PA Firsts in Nation
- Poconoeagle
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I was amazed at some of them!!
- wlape3
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I'm surprised there were no listings for popular music. Quite a few greats and innovators came out of PA.
- Duengeon master
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The Hooters ehehem The Booters played our High School in 1982.wlape3 wrote:I'm surprised there were no listings for popular music. Quite a few greats and innovators came out of PA.
- Poconoeagle
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all from PA
August Wilson....playwright
Gene Kelly......dancer
Bill Cosby.....entertainer
Pearl Buck.....author
James Buchanan.....US president
Jim Thorpe......olympic athlete
Stephen Foster....composer
Mary Cassatt.....painter
Jimmy Stewart.......actor
Margaret Mead.....anthropologist
Robert E. Peary.....explorer
Marian Anderson......opera singer
August Wilson....playwright
Gene Kelly......dancer
Bill Cosby.....entertainer
Pearl Buck.....author
James Buchanan.....US president
Jim Thorpe......olympic athlete
Stephen Foster....composer
Mary Cassatt.....painter
Jimmy Stewart.......actor
Margaret Mead.....anthropologist
Robert E. Peary.....explorer
Marian Anderson......opera singer
- wlape3
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They were a bit of a flash in the pan although I did like their music. Do you remember the A's?, Hall and Oates? Lots of Doo-Wop, jazz, and blues came out of PA too.
- Poconoeagle
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I believe they were out in the western part of the state?
"Russian engineer F.N. Semyenov used a cable tool to drill an oil well on the Apsheron Peninsula, ten years before Colonel Drake's famous well in Pennsylvania. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well
"Russian engineer F.N. Semyenov used a cable tool to drill an oil well on the Apsheron Peninsula, ten years before Colonel Drake's famous well in Pennsylvania. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well
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And from your Ohio Contributor...:
Pennsylvania gave us Major Richard (Dick) Winters 101 Airborne 506 PIR Easy Co from outside of Hershey,Pa.,and on the acting side we got Jonathan Frakes(Commander William Ryker,Starship Enterprise,Star Trek The Next Generation) of Bethlehem,Pa.
Pennsylvania gave us Major Richard (Dick) Winters 101 Airborne 506 PIR Easy Co from outside of Hershey,Pa.,and on the acting side we got Jonathan Frakes(Commander William Ryker,Starship Enterprise,Star Trek The Next Generation) of Bethlehem,Pa.
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On the lighter side the Big Mac was invented in the Irwin area along Rt. 30. And the banana split up in either Latrobe or Derry can`t remember which.