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BETHLEHEM , a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Northampton and Lehigh counties, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the N. See also:bank of the Lehigh See also:river, opposite See also:South Bethlehem and 55 M. N. by W. of See also:Philadelphia. Pop. (1890) 6762; (19oc` 7293 (350 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 12,837. It is served by the Central of New See also:Jersey, the Lehigh & New See also:England, the Lehigh Valley and the Phila.-
The See also:country of See also:Moab is clearly visible from around Bethlehem.delphia & See also:Reading See also:railways, and is connected by two See also:long See also:bridges with South Bethlehem. The borough lies on a See also:ridge of ground commanding delightful landscape scenery extending See also:north up the course of the river to the See also:Blue Mountains 20 M. away. In See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church See also:Street and its vicinity still stand several specimens of the 17th-See also:century See also:style of See also:architecture of eastern See also:Germany. The same See also:sect that erected these buildings, the Moravians, or See also:United Brethren, maintain here the Moravian See also:College and Theological See also:Seminary, and a well-known school for girls (the Moravian Seminary), founded as a church boarding school in 1949 and reorganized in 1785, for girls of all denominations. During the See also:War of See also:Independence, from See also:December 1776 to See also:April 1777, and from See also:September 1777 to April 1778, the old Colonial See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall in this seminary (built 1748) was used as a See also:general See also:hospital of the See also:continental See also:army. From its roof the famous Moravian trombones were long played on festal or funeral occasions, and later summoned the See also:people to musical festivals. The Moravians have given Bethlehem a See also:national reputation as a musical centre. Only a few years after the See also:city was founded, See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin was strongly impressed with the See also:fine See also:music in its church, and towards the See also:close of the 19th century a See also:choir under the direction of the organist, J. See also:Frederick Wolle, became widely known by rendering for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:America See also:Bach's St See also:John See also:Passion (in 1888), followed after See also:short intervals by the St See also:Matthew Passion, the See also:Christmas See also:Oratorio, the See also:Mass in B See also:Minor, and finally by an See also:annual Bach festival continuing for three days, which was discontinued after Wolle's removal to the university of See also:California in 1905. Bethlehem has often been called the See also:American See also:Bayreuth. Among the borough's See also:industrial establishments, the manufactories of See also:iron and See also:steel are the most important, but it also manufactures See also:brass, See also:zinc, and See also:silk and knit goods. The See also:municipality owns and operates its See also:water-See also:works. Bethlehem was foundeo by the Moravians, led by See also:Count Nikolaus See also:Ludwig Zinzend&rf, shortly before Christmas in 1741, and the See also:season of the See also:year suggested its name; for the first century of its existence it was almost exclusively a See also:settlement of that sect, and it is still their American headquarters. Bethlehem was incorporated as a borough in 1845. In 1904 the borough of See also:West Bethlehem (pop. in 1900, 3465) was consolidated with Bethlehem.
See J. M. Levering, A See also:History of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (Bethle-
hem, 1903).
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