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Congress Hall, located in Philadelphia at the intersection of Chestnut and 6th Streets, served as the seat of the United States Congress from December 6, 1790, ...
Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame; Philadelphia Eagles 75th Anniversary Team ... Runyan is the fourth former NFL player to be elected to Congress, after Jack Kemp ...
Independence Hall at night The reverse of the U.S. $100 bill, which has portrayed Independence Hall since 1928. On July 16, 1987, Congress met at Independence Hall in an unprecedented joint meeting outside of Washington, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Connecticut Compromise that determined the structure of Congress during the ...
On July 2, 1864, Congress established the National Statuary Hall: "States [may] provide and furnish statues, in marble or bronze, not exceeding two in number for each State, of deceased persons who have been citizens thereof, and illustrious for their historic renown or for distinguished civic or military services such as each State may deem to ...
In 1984, Bunning was elected to the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame. [20] In 1996 he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame via the Veterans Committee. [21] In 2001, his uniform number, #14, was retired by the Phillies. [22] After retiring as a player, Bunning began managing in the minor leagues for the Phillies organization.
Sesqui! Greed, Graft, and the Forgotten World's Fair of 1926 - MP3, audio, 48m01s, at Philadelphia Athenæum; Jack Dempsey Loses Crown to Gene Tunney This Day September 23, 1926 - Boxing Hall of Fame, YouTube, documentary, 10m47s; The Women's Committee and Their High Street Exhibit - master's thesis, 230pp, at Internet Archive
Buildings surrounding the Mall include Congress Hall, Independence Hall, and Old City Hall to the south; the Philadelphia Bourse, the National Museum of American Jewish History, Christ Church Burial Ground, and the Philadelphia Mint to the east; the approach to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to the north; and WHYY-TV, the Federal Reserve Bank of ...
In 1968, at the age of 55, Mosconi was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame. [ 1 ] In 1994 , the Mosconi Cup , an annual pool competition between American and European players, was founded in his honor.