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Popular culture has defined the cowboy by his riding boots, fringed leather pants, acute smoking habit, large bushy mustache, and stone-cold demeanor....

Philadelphia bills itself as a “city of firsts,” with a long list of notable U.S. or colonial America accomplishments that include the first zoo (Philadelphia Zoo, 1874), the first public library (Library Company of Philadelphia, 1731), the first art museum (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine arts, 1805) and first secular university (University of Pennsylvania, 1740).

Pharmaceutical and medical face-to-face meetings got hit with a double-whammy, in some cases, during the pandemic, as health professional attendees often were pressed into service fighting COVID-19.