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The accident resulted in four deaths and 22 injuries. On 29 October 1987, a Pittsburgh Light Rail 1700-series PCC car was going downhill through Mount Washington Transit Tunnel when its brakes failed. The driver ordered the passengers to the back of the trolley as it picked up speed.
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 ...
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 ...
The history of Pittsburgh began with centuries of Native American civilization in the modern Pittsburgh region, known as Jaödeogë’ in the Seneca language. [1] Eventually, European explorers encountered the strategic confluence where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio, which leads to the Mississippi River.
17108799. Dewey Decimal. 813/.54 19. LC Class. PS3553.H15 M97 1988. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a 1988 novel by American author Michael Chabon. It is a coming-of-age tale set during the early 1980s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was Chabon's first novel, which he began writing as a 21-year-old undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh.
The murder of Betsy Aardsma is an American murder case dating from November 1969, in which a 22-year-old graduate student was murdered by a single stab wound inside the Pattee Library at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in University Park, Pennsylvania. Though Aardsma's murder remains officially unsolved, local investigative ...
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.
Edward Piskor was born in Homestead, Pennsylvania, on July 28, 1982. [1] He was fascinated by comics throughout his childhood. He was a great fan of mainstream comics such as The Amazing Spider-Man, but his interest in alternative comics developed rapidly when, at the age of 9, he saw a documentary that featured Harvey Pekar reading one of his American Splendor stories.