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Jacob Nolde
was so inspired by a
pine
tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now
Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center
in
Pennsylvania
?
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Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center
Jacob Nolde
was so inspired by a
pine
tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now
Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center
in
Pennsylvania
?
Philadelphia
autobiographer
Lois Mark Stalvey
'
s 1960s
anti-racist
activism
in
Omaha, Nebraska
was responsible for her husband's job transfer to
Philadelphia
?
Philadelphia
publisher
F. A. Davis
brought electricity to
St. Petersburg, Florida
, and founded nearby
Pinellas Park
after hearing a lecture on
Florida
's medical benefits?
American
illustrator
,
painter
and
printmaker
Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer
was the great-great granddaughter of
Philadelphia
artist
Charles Willson Peale
?
Birely, Hillman & Streaker
was the only
Philadelphian
manufacturer of wooden ships to survive the post-
Civil War
slump?
Jewelers' Row
(pictured)
in
Philadelphia
was the first speculative
housing development
in the
United States
, featuring that country's first
row houses
?
Sedgeley
, designed by
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
in 1799 and built in
Philadelphia
, was the first
Gothic revival
-style house in the
U.S.
?
after his move to
Philadelphia
in 1879,
English
-born
cricketer
Arthur Wood
(pictured)
had to satisfy a five year residency requirement before he was allowed to play with the
Philadelphian cricket team
?
both
Hillary Clinton
and
Barack Obama
refused to hand out
street money
, a political tactic common in
Philadelphia
, during the
2008 Pennsylvania primary
?
in the late 1960s,
Philadelphia
residents held
Annual Reminder
protests claiming that
LGBT
Americans did not enjoy the rights to "
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
"?
newspaper writer
Constance Drexel
gained notoriety by falsely claiming that she was a member of
Philadelphia
's
Drexel
family?
Germany
19th century Polish general
Ludwik Mierosławski
led revolutionaries in
Poland
,
Germany
and
Italy
?
U.S. Ambassador
Charles E. Bohlen
received the secret protocol to the
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
, which contained an understanding between
Hitler
and
Stalin
to split
Central Europe
, from
German
diplomat
Hans von Herwarth
?
the author
of the term
Third Reich
predicted that "
Germany
might perish because of the Third Reich dream"?
Church of Scientology International
official
Leisa Goodman
went on a six-month mission to investigate the treatment of
Scientologists
in
Germany
?
communist
activist
Franz Jacob
organized
one of the largest resistance groups
in
Germany
during
World War II
?
French
Major General
René Cogny
, who later commanded French forces during the
First Indochina War
, was captured in
June
1940
by the
German
army, and had to escape by crawling naked through a drainpipe?
French
protests caused the
Russians
to award the contract for the
Gangut
-class
battleship
to a Russian firm rather than the
German
winner of the 1908 international design contest?
Gauleiter
of
Tyrol
and
Vorarlberg
Franz Hofer
arranged the surrender of the troops under his command with an American sergeant, and a Jewish
emigrant
from
Germany
,
Fred Mayer
?
German
painter
Ludwig Thiersch
influenced the debate over
Byzantine
and
Western
influences in
modern Greek art
, and painted church
frescoes
in
Greece
,
Austria
,
Germany
,
England
, and
Russia
?
German
bass
Hans Herbert Fiedler
sang the role of
Moses
in the original 1954 production of
Arnold Schoenberg
's
Moses und Aron
?
List of Pennsylvania state parks
Maurice K. Goddard
helped create 45
Pennsylvania state parks
?
Snyder Middleswarth Natural Area
lost its status as a
Pennsylvania state park
in the 1990s despite being a
National Natural Landmark
and
Snyder County's
only state park?
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