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Battleship New Jersey is the Iowa-class battleship USS New Jersey, commissioned in 1943, which served in the Second World War, Korea, Vietnam and off Lebanon before her final decommissioning in 1991. Since 2001 she has been a museum ship on the Camden waterfront in New Jersey, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, open to visitors on deck and below.
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The Philadelphia Zoo, chartered in 1859 and opened in 1874, was the first zoo in the United States and covers about 17 hectares in West Fairmount Park. Its Victorian entrance gatehouses are by Frank Furness, and the Zoo360 network of mesh trails lets primates and big cats move above the visitors' paths.
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