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Kingston is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located on the western bank of the Susquehanna River opposite Wilkes-Barre. Kingston was first settled in the early 1770s, and incorporated as a borough in 1857. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,349, making it the most populous borough in Luzerne County. [5]
A sign using "Dahntahn" to mean "Downtown" in Downtown Pittsburgh.. Western Pennsylvania English, known more narrowly as Pittsburgh English or popularly as Pittsburghese, is a dialect of American English native primarily to the western half of Pennsylvania, centered on the city of Pittsburgh, but potentially appearing in some speakers as far north as Erie County, as far east as Harrisburg, as ...
Philadelphia English or Delaware Valley English is a variety or dialect of American English native to Philadelphia and extending into Philadelphia's metropolitan area throughout the Delaware Valley, including southeastern Pennsylvania, all of South Jersey, counties of northern Delaware (especially New Castle and Kent), and the north Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Map of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania public school districts. Shamokin is part of the Shamokin Area School District, which includes Shamokin Area High School, along with an elementary, intermediate, and middle school. Local private schools include Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School and Meadowview Christian Academy. Luzerne County ...
Thus Melinoë is described as such not in order to be designated as a divinity of lower status, but rather as a young woman of marriageable age; the same word is applied to Hecate and Tethys (a Titaness) in their own Orphic hymns. [11] As an underworld "queen" (Basileia), Melinoë is at least partially syncretized with Persephone herself. [12]
Gananoque (/ ˌ ɡ æ n ə ˈ n ɒ k w eɪ / GAN-ə-NOK-way) is a town in the Leeds and Grenville area of Ontario, Canada.The town had a population of 5,383 year-round residents in the 2021 Canadian Census, as well as summer residents sometimes referred to as "Islanders" because of the Thousand Islands in the Saint Lawrence River, Gananoque's most important tourist attraction.
Galeton is a borough in Potter County, Pennsylvania. It is located 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Bradford, Pennsylvania. Light industries, including knitting mills and a tannery have existed in Galeton. The population declined to 993 people in 2020. [4]
Towamencin – a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, means 'poplar tree' [40] Towamensing – 'fording place at the falls' [29] Tulpehocken – 'land of turtles', the name of a creek and a SEPTA train station and street in Philadelphia [41] / *Nora Thompson Dean (Touching Leaves Woman): 'turtle land', from Lenape Tulpehaking. [7]