New York City is composed of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island are all included. Each borough is coextensive with a county in New York State. The boroughs of Queens and the Bronx are sometimes known as Queens County and Bronx County, respectively. The other three counties are called after their respective boroughs: […]
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Fallingwater is a house designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939 in the Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania, about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The house was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, located in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. The house was designed as a weekend home for Liliane
Erie is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city was named for the Native American Erie people who lived in the area until the mid-17th century.
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Point State Park (locally known as The Point) is a Pennsylvania state park on 36 acres (150,000 m2) in Downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, forming the Ohio River. Built on land acquired via eminent domain from industrial enterprises in the 1950s, the park opened in August 1974 when construction was completed on its iconic fountain. Pittsburgh settled on the current design after rejecting
Allegheny County is located in the southwest of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Allegheny County is included in the Pittsburgh, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and in the Pittsburgh Designated Market Area. Allegheny was the first county in Pennsylvania to be given a Native American name. It was named after the Lenape word for the Allegheny River. The meaning of “Allegheny” is uncertain. It
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This is a list of notable people who were born, or who have lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Andrew J. Feustel, NASA astronaut William Addams (1777–1858), U.S. representative David Hayes Agnew (1818–1892), surgeon Chas Alecxih, NFL defensive lineman Andy Baldwin, U.S. Navy lieutenant and physician, bachelor of season 10 of The Bachelor James Buchanan (1791-1868), 15th President of the United States Thomas Burch (1778–1849), Methodist circuit rider
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The Teeswater River is a river in the municipalities of Arran–Elderslie, Brockton and South Bruce in Bruce County in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is in the Great Lakes Basin and empties into the Saugeen River at Paisley, Ontario. The community of Teeswater is located on the river. The river was named after the River Tees in England.
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are currently 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Due to this shared sovereignty, Americans are citizens both of the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no
Khoy County is located in Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province. The county’s capital is Khoy. Khoy city was fortified at several points during its history, most recently by the Qajar dynasty in the nineteenth century. Khoy was seized by Ottoman soldiers in 1911, and then by Russian troops during World War I, who retreated in 1917.