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	Curse of Billy Penn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Curse of William Penn (supposedly begun in March 1987) is an alleged curse sometimes used to explain the failure of professional sports teams based in the American city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to win championships in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
		The curse, however, does not seem to affect Philadelphia's minor league hockey franchise, the AHL's Philadelphia Phantoms, who won their second Calder Cup championship trophy twice since the curse's inception, in both 1998 and 2005, nor the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League, who have won six titles since 1989.
		As local sentiment goes, Penn may not be pleased, but at least his view of the Delaware River (where he and the Quaker settlers originally landed and signed the "walking treaty" with the Lenape Indians) is still unobstructed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curse_of_Billy_Penn (805 words)

	Curse - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Curse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In a broader sense, 'curse' is a loose synonym for blasphemy or profanity.
		Sometimes, the curse was allegedly laid with a purpose; such a curse is supposed to have haunted the archaeologists who excavated the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen; a curse was supposedly pronounced on anyone who violated its precincts by the ancient Egyptian priests.
		Tecumseh's curse was reputed to cause the deaths in office of Presidents of the United States elected in years divisible by 20, beginning in 1840 (this alleged curse appears to have fallen dormant in 1980, as President Ronald Reagan, elected that year, failed to die in office).
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Curse.html (884 words)

	Curse of the Billy Goat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sianis was outraged at the ejection and allegedly placed a curse upon the Cubs that they would never win another pennant or play in a World Series at Wrigley Field again (Sianis died in 1970).
		The curse seemed to be fading in the 2003 playoffs.
		The curse seemed to be on the point of extinction when the Cubs led the eventual World Series champion Florida Marlins three games to two in the National League Championship Series at Wrigley Field, and held a 3-0 lead in Game 6, with only five outs between them and a trip to the World Series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curse_of_the_billy_goat (1453 words)

	William Penn - Psychology Central
		Penn pleaded for his right to see a copy of the charges laid against him and the laws he had supposedly broken, but the judge, the Lord Mayor of London, refused—even though this right was guaranteed by the law.
		Although Penn's authority over the colony was officially subject only to that of the king, he implemented a democratic system with full freedom of religion, fair trials, elected representatives of the people in power, and a separation of powers—again ideas that would later form the basis of the American constitution.
		Image:Wampum william penn greaty treaty.jpg From 1682 to 1684 Penn was, himself, in the Province of Pennsylvania.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/William_Penn (1655 words)

	Cyprus holiday villas - Travel Articles Philadelphia
		Penn also required lots of alley ways and open spaces in to hopes of controlling fires and disease (which were then common problems in London).
		Penn's surveyor, Thomas Holme, laid out the city in a strict grid, with all streets running either north-south or east-west.
		Penn's Landing - encompassed by the Delaware Riverfront.
	www.rentcyprus.co.uk /wikipedia/philadelphia.htm (2690 words)

	News for Sean Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sean Penn and his All The King's Men co-star Mark Ruffalo were reportedly involved in a fracas with a photographer at the funeral of the Oscar-winner's brother Chris Penn on Saturday.
		Penn then discovered the man was a paparazzi photographer and hauled him back on the balcony, but the police were called and the star arrested.
		Penn, who shunned last month's Golden Globes in favor of a night in with his daughter, has refused to attend the Oscars in the past and is well known in Hollywood for his dislike of award ceremonies.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0000576/news (13748 words)

	Wikinfo \| Curse of Billy Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Curse of Billy Penn is an alleged curse sometimes used to explain the failure of professional sports teams based in the American city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to win championships in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
		The curse, however, does not seem to affect Philadelphia's minor league hockey franchise, the AHL's Philadelphia Phantoms, who won their second Calder Cup championship trophy in 2005.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Curse_of_Billy_Penn (544 words)

	Aristocrats, The : Q&A WITH FILMMAKERS PENN JILLETTE & PAUL PROVENZA
		PENN: I don’t remember, but Gilbert (Gottfried) claims he told it to me for the first time.
		PENN: When I was working on “Penn & Teller’s Sincity Spectacular” we were asking Jay Marshall about jokes that have silent punchlines.
		Billy Connolly was going to squeeze us in for an hour before rushing off to make a flight, and ended up changing his flight and hanging out and laughing with us for hours, and his lovely wife making us all lunch.
	www.cinema.com /articles/3496/aristocrats-the-qa-with-filmmakers-penn-jillette-paul-provenza.phtml (3126 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Billy Bob gets his claws into Santa
		I was crossing my fingers for a knockout: it stars the incomparable Billy Bob Thornton as a lecherous drunk who cracks safes in a Santa outfit and says obscene things to children.
		Gore Verbinski's stab at The Ring was passable, but this vapid curse thriller sucks the life out of the whole genre, padding out its running time with appearances from the usual pallid fl-haired spectres, utterly unscary by now and crawling about the place like Yoko Ono with food poisoning.
		Gellar's agog, as well she might be, and the clumsy flashback structure doesn't help her make much sense of it all; more bothersome is the heedlessly racist plotting, which has Gellar and fellow American co-stars being stalked, clobbered and freaked out by seemingly half of Tokyo.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/11/05/bftr05.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/11/05/ixfilmmain.html (821 words)

	Penn State's fortunes turned on bizarre play against Gophers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On Nov. 6, 1999, Penn State played Minnesota, and the game started the way almost all of them had that year.
		Penn State left the field that day, somber and suddenly luckless.
		Penn State, entering another game against Minnesota, hasn't lost since Nov. 6, 2004.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05273/580322.stm (960 words)

	Billy Cerveny
		Billy Cerveny is an alt country singer-songwriter who lives in Nashville.
		Billy Cerveny is a singer-songwriter and a free-lance journalist based in Nashville.
		Billy Cerveny is a singer-songwriter and free-lance journalist based in Nashville, Tenn. He can be found at www.billycerveny.com.
	www.billycerveny.com /journal.asp (10491 words)

	The curse of Billy Penn (phillyBurbs.com) \| Philadelphia Eagles
		Penn - the 37-foot high sculpture - stood perched atop City Hall since 1894, his watchful gaze stretching from Germantown to Grays Ferry and down Girard Avenue.
		Inside, Jeannine Vannais, a manor horticulturist, flips through a book on Penn. She calls herself a "Penn enthusiast" and has studied the man for years.
		She's been visiting William Penn the statue for the past 11 years, shuffling tour groups to the observation deck.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/99-01172003-29549.html (956 words)

	Cheap Seats: Weekend Wrap-Up: "Reverse the Curse" Edition
		Second, with Ohio State's loss to Penn State the Longhorns' strength of schedule is in deep trouble, and while it's not a separate component of the BCS rankings anymore, many pollsters will take it into account and many of the computer rankings have an S.O.S. component.
		Auburn was left out of the championship game, in large part because they scheduled weak in the non-conference, and their division was in an off year.
		Both divisions of the Big XII are weak this year, but so long as there was a 1-loss Ohio State team contending for the Big 10 title, that would overcome any shortcomings of the conference schedule.
	rdbaker.blogspot.com /2005/10/weekend-wrap-up-reverse-curse-edition.html (1403 words)

	Current Writing
		There’s the Curse of Billy Penn. Silly, having no buildings higher than Penn for most of the 1900’s didn’t exactly bathe the city in championships, so surpassing Penn in height cannot really be blamed for recent failures.
		Curses become real, same as luck, and players as well as viewers begin to set their watch by them.
		The Phillies have a greater curse than any team in history, Theo saw that and decided to use the Phillies curse to the Sox benefit.
	homepage.mac.com /toetod/CurrentWriting.html (5243 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - The "curse" / Philadelphia sports (LONG!)
		It is known as the curse of William Penn.
		However, by the time it was built and William Penn’s statue was placed in the top of City Hall in 1894, the Eiffel Towel stood the tallest at 986 feet.
		Or is it the curse of Connie Mack, who's A's defined Philly sports in the 1st half of the 20th century.
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=265486&pp=40 (4828 words)

	Most Valuable Network - Athletic Supporters - An Oakland Athletics column » Beating the Curse of Billy Beane
		Billy Beane’s success in building a consistently top-flight team in Oakland has earned him plenty of animosity.
		I think there is another good reason to think this could be the team that “reverses the curse.” Before now, Beane had assembled teams that had enough strengths to compensate for their weaknesses.
		Chad Bradford had breezed through the 8th inning, but Howe, for some reason, believed Billy Koch was a better pitcher than Bradford, I suppose because he had the golden “closer” stamp on him.
	athletics.mostvaluablenetwork.com /?p=170 (2438 words)

	BBC - Films -article article - Reel Life - 12th March 2003
		COLIN FARRELL will be joined by Robin Wright Penn in "The Home at the End of the World".
		The seafaring epic, directed by Peter Weir, has had its release put back from the summer to November, in order to be a player at next year's Academy Awards.
		Then some curse thingy is lifted and the gargoyle springs to life and sets about trying to find a talisman which will return him to human form.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/03/12/reel_life_mar_12_2003_article.shtml (913 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Am I Crazy? Billy Bob Is My Choice For Best Actor. Over Murray, Penn and Del Toro
		Billy Bob couldn't be more perfect, if this was by any other actor the film would fail, Billy Bob is the ultimate drunken loser who loathes the earth he falls flat on.
		Maybe I am crazy and the shock of Billy Bob's performance will wear off after I see Murray and Penn's performances again.
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - 91/100
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=295420 (399 words)

	Shopping in Philadelphia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In a city determined to preserve a sense of social equality – that no man should rise above his brothers – a gentlemen’s agreement was once drawn up that no building should be taller then the hat on the statue of William Penn, the city’s founder, atop Philadelphia City Hall.
		The towering Liberty Place was the first building to break this agreement: any worries you might have about the state of social equality in America can now be purged in a gleaming food court.
		One Liberty Place is the tallest building not only in Philadelphia but also in the entire state of Pennsylvania, with Two Liberty Place trailing close behind it.
	www.flightmapping.com /USA/Philadelphia/shopping.asp (448 words)

	Bookselling This Week: Re Verse: Billy Collins on His Craft and His Poet Laureateship
		Not like my otherwise sturdy heart lurches sideways in my chest and smacks against a rib when I open his book after a long time away.
		If we had to start throwing the "arts" overboard one at a time, I would hope that poetry would be the last to go, but I know it would be television and that we would live to regret it.
		The Laureateship has always been a flexible position to allow the poet to work on his or her own public or private projects -- Robert Penn Warren wrote All the King's Men; Rita Dove invited writers to explore the African Diaspora through the eyes of its artists.
	news.bookweb.org /features/1611.html (1200 words)

	Alterman: Good news for Bush: Armageddon - Altercation - MSNBC.com
		Penn turns out to be the author of some of the greatest songs of all time including "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man," by Aretha Franklin and "Cry Like a Baby," by the Box Tops.
		Penn, and backed only by his guitar and Mr.
		Penn and the genius Jerry Wexler, released on Atlantic beginning in 1962.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3449870#2 (12311 words)

	the raindrops
		I'm not terribly concerned about the drop in payroll, as this team probably doesn't deserve the additional investment in 2004, but I do want to keep an eye on the figures that are being thrown around at the moment.
		Billy Koch has a lot in common with Armando Benitez.
		Billy Beane would state, "Baseball is a game of attrition, and what's being attrited are pitchers' arms." So I went to work trying to get to the bottom of p/PA. A player who has a high p/PA must be helping his team score runs, right?
	theraindrops.blogspot.com (13396 words)

	ALL OF THESE THINGS MOVED ME! - By James Penn
		Not only has the James Penn letter shook up a lot of Family members, but it has also been a great help to former members who had left or were asked to leave, to free them from condemnation and realize, "Hey yes I did make the right decision.
		And even though I have not read James Penn's article completely and have been asked not to comment on any of the controversial allegations, he is a bad dude; a tool of the Enemy, and no one should listen to him.
		I knew James Penn fairly well in the past since we were involved in a relationship for a few years while we lived in the same WS unit.
	www.geocities.com /magicgreenshirt/all_of_these_things_moved_me.html (22039 words)

	pw: philadelphia weekly online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ah, the curse of the Billy Penn. For you few uninformed souls, ever since 1986, when buildings first went taller than the statue of William Penn atop City Hall, no Philadelphia professional sports team has gone all the way.
		Maybe we shouldn't even acknowledge the curse now that the Eagles are 7-0.
		With Babe Ruth's change of heart, now is probably the perfect time to work on William Penn and his Napoleon complex.
	www.philadelphiaweekly.com /view.php?id=8363 (418 words)

	Wet Feet: Fambly
		We are all heaving collective sighes here in the City of Brotherly love...the Billy Penn curse stands...our Eagles lost by a field goal.
		Being a sports fan (not like I'm much of a sports fan, I think I set a record tonight for how many times I said "what just happened?") in Philadelphia is like sex on Prozac- almost there almost there almost there...and no big finish.
		The Billy Penn Curse has brought down teams with better chances.
	wetfeet.typepad.com /wet_feet/fambly (2381 words)

	Welcome to Phillyville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This from Billy Wagner in the Newark Star-Ledger:
		And you know Billy, even though I know you don't really think it is hilarious, I do think you are on to something.
		John Street, Tom Ridge, Andy Ashby, the Navy Yard, the curse of Billy Penn, the BPT...
	phillyville.blogspot.com (7566 words)

	Talk CSI: BASEBALL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I've heard of the Billy Goat curse, in which a guy wanted to take his goat in Wrigley Field during the 1945 World Series.
		He was ejected from the stadium, and he cursed the Cubs, saying they will never get back to the World Series.
		I live near Philadelphia, and it is not just one team that is cursed there, it is all the teams that are cursed.
	talk.csifiles.com /showflat.php?Number=303049 (2008 words)

	Science Fair Projects - One Liberty Place
		One Liberty Place is 61 floors or 945ft (288m) and is only two feet shorter than Key Tower in Cleveland, Ohio.
		Completed in 1987, One Liberty Place was locally famous for being the first building to break the gentlemen's agreement which was not to exceed the 548ft (167m) height of the William Penn statue on Philadelphia City Hall built in 1901.
		Since One Liberty Place's completion over seven other skyscrapers have been built exceeding the statue's height.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/One_Liberty_Place (419 words)

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