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The Biddle family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is an Old Philadelphian family descended from English immigrants William Biddle (1630–1712) and Sarah Kempe (1634–1709), who arrived in the Province of New Jersey in 1681.
Gerardus Mercator applied the names North and South America on his influential 1538 world map; by this point, the naming was irrevocable. [20] Acceptance may have been aided by the "natural poetic counterpart" that the name America made with Asia, Africa, and Europa. [13]
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
Dick Biddle (1947–2023), American football player and coach; Ellen Biddle Shipman (1869–1950), American landscape architect; George Biddle (politician) (1836–1909), American politician from Maryland; Hester Biddle (c. 1629 –1697), English Quaker writer and preacher; James Biddle Eustis (1834–1884), American politician from Louisiana
Monowi - Meaning "flower", this town was so named because there were so many wild flowers growing in the vicinity. Nehawka - An approximation to the Omaha and Otoe Indian name of a nearby creek meaning "rustling water." Nemaha - Named after the Nemaha River, based on an Otoe word meaning "swampy water." [53]
The earliest known use of the name "America" dates to 1505, when German poet Matthias Ringmann used it in a poem about the New World. [2] The word is a Latinized form of the first name of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who first proposed that the West Indies discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 were part of a previously unknown landmass, rather than the eastern limit of Asia.
Biddle Motor Car Company, brass era automobile company based in Philadelphia; USS Biddle, several United States Navy ships; Biddle University, historical name of Johnson C. Smith University; Biddle Memorial Hall, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina
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