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A Mid-Atlantic state
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pennsylvania
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pennsylvania ( Pennsylvania German : Pennsilfaani ), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , is a state located in the northern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle. The commonwealth borders ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
American colony, later U.S. state, 1681, literally "Penn's Woods," a hybrid formed from the surname Penn (Welsh, literally "head") + Latin sylvania (see sylvan ). Not named for William Penn, the proprietor, but, on suggestion of Charles II, for Penn's late ...
Usage examples of pennsylvania.
This brought on three days of fierce debate, during which Adams repeatedly took the floor, supported by Richard Henry Lee, while James Wilson of Pennsylvania argued in opposition.
When Wilson of Pennsylvania, who agreed with him, moved that the doors be opened, galleries erected, or that Congress adjourn to some public building where the people might be accommodated, Adams enthusiastically seconded the motion, but to no avail.
But it was Adams who took the lead in advocating titles, voicing his views in direct opposition to a strong-willed senator from Pennsylvania, William Maclay.
From the coal fields of a little town in Pennsylvania to the mountains of Albania, and Athens and Jerusalem and Smyrna, and Istanbul and Crete, and now here.
In a 1991 case in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a teenager, Nicole Althaus, encouraged by a teacher and a social worker, accused her father of having sexually abused her, resulting in his arrest.
Michaelerya of Allentown, Pennsylvania, at the Monroe County Dome Arena in Rochester, New York, on October 26, 1979.
After bouncing around the Midwest he had settled in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he worked doing brake jobs for Pep Boys.
Brewer, through a big cloverleaf, past the brick hulks of two old hosiery mills, along a three-lane highway where in these last years several roadside restaurants have begun proclaiming themselves as Pennsylvania Dutch, with giant plaster Amishmen and neon hex signs.
Pennsylvania Hall, the site of antislavery meetings, is burned to the ground.
Hilprecht is Professor of Assyriology in the University of Pennsylvania.
He is on the faculty of the FBI Academy in the Behavioral Science Unit, and also holds adjunct faculty status with the University of Virginia and Michigan State University, and is a senior research fellow with the University of Pennsylvania.
Chapter Fifty-One Monday morning, I got a call to meet Kyle Craig and Betsey Cavalierre at the Hoover Building on Tenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.
Dora Bowditch disappeared on the way to a golf tournament, Matthew Bowditch is looking to buy a retirement home in a golfing community, their old Korean gardener plays golf in Pennsylvania.
Trent said, standing before a newly-dedicated monument to Revolutionary War Militiamen in Brandywine, Pennsylvania.
Grandsire was a Cameronian in Scotland in the Killing Times and had long gone where good Scots go when me father come across the sea to Pennsylvania.