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1 day ago · The first nationally chartered bank in the U.S., the Bank of North America, was founded in 1781 in Philadelphia. After a series of mergers, the Bank of North America is now part of Wells Fargo. Pennsylvania is home to the first nationally-chartered bank under the 1863 National Banking Act. That year, the Pittsburgh Savings & Trust Company ...
- State Senate
The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the...
- House of Representatives
The speakership is the oldest elected statewide office in...
- Harrisburg
Harrisburg (/ ˈ h æ r ɪ s ˌ b ɜːr ɡ /, Pennsylvania German:...
- History of Pennsylvania
The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn...
- Geography of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is 180 miles (290 km) north to south and 310...
- United States Congressional Delegations From Pennsylvania
North (R) Samuel H. Miller (R) William H. Coleman (R) John...
- Pennsylvania (Disambiguation)
Places. Province of Pennsylvania, before independence in...
- Pennsylvania General Assembly
The title page of Laws of Pennsylvania, published in 1853....
- Flag of Pennsylvania
In 2001, the North American Vexillological Association...
- List of Cities in Pennsylvania
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted....
- State Senate
1 day ago · The following is a list of the highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada, a market known in the US film industry as the "North American box office" and the "domestic box office", where "gross" is defined in US dollars.
1 day ago · The oldest known painted object in North America is the Cooper Bison Skull from approximately 8,050 BCE. [page needed] Lithic age art in South America includes Monte Alegre culture rock paintings created at Caverna da Pedra Pintada dating back to 9250 to 8550 BCE.
1 day ago · Nintendo of America headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Nintendo founded its North American subsidiary in 1980 as Nintendo of America (NoA). Hiroshi Yamauchi appointed his son-in-law Minoru Arakawa as president, who in turn hired his own wife and Yamauchi's daughter Yoko Yamauchi as the first employee.
1 day ago · Its fishery was also far inferior to that of Nova Scotia's. New Brunswick's forests were rich in wood, but as wood is a bulky and low-value commodity, accessible markets were limited. Essentially, in the late 1700s, New Brunswick was a peripheral corner of the British Empire and North American world.
1 day ago · Jamaica's largest tourist markets are from North America, South America, and Europe. In 2017, Jamaica recorded a 91.3% increase in stopover visitors from Southern and Western Europe (and a 41% increase in stopover arrivals from January to September 2017 over the same period from the previous year) with Germany, Portugal and Spain registering ...
1 day ago · Political map of Europe, showing south at the top. Research suggests that north-south positions on maps have psychological consequences. In general, north is associated with richer people, more expensive real estate, and higher altitude, while south is associated with poorer people, cheaper prices, and lower altitude (the "north-south bias").
