21 February 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
Reading Time: 4 minutes
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Mechanicsville is a small village in
Bucks County,
Pennsylvania,
United States. Located at the intersection of Durham Road (
Pennsylvania Route 413) and Mechanicsville Road. Mechanicsville is an unincorporated village. The historic portion of the village center was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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27 December 2024 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, Architecture, UNESCO World Heritage
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Moravian Gemein House in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA © flickr.com – w_lemay/cc-by-sa-2.0
The Moravian Brethren Settlements are a group of historic
settlements founded by the
Moravian Brethren, an
evangelical free church. These settlements were recognized as a transnational
World Heritage Site by
UNESCO in 2024. The World Heritage Site includes the settlements of
Christiansfeld in Denmark,
Bethlehem in the USA,
Gracehill in Northern Ireland and
Herrnhut in Germany.
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19 February 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Bon voyage
Reading Time: 15 minutes
Ashbridge House in Ashbridge Memorial Park in Bryn Mawr © MainlyTwelve/cc-by-sa-4.0
The Philadelphia Main Line, known simply as the Main Line, is an informally delineated historical and
social region of suburban
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
United States. Lying along the former
Pennsylvania Railroad‘s once prestigious
Main Line, it runs northwest from
Center City Philadelphia parallel to
Lancaster Avenue, also known as
U.S. Route 30.
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18 February 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
Reading Time: 7 minutes
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The Thirteen Colonies, also known as the Thirteen British Colonies, the Thirteen American Colonies, or later as the
United Colonies, were a group of
British colonies on the Atlantic coast of
North America. Founded in the 17th and 18th centuries, they began fighting the
American Revolutionary War in April 1775 and formed the
United States of America by
declaring full independence in July 1776. Just prior to declaring independence, the Thirteen Colonies in their traditional groupings were: New England (
New Hampshire;
Massachusetts;
Rhode Island;
Connecticut); Middle (
New York;
New Jersey;
Pennsylvania;
Delaware); Southern (
Maryland;
Virginia;
North Carolina;
South Carolina; and
Georgia). The Thirteen Colonies came to have very similar political, constitutional, and legal systems, dominated by
Protestant English-speakers. The first of these colonies was
Virginia Colony in 1607, a
Southern colony. While all these colonies needed to become economically viable, the founding of the
New England colonies, as well as the colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania, were substantially motivated by their founders’ concerns related to the practice of religion. The other colonies were founded for business and economic expansion. The
Middle Colonies were established on an earlier Dutch colony,
New Netherland. All the Thirteen Colonies were part of
Britain’s possessions in the New World, which also included territory in
Canada,
Florida, and the
Caribbean.
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6 December 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
Reading Time: 7 minutes
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Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of the
City of Philadelphia. Built in the ornate
Second Empire style, City Hall houses the chambers of the
Philadelphia City Council and the offices of the
Mayor of Philadelphia. It is also a
courthouse, serving as the seat of the
First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and houses the Civil Trial and Orphans’ Court Divisions of the
Court of Common Pleas of
Philadelphia County.
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23 October 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions
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The Andy Warhol Museum is located on the
North Shore of
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, in the
United States. It is the largest museum in
North America dedicated to a single artist. The museum holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives from the
Pittsburgh-born pop art icon
Andy Warhol. The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and is a collaborative project of the
Carnegie Institute, the
Dia Art Foundation and
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWFVA).
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4 July 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
Reading Time: 12 minutes
Abraham Lincoln © Alexander Gardner
The Gettysburg Address is a
speech that
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the
American Civil War at the dedication of the
Soldiers’ National Cemetery in
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the
Union armies defeated those of the
Confederacy at the
Battle of Gettysburg. It is one of the best-known speeches in
American history.
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1 July 2022 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Rubric: Tall ships, Yacht of the Month
Reading Time: 9 minutes
USS Niagara in Quebec City, Canada © Cephas/cc-by-sa-4.0
, commonly called the
US Brig Niagara or the
Flagship Niagara, is a wooden-
hulled snow-brig that served as the relief
flagship for
Oliver Hazard Perry in the
Battle of Lake Erie during the
War of 1812. As the ship is certified for
sail training by the
United States Coast Guard, she is also designated
SSV Niagara.
Niagara is usually docked behind the
Erie Maritime Museum in
downtown Erie in the U.S. state of
Pennsylvania as an outdoor exhibit for the museum. She also often travels the
Great Lakes during the summer, serving as an ambassador of Pennsylvania when not docked. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and was designated the official
state ship of Pennsylvania by the
Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1988.
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26 March 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage
Reading Time: 8 minutes
Philadelphia from South Street Bridge © King of Hearts/cc-by-sa-3.0
Philadelphia (colloquially known simply as
Philly) is the largest city in the
Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania in the
United States. It is the
sixth-most-populous city in the United States and the
most populous city in the state of Pennsylvania, with a 2020 population of 1,603,797. It is also the
second-most populous city in the Northeastern United States, behind
New York City.
Since 1854, the city has had the same geographic boundaries as
Philadelphia County, the most-populous
county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the eighth-largest
U.S. metropolitan statistical area, with over 6 million residents as of 2017 Philadelphia is also the economic and cultural center of the greater
Delaware Valley along the lower
Delaware and
Schuylkill rivers within the
Northeast megalopolis. The Delaware Valley’s 2019 estimated population of 7.21 million makes it the ninth-largest
combined statistical area in the United States.
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