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Sansei (三世, "third generation") is a Japanese and North American English term [1] used in parts of the world (mainly in South America and North America) to refer to the children of children born to ethnically Japanese emigrants ( Issei) in a new country of residence, outside of Japan. The nisei are considered the second generation, while ...
African Americans. The history of African Americans or Black Philadelphians in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been documented in various sources. People of African descent are currently the largest ethnic group in Philadelphia. Estimates in 2010 by the U.S. Census Bureau documented the total number of people living in Philadelphia ...
Biddle family. The Biddle family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is an Old Philadelphian family descended from English immigrants William Biddle (1630–1712) and Sarah Kempe (1634–1709), who arrived in the Province of New Jersey in 1681. Quakers, they had emigrated from England in part to escape religious persecution.
The Philadelphia chromosome or Philadelphia translocation ( Ph) is a specific genetic abnormality in chromosome 22 of leukemia cancer cells (particularly chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) cells). This chromosome is defective and unusually short because of reciprocal translocation, t (9;22) (q34;q11), of genetic material between chromosome 9 and ...
3GNY (Third Generation New York) is a non-profit organization composed of the Jewish grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. The mission of the group "is to educate people about the Holocaust by telling the stories of their families, to provide a forum where the grandchildren of survivors can connect, and to fight intolerance and ethnic violence wherever it exists."
Type. Nonprofit. Location. 2100 Byberry Road, Suite 111, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Website. genpa .org. The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania ( GSP) is a non-profit educational institution headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1892, [1] it is one of the oldest genealogical societies in the United States.
The Arch Street Meeting House, at 320 Arch Street at the corner of 4th Street in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Built to reflect Friends' testimonies of simplicity and equality, this building is little changed after more than two centuries of continuous use.
Third-generation human rights. Third-generation human rights are those rights that go beyond the mere civil and social, as expressed in many progressive documents of international law, including the 1972 Stockholm Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and ...