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Philadelphia was the place of the 1815 Philadelphia train accident, the explosion of the boiler of an early steam locomotive. The number of deaths (16, other sources state 13) was the highest in a railway accident until 1842. [7] [8]
The Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters was conceived as part of the city of Philadelphia's plan to improve and revive the area around Independence Hall.Along with the creation of a park north of Independence Hall, the area saw the construction of new and modern buildings including a federal courthouse, a new Philadelphia Mint and the Rohm and Haas Building. [5]
The PNC Bank Building is located at 1600 Market Street in the Market West neighborhood of Center City, Philadelphia. [3] It occupies the northeast corner of a city block bounded by Market Street to the north, 16th Street to the east, Chestnut Street to the south, and 17th Street to the west. [4]
The Cira Centre is a 29-story, 437-foot (133 m) office high-rise in the University City neighborhood of West Philadelphia, directly connected to Amtrak's 30th Street Station.
St. James Kingsessing Episcopal Church. The name Kingsessing, also spelled Chinsessing, comes from a Delaware word meaning "a place where there is a meadow". [1] [2] The historic Lenape, or Delaware as the English called them, had a village of the same name that roughly occupied the same site as where the current neighborhood was later developed.
Harold Kreis (born 1959), Canadian-German ice hockey coach; Jason Kreis (born 1972), American soccer player; Melanie Kreis (born 1971), German businesswoman; Wilhelm Kreis (1873–1955), German architect
Der Kreis (German: [deːr ˈkraɪs], The Circle) was a Swiss gay magazine. Founded as the lesbian magazine Freundschaftsbanner in 1932 it turned into a male-only magazine in 1942 under the name Der Kreis. It was trilingual and distributed internationally and gained significant influence in the homosexual movement at the time until it ceased ...
Most major cities in Germany are not part of any Kreis, but instead combine the functions of a municipality and a Kreis; such a city is referred to as a kreisfreie Stadt [e] ([ˈkʁaɪsfʁaɪə ˈʃtat]) or Stadtkreis [f] ([ˈʃtatˌkʁaɪs] ⓘ).