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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A medical college in Philadelphia, recently renamed for local billionaire and philanthropist Sidney Kimmel. He has pledged half his wealth to charity, to give a billion dollars in his lifetime, and is near his goal already......
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#43 - Stone, 52 in 2017 Challenge
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.
Built of brick, white marble, and limestone, Philadelphia City Hall is the world's largest free-standing masonry building and was the world's tallest habitable building upon its completion in 1894. In 1976, it was designated a National Historic Landmark, and in 2006, was also named a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
City Hall, once the tallest habitable building in the world,
then just the tallest in Pennsylvania,
then just in Philadelphia,
now a new and taller building has ended the gentleman's agreement that nothing in the city could be taller than William Penn's hat. So much for being the founder of Pennsylvania.....
Barn swallow with a dirty beak seating on a diagonal cattail at the Heinz Wildlife Refuge in Philadelphia