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History

Frank S. Farley Service Plaza is located at milepost 21.3 on the Atlantic City Expressway. (Bill Barlow/for WHYY)
Lifestyle

Why Frank Farley has a rest stop named after him

“Frank Farley is a giant in 20th century New Jersey history,” said Nelson Johnson.

7 years ago

Frank Rizzo Jr. holds a campaign button with the Nixon/Rizzo ticket. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Why

The Legend of Frank Rizzo

Why one man spent $11,000 on the former Philly mayor's Rolodex and other relics of Rizzo's polarizing political legacy, and why that legacy lives on.

Air Date: November 27, 2018

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U.S. Navy CPO Graham Jackson, with tears of grief, plays
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

How the ‘New World’ symphony introduced American music to itself

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, subtitled "From the New World," has become one of the world's most beloved orchestral works.

7 years ago

An office at the home of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Relics of a polarizing legacy within reach at Frank Rizzo estate sale

In total, some 2,500 items will be sold over three days, kicking off on Black Friday, the nation’s appointed deal-hunting day.

7 years ago

(LA Johnson/NPR)
NPR
Education

What educators need to know about teaching Thanksgiving

Large community potlucks and school plays where students dress up as Pilgrims and Indians help students learn the familiar story of the very first Thanksgiving.

7 years ago

President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrive at Love Field, Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963.
Community

South Jersey man creates audio history of JFK’s final hours

On November 22, 1963, Michael Maggio was playing with toy guns in his childhood home in Patterson, New Jersey. Like many from his generation that day never left his mind.

7 years ago

Construction workers put finishing touches on Roberto Clemente Homes. (Courtesy of Esperanza)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

From hosiery factory to school to apartments, a building is reborn

This article originally appeared on ...

7 years ago

Khieu Samphan, (left), former Khmer Rouge head of state, stands at the dock in a court room during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Friday. (Nhet Sok/AP/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
NPR
Courts & Law

Verdict on Khmer Rouge leaders is first to officially acknowledge regime’s genocide

The last two surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s were found guilty Friday by an international tribunal.

7 years ago

Sandbags are used to slow the erosion of the bank along the Delaware River. (Bill Barlow for WHYY)
Community

Can this New Jersey lighthouse be saved?

An intense wind from the west frothed the Delaware Bay and tore at the signs activists held as they gathered on the beach near the East P ...

7 years ago

An engraving from the Library Company of Philadelphia depicting the massacre of Conestoga Native American tribe by the so-called Paxton Boys in Lancaster, 1763. (Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia)
Arts & Entertainment

Native American massacre from colonial Pa. history to be retold in comic book

The Library Company of Philadelphia is turning the 1763 massacre of the Conestoga Native American tribe into a comic book.

7 years ago

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Military officer Garcia plays the original Armistice bugle from 1918 under the Arc de Triomphe Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 in Paris. More than 60 heads of state and government are in France for the Armistice ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, exactly a century after the armistice. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool)
Community

‘Am I dreaming?’ Letter excerpts from WWI’s last day

A hundred years later, their words can still pierce hearts.

7 years ago

Heads of states and world leaders attend ceremonies at the Arc de Triomphe Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 in Paris. Over 60 heads of state and government were taking part in a solemn ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the mute and powerful symbol of sacrifice to the millions who died from 1914-18. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool)
Politics & Policy

World leaders gather in Paris a century after WWI armistice

"The traces of this war never went away," Macron said.

7 years ago

In this March 7, 1918 file photo, men of U.S. Battery E, 5th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, load horses onto freight cars in Toul, eastern France, en route to the French front. They were messengers, spies, sentinels and the heavy haulers of World War I, carrying supplies, munitions and food and leading cavalry charges. The horses, mules, dogs and pigeons were a vital part of the Allied war machine, saving countless lives, and dying by the millions. (AP Photo, File)
Community

Unsung heroes, animals were vital part of WWI war machine

They were messengers, spies and sentinels. They led cavalry charges, carried supplies to the front, and died by the millions during World War I.

7 years ago

Poll workers carry umbrellas as they greet voters headed in to a polling place at Glasgow High School on Tuesday, Nov. 6. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delaware midterm turnout highest since 1994

More than 360,000 Delawareans voted in Tuesday’s midterm elections. That translates to a turnout rate of 52 percent.

7 years ago

Frankie Franceschini, Linda McCarthy, Bonnie Shuman, and Sandy McCarthy (left to right) react as results come in for the 2018 midterm elections November 6th 2018 in Swarthmore, PA. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
The Why
Politics & Policy

Ladies Night

Pennsylvania will send a record-setting four women to Congress next year, up from the current total of zero. Is the "Year of the Woman" here again?

Air Date: November 7, 2018

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