6 December 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of the
City of Philadelphia . Built in the ornate
Second Empire style , City Hall houses the chambers of the
Philadelphia City Council and the offices of the
Mayor of Philadelphia . It is also a
courthouse , serving as the seat of the
First Judicial District of Pennsylvania , and houses the Civil Trial and Orphans’ Court Divisions of the
Court of Common Pleas of
Philadelphia County .
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23 October 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Museums, Exhibitions
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The Andy Warhol Museum is located on the
North Shore of
Pittsburgh ,
Pennsylvania , in the
United States . It is the largest museum in
North America dedicated to a single artist. The museum holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives from the
Pittsburgh-born pop art icon
Andy Warhol . The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and is a collaborative project of the
Carnegie Institute , the
Dia Art Foundation and
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWFVA).
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4 July 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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The Gettysburg Address is a
speech that
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the
American Civil War at the dedication of the
Soldiers’ National Cemetery in
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania , on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the
Union armies defeated those of the
Confederacy at the
Battle of Gettysburg . It is one of the best-known speeches in
American history .
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1 July 2022 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Rubric: Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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US Brig Niagara or the
Flagship Niagara , is a wooden-
hulled snow-brig that served as the relief
flagship for
Oliver Hazard Perry in the
Battle of Lake Erie during the
War of 1812 . As the ship is certified for
sail training by the
United States Coast Guard , she is also designated
SSV Niagara .
Niagara is usually docked behind the
Erie Maritime Museum in
downtown Erie in the U.S. state of
Pennsylvania as an outdoor exhibit for the museum. She also often travels the
Great Lakes during the summer, serving as an ambassador of Pennsylvania when not docked. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and was designated the official
state ship of Pennsylvania by the
Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1988.
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26 March 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , UNESCO World Heritage
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Philadelphia (colloquially known simply as
Philly ) is the largest city in the
Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania in the
United States . It is the
sixth-most-populous city in the United States and the
most populous city in the state of Pennsylvania, with a 2020 population of 1,603,797. It is also the
second-most populous city in the Northeastern United States, behind
New York City .
Since 1854 , the city has had the same geographic boundaries as
Philadelphia County , the most-populous
county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the eighth-largest
U.S. metropolitan statistical area , with over 6 million residents as of 2017 Philadelphia is also the economic and cultural center of the greater
Delaware Valley along the lower
Delaware and
Schuylkill rivers within the
Northeast megalopolis . The Delaware Valley’s 2019 estimated population of 7.21 million makes it the ninth-largest
combined statistical area in the United States.
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31 March 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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The University of Pennsylvania (
Penn or
UPenn ) is a
private Ivy League research university in
Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania . The university claims a founding date of 1740 and is one of the nine
colonial colleges chartered prior to the
U.S. Declaration of Independence .
Benjamin Franklin , Penn’s founder and first president, advocated an educational program that trained leaders in commerce, government, and
public service , similar to a modern
liberal arts curriculum. The University of Pennsylvania considers itself the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, though this is contested by Princeton and Columbia Universities. The university also considers itself as the
first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies.
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29 July 2020 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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The
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (also known as
Wharton Business School ,
The Wharton School or simply
Wharton ) is the
business school of the
University of Pennsylvania , a private
Ivy League university in
Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania . Established in 1881 through a donation from
Joseph Wharton , the Wharton School is the world’s oldest collegiate school of business. The Wharton School awards
Bachelor of Science in
Economics degrees at the undergraduate level and
Master of Business Administration degrees at the postgraduate level, both of which require the selection of a
major . Wharton also offers a doctoral program and houses, or co-sponsors, several diploma programs either alone or in conjunction with the other schools at the university.
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16 July 2018 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Bethlehem is a city in
Lehigh and
Northampton counties in the
Lehigh Valley region of the eastern portion of
Pennsylvania . The city had a total population of 75,000, making it the seventh largest city in Pennsylvania. Of this, 55,639 were in Northampton County, and 19,343 were in Lehigh County. Bethlehem lies in the center of the Lehigh Valley, a region of 731 square miles (1,893 km²) that is home to more than 800,000 people. Together with Allentown and
Easton , the Valley embraces the
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area , including Lehigh, Northampton, and
Carbon counties within Pennsylvania, and
Warren County in the adjacent state of
New Jersey . Smaller than Allentown but larger than Easton, Bethlehem is the Lehigh Valley’s second most populous city. In turn, this metropolitan area comprises Pennsylvania’s third-largest metropolitan area and the state’s largest and most populous contribution to the greater
New York City metropolitan area .
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8 June 2018 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Museums, Exhibitions
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Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh are four museums that are operated by the Carnegie Institute headquartered in the Carnegie Institute complex in the
Oakland neighborhood of
Pittsburgh in
Pennsylvania . The Carnegie Institute complex that includes the original museum, recital hall, and library was added to the
National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1979. Two of the Carnegie museums, the
Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the
Carnegie Museum of Art , are both located in the Carnegie Institute and Library complex in Oakland. It also houses the
Carnegie Music Hall and the main branch of the
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh . The other two museums,
The Andy Warhol Museum and the
Carnegie Science Center , are located in separate facilities on Pittsburgh’s
North Shore .
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