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	Philadelphia Quakers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The (Click link for more info and facts about Philadelphia Phillies) Philadelphia Phillies (A ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run) baseball team were also known as the Philadelphia Quakers from 1883 to 1889.
		Once the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Quakers moved to Philadelphia largely due to the (The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s) Great Depression.
		The Quakers ended their only season with the worst offence (76 goals for) and worst defence (184 goals against) in the league, and their anemic winning percentage (.136) was second worst in the history of the league.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/ph/philadelphia_quakers.htm (347 words)

	Philadelphia Phillies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Philadelphia had the best record in the East Division when play was stopped and was declared the first-half division winner.
		The time-honored team name in the city had been "Athletic of Philadelphia", but that name was already taken by the American Association entry and would later be adopted by the new entry in the American League.
		Beloved by the city of Philadelphia, this team with names such as Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny Dykstra also known as Nails, and Curt Schilling surprised the city and the nation with their achievements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies (1902 words)

	Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The team was $400,000 in debt and it was then decided to move the Pittsburgh Pirates to Philadelphia and rename them the Philadelphia Quakers (The name Quakers coming from the historical importance of the religious community in the founding of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania) in attepts to save the fanchise.
		At the end of that season (1930-31), the Philadelphia Quakers, along with the Ottawa Senators, announced that they were suspending operations of the team for the 1931-32 NHL season.
		The Quakers, though, were given permission to suspend operations for future seasons at the beginning of each season.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philadelphia_Quakers (928 words)

	Philadelphia Quakers (1930/31)
		Members of religious sect that founded the city of Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania are often referred to as Quakers.
		The ugliest incident involving the Quakers came on Christmas Day when police had to come onto the ice and break up a fight they were having with the Boston Bruins.
		The Quakers goon squad would put together one of the worst season in NHL history as they won just 4 game son the way to finishing in last place with a horrible 4-36-4 record.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nhl/phlpit/quakers.html (363 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: The Religious Society of Friends - Quakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, this rapid growth of the Quakers was greatly slowed by the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, which brought with it 20 years of religious persecution for the Friends.
		In 1689, the persecution of the Quakers was greatly diminished, due to the Toleration Act passed by William and Mary.
		Quaker worldwide membership is slowly growing at the present time, despite a trend of slightly decreasing membership in North America.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/quak.html (4141 words)

	Philadelphia Quakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Following victories over strong teams from Holmesburg, previous season’s “champions” of Philadelphia, and the Frankford A., Union concluded its undefeated season with a victory over Jim Thorpe and the legendary Canton Bulldogs, 1919 champions of the Ohio League, a forerunner of the National Football League.
		One of Philadelphia's losses was a 23 to 0 trouncing by New York at the close of October, so the race for the league title came down to two late November games between the high-scoring Yankees and the defensively strong Quakers.
		From his 1920 Union A. eleven, which formed the foundation of his first Philadelphia Quakers team, to the 1926 AFL championship squad, these teams were consistently talented enough to hold their own with virtually anyone.
	www.geocities.com /ghostsofthegridiron/Quakers.htm (1685 words)

	Flyers History - Philadelphia Quakers
		The Philadelphia Quakers have the dubious distiction of being one of the worst teams in the history of the NHL.
		Players started to be sold off and the Quakers folded after their first and only season.
		The Quaker players were dispursed to the weaker teams.
	www.flyershistory.com /quakers.htm (224 words)

	Philadelphia Quakers - With Oswald in Mexico City, by Bill Kelly, X/X/02
		Philadelphia is the headquarters of the world Quaker community, which maintains close ties to nearby Main Line colleges Swathmore College and Haverford.
		Also in downtown Philadelphia is the headquarters of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), which operates Casa de los Amigos, the "camp" or youth hostel for America students studying the Spanish language in Mexico City, where the "unknown American," Philadelphia Quaker student "Steve Kennen -- or Keenan" is alledged to have stayed.
		Identifying and locating a "Philadelphia Quaker student" who was in Mexico City in the summer of 1963 named "Steve Kennan or Keenan," should not be such a difficult task for any good researcher worth his salt, and I put out a challenge to others interested in this subject to help try to find this guy.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/JFK/BillKelly/QuakerandLHO.html (2792 words)

	Quakers: Philadelphia Rare Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A compendious view of some extraordinary sufferings of the people call’d Quakers, both in person and substance, in the kingdom of Ireland, from the year 1655 to the end of the reign of King George the First....
		Elizabeth Webb, "an acknowledged minister among the people called Quakers," first encountered Prince George of Denmark's chaplain Boehm while on a visit to Great Britain; the missive with which she opened her subsequent correspondence with him, here, greatly inspired him and a number of his friends.
		Philadelphia: To be had of Benjamin and Thomas Kite, and for sale by Solomon W. Conrad, Kimber and Sharpless, and John Richardson (J.R.A. Skerrett), 1821.
	www.prbm.com /interest/quakers.shtml (3458 words)

	Quakers and the Political Process - Bibliography
		Sets the Quaker withdrawal from Pennsylvania government in the larger context of imperial expansion during the "French and Indian" war.
		Sewel's family, living in Amsterdam, were part of the wider Quaker movement, and in his history he includes the text of various primary source documents that he had collected during his lifetime.
		A history of Quaker government in Pennsylvania, starting with William Penn joining the Friends in 1666 to the withdrawal from government a century later, written by the President of Haverford College.
	www.pym.org /exhibit/bibliography.html (1484 words)

	Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
		During the 1920's, Philadelphia was the home of one the most (and one of the few) successful teams in the National Football League.
		This was a disadvantage in one respect, especially in the early years, because it put pro teams in direct competition with established college favorites like Penn. Later, the Yellow Jackets learned to make the situation work to their advantage, playing at home on Saturdays and away on Sundays for a double dose of gate receipts.
		The idea that the leading Philadelphia team played host to choice, late-season NFL attractions was firmly established in the "City of Brotherly Love" and would have some surprising consequences a few years later.
	www.footballresearch.com /articles/frpage.cfm?topic=frank-1 (2648 words)

	Issue #5: Harris-07-Notes
		There were about as many Quakers in the Philadelphia region alone as in all of Great Britain.
		The most recent and accessible discussion of the modernization of British Quakerism is Hope Hay Hewison, Hedge of Wild Almonds: South Africa, the ‘Pro-Boers’ and the Quaker Conscience (London: James Currey, 1989), esp. pp.
		For leading women progressives who were brought up as Quakers, and in some cases returned to the religion of their ancestors after the religions of reform and even socialism had disappointed, see Stoneburner and Stoneburner, eds., The Influence of Quaker Women on American History.
	www.quaker.org /quest/issue5-3F.html (1406 words)

	Sidwell Friends School - Archives - Quaker Rare Book Bibliography
		Philadelphia: Printed and published for the author by Thomas Kite, 1830.
		The Conscript Quakers: Being a Narrative of the Distress and Relief of Four Young Men from the Draft of the War in 1863.
		A Brief Account of the Concern of the Yearly Meeting of Friends Held in Philadelphia, in Relation to the Guarded Religious Education of their Youth, Together with a Statement of Some of the Proceedings of the Committee to Whom the Subject was Referred.
	www.sidwell.edu /libraries/quaker_rare_book_bibliography.htm (6240 words)

	The Times-Reporter
		The Quakers took over at their own 20-yardline and methodically moved down field, using a good mix of running and passing.
		New Philadelphia took a 7-0 lead at the 8:16 mark of the first quarter when Miller hit Sandilands on a fade route from 15 yards out.
		The Quakers made it 14-6 on their first drive of the second quarter as Sandilands made a sliding grab right at the pylon of the goal line on an 8-yard toss from Miller.
	www.timesreporter.com /left.php?ID=47263 (1047 words)

	Magazine Antiques: ANTIQUES - quakers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Brief Article
		Nonetheless, he forecast that "a few years hence, [Philadelphia] will be a great and flourishing place and the chief city in America." He found that the city's inhabitants "have that accomplishment peculiar to all our American colonys, viz, subtilty and craft in their dealings."
		From the beginning there was an unstable tension between the meetinghouse and the countinghouse among the rich Quaker merchants, who professed simplicity but lived splendidly in keeping with their elevated station.
		The formidable careers of the Quaker grandees should remind us that eighteenth-century Philadelphia, while a melting pot of immigrants from England, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Wales, was hardly an egalitarian society.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_4_156/ai_56749640 (353 words)

	The History of the AHL in Philadelphia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As the Quakers in 1930-31, however, they were even worse compiling a record of 4-36-4, still the fewest games won in a season by an NHL club.
		Kilby MacDonald finally broke the ice for Philadelphia at 14:40 of the third period followed by Butch Keeling and Bobby Kirk at 17:02 and 17:32 to earn the Ramblers a berth in the Calder Cup finals and end Hershey's first AHL season on a losing note.
		In fact the 1946-47 Rockets actually underachieved the 1930-31 Quakers in their inaugural season by winning just five times in sixty-four outings (5-52-7) for a ìwinning' percentage of.133 (against the Quakers'.136) to set a ìstandard' for futility for the AHL which still stands unchallenged over a half century later.
	www.centpacrr.com /ahlphl (4533 words)

	Vol III File 5: The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James
		Abraham Liddon Pennock, Sr., was born in Philadelphia, PA August 7, 1786.
		She was born August 26, 1791, in Philadelphia, and died June 18, 1870.
		He was a pioneer in the building industry, particularly in the use of concrete as a foundation, in setting concrete in wintertime by using protected heat, in setting concrete underwater and in using an elevator tower alongside a building under construction to carry up materials.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~pmcbride/james/f050.htm (1781 words)

	Philadelphia Phillies
		Almost since their inception, with the exception of the 1943-1944 seasons, the NL Philadelphia team has been known as the "Phillies" or "Phils," in obvious reference to their city.
		The best player on the Phillies in the 1950s was pitcher Robin Roberts, who won twenty games in six consecutive seasons, and 286 for his career.
		The best pitcher in Philadelphia history (with the possible exception of Alexander) is also one of the best left-handers ever, Steve Carlton.
	www.thebaseballpage.com /present/fp/nl/phi.htm (1123 words)

	Philadelphia Quakers(TM) , 1930 - 31 Sweater ... Orange With Black Stripes And Unusual Angled "Quakers" On Chest ... ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Orange with fl stripes and unusual angled "Quakers" on chest.
		The NHL's lowly Pittsburgh Pirates hoped their move to Philadelphia would change their luck.
		The Quakers disappeared after compiling a appalling 4 - 36 - 4 record.
	www.onlinesports.com /pages/I,EFF-PHQ-31HS.html (57 words)

	philadelphia.ca - Philadelphia History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Philadelphia homes and thousands of listings in PA. The site also features school and town reports, real estate guides and recent home sales in your area.
		For two tense hours last month, it looked as if a tragic new chapter in Philadelphia's long history of corruption was...
		PHILADELPHIA - One of the most unlikely pairings of athlete and team in this city's long and usually disappointing sports history came to an end Monday when the Eagles decided they'd finally had their fill of talented but...
	www.philadelphia.ca /Philadelphia-History/all/search (341 words)

	Philadelphia Modern Chess Hall of Fame
		Mike was a mainstay of the Philadelphia Quakers phone-league team in the 1970's.
		It is no surprise he played a high board for the Philadelphia Quakers in the 1970's.
		Bruce was perhaps the most internationally visible player from Philadelphia during the last half of the 20th century.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /danheisman/Main_Chess/Hall_of_Fame.html (1263 words)

	The Religious Society of Friends
		QUIP is Quakers Uniting In Publishing, a consortium of Quaker Publishers.
		The Quaker Tapestry is made in a form known as a narrative crewel embroidery.
		Quaker Books for Friends is distributed free of charge as an independent monthly newsletter featuring eclectic reviews of books of interest to Christian Friends.
	www.quaker.org (2523 words)

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		The Friends Boarding House Association was incorporated in 1877 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the purpose of establishing a boarding home for Quakers and others.
		The Friends Boarding House Association was incorporated in 1877 in Philadelphia with the purpose of establishing a boarding home for Quakers and others.
		Permission for publication is given on behalf Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
	www.swarthmore.edu /library/friends/ead/4084bhas.xml (539 words)

	Pittsburgh Pirates/Philadelphia Quakers (1925-1931)
		After playing as the Yellowjackets in the United States Amateur Hockey Association, ownership wanted a higher profile name so he changed the name to Pirates upon realizing the similar colors they had to Pittsburgh's baseball team.
		Upon shifting to Philadelphia the team became the Quakers.
		With the Steel industry struggling the Pirates owners were $400,000 in debt as they sought permission to move to Philadelphia with the intent of returning to Pittsburgh when a new arena was built.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nhl/phlpit/philpit.html (867 words)

	An Inventory of the Pennsylvania Hall Association Records, 1837-1899 (bulk 1837-1849) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Pennsylvania Hall Association was a stockholders association formed in 1837 to erect a building in Philadelphia dedicated “to Liberty and the Rights of Man.” Many of the primary movers behind the Association were Quakers involved in the anti-slavery movement.
		The building was opened in May 14, 1838, and was destroyed by fire on May 17, 1838, by an angry mob apparently incensed by the attendance of fls and whites, men and women, at series of meetings, which included many prominent abolitionists at the opening day and a convention of the Female Anti-Slavery Society.
		The president of the Board of Managers at the time of the destruction was Daniel Neall (1784-1846), a Philadelphia Quaker dentist, reformer, and abolitionist.
	www.swarthmore.edu /library/friends/ead/4074paha.htm (576 words)

	A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey - Ph
		In 1945-46 the Philadelphia Arena Company of the American Hockey League applied for an injunction to prevent a National Hockey League franchise being awarded to Philadelphia.
		After the 1934-35 season, the team was renamed the Philadelphia Ramblers.
		The Quakers suspended operations after a poor NHL (4 wins, 4 ties and 36 defeats) and dropped out of the NHL before the 1931-32 season.
	www.azhockey.com /Ph.htm (777 words)

	Berkeley Friends Meeting Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Western Quarterly Meeting c: BX7649 W545 Q2 t: Quaker roots: the story of western quarterly meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends r: ed.
		BX7631.2 R32 2002 t: Quakerism in the 21st Century r: by Philip Rack p: York, England: William Sessions,2002 s: Society of Friends--Doctrines Society of Friends--Peace testimony a: Lord, Mary E. c: Pam.
		BX7631.2 R32 2002 t: Quakerism in the 21st Century r: by Philip Rack p: York, England: William Sessions,2002 s: Subject Society of Friends--Membership a: Stevenson, Charles c: Pam.
	www.blossomassociates.com /bfmlib/sSZ.html (3190 words)

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		Philadelphia Quakers (1883-1889) and New York Gothams (1883-1884) join.
		The American Association Cleveland Blues (1887-1888) change their name and join as Cleveland Spiders (1889-1899) 1890 - [This is the year of the Players League.] Chicago White Stockings change name to Chicago Colts (1890-1897).
		Philadelphia Quakers change name to Philadelphia Phillies (1890-1942, 1945-2001).
	www.mekulius.com /Library/OBG/Teams.txt (5273 words)

	Quakers in Philadelphia, PA: Central Philadelphia Friends Mtg, Pennsylvania (QuakerFinder.org)
		Quakers in Philadelphia, PA: Central Philadelphia Friends Mtg, Pennsylvania (QuakerFinder.org)
		Unprogrammed meetings not affiliated with FGC are identified as "Independent" (generally universalist or Christian universalist), or "Conservative" (traditional Quaker, Bible-based).
		Independent meetings are located primarily in the West Coast and Rocky Mountain states.
	www.quakerfinder.org /quaker/near/PA/Philadelphia/11798 (322 words)

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