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State flag of Pennsylvania Location of Pennsylvania in the United States. Pennsylvania, the fifth-most populous state in the United States, [1] is the birthplace or childhood home of many famous Americans. People from Pennsylvania are sometimes called "Pennsylvanians".
Panhard-Levassor (1890–1895). This model was the first automobile to circulate in Portugal. 1890s: Bike boom sweeps Europe and America with hundreds of bicycle manufacturers in the biggest bicycle craze to date. 1890: Clément Ader of Muret, France creates his Ader Éole. "Ader claimed that while he was aboard the Ader Eole he made a steam ...
Pennsylvania's history of human habitation extends to thousands of years before the foundation of the Province of Pennsylvania. Archaeologists generally believe that the first settlement of the Americas occurred at least 15,000 years ago during the last glacial period , though it is unclear when humans first entered present-day Pennsylvania.
The remaining abutment of the South Fork Dam with the US-219 highway bridge downstream in the background. The city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania was founded in 1800 by Swiss immigrant Joseph Johns (anglicized from "Schantz") where the Stonycreek and Little Conemaugh rivers joined to form the Conemaugh River.
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Thom Hatch, author and novelist who specializes in the history of the American West, the American Civil War, and the Plains Indian Wars; Eugene Iverd, illustrator and teacher; Ron Larson, author of several dozen mathematics textbooks; Leon Ray Livingston, known as "King of the Hobos" Ruth Eleanor Newton, illustrator and designer
Samuel J. Randall (1828–1890), U.S. House of Representatives member and Speaker of the House [36] Ed Rendell (born 1944), Pennsylvania governor, Philadelphia mayor, and Philadelphia district attorney; Frank Rizzo (1920–1991), Philadelphia mayor and police commissioner; John Robbins (1808–1880), U.S. House of Representatives member [37]