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The Realignment of Pennsylvania Politics since 1960: Two-Party Competition in a Battleground State (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009) 398 pp. ISBN 978-0-271-03419-5; Lubove, Roy. Twentieth-century Pittsburgh: The post-steel era. Vol. 2. University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1995. McGeary, M. Nelson.
Type Symbol Description Adopted Image Notes Aircraft: Piper J-3 Cub: June 26, 2014 [2]Amphibian: Eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) April 23, 2019
The Erie Triangle is a roughly 300-square-mile (780-square-kilometre) tract of land that was the subject of several competing colonial-era claims.It was eventually acquired by the U.S. federal government and sold to Pennsylvania so that the state would have access to a freshwater port on Lake Erie.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the fifth most populous of the 50 states of the United States. Pennsylvania lies west of the Delaware River in the Mid-Atlantic United States . King Charles II of England granted William Penn a charter for a Colony of Pennsylvania in 1681.
Design of the keystone symbol on the Pennsylvania government's website [1]. The keystone symbol is the name commonly given to the de-facto state emblem of Pennsylvania. [2] It is a stylized keystone (or capstone), an architectural term for a wedge-shaped stone placed at the top of an arch. [3]
Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state in the United States, with over 13 million residents as of the 2020 United States census, its highest decennial census count ever. [3] The state is the 33rd-largest by area and has the ninth-highest population density among all states .
The General Assembly of Pennsylvania commissioned the surveying of land near Presque Isle through an act passed on 18 April 1795. Andrew Ellicott, who famously completed Pierre Charles L'Enfant's survey of Washington, D.C., and helped resolve the boundary between Pennsylvania and New York, arrived to begin the survey in June 1795.
In July 2010, the Board also adopted the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, which will replace the Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening standards adopted in 1999. The regulations providing for these new academic content standards took effect upon their publication in the October 16, 2010 edition of the Pennsylvania Bulletin.