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Mummers Parade, the Glossary

The Mummers Parade is held each New Year's Day in Philadelphia.^[1]

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1901 establishments in Pennsylvania
Annual events in Pennsylvania
Festivals established in 1901
German-American culture in Philadelphia
Irish-American culture in Philadelphia
Italian-American culture in Philadelphia
New Year's Day
Recurring events established in 1901

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Al Jolson

Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson,; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-born American singer, actor, and vaudevillian.

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Allentown, Pennsylvania

Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Aqua String Band

The Aqua String Band is an all-volunteer string band, best known for its participation in Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Avenue of the Arts (Philadelphia)

Avenue of the Arts is a city-designated arts cultural district on a segment of Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States that includes many of the city's cultural institutions, most notably the theater district south of City Hall. Mummers Parade and Avenue of the Arts (Philadelphia) are broad Street (Philadelphia) and culture of Philadelphia.

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Belsnickel

Belsnickel (also known as Belschnickel, Belznickle, Belznickel, Pelznikel, Pelznickel, Bell Sniggle) is a crotchety, fur-clad Christmas gift-bringer figure in the folklore of the Palatinate region of southwestern Germany along the Rhine, the Saarland, and the Odenwald area of Baden-Württemberg.

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Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement that seeks to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by black people and to promote anti-racism.

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Blackface

Blackface is the practice of performers using burnt cork or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people on stage or in entertainment.

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Bob Brady

Robert A. Brady (born April 7, 1945) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1998 to 2019.

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Boxing Day

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide (26 December).

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Broad Street (Philadelphia)

Broad Street is a major arterial street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mummers Parade and Broad Street (Philadelphia) are culture of Philadelphia.

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Caitlyn Jenner

Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner; October 28, 1949; known as Bruce Jenner until 2015) is an American media personality and former Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete.

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Cakewalk

The cakewalk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" (dance contests with a cake awarded as the prize) held in the mid-19th century, generally at get-togethers on plantations where Black people had been enslaved, before and after emancipation in the Southern United States.

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Call centre

A call centre (Commonwealth spelling) or call center (American spelling; see spelling differences) is a managed capability that can be centralised or remote that is used for receiving or transmitting a large volume of enquiries by telephone.

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Catholic Church sexual abuse cases

There have been many cases of sexual abuse of children by priests, nuns, and other members of religious life in the Catholic Church.

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Catholic League (U.S.)

The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, often shortened to the Catholic League, is an American Catholic organization whose stated purpose is to "defend the right of Catholics – lay and clergy alike – to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination." on the Catholic League's website The Catholic League states that it is "motivated by the letter and the spirit of the First Amendment...

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Costume

Costume is the distinctive style of dress and/or makeup of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, occupation, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch—in short, culture.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Culture of Philadelphia

The culture of Philadelphia goes back to 1682 when Philadelphia was established by William Penn, founder of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania.

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Ferko String Band

The Joseph A. Ferko String Band or Ferko String Band is a perennial performer in Philadelphia's Mummers Parade. Mummers Parade and Ferko String Band are parades in the United States.

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Finns

Finns or Finnish people (suomalaiset) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.

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Froot Loops

Froot Loops is a sweetened, fruit-flavored breakfast cereal made by WK Kellogg Co for the United States, Canadian, and Caribbean markets and Kellanova for the rest of the world.

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Geno's Steaks

Geno's Steaks is a Philadelphia restaurant specializing in cheesesteaks, founded in 1966 by Joey Vento.

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

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Gin

Gin is a distilled alcoholic drink flavoured with juniper berries and other botanical ingredients.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Great Depression in the United States

In the United States, the Great Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and then spread worldwide.

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Greater Kensington (string band)

Greater Kensington is a string band in Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade. Mummers Parade and Greater Kensington (string band) are Irish-American culture in Philadelphia.

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Henry Muhlenberg

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (born Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg; September 6, 1711 – October 7, 1787), was a German-born Lutheran clergyman and missionary.

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Historical magazines named Vanity Fair

The name Vanity Fair has been the title of at least five magazines from the 19th century to the present day, where, since 1983, it has been used by the American popular culture magazine published by Condé Nast.

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Independence Day (United States)

Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Irish Americans

Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are ethnic Irish who live in the United States and are American citizens.

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Irish people

Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and culture.

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Italian Americans

Italian Americans (italoamericani) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry.

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Italians

Italians (italiani) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region.

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James A. Bland

James Alan Bland (October 22, 1854 – May 5, 1911) was an American musician, songwriter, and minstrel performer.

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Jim Kenney

James Francis Kenney (born August 7, 1958) is an American politician who served as the 99th mayor of Philadelphia from 2016 to 2024.

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Joey Vento

Joseph Anthony Vento (December 18, 1939 – August 23, 2011) was an American cook and restaurateur who founded Geno's Steaks, a cheesesteak restaurant, in 1966, starting a longtime rivalry with neighboring restaurant Pat's King of Steaks.

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Journal of American Folklore

The Journal of American Folklore is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Folklore Society.

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Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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List of athletes on Wheaties boxes

In 1934, the breakfast cereal Wheaties began the practice of including pictures of athletes on its packaging to coincide with its slogan, "The Breakfast of Champions." In its original form, athletes were depicted on the sides or back of the cereal box, though in 1958 Wheaties began placing the pictures on the front of the box.

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List of Christmas and holiday season parades

The following is a list of holiday parades that occur between Thanksgiving Day (in the U.S.) and early January, coinciding with the Christmas and holiday season.

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Market Street (Philadelphia)

Market Street, originally known as High Street, is a major east–west highway and street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Mummers Parade and Market Street (Philadelphia) are culture of Philadelphia.

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Max Raab

Max Louis Raab (June 9, 1926 – February 21, 2008) was an American clothing businessman and film producer.

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Mayor of Philadelphia

The mayor of Philadelphia is the chief executive of the government of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Philadelphia.

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Metro (Philadelphia newspaper)

Metro is a free daily newspaper in Philadelphia which began publishing on January 24, 2000.

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MeTV

MeTV, an acronym for Memorable Entertainment Television, is an American broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting.

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Michael Bacon (musician)

Michael Bacon (born December 22, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and film score composer.

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Minstrel show

The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century.

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Mummers' play

Mummers' plays are folk plays performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as mummers or guisers (also by local names such as rhymers, pace-eggers, soulers, tipteerers, wrenboys, and galoshins).

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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New Year's Day

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day is the first day of the calendar year, 1 January.

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Octavius Catto

Octavius Valentine Catto (February 22, 1839 – October 10, 1871) was an American educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist.

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Oh, Dem Golden Slippers

"Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" is a minstrel song penned by African-American James A. Bland in 1879, is particularly well known as a bluegrass instrumental standard.

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Parade

A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats, or sometimes large balloons.

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Pennsport

Pennsport is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Mummers Parade and Pennsport are Irish-American culture in Philadelphia.

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Pennsport (string band)

Pennsport is a string band in Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Pennsylvania Convention Center

The Pennsylvania Convention Center is a multi-use public facility in the Market East section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed to accommodate conventions, exhibitions, conferences and other events.

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Pennsylvania Dutch

The Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvanisch Deitsche), also referred to as Pennsylvania Germans, are an ethnic group in Pennsylvania and other regions of the United States, predominantly in the Mid-Atlantic region of the nation.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Philadelphia City Hall

Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of the City of Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Mummers Parade and Philadelphia City Hall are 1901 establishments in Pennsylvania and broad Street (Philadelphia).

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Philadelphia Daily News

Philadelphia Daily News is a tabloid newspaper that serves Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia Parks & Recreation

Philadelphia Parks & Recreation (PPR) is the municipal department responsible for managing parks, recreation centers, playgrounds, trails, community gardens, and historic properties in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia Pepper Pot

Pepper Pot is a thick stew of beef tripe, vegetables, pepper and other seasonings.

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Plantation complexes in the Southern United States

Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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President's House (Philadelphia)

The President's House in Philadelphia was the third U.S. Presidential Mansion.

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Rivers Casino Philadelphia

Rivers Casino Philadelphia, formerly SugarHouse Casino, is a casino entertainment development along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Fishtown neighborhood, one of five stand-alone casinos awarded a gaming license on December 20, 2006 by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia

The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Philadelphia (Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Philadelphiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in southeastern Pennsylvania in the United States.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden

The Diocese of Camdens is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Saint Stephen's Day

Saint Stephen's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Stephen, is a Christian saint's day to commemorate Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr or protomartyr, celebrated on 26 December in Western Christianity and 27 December in Eastern Christianity.

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Session musician

A session musician (also known as studio musician or backing musician) is a musician hired to perform in a recording session or a live performance.

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Smithsonian (magazine)

Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.

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South Philadelphia

South Philadelphia, nicknamed South Philly, is the section of Philadelphia bounded by South Street to the north, the Delaware River to the east and south, and the Schuylkill River to the west. Mummers Parade and south Philadelphia are Italian-American culture in Philadelphia.

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Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines Co. is a major airline in the United States that operates on a low-cost carrier model.

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Spiral Q Puppet Theater

Spiral Q Puppet Theater is a puppet troupe founded in 1995 by Matthew "Mattyboy" Hart in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.

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String band

A string band is an old-time music or jazz ensemble made up mainly or solely of string instruments.

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Swedes

Swedes (svenskar) are an ethnic group native to Sweden, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and language. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland where they are an officially recognized minority, with Swedish being one of the official languages of the country, and with a substantial diaspora in other countries, especially the United States.

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Temple University Press

Temple University Press is a university press founded in 1969 that is part of Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

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The Bacon Brothers

The Bacon Brothers is an American music duo consisting of brothers Michael Bacon and Kevin Bacon.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer, often referred to simply as The Inquirer, is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Theatrical scenery

Theatrical scenery is that which is used as a setting for a theatrical production.

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Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Tinicum Township, also known as Tinicum Island or The Island, is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Travel Channel

Travel Channel (stylized as Trvl Channel since 2018) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery previously owned the channel from 1997 to 2007.

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WCAU

WCAU (channel 10) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the market's NBC outlet.

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WDPN-TV

WDPN-TV (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Wilmington, Delaware, United States, serving the Philadelphia television market as an affiliate of the classic television network MeTV.

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WFMZ-TV

WFMZ-TV (channel 69) is an independent television station in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States.

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WGN America

WGN America was an American subscription television network that operated from November 9, 1978 to February 28, 2021.

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WGN-TV

WGN-TV (channel 9) is an independent television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Whisky

Whisky or whiskey is a type of liquor made from fermented grain mash.

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WHYY-TV

WHYY-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Wilmington, Delaware, United States, serving as the primary PBS member station for the Philadelphia area.

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Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink / Pakehakink) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River.

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Wilson Goode

Woodrow Wilson Goode Sr. (born August 19, 1938) is a former Mayor of Philadelphia and the first African American to hold that office.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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WPHL-TV

WPHL-TV (channel 17) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW.

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2300 Arena

2300 Arena is a multipurpose indoor arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, used primarily for professional wrestling, boxing, mixed martial arts, and concert events.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers_Parade

Also known as Comic Brigrades, Fancies (mummers), Fancy Brigade Finale, Fancy Brigades, Holy Rollers N.Y.B., Mummer's Parade, Mummers Row, Murray (Mummers Parade comics), Murray (comics), New Years Associations, New Years Brigades, Wench Brigades.

, MeTV, Michael Bacon (musician), Minstrel show, Mummers' play, National Geographic, Native Americans in the United States, New Year's Day, Octavius Catto, Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, Parade, Pennsport, Pennsport (string band), Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Pennsylvania Dutch, Philadelphia, Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, Philadelphia Pepper Pot, Plantation complexes in the Southern United States, President of the United States, President's House (Philadelphia), Rivers Casino Philadelphia, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden, Saint Stephen's Day, Session musician, Smithsonian (magazine), South Philadelphia, Southwest Airlines, Spiral Q Puppet Theater, Streaming media, String band, Swedes, Temple University Press, The Bacon Brothers, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Theatrical scenery, Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Travel Channel, WCAU, WDPN-TV, WFMZ-TV, WGN America, WGN-TV, Whisky, WHYY-TV, Wilmington, Delaware, Wilson Goode, World War II, WPHL-TV, 2300 Arena.

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See also

1901 establishments in Pennsylvania

Annual events in Pennsylvania

Festivals established in 1901

German-American culture in Philadelphia

Irish-American culture in Philadelphia

Italian-American culture in Philadelphia

New Year's Day

Recurring events established in 1901

References