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 A Matchbox Superfast Series, '57 Chevy. It was released in 1983. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for NewsWorks)
Arts & Entertainment

New Jersey’s Matchbox car museum is bigger than you might think

The Matchbox Road Museum showcases 50,000 pieces of Matchbox memorabilia, including the well-known miniature models, concept cars, one-of ...

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From Above: Franklin Square and Monument Plaza, 1926

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Rivers, industry and cars: a historian looks at river towns along lower Schuylkill

Historian and blogger Michael Tolle recently moved away from his home of 36 years near the Schuylkill River valley, but that doesn’t me ...

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Historical Commission calls for 500 Walnut design approval

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Congregation Rodeph Shalom is set to become a beacon on North Broad

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Politics & Policy

Historical Commission approves Warner Bros. building redo; 205 Race St. construction and 801 Market signage

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Spotted: Automat Americana

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I-95 archaeology exhibit in Kensington Thursday

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Historical Commission accepts Baywood Hotels plan for Warner Bros. Building

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From Above: Independence Square, 1927

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National Museum of the American Indian treaty exhibition featuring Penn Treaty Museum artifact opens in September

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 Workers keep a careful watch on the open hearth furnaces at the Bethlehem Steel Co. plant. (Image courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Bethlehem then and now, from steel town to arts community

On a recent summer evening, hundreds of people - lawn chairs and blankets in tow flocked to SteelStacks, a premiere arts campus at the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation plant

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Join CityLove to explore Philly: June 14-20

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 Student protesters are shown putting a barricade in front of a burning armored personnel carrier that rammed through student lines, June 4, 1989. Many were injured and killed during an army attack on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tienanmen Square. (AP Photo, file)
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Tiananmen and the erasure of history

The Chinese government employs falsehood and terror to blot out the memory of the murders in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago. And the econo ...

11 years ago

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Dust to Dust: 3711 Melon Street’s homegoing

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