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 Forklift Masts Philadelphia - The city of Philadelphia is considered the largest city within the state of Pennsylvania, and is considered the sixth most populous city within the US. Philadelphia City is the county seat of Philadelphia County, which is the fourth biggest urban area by population in the US. Its popular nicknames include: Philly and The City of Brotherly Love.
Philadelphia is a great place to enjoy culture and arts at its best. Gallery and art museum enthusiasts can visit the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University, Campus Philly Kick-Off, Museum of Mourning Art, Philagrafika and Institute of Contemporary Art. Philadelphia also has a great love for the performing and visual arts. The creative side of the region expresses itself through music places and art exhibitions, like Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University, Concerts Under the Stars, Rustic Music, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Annual Mercer Museum Folk Fest, and Penn's Landing. Philadelphia City also has a great love for the performing and visual arts. The creative side of the region expresses itself via art exhibitions and music venues, like for example Concerts Under the Stars, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Rustic Music, Annual Mercer Museum Folk Fest, and Penn's Landing. People who are interested in the performing arts can go to the Society Hill Playhouse, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, People's Light and Theatre Company, Painted Bride Art Center, and Merriam Theater.
There are a lot of popular attractions in Philadelphia, including: Ancient Rome & America, The Elmwood Park Zoo, Audacious Freedom, Sadsbury Preserve, The Philadelphia Zoo, National Constitution Center, The Liberty Bell Cneter, Valley Forge National Historic Park, Please Touch Museum, and Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education.
The main sectors that dominate the city are tourism and financial services, health care and biotechnology, oil refining, manufacturing and food processing. Aside from this, the city of Philadelphia is an important center for medicine. It is the home of the very first hospital in the British North American colonies, Pennsylvania Hospital. It is also the home of the very first medical school in the US, University of Pennsylvania. Nowadays, there are a lot of hospitals situated within Philadelphia City which are associated with Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Temple University School of Medicine and Drexel University College of Medicine. It also has three distinguished children's hospitals: the Shriners' Hospital, St. Christopher's Hospital, and the country's first pediatric hospital, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Since the city of Philadelphia has a respectable medical research center, it is home to some of the largest pharmaceutical businesses within the city, like for example Johnson and Johnson, Siemens Medical Solutions, Wyeth, GE healthcare, Merck, AstraZeneca, and GlaxoSmithKline.
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