William Penn (1644-1718) made major contributions to liberty in both the New World and the Old World.

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Christian thinkers such as William Penn, Roger Williams and John Locke would help the church recover its older tradition of toleration, as old as the New Testament itself.

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Durang flings all kinds of references into his word processor: Angelina Jolie, Snow White, Maggie Smith, global warming, Norma Desmond, William Penn, "Peter Pan, " the HBO show "Entourage, " Lindsay Lohan, ancient Greek drama, voodoo and, as the title suggests, a big dollop of Anton Chekhov.

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The pessimists argue that for all its construction boom (William Penn's statue, once setting a limit to any building's height, became a relative dwarf more than a decade ago), Philadelphia is still a laggard, slowed down by a history of outdated habits and infrastructure that does not apply to sunbelt cities such as Atlanta or Houston.

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William Clifford, Penn National's chief financial officer.

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With Kathleen Turner, Jill Clayburgh, and cameos by William Styron, Arthur Penn, and other eminences.

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Matt Penn and William Livingston of the National Solar Observatory predict that by the time Solar Cycle 25 arrives, magnetic fields on the sun will be so weak that few if any sunspots will be formed.

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Why, in 2007, five Penn State scientists (Richard Alley, William Easterling, Klaus Keller, Michael Mann, Anne Thompson) shared the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on climate change issues.

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Just reading down the list: Michigan (6), Johns Hopkins, Yale, Harvard, Penn (4), Navy (7), Army (2), William and Mary (7), Dartmouth (2), Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Duke, Georgetown, Cornell, Virginia, Boston College (2), Notre Dame, Villanova (3), Furman (3), Delaware (6), Lafayette (4), Lehigh (2), Holy Cross, Drexel (3), Maryland (2), George Washington, North Carolina, Vermont.

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