky for the Walk
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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LTC Edgar Loftus: Facing Down a Nazi Ace
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Jacques Louis Francine: I Bombed Japan
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Holger "Hold Your Horses" Hoiriis: Barnstorming, Crossing the Atlantic, and Fighting Nazis in the Catskills
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Philadelphia Fliers: Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Hobey Baker, Benjamin Lee II
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Lincoln's Air Force: Defying Gravity in the 19th Century
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Look! Up in the Sky! Laurel Hill Pilots, part 1
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Sara Oberholtzer and Philadelphia Thrift
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Antoinette Westphal: Drexel Forever!
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Joseph Wharton: The Law without Morals Is Useless
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Henry Biddle: Educating the Freedman
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Charles Macalester: Inventing Glengarry & Torresdale
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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Some College Namesakes, Part 1 (complete)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Robert A. Groff, MD: Cutting Brain
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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BG Henry Naglee: Civil War Hero, Famed Vintner, Scoundrel
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Louis Bossle: The Best Rat Catcher in the Land
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Mabel Tinley, alias Lasca Vega, alias Mrs. John Van Ness Roberts
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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MAJ Wakeman Griffin Gribbel: Unsuccessfully Dealing with the Aftermath of War
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Morton McMichael Hoyt: Third Time's Not a Charm, Either
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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A Handful of Eccentrics
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Milton C. Work: America's Bridge Master
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Clarence Wiener: Laurel Hill's Baron Munchausen
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Princess Olga Demidoff Stoever: A Princess with Attitude
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Marquis d'Esken de Frenoys & Baron Michael von Suttka
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Countess Santa Eulalia, aka Libbie Shindler Stetson
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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The United States and Peerage Titles
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Laurel Hill Nobility, Part 1
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Jack Merriam & Dream Garden
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May 14, 2025 |
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2LT Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill: Gassed!
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May 06, 2025 |
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MAJ Alfred Reginald Allen, MD: The Choices a Man Makes
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May 05, 2025 |
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CPT Alan Wood Lukens: Lost in the Fog of War
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May 04, 2025 |
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1LT Dillwyn Parrish Starr: From Groton to Gallipoli and The Somme
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May 03, 2025 |
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Philadelphia and the Great War
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May 02, 2025 |
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The Killing Fields of France, Part 1: Dillwyn Parrish Starr; Alan Wood Lukens; Alfred Reginald Allen; Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill
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May 01, 2025 |
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Timothee Adamowski: The Idol of the Boston Pops
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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ADM George W. Melville: The Doomed Jeannette Expedition
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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ADM Sylvanus Godon: Hanging "Lucky Nat" Gordon
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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COM David Conner: Amphibious Landing at Vera Cruz
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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COM Isaac Hull and Old Ironsides
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Introduction to the 19th Century US Navy
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Four Naval Heroes: Isaac Hull, David Conner, Sylvanus Godon, and George W. Melville
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Dorothy Burr Thompson & Pamela Burr: Prides of Bryn Mawr College
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Anna Robeson Brown Burr: Prodigious Author
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Henry Armitt Brown: The Finest Orator of His Generation
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Frederick Brown: Druggist and Cemetery Co-Founder
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Charles Brockden Brown: America's First Major Novelist
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Five Generations at Laurel Hill
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Katherine Rotan Drinker and The Radium Girls (encore)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Sarah Logan Wister Starr: The Iron Fist Who Saved the School
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Charlotte Yhlen & Marie K. Formad: Strangers in a Strange Land
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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William J. Mullen: The Prisoner's Friend and Female Medical College
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Founding the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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ABC072 Women's Medical College: Some Selected Stories
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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John W. Forney: Gadfly, Chameleon, Provocateur
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Jack Jones: Pioneering TV Anchor
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Judge Doris May Harris: Pioneer in Children's Court
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Florence DaVida Johnson-Reid: Reaching a Pinnacle in Black Education
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Lynwood Blount: Bootstraps Judge, Hospital Director
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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ABC#071 Black History Month for 2025: Four More Stories
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Herb Lusk: The Praying Tailback
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Nate Ramsey: #24 for the Eagles
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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M. Roy "Slab" Jackson: Football, Dogs, Horses, and a Rockefeller
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Hut!Hut! Hut!: Three Professional Football Players
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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COL Richard Henry Rush: From West Point to Lancers
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Henry Charles Lea: He Expected the Spanish Inquisition
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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John Roh: Death by Inferno
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Laura Matilda Towne: Teaching the Least Fortunate
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Edwin Fitler: The Emperor of Rope
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Thomas Craycroft: For Love of His Fellow Man
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Happy 200th Birthdays!
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Rev. Henry Winter Syle: Deaf Scholar, Preacher, Episcopal Saint
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Charlotte Drake Cardeza: The Best Suite on the Ship (by Lora Lewis)
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Gretchen Longley: The Prettiest Girl on the Ship
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Lily & Olive Potter: Mother-Daughter Survivors (by Savanna Fisher)
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Eleanor Widener Rice: She Lost Her Husband and Son (by Lora Lewis)
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Introduction to The Deep Blue
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Six Women of the R.M.S. Titanic
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Waldo E. "Bill" Nelson & The Green Bible of Pediatrics
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Thomas Leiper: Entrepreneur, Soldier, Inventor, Statesman
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Thomas McKean: Last to Sign the Declaration
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Charles Thomson: Wegh-wu-law-mo-end - The Man Who Tells the Truth
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Friends of Thomas Jefferson, Part 2: Charles Thomson, Thomas McKean, Thomas Leiper
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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John T. Greble: First of Thousands to Die
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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H.H. Furness, the Seybert Commission, and Grilling Mediums
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Walter Hubbell & The Great Amherst Mystery
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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William, Edward, & George Vare: The Dukes of South Philadelphia
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Emory R. Johnson and the Panama Canal
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Charles Day and the Panama Canal
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Lewis M Haupt and the Panama Canal
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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John Cresson Trautwine and the Panama Canal
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Rudolph Hering & Reversing the Chicago River
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Frederick Graff and Watering Philadelphia
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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ABC066 Frederick Graff, Rudolph Hering, John C. Trautwine, Lewis Haupt, Charles Day, Emory R. Johnson: Pushing Water, Part 1
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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WALKING TOUR OF LAUREL HILL WEST from Barmouth to Pencoyd
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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WALKING TOUR OF LAUREL HILL WEST from Pencoyd to Barmouth
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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William M. Meredith: U.S. Poet Laureate
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Richard Burr: Poster Child for Wartime Embalmers
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Anna Lukens and the She Doctor Panic of 1869
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Thomas Story Kirkbride: An Architect for Madness
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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John Rhea Barton and Surgical Innovation
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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ABC065 John Rhea Barton, Thomas Storey Kirkbride, Anna Lukens, Richard Burr: Fathers and Mothers of American Medicine, Part 4
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Katherine "Kitty" Hershey: Temporary Residency
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Franklin Baker: Sublime with the Coconut
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Henry Oscar Wilbur: Buds vs. Kisses
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Henry Oscar Wilbur, Franklin Baker, Katherine "Kitty" Hershey: Sweet Tooth, part 1
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Donald Fithian Lippincott: Surprising Medalist at Stockholm
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Ted Meredith: The Fastest Schoolboy in the Country
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Jervis Watson Burdick and the Stockholm Games
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Lawson "Robbie" Robertson: Coach Extraordinaire
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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ABC#064 Four More Olympians from 1904 to 1912
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Abram Winegardner Harris: A Forgotten Educator
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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George Henry Boker: The Playwright Who Fixed Everything
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Robert Taylor Conrad: Mayor and Playwright
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Robert Montgomery Bird: Edwin Forrest & The Gladiator
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Richard Penn Smith: Inventing Davy Crockett
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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ABC#063 Richard Penn Smith, Robert Montgomery Bird, Robert Taylor Conrad, George Henry Boker: Curtain Up! Four Early Philadelphia Playwrights
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Philadelphia's Jazz Lodestar: Dennis Sandole
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May 15, 2024 |
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J.B. Lippincott: Lippincott's Magazine
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May 04, 2024 |
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Charles Jacob Peterson and Peterson's Magazine
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May 03, 2024 |
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George Rex Graham and Graham's Magazine
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May 02, 2024 |
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ABC#062 Three More Philadelphia Magazines: Graham's, Peterson's, and Lippincott's
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May 01, 2024 |
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Gladys Hall & Russell Ball: Glamourizing Early Hollywood
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Pete Childs: No, Not That One
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Jack McFetridge: Super Amateur, So-So Pro
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Cub Stricker: A Hot-Tempered Infielder
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Walter "Slick" Schlichter: Pioneer in Black Baseball
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Apr 02, 2024 |