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  2. 1985 MOVE bombing - Wikipedia

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    The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, [2] was the destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during a standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization. Philadelphia police dropped two explosive devices from a ...

  3. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is in Philadelphia's University City neighborhood, and since 2001 has been undergoing a $1.5 billion expansion that has doubled the hospital's size, while also building more than one million sq ft (93,000 m 2) of new research and outpatient facilities on a large, eight-acre (3.2 ha) site south of the main ...

  4. Cherelle Parker - Wikipedia

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    Cherelle Lesley Parker (born September 10, 1972) [2] is an American politician who has served as the 100th Mayor of Philadelphia since 2024. She is the first woman to hold the office. [3] [4] Parker served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 2005 to 2015, representing the 200th district in Northwest Philadelphia.

  5. Mayor Cherelle Parker announces summer programs for ... - AOL

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    Jeff Cole. April 9, 2024 at 11:15 AM. PHILADELPHIA - Summer will be here before we know it, so Philadelphia is already preparing to make it a season full of fun for the entire city. Mayor Cherelle ...

  6. Helen Gym - Wikipedia

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    Helen Gym ( / ˈɡɪm / GHIHM; [1] Korean: 김혜련, [2] born January 11, 1968) [3] [4] is an American politician. She was the first Asian American woman to serve on the Philadelphia City Council. [5] She was first elected to Council in 2015 and served until 2022, when she resigned to run in the Democratic primary of the 2023 Philadelphia ...

  7. Please Touch Museum - Wikipedia

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    SEPTA bus: 38, 40. Philly PHLASH. Website. www.pleasetouchmuseum.org. The Please Touch Museum is a children's museum located in the Centennial District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The museum focuses on teaching children through interactive exhibits and special events, [1] mostly aimed at children seven years old and younger.

  8. Josh Shapiro - Wikipedia

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    Government website. Joshua David Shapiro [1] (born June 20, 1973 [2]) is an American politician and attorney who has served as the 48th governor of Pennsylvania since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 50th Pennsylvania attorney general from 2017 to 2023 and as a member of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners from ...

  9. Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia, commonly referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is the nation's sixth-most populous city, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census and is the urban core of the larger Delaware Valley (or Philadelphia metropolitan area), the nation's seventh-largest and one of the world's largest metropolitan regions consisting of ...