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In 1932, the first modern international-style skyscraper in the United States was built in Philadelphia.

The first traces of settlement that archaeologists found in Tallinn are about 5000 years old.

Approximately 1.6 million people ride the Chicago subway every day.

A revolt of the union of Greek cities in Asia Minor broke out against Persian rule, to which Ephesus did not join.

The typical tree in Helsinki is the common maple (Acer platanoides).

Bruges was the birthplace of the Flemish Primitivist school of painting.

After the announcement of the Edict of Potsdam, which encouraged Protestants to settle in Brandenburg, Potsdam became a center of European immigration.

Near St. Petersburg are numerous tourist and recreational destinations with park and palace complexes of former Russian tsars: Tsarskoye Selo, Peterhof, Pavlovsk, Zelenogorsk, and Gatchina.

San Francisco is a birthplace of several famous and talented people.

The first blood bank was established in Chicago in 1937 at Cook County Hospital.