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In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
Charles H. Ramsey (born 1950), Philadelphia police commissioner; Samuel J. Randall (1828–1890), U.S. House of Representatives member and Speaker of the House [36] Ed Rendell (born 1944), Pennsylvania governor, Philadelphia mayor, and Philadelphia district attorney; Frank Rizzo (1920–1991), Philadelphia mayor and police commissioner
Community College of Philadelphia; Delaware Valley Academy of Medical and Dental Assistants (closed) Esperanza College of Eastern University; Hussian School of Art (closed) Lincoln Technical Institute, Center City and Northeast Philadelphia; Orleans Technical College; Pennsylvania Institute of Technology, Center City and Media; Star Technical ...
Name based on the brightest galaxy in the group when that name is commonly used for identification (e.g. the M81 Group); this is only applicable to groups of galaxies within approximately 50 Mpc; The most commonly-used catalog number (e.g. Abell 3266) Note that group and cluster names are proper nouns.
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Bill Cash, Negro league stars, Baseball Hall of Famer; Wilt Chamberlain, former NBA player, ranked No. 5 All-Time by ESPN [10] Wendy "Lady B" Clarke, hip hop radio DJ and pioneer female rapper [11] Tony Costner, former NBA player, European career; The Delfonics, R&B group [12] Colman Domingo, Emmy and Tony award-winning stage, screen and TV ...
Howard Henry (Class of 1889), All-American halfback for the 1903 Princeton Tigers football team, U.S. Army captain; James DeWolf Perry (Class of 1887), 7th Bishop of Rhode Island, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (1930-1937) Witmer Stone (Class of 1883), ornithologist, botanist, mammalogist
1995 City of Philadelphia John Scott Award; 1996 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Rumford Prize; 1996 Fellow, American Physical Society; 1997 Aviation Week and Space Technology Hall of Fame; 1997 Member, National Academy of Sciences; 1998 Marc Aaronson Memorial Prize; 1998 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences