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A recent playful take on the final -h of Pittsburgh appears in the name of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority's brand of bottled water: PGH 2 O, which is a portmanteau of the abbreviation PGH and the chemical name for water, H 2 O. [29] "Da 'Burgh" or "Da Burgh" is a local and affectionate nickname for the city.
Another article about the shrine, written in 1957 in The Pittsburgh Press, also identifies Cybak as one of the creators of the site along with a woman named Sophie Toma. After Toma’s house on Wakefield Street was razed for the creation of the Penn-Lincoln Parkway, she kept ownership over an undeveloped plot of land that would eventually be ...
Sophie Masloff (née Friedman; December 23, 1917 – August 17, 2014) was an American politician.A long-time member of the Democratic Party and civil servant, she was elected to the Pittsburgh City Council and later served as the mayor of Pittsburgh from 1988 to 1994.
Pittsburgh skyline at twilight This article contains a list of notable people who were born or lived a significant amount of time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , the second-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia .
Pittsburgh in 1920. Unlike his predecessor "Joe the builder", Babcock's administration had little time to implement much policy, they were too busy dealing with the triple threat of a massive steel strike that created much social dissension and unrest, the 1918-1919 flu pandemic that hit Pittsburgh especially hard, all this while at the family dinner tables and company lunch rooms around the ...
Mar. 18—A walk to get a cup of coffee really perked up Sophia Cosentino's mood. The morning drink the 21-year-old from Friendship orders daily was chosen as one of 10 winners in the Dunkin' Menu ...
A female fan halted the Pittsburgh Steelers-New York Jets game after she sprinted onto the field while waving a pro-Trump sign onto the field whie waving a pro-Trump sign during Sunday's match-up.
Forging a Majority: The Formation of the Republican Party in Pittsburgh, 1848-18 (1969). Ingham, John N. Making Iron and Steel: Independent Mills in Pittsburgh, 1820–1920. Ohio State U. Press, 1991. 297 pp. Kleinberg, S. J. The Shadow of the Mills: Working-Class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870–1907. U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. 414 pp.