...that when completed in 1926, the
Benjamin Franklin Bridge was the longest
suspension bridge in the world?
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...that
Virginia Knauer was the first woman elected to the
Philadelphia
City Council?
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...that the
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 claimed 5,000 lives in Philadelphia, about 10% of the city's population?
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...that the Headhouse in
New Market, a
National Historic Landmark, is a former firehouse built in 1804, and the oldest in the U.S.?
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...that the
Wanamaker Organ, located at the
Macy's department store, a
National Historic Landmark in
Center City, is the largest fully functional
pipe organ in the world?
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...that four-time
Grammy Award-winning
Boyz II Men is, based on sales, the most successful
R&B male vocal group of all time, with five #1 R&B hits between 1992 and 1997 and sales of more than 60 million records?
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...that the
Schuylkill Fishing Company of Pennsylvania, established in 1732 as an angling club, claims to be the oldest
social club in the English-speaking world?
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...that the
Deshler-Morris House, which was twice the official residence of President
George Washington, is called the "Germantown White House"?
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...that the
Penn Relays, the oldest and largest track and field carnival in the United States, hosted annually since 1895 by the
University of Pennsylvania, has been credited with popularizing the running of
relay races?
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...that the
Church of the Advocate was the site in 1974 of the
first ordinations of women, known as the "Philadelphia Eleven", as priests in the Episcopal Church?
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...that the
Frankford Avenue Bridge, erected in 1697 in the
Holmesburg section of
Northeast Philadelphia, over
Pennypack Creek, is believed to be the oldest stone bridge in continuous use in the United States?
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...that the
Church of St. James the Less, a
National Historic Landmark, is a faithful reproduction of an actual 13th-century Gothic church in
Cambridgeshire,
England?
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