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Site for marker memorializing MOVE tragedy still not pinned down
At a Saturday afternoon ceremony in West Philadelphia, officials will unveil a state historical marker detailing the 1985 MOVE bombing, o ...
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Exploring the past, future of Philly neighborhoods during annual Jane’s Walk
In the spirit of Pennsylvania-born author and urbanist Jane Jacobs, Philadelphians took to the streets of University City Friday to surve ...
9 years ago
See inside New Jersey’s hidden Hindenburg museum
It sounds like fantasy; an enormous, luxurious airship, filled with one of the most world’s flammable gases, shuttling the super-rich a ...
9 years ago
In South Jersey, a familiar fight to save a historic African-American cemetery
Many cemeteries boast residents whose fame followed them into the afterlife, making their gravesites a point of pilgrimage for those stil ...
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The decline of political wit, and the death of the stylish insult
This July will mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen — so this year is surely a fitting time to reflect on a subject b ...
9 years ago
A nation built by immigrants, America can’t shake its fears of foreigners
“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY/NewsWorks t ...
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Red hot in a green heaven — the day I became a Phillies fan
The late-setting July sun illuminated the canyon of freshly deserted mills on the avenue. Over-sized factory windows coated in senescent ...
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What can we learn from George Orwell today?
There is much to be learned from George Orwell’s classic novel “1984,” written in 1949, which has suddenly jumped again ...
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