Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
On August 6, 2009, approximately 75 people, including friends, women's rights advocates, clergy members, and local officials, held a vigil at the Pittsburgh City-County Building in downtown Pittsburgh in honor of the shooting's victims. [16] In the aftermath, some feminist groups attributed misogyny and toxic masculinity as a contributing ...
Jonas Salk Hall at the University of Pittsburgh is a Pennsylvania state [2] and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark. [3] The Art Deco building is named after Jonas Salk, who conducted his research on the first polio vaccine in a basement laboratory while on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. [4]
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 .
The 1956 article also claimed that Anna was inspired to create the shrine after the Virgin Mary, the Catholic holy figure depicted in the shrine, visited her in a dream. [3] 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 ...
Pittsburgh (/ ˈ p ɪ t s b ɜːr ɡ / PITS-burg) is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census.
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.