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2006

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December

...that since Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network was founded, over 2,500 murals have been created across the city and over 40,000 walls were cleaned of graffiti?

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November

...that the Valley Forge Pilgrimage, held every year since 1913, is the oldest annual Scouting event in the United States?

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October

...that Sparks Shot Tower was the first shot tower in the United States?

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September

...that PhillyCarShare estimates that it has removed the need for more than 2,000 cars in Philadelphia and reduced pollution by eliminating 9.9 million drive miles.

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August

...the Act of Consolidation of 1854 consolidated all remaining townships, districts, and boroughs within Philadelphia County into the city of Philadelphia?

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July

...that the blue and yellow colors in the flag of Philadelphia represent the original Swedish colonization of the Philadelphia area?

...that Millbourne, Pennsylvania, a small borough adjacent to Philadelphia, has the highest percentage of Indian Americans of any place in the United States?

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June

Tourists and residents alike still make the run up the Art Museum's front steps, the Rocky Steps, mimicking the famous scene where Rocky himself sprints up the steps at the end of his training run.

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May

Murphy Brown was born May 1948 in Philadelphia.

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April

Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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March

Larry Fine (October 5, 1902 – January 24, 1975) was an American comedian and actor, who is best-known as a member of the comedy act The Three Stooges.

He was born Louis Feinberg to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the corner of 3rd and South Streets.

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