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Pittsburgh (/ ˈpɪtsbɜːrɡ / 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. The city is located in southwestern Pennsylvania ...
Joan Melvin – Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2009– John Lester Miller – 1954–1971; Michael Angelo Musmanno – PA Supreme Court and Nuremberg tribunal; Arthur Schwab – U.S. Judge 2002–present; George Shiras – U.S. Supreme Court; Sara Soffel – first woman to serve as a judge in Pennsylvania; William Alvah Stewart – Federal 1951–1953
Early life. Garofalo was born in Newton, New Jersey, the daughter of Joan and Carmine Garofalo. Her mother, a secretary in the petrochemical industry, died of cancer when Janeane was 24; her father is a former Exxon executive. [2][3] Garofalo is of Italian descent. [4] She grew up in various places, including: Ontario, California; Madison, New ...
The Pittsburgh crime family, [4] also known as the LaRocca crime family[5] or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [1][6] The LaRocca family is one of the original twenty-six Mafia families in the United States. [7] The boss and last known "made" member of the family, Thomas "Sonny ...
Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [ 20 ] It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company.
Pittsburgh International Airport (IATA: PIT, ICAO: KPIT, FAA LID: PIT) — originally Greater Pittsburgh Airport and later Greater Pittsburgh International Airport — is a civil-military international airport in Findlay Township and Moon Township, Pennsylvania, United States. About 10 miles (15 km) west of downtown Pittsburgh, it is the ...
The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (formerly the Stanley Theatre) is a theater and concert hall located at 237 7th Street in the Cultural District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm Hoffman-Henon, it was built in 1928 as the Stanley Theatre. The former movie palace was renovated and reopened as ...
Jessi. Jessie. Géssica. Jessica (originally Iessica, also Jesica, Jesika, Jessicah, Jessika, or Jessikah) [1] is a female given name. The oldest written record of the name with its current spelling is found as the name of the Shakespearean character Jessica, from the play The Merchant of Venice.