Pennsylvania
About Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Maryland to its south, forming the Mason-Dixon Line, West Virginia to its southwest, Ohio to its west, the Canadian province of Ontario to its northwest via Lake Erie, New York to its north, and the Delaware River and New Jersey to its east. Pennsylvania's most populous city is Philadelphia, and the state capital is Harrisburg. Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state in the country, with over 13 million residents as of the 2020 United States census. Pennsylvania has the ninth-highest by population density, and is the 33rd-largest by land area. The largest metropolitan statistical area is the Philadelphia metropolitan area in southeastern Pennsylvania, also known as the Delaware Valley and centered on Philadelphia, the sixth-most populous U.S. city. Pennsylvania's second-largest metropolitan area, Greater Pittsburgh, is centered in and around Pittsburgh, the commonwealth's second-largest city.
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The Soda Fountain Magazine reckoned that the banana split was invented in Boston. There was an ice cream convention in 1905, and there was a guy called Stinson Thomas who supposedly invented it, but Boston has since ceded its title to this place in Pennsylvania.
from No Such Thing As An Acoustic Tram, 2022-12-16 at 00:39:42 · read transcript
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It does, talking about this kind of thing, makes you really respect America for having just gone down the line, grid system, you know, this is the number of the street, this is the number of the avenue, it's very boring, it's very effective. So that was come up with by Penn, after him in Pennsylvania, named. Not from Penn and teller. Just magic streets into existence.
No Such Thing As EastEnders, The Opera, 2020-02-07 · listen
This is the number of the avenue. It's very boring. It's very effective. So that was that was come up with by Penn after in Pennsylvania named. Not from Penn and Teller. Just magic streets into existence. William Penn, he came up with the grid system in 1682 when he founded Philadelphia, which was only founded because basically the King of England, King Charles II, was massively in debt to him and had no money to pay him.
307: No Such Thing As EastEnders, The Opera, 2020-02-07 · listen
It was largely because none of their emails were getting through to anyone because they were being filtered out by foreign filters. All of their emails, all their newsletters, nothing reaching it. People were confused anyway about it. Same as Beaver College in Pennsylvania. They changed their name because, again, no one could get to their website. Plus, the applicants they got were questionable, to say the least.
549: No Such Thing As A Beaver Walking Backwards, 2024-09-19 · listen
Coordinates: 41.0000, -78.0000