Lightning struck twice for the University of Pittsburgh in the 1970s: It found not only an archaeological site with potential evidence of early inhabitants...
One in an occasional series that explores the lesser-known, unusual and unique museums and attractions of the region. Pittsburgh is home to plenty of popular...
It’s not hard for Elisabeth Roark to pick out the zinc tombstones nestled among hundreds of granite and marble counterparts in Allegheny Cemetery. Their distinctive gray-blue color puts them in stark contrast to other stones in the historic Lawrenceville cemetery,…
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Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart famously crash-landed in 1928 at Rodgers Field in O’Hara — now the site of Fox Chapel Area High School. She was headed for Cleveland but was so taken by the Pittsburgh skyline she wanted to land. That pit…
SCRANTON — Dorothy Dietrich cannot only pull a dove out of a scarf, she can make tourists appear at her Houdini Museum in Scranton. A couple from New Rochelle, New York, and another from Ohio were a rapt audience for more…
An archaeological dig over the past few years on a mountain ridge overlooking the Youghiogheny River outside Perryopolis has led to the discovery of some 5,000 artifacts that prehistoric people used close to 7,000 years ago. The discovery of those artifacts was…
David Newell, who grew up in Green Tree, remembers being driven to the Hollywood Theater in Dormont for birthday outings with friends in the 1940s...
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - On this day in the year 1781, Americans defeated British forces and forced a surrender on Yorktown. The Battle of Yorktown is largely seen as the last major battle of the... HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - On this day in…
The second copy on display is the so-called Stone engraving, produced in 1823 when Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, worried about the deteriorating original parchment, commissioned a large copper plate to preserve the text, Williamsburg Families reports. Sarah Meschutt, senior…
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