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6 unusual facts about University City


Dabrowski Battalion

The Dabrowski Battalion was in the thick of the action - at University City and Casa de Campo - losing two thirds of its men.

Judith Rodin

She encouraged revitalization in University City and West Philadelphia through public safety; the establishment of Wharton School alliances for small businesses; the development of buildings and streetscapes that turned outward to the community; and the establishment of a university-led partnership school, the Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School.

Pâte-sur-pâte

The French potter Taxile Doat was responsible for some production in the USA at University City, Missouri in the early twentieth century.

Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge

Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge was built in 1885–86 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a formerly electrified, wrought iron, two-track, deck truss, (fixed shut) swing bridge across the Schuylkill River in the University City neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sterling Lands II

While living in University City, Missouri, Lands was president of the St. Louis chapter of the Center for Non-violent Social Change.

Walter Heiman

Walter J. Heiman (Essen, Germany, March 12, 1901 – University City, Missouri, United States, March 18, 2007) was a Jewish American man who at the time of his death had become one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War.



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Klaas Sybrandi

In 1830 he became minister of the Mennonite congregation in Nijmegen (in the far east of the Netherlands), in 1832 he refused a position in Middelburg (in the far southwest) but in 1834 he did accept a new position in Groningen, a university city in the north of the country, to lead the congregation there.

Nya Upsala, Wisconsin

He named the settlement New Upsala after the historic Swedish university city of Uppsala and pursued his dream to establish a Swedish cultural and intellectual center on the frontier.

Parkview, St. Louis

The list includes Missouri Governor Henry Caulfield; St. Louis mayor Bernard Dickmann; University City mayors Heman, Flynn and Cunningham; artists Bessie Lowenhaupt, Aimee Schweig, Jane Pettus, Edmund Wuerpel and Gustav Goetch; writers Stanley Elkin and William Gass; aviation great Col. James (Jimmy) Doolittle; baseball players George Sisler and Bob Gibson; and film maker Charles Guggenheim.

SIV.AG

The company employs at present about 300 employees at its head office in Roggentin before the gates of the Hanseatic and University City Rostock (University of Rostock) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as well as in the settlements Böblingen, Magdeburg and Meerbusch.

Theodor P. Von Brand

Von Brand was born in the German university city Erlangen as the son of the renowned Bio-Chemist Theodor von Brand who was dismissed from his positions as a professor in 1933 due to his opposition to the ruling National-socialists.

Zhengzhou College of Economics

Zhengzhou College of Economics is a progressive, privately held, business university situated within the Northern University City of Zhengzhou, Henan Province of the People’s Republic of China.