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Historic Cemetery Bethlehem, PA (Graves from the 1700's)

Squad Fams, we were in Historic Bethlehem, PA recently. This was the original cemetery of the first settlers of the town (The Moravians in 1741). Very cool place. Just had to show you, enjoy!

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Laura Keim on The Walking Purchase

Philadelphia: The Great Experiment (Franklin's Spark)

James Logan orchestrated the Walking Purchase: a very tricky land acquisition that swindled the Natives out of much more than they thought they bargained for.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders spent much of a Fox News town hall Monday discussing his signature “Medicare for All” proposal, which has energized liberals and fueled conservative backlash.

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At one point in the event, Fox’s Bret Baier asked attendees if they get private health insurance from work. A majority of audience members raised their hands.

Baier then asked whether people would be willing to transition to a government-run health system as described by Sanders. Roughly the same number of attendees raised their hands. Some audience members cheered. Baier noted during the town hall that the crowd included Democrats, Republicans and independents.

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Downtown Allentown: A City On the Rise June 2018

Take a look at the June 2018 revitalization of Downtown Allentown in this short before and after video. New urban development has just begun!

Pennsylvania

The Keystone state -- key to America's independence. Check out the history and culture of Pennsylvania, where many German-speaking immigrants settled, with Christopher Hoh. #50states #PA

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Hello, my name is Christopher Hoh. I work in the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, and I was born and brought up in the the Keystone State.

Pennsylvania was one of the original 13 colonies. It was called the Keystone State in the 18th century because of its central location and role in U.S. history. The first capital of the United States was in Philadelphia.

Before it was colonized, the area was home to Native American tribes, including the Lenape and the Susquehannok.

The name Pennsylvania means, Penn's Woods. In 1681, England's King Charles II gave the land to William Penn as payment for a debt of 16,000 pounds. This was one of the largest land grants to an individual in history.

William Penn was a member of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, who were persecuted in England. So Penn established the colony for any people persecuted for their faith.

Many religious exiles from Europe settled in Pennsylvania, including the Amish, an Anabaptist sect. Today, the Amish live much as they did in the 17th century, without modern conveniences such as electricity and cars.

In the 18th and 19th centuries Germans migrated to Pennsylvania in large numbers. English‐speakers mispronounced the German word, Deutsch, as Dutch, and these immigrants became known as the Pennsylvania Dutch.

In many Pennsylvania communities, German was spoken as the language of everyday life into the early 1900's. You can still hear German dialects in the farmers' markets of Lancaster and Reading, my home town.

The language is similar to Germany's Palatinate dialect. For example, the man's dog -- der Hund des Mannes -- is this in PA Dutch -- em Mann sei Hund.

Today, 12.7 million people live in Pennsylvania, the sixth most populous state in the U.S. It covers over 46,000 square miles (more than 119,000 km2 ).

Pennsylvania has several large cities. Philadelphia was known in the 1700's as the Athens of America because of its rich cultural life.

Part of that is attributed to Pennsylvania's most famous citizen, Benjamin Franklin -- author, inventor, philosopher, businessman, diplomat and revolutionary leader.
Philadelphia is also home to the Liberty Bell, the icon of American freedom. It remains on view, cracked, on Independence Mall, where the Continental Congress met and in 1776 declared independence from Britain.

Here are some other firsts from Pennsylvania:
The first medical school, hospital, library and insurance company were established in there.

The first commercially drilled oil well near Titusville produced the first U.S. oil boom in 1859.

The first U.S. Envoy to Austria in 1838 was Henry A.P. Muhlenberg, from Lancaster.
And the Philadelphia Zoo is the oldest zoo in America.

My hometown, Reading, is located in southeastern Pennsylvania. Formerly a textile and manufacturing center, Reading became known as The Factory Outlet Capital of the World.

The surrounding area has been called the Snack Food Capital of the World, leading all other states in the production of pretzels, chips and candy.

The state has some other interesting food facts.

The Yuengling Brewery, in Pottsville, is the oldest operating brewery in America, established in 1829.

A little further west is Hershey, the birthplace of Hershey chocolate bars. The town smells of chocolate and the street lights are shaped like Hershey kisses.
And don't forget Philly cheese steaks.

Pennsylvania gave birth to one US President -- James Buchanan in the 1800s.
Vice President Joe Biden was born in Scranton.

Many actors also come from Pennsylvania including Kevin Bacon, Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Sharon Stone, to name a few.

Pennsylvania has always had a creative music scene. Each religious sect that settled in Pennsylvania brought with it a unique style of music. The Moravians, in Bethlehem, introduced organs and trombones into their worship. The Mennonites and Lutherans sang heartily, from German hymnbooks. And the Ephrata Cloister was known for beautiful harmony.

Popular singers today include Taylor Swift, from Wyomissing, and Christina Aguilera and George Benson, from Pittsburgh.

Philadelphia is also the birthplace of the famous TV program, American Bandstand, which introduced singers and bands to teenagers for more than 20 years.

I travel the world but I still have a strong connection to my home state: I'm a career diplomat -- like Benjamin Franklin, our country's first envoy. I'm also a composer who benefited from my home state's musical milieu.

I'm proud to come from Pennsylvania, the land of the Liberty Bell, which helped inspire the cause of freedom for all humanity.

Peter Wolle - Madison's March (ca. 1815)

Madison's March was composed by Peter Wolle (1792-1871), a musician and clergyman of the Unitas Fratum or Moravian Church. He represents the first generation of Moravian musicians born in the New World and active within the religious and musical life of the church community.

Born on the island of St. John in the Virgin Islands, Wolle arrived in Nazareth, Pennsylvania at the age of three. He studied organ with Johann Christian Bechler and grew up to become the first consecrated bishop of the church in the United States, as well as a noted hymnologist and composer of religious music. Wolle died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Though not a prolific composer, his music bridged the older European stylings of immigrant musicians like J. F. Peter and the emerging popular American style. He became an active teacher, and served as minister to a number of communities in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Ohio.

This march honors President James Madison and represents the type of music played by community bands throughout the United States around the time of the War of 1812. This concert took place in the Recital Hall of the Moody Music Building on April 10, 2015.

Blast Furnace: The Making of Iron with Animations and Diagrams

Shows how iron ore, limestone, and coke are handled and prepared for the blast furnace in the making of iron. Great for industrial arts and technology students. Includes animations and diagrams.

Steel Industry in Pittsburgh

DELAWARE DIVISION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA CANAL LEHIGH RIVER 51994 MD

Shot over a period of 25 years by one cameraman Roy Creveling, Paradise Ditch shows the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal. After the canal was no longer useful as a means of transportation, 60 miles of it was preserved as a park. The film contains rare and historic footage of the infrastructure of the canal including a canal boat graveyard (4:30), bridges built for mule teams to travel across, locks, and more. The film also has historic footage of the canal in operation with a mule team shown at 6:20, pulling a canal boat.

The Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, more commonly called the Delaware Canal, runs parallel to the Delaware River from the Lehigh River at Easton (home of The National Canal Museum and terminal end of the Lehigh Canal) south to Bristol, as part of the solution to the United States' first energy crisis. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania built the Delaware canal to feed anthracite stone coal to energy-hungry Philadelphia as part of its transportation infrastructure building plan known as the Main Line of Public Works—a legislative initiative creating a collection of self-reinforcing internal improvements to commercial transportation capabilities.

The Delaware Canal, like the Lehigh Canal, was primarily meant to carry the fuel of choice of the day, anthracite coal, and other bulk goods such as gravel and limestone, cement, and lumber—from northeastern Pennsylvania to Philadelphia. In reverse flow, the two canals carried manufactured goods, iron products and (a few decades later) steel products to the northeastern cities. The Delaware and Lehigh Canals also connected from Easton by ferry services across the Delaware River to New Jersey and the Delaware and Raritan Canal, connecting industrial loads to New York City.

First opened in 1832, the Delaware Canal still has most of its original locks, aqueducts, and overflows.[3] Although the two canals reached their peak shipping in 1855, after which coal transport down the Lehigh corridor was taken up increasingly by railroads, the canals stayed in operation until the Great Depression in the early 1930s. According to the National Park Service, it was the longest-lived canal in the country.

It was competition from the railroad that led to a decline in barge traffic and the demise of the canal. By the 1920s, anthracite coal was waning as a source of fuel. The last commercial through traffic traveled the canal in October 1931 and the bankrupt Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company sold the canal back to the state for a nominal fee.

In 1933, a private group called The Delaware Valley Protective Association[5] (DVPA) was founded to protect the canal as a historic asset. The DVPA persuaded the state to resume maintenance of the canal in 1940, when its towpath became Theodore Roosevelt State Park. The berms were restored and the canal was refilled with water.

Through the 1940s and 1950s, the canal was left mostly untouched. In the early 1960s, however, Pennsylvania officials explored plans to pave over the canal and create a road for cars. Local residents fought for the canal's protection. In 1964, Bucks County historian and DVPA member Willis M. Rivinus wrote the first Guide to the Delaware Canal to call attention to the canal's value.
In 1976, it was designated a National Historic Landmark, helping to guarantee its preservation. The towpath itself was named an official National Recreation Trail.

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February 2014 Jesus People Movie 3 of 3 - Last days final hour news prophecy update

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he Jesus movement was a movement in Christianity beginning on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and spreading primarily through North America and Europe, before dying out by the early 1980s. It was the major Christian element within the hippie counterculture, or, conversely, the major hippie element within some strands of Protestantism. Members of the movement were called Jesus people, or Jesus freaks. The Jesus movement left a legacy of various denominations and other Christian organizations, and had an impact on both the development of the contemporary Christian right and the Christian left. Jesus music, which grew out of the movement, greatly influenced contemporary Christian music, The terms Jesus movement and Jesus people were coined by Duane Pederson in his writings for the Hollywood Free Paper Jesus freak movement.
Though still a part of the broader hippie movement, the Jesus movement was partly a reaction against the counterculture from which it originated. Some people became disenchanted with the status quo and became hippies. Later, some of these people became disenchanted with the hippie lifestyle and became Jesus people. The Jesus movement was restorationist in theology, seeking to return to the original life of the early Christians. As a result, Jesus people often viewed churches, especially those in the United States, as apostate, and took a decidedly counter cultural political stance in general. The theology of the Jesus movement also called for a return to simple living and asceticism in some cases. The Jesus people had a strong belief in miracles, signs and wonders, faith, healing, prayer, The Bible, and powerful works of the Holy Spirit. For example, a miracle-filled revival at Asbury College in 1970 grabbed the attention of the mainstream news media and became known nation-wide. The movement tended towards strong evangelism and millennialism. A read book by those within the movement was Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth. Perhaps the most illustrative aspect of the Jesus movement was its communal aspect. Many Jesus People lived in communes such as the Calvary Chapel movement. Secular and Christian media exposure in 1971 and 1972 caused the Jesus movement to explode across the United States, attracting evangelical youth eager to identify with the movement. Perhaps the height of the Jesus movement was in the week-long gathering in Dallas, Texas known as Explo '72. This gathering attracted 80,000 young people and brought the hippies of the Jesus movement together with young people from traditional Christian families and churches. The event was organized by the very traditional Campus Crusade for Christ and involved such a traditional leader Billy Graham. Many of the young Jesus People attending Explo '72 discovered for the first time these and other traditional avenues of Christian worship and experience.
Although the Jesus movement lasted no more than a decade (except for the Jesus People USA which continues to exist in Chicago), its influence on Christian culture can still be seen. Thousands of converts moved into leadership positions in churches and parachurch organisations. The informality of the Jesus movement's music and worship affected almost all evangelical churches. Some of the fastest growing US denominations of the late 20th century, such as Calvary Chapel trace their roots directly back to the Jesus movement, as do parachurch organisations like Jews for Jesus and the multi-million dollar contemporary Christian music industry. Perhaps the most significant and lasting influence, however, was the growth of an emerging strand within evangelical Christianity that appealed to the contemporary youth culture. Jesus music, also known as gospel beat music in the UK, primarily began when some hippie and street musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s converted to Christianity. They continued to play the same style of music they had played previously but began to write lyrics with a Christian message. Many music groups developed out of this, and some became leaders within the Jesus movement, most notably Love Song, Second Chapter of Acts, All Saved Freak Band, Servant, Petra, Resurrection Band, Phil Keaggy, Randy Stonehill, Andraé Crouch (and the Disciples), Keith Green, and Larry Norman. The Joyful Noise Band traveled with a Christian community throughout the U.S. and Europe, performing in festivals held underneath giant tents. In the UK, Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California founded the first Christian rock labels when he launched the Maranatha! Music label in 1971 as an outlet for the Jesus music bands performing at Calvary worship services.

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Town Hall with Bernie Sanders | Part 1

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It's Been 509 Days Since the 2016 Election and the Dems Still Have No Platform, Vision or Plan

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.” ― P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

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Bethlehem Steel Luncheon 2011

Annual Luncheon for Bethlehem Steel. I had the chance to work with Bethlehem Shipyard Museum. I was the main shooter and editor for this video. HU Designs.

Valley Forge National Historical Park

The Valley Forge National Historical Park is the site of a Revolutionary War encampment, northwest of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania. Washington’s Headquarters, a stone house on the Schuylkill River, was occupied by George Washington from 1777 to 1778. Trails connect the key monuments and historic structures, including the early-20th-century National Memorial Arch and the Muhlenberg Brigade’s recreated log-cabin barracks.

Conceptual Process: Performing Arts Center by Spillman Farmer Architects

: Raw Elegance: This video illustrates the conceptual process for the NEW Performing Arts Center on the brown fields site now called SteelStacks.

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Spillman Farmer Architects Announces Completion of Performing Arts Center on Former Bethlehem Steel Brown Field
Firm Designed ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Thursday April 7 2011 -- Spillman Farmer Architects is pleased to announce the completion of the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks, a dynamic entertainment and cultural center on the landmark former industrial brown field site of Bethlehem Steel located in eastern Pennsylvania. The Center will be dedicated on Thursday April 14.

The design grew from the profoundly meaningful history of place here, said Joseph N. Biondo AIA, Spillman Farmer Architects' Design Principal. The Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces are iconic - they are America's historic ruins. The arts center is deeply inspired by this former industrial site and the lives that were lived here. The highlights of the 67,000 square feet building are a 450-seat venue for live performances and a two-screen state-of-the-art cinema. We wanted the building to make a compelling statement about the future of the arts and community here in Bethlehem. This project evolved from the energy generated by the friction of past and future, the human spirit that fueled the American industrial revolution, and the elegance of a finely crafted music box, said Biondo.

It is not surprising that the juxtaposed phrase raw elegance became shorthand for the design concept. The building's glass and concrete exterior is oriented along an east-west axis to stand toe-to-toe with the now silent blast furnaces of Bethlehem Steel. The building is clad with locally manufactured pre-cast concrete panels mounted with the rough, hand-screed concrete side facing outward to reveal the surprising handcrafted nature of this common material. The experience of the building is fully realized in the interior, where visitors encounter spaces that bring them in intimate visual contact with the iconic blast furnaces as the permanent backdrop for activities within.

The Center, which kicks of its concert series with a private performance by The Steve Miller Band, will be home to more than 300 live music performances and 10 new arts festivals each year.

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Spillman Farmer Architects is an interdisciplinary practice of architects, designers, master planners, and graphic artists specializing in planning, design, and delivery solutions for buildings and communities. SFA serves a diverse clientele including corporate, commercial, public and institutional markets across the United States. Founded in 1927, SFA's team works together in an LEED Gold certified open studio environment on the former brown field site of Bethlehem Steel.

Allentown, Pennsylvania | Wikipedia audio article

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Allentown, Pennsylvania


00:01:55 1 History
00:02:03 1.1 Origins
00:03:39 1.2 Founding
00:06:28 1.3 American Revolutionary War
00:09:11 1.3.1 Liberty Bell
00:11:06 1.4 Early Allentown
00:15:11 1.5 Civil War
00:17:57 1.5.1 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
00:19:54 1.6 Industrialization
00:27:59 1.7 Late 20th century
00:31:47 1.8 21st century
00:33:35 2 Geography
00:33:44 2.1 Topography
00:35:05 2.2 Cityscape and neighborhoods
00:37:41 2.2.1 Architecture
00:40:36 2.3 Climate
00:42:13 3 Demographics
00:45:46 3.1 Crime
00:46:24 4 Economy
00:47:32 5 Arts and culture
00:47:41 5.1 Museums and cultural organizations
00:47:51 5.2 Festivals
00:48:41 5.3 Arts and entertainment
00:50:52 5.4 Landmarks and popular locations
00:51:23 5.5 Cuisine
00:52:50 6 Sports
00:55:07 7 Parks and recreation
00:56:54 8 Government
00:58:21 9 Education
00:58:30 9.1 Primary and secondary education
01:02:18 9.2 Colleges and universities
01:03:04 10 Media
01:04:40 11 Infrastructure
01:04:49 11.1 Transportation
01:04:57 11.1.1 Roads and buses
01:06:36 11.1.2 Rail
01:08:12 11.1.3 Airports
01:08:50 11.2 Utilities
01:09:35 11.3 Health care
01:10:03 11.4 Fire department
01:10:19 12 Notable people
01:14:31 13 In popular culture
01:15:18 14 See also



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Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel) is a city located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is Pennsylvania's third most populous city and the 231st largest city in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 118,032 and is currently the fastest growing city in all of Pennsylvania. It is the largest city in the metropolitan area known as the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 821,623 residents as of 2010. Allentown constitutes a portion of the New York City Combined Statistical Area and is the county seat of Lehigh County. In 2012, the city celebrated the 250th anniversary of its founding in 1762.Located on the Lehigh River, Allentown is the largest of three adjacent cities, in Northampton and Lehigh counties, that make up a region of eastern Pennsylvania known as the Lehigh Valley, the other two cities being Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Easton, Pennsylvania. Allentown is 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of Philadelphia, the sixth most populous city in the United States, 90 miles (140 km) east-northeast of Harrisburg, the state capital, and 90 miles (140 km) west of New York City, the nation's largest city.
The Norfolk Southern Railway's Lehigh Line (formerly the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad using former Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad main line trackage), runs through Allentown heading east across the Delaware River. The Norfolk Southern Railway's Reading Line runs through Allentown heading west to Reading, Pennsylvania.
Allentown was cited as a national success story in April 2016 by the Urban Land Institute for its downtown redevelopment and transformation, one of only six communities in the country to have been named as such.

Valley Forge: The Revolutionary War in Four Minutes

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