Philadelphia and Washington - History, Culture and Rocky!
November 7th 2010 For a period of time, Philadelphia was the second largest city in the British Empire (after London). It was also the US' capital at the start of the Revolutionary War and again after the war until 1790, when Washington DC took over. Of course, Alexa and I were blissfully unaware of all of this. Indeed, the only thing we knew about Philly prior to our visit was that it was the home of one of my all
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