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City of Brotherly Love: How Philadelphia got its nickname
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by Ted Sherman
Created on: April 23, 2008 Last Updated: December 05, 2008
City of Brotherly Love isn't actually a nickname. It is merely a translation of the Greek phrase "brotherly
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Created on: April 21, 2008 Last Updated: May 12, 2011
"City of Brotherly Love," the favored nickname for the city of Philadelphia, is steeped in heritage.
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Created on: April 22, 2008 Last Updated: September 30, 2010
On March 4, 1681, King Charles II of Great Britain, gave his subject William Penn a charter for an American
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by A Howell
Created on: April 20, 2008 Last Updated: December 05, 2008
Philadelphia is known as the "City of Brotherly Love". It is considered our nations birth place. Before
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Created on: April 23, 2008 Last Updated: December 05, 2008
When William Penn journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean, he brought with him his Quaker vision on what
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by Lisa Miller
Created on: April 21, 2008 Last Updated: December 05, 2008
Philadelphia does not just have the nickname "The City of Brotherly Love", that is actually what the
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Created on: April 21, 2008 Last Updated: December 05, 2008
When William Penn put together two Greek words ("philos", meaning "love" and "delphos", meaning "brother"),
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