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Philly in Winter
By Shari Hartford Photos courtesy VisitPhilly There are three kinds of winter people. Some yearn for white sand beaches, exotic tropics and fruity drinks topped off with tiny paper umbrellas. Some dream of fluffy white snow, whooshing down mountains and hot buttered rum. Then there are my kind of people…we’ll
The Artful Traveler: Who Was the Real Cleopatra?
By Bobbie Leigh In the final gallery of the Franklin Institute's new show, "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt," we get the Liz Taylor and Claudette Colbert popular imagination version of Cleopatra. More fiction than fact, Hollywood portrayed her as cunning sex kitten who seduced two of
