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Built in 1902 for the wealthy silk manufacturer, Herman Simon, an immigrant from Germany, [2] the Herman Simon House is an Indiana limestone dwelling on a granite base in the French Chateau style. The rectangular building measures 24 feet wide and 120 feet deep, and features a four-story, semi-circular bay tower and a projecting porch.
Bird's-eye view of Easton, PA, circa 1900 [2] College Hill is a residential neighborhood in Easton, Pennsylvania. The neighborhood is situated on the hill overlooking downtown Easton which was once known as Mount Lafayette, and before that, Mount Washington. [3] [4] Lafayette College borders the neighborhood on its southwest side.
Easton is a city in and the county seat of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. [3] The city's population was 28,127 as of the 2020 census.Easton is located at the confluence of the Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long (175 km) river that joins the Delaware River in Easton and serves as the city's eastern geographic boundary with Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
The Bufalino crime family, [5] also known as the Pittston crime family, [6] the Pittston–Scranton crime family, [7] the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre crime family, [6] the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family, [8] the Northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia, [9] [10] or the Scranton Mafia, [11] was an Italian-American Mafia crime family active in Northeastern Pennsylvania, primarily in the cities of ...
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Italian: Regno delle Due Sicilie) [b] was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, a cadet branch of the Bourbons. [3]
The director-general of Sicily's civil protection agency, Salvatore Cocina, confirmed to CBS News partner BBC News that three of the six people still missing Monday were British tech entrepreneur ...
The Expedition of the Thousand (Italian: Spedizione dei Mille) was an event of the unification of Italy that took place in 1860. A corps of volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto al Mare near Genoa and landed in Marsala, Sicily, in order to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, ruled by the Spanish House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. [3]
Sciandra was born on April 10, 1899, in Montedoro, Sicily, to Angelo and Leonarda La Porta Sciandra. [1] With his parents and siblings, Andrew, James and Pasqualina, he immigrated to the United States in April 1908, [2] settling in Buffalo, New York. [3]