Qualla: Delaware https://qualla.com/delaware en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Delaware https://qualla.com/delaware Delaware: Introduction https://qualla.com/delaware/ On July 1, 1776, Delaware's two Continental Congress delegates in Philadelphia were deadlocked. Thomas McKean voted for independence. George Read voted against. The Delaware vote would not count unless a third delegate broke the tie. Caesar Rodney was 80 miles south at his Kent County plantation, sick with what was probably cancer of the face that had already disfigured him - he wore a green silk handkerchief over the affected side. When McKean's messenger reached him at midnight, Rodney mounted a horse and rode through a thunderstorm. He arrived at the Pennsylvania State House on July 2 in his boots and spurs, walked in, and voted yes. Delaware became one of thirteen colonies pledging independence by exactly one vote. The state has commemorated the ride on a quarter, a statue, a highway, and roughly every elementary school history textbook in the state ever since.

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/f/m/delaware-wp/dqfm-delaware-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Delaware: Small State, Big Numbers https://qualla.com/delaware/ Delaware is the second-smallest state by area and the sixth-smallest by population, but it is sixth-densest. Its 96-mile length and 9-to-35-mile width make it small enough to drive across in any direction in under two hours. The state is divided into just three counties - the few...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/f/m/delaware-wp/dqfm-delaware-small-state-big-numbers.mp3 0:06 2 full Delaware: The Twelve-Mile Circle https://qualla.com/delaware/ Delaware's northern border with Pennsylvania is the most unusual state boundary in the country - an arc of a circle. The border is defined as an arc 12 miles from the cupola of the old courthouse in the city of New Castle, drawn before satellite surveying made such geometry tedio...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/f/m/delaware-wp/dqfm-delaware-the-twelve-mile-circle.mp3 0:06 3 full Delaware: The Corporate Capital https://qualla.com/delaware/ More than three-fifths of the Fortune 500 are legally incorporated in Delaware. Over 90 percent of U.S. companies that went public in 2021 incorporated themselves here. The Delaware General Corporation Law, refined since the early twentieth century, has built up an unusually pred...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/f/m/delaware-wp/dqfm-delaware-the-corporate-capital.mp3 0:06 4 full Delaware: DuPont and the Brandywine https://qualla.com/delaware/ In 1802, French immigrant Eleuthere Irenee du Pont built a gunpowder mill on the Brandywine Creek north of Wilmington. The mill harnessed water power from the rocky descent of the creek as it dropped from the Piedmont onto the coastal plain. DuPont gunpowder supplied the American...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/f/m/delaware-wp/dqfm-delaware-dupont-and-the-brandywine.mp3 0:06 5 full Delaware: Two Bidens and a Beach House https://qualla.com/delaware/ Joseph R. Biden Jr. served as U.S. Senator from Delaware for 36 years - from 1973 to 2009 - and then as vice president, and then as president from 2021 to 2025. His son Beau Biden served as Delaware's Attorney General from 2007 until his death from brain cancer in 2015. The Biden...

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