Name: Strange Philadelphia: Stories from the City of Brotherly Love (en Inglés)
SKU: 24520360
Price: 625.13 MXN
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Author: Harry, Lou
ISBN: 9781566393751

portada Strange Philadelphia: Stories from the City of Brotherly Love (en Inglés)

Strange Philadelphia: Stories from the City of Brotherly Love (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Lou Harry

Editorial

Temple University Press

Año

1995

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.9x14.1x1.9 cm

Peso

0.30 kg.

ISBN

1566393752

ISBN13

9781566393751

Categorías

Ee. uu. region del nordeste: estados del atlántico medio
Sociedad y cultura: general
Historia de américa
Historia local

Strange Philadelphia: Stories from the City of Brotherly Love (en Inglés)

Lou Harry (Autor) · Temple University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Most history books paint Philadelphia as a place of revolutionary greatness, but there exists a forgotten, alternative history of the City of Brotherly Love. For example, did you know that - when Ben Franklin was Deputy Postmaster General for the American colonies, he ignored rival printers' requests for mailing priveleges. Instead, he loaded down the mail carriers with his own papers and enjoyed the use of a private delivery system that cut off the competition. - the Slinky was created by a marine engineer stationed in Philadelphia, who later became an evangelist and Bible salesman in Bolivia, leaving behind his wife, his children, and the Slinky fortune. - 50,000 people gathered in Fairmount Park in 1953 hoping to see a vision of the Virgin Mary, who three schoolgirls claimed to have seen near a park bush. Though the Blessed Mother never did appear, visitors to the site left behind offerings of rosaries, flowers, crutches, and over $6,000. - while 11,000 spectators sat in the Spectrum waiting for the Ice Capades to begin, 32-mile-an-hour winds blew a chunk of the roof off the city's newly constructed stadium. Find these and a hundred more "strange" and fascinating stories in this collection of vignettes. These pieces of the past can't be found in history books--they are surprising side bars to the famous and not-so-famous events and people of historical Philadelphia.