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Penitentes (New Mexico) Los Hermanos de la Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre JesĂşs Nazareno (Spanish: "The Brothers of the Pious Fraternity of Our Father Jesus the Nazarene", also known as Los Penitentes, Los Hermanos, and the Penitente Brotherhood) is a lay confraternity of Roman Catholic men active in Northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.
Penitential canons Penitential Canons are religious rules laid down by councils or bishops concerning the penances to be done for various sins. These canons, collected, adapted to later practice, and completed by suitable directions formed the nucleus of the Penitential Books (see Moral Theology).
Penjing Penjing (), also known as tray landscape, potted scenery, potted landscape, and miniture trees and rockery is the ancient Chinese art of growing trees and plants, kept small by skilled pruning and formed to create an aesthetic shape and the illusion of age. Penjing is very similar to and the precursor of the Japanese art of bonsai.
Penkhull Penkhull is a township within Stoke-upon-Trent in the city of Stoke-on-Trent in the English county of Staffordshire. The Domesday Book records it as two hides of land in the Hundred of Pirehill and that it was held by Earl Algar Domesday Book Staffordshire 1086, Phillimore & Co Ltd, Chichester 1976 .
Penkkarit Penkkarit (more formally penkinpainajaiset, meaning something like "the pressings of the bench") is a yearly tradition among Finnish upper secondary school (lukio) students in the spring of their final year, just before the start of the matriculation exams. The penkkarit event itself is held at a date which is common to all schools within the city.
PenKnifeLoveLife PenKnifeLoveLife – otherwise abbreviated to PKLL – is a posthardcore band hailing from Leeds in the North of the United Kingdom. Uniquely, the band is not signed to a corporate label but to the strictly independent Small Town Records label, which was established in 2004 for the band's particular benefit.
Penlee lifeboat disaster The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred on 19 December 1981 off the south-west coast of England, United Kingdom, when the Penlee lifeboat went to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas. Both vessels were lost with all hands, leaving 16 dead, 8 from each vessel.
Penlink Penlink is the nickname for a roading project to provide a quicker path between the Whangaparaoa Peninsula and central Auckland in New Zealand. The project is being undertaken by Rodney District Council, Auckland Regional Council, and Transit New Zealand.
Penmaenmawr railway station Penmaenmawr railway station serves the small town of Penmaenmawr and is located on the Crewe to Holyhead North Wales Coast Line. There are approximately hourly through trains to Holyhead and to Chester via Colwyn Bay, Rhyl, Prestatyn and Flint.
Penmere railway station Penmere station is on the Maritime Line from Truro to Falmouth Docks, the services are operated by First Great Western. It serves the northern part of Falmouth and is within walking distance of the top of The Moor in the centre of the town.
Penn & Teller Penn & Teller are an illusionist and comedy duo from the United States. Penn Jillette is a raconteur; Teller (generally) does not speak while performing, although his voice can be heard as the narrator throughout their performance.
Penn & Teller Get Killed Penn & Teller Get Killed is a 1989 dark comedy film directed by Arthur Penn starring magicians Penn & Teller. The duo play themselves, and the plot involves them in a satirical account of what the audience would perhaps imagine the pair doing in their daily lives.
Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends was a videotape released by magicians Penn & Teller on Lorimar Home Video in 1987. The tape featured seven different swindles or tricks that the home viewer could use to fool their friends.
Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors is an unreleased video game planned for release initially on the Sega CD in April 1995 and to be followed by PC, 3DO versions later that year. The game starred the comedy-magician duo Penn & Teller.
Penn (Tamil drama) Penn is a Tamil drama serial which airs on India's Sun TV network. It first aired in 2006 and is directed by well-known director CJ Baskar, who also directed the hit megaserials, "Chitti" and "Annamalai".
Penn Badgley Penn Badgley (b. November 1, 1986 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor and voice actor of film, television, and video games, best known for his roles in the TV series The Mountain and The Bedford Diaries.
Penn Central Transportation The Pennsylvania and New York Central Transportation Company, almost always called Penn Central, was an American railroad company that operated from 1968 until 1976. It was created by the merger on February 1, 1968 of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad.
Penn District, Pennsylvania Penn District is a defunct district that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The district ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.
Penn effect The Penn effect is the economic finding that real income ratios between high and low income countries are systematically exaggerated by GDP conversion at market exchange rates. It has been a consistent econometric result for at least fifty years.
Penn Fruit The Penn Fruit Company was a regional grocery chain in the Philadelphia and Baltimore areas that operated from 1927 until 1979. During the firm’s history it was regarded as one of the most innovative American supermarket chains.
Penn High School Penn High School is located in Mishawaka, IN, near South Bend, IN. As the only high school of the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, it is one of the largest high schools in the state of Indiana with an enrollment of 3,030 students 9th through 12th grade in the 2006/2007 school year.
Penn Jones, Jr. William Penn Jones, Jr. (October 15, 1914 — January 25, 1998) was a man with a varied background: as a hobo, a University of Texas at Austin student, a member of the United States Army, a newspaper owner (the Midlothian Mirror of Midlothian, Texas) and recipient of the Elijah P.
Penn Leads the Vote Penn Leads The Vote is a non-profit non-partisan student-run voter mobilization drive founded at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 by Jason Oberman and Farrah Fries. The group's primary sponsor is the Robert A.
Penn Lyon Homes Penn Lyon Homes is a construction firm specializing in modular home design, systems-built homes, and commercial modular buildings with its products being distributed through independent builders, developers, and dealers. The company was founded in 1981 and today operates out of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
Penn Manor School District The Penn Manor School District is a school district of 5332 students educated in 10 schools in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.Penn Manor School District It is a member of Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit (IU) 13.
Penn Masala Penn Masala is the world's first Hindi a cappella groupin 1996] by students at the [[University of Pennsylvania. Combining South Asian music with a Western musical style, Penn Masala has been featured in the soundtrack of American Desi, and has released five CDs: Awaaz, 11 PM, Soundcheck, The Brown Album, and the compilation album Out of Stock.
Penn Medicine PENN Medicine is an umbrella organization within the University of Pennsylvania used to administer and coordinate the University's School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS). The (regionally) ubiquitous term is sometimes misapplied to UPHS clinical care services and practices, which use the term "Penn Health".
Penn national insurance Penn National Insurance is a property-casualty insurance company, headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1919 by the Pennsylvania Farmers and Threshermen's Mutual Protective Association, under the name Pennsylvania Threshermen's and Farmer's Mutual Casualty Company, the company first provided only workers' compensation insurance for farm workers who operated steam-driven threshing machines.
Penn National Gaming Penn National Gaming, Inc. operates as a diversified and multijurisdictional owner and operator of gaming properties, as well as horse racetracks and associated off-track wagering (OTW) facilities primarily in the United States.
Penn National Race Course Penn National Race Course is a Thoroughbred horse racing track in Grantville, Pennsylvania. The facility is in the process of becoming a racino with the addition of slot machines at its new Hollywood Casino on the track's premises.
Penn ohio raiders The Penn Ohio Raiders Semi Professional Football Team was founded by Randy Goodnight in 2003. The Penn Ohio Raiders played in the OVFL for two years and played in the United States Football Alliance League since 2005.
Penn Radio Penn Radio is an hour-long talk radio show hosted by Penn Jillette and Michael Goudeau and produced by "Happy Jack" Landreth and "Patrick" DiFazio. The show is broadcast on the Free FM brand radio stations (usually) live with theme music by Mike Jones.
Penn Relays The Penn Relays (also Penn Relays Carnival) is one of the largest track and field meets in the United States, hosted annually since April 21, 1895 by the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It regularly attracts over 15,000 participants from high schools, colleges, and track clubs throughout North America and abroad, competing in over 300 events over five days.
Penn Square Bank Penn Square Bank was a modest-sized commercial bank located in Oklahoma City which made its name in energy loans during the late 1970s Oklahoma Texas oil boom. As a result of poorly documented loans and the collapse of the energy boom, Penn Square declared bankruptcy in 1982.
Penn State Alma Mater The Penn State Alma Mater was written by Fred Lewis Pattee, longtime Professor of American Literature at the institution. Pattee bemoaned the fact that Penn State had no college song which would nourish college spirit and loyalty as other schools had.
Penn State Cancer Institute The Penn State Cancer Institute is a nationally recognized cancer research center of the Penn State Hershey Medical Center located in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Institute provides clinical care, research, education and community outreach services throughout central and eastern Pennsylvania.
Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences is a constituent semi-autonomous part Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. The College was founded in 1896 as a School of Mines, and over time diversified and became the current college offering studies in Earth Science.
Penn State Dance Marathon The Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, commonly referred to as THON, is a two day Dance Marathon that takes place every February at the Pennsylvania State University with the purpose of raising money to combat children's cancer. It was started in 1973 by the university's Interfraternity Council, and in its first year, more than $2,000 was raised, with 39 couples dancing for 30 hours straight.
Penn State Glee Club The Penn State Glee Club is one of the most active and distinguished men's collegiate choruses in the United States. The Glee Club was founded in December of 1888, and since its first spring tour in March of 1889, the Glee Club has toured throughout the United States and abroad, with recent tours to Wales, Trinidad and Tobago, France, and California.
Penn State Golf Courses The Penn State Golf Courses are two 18-hole courses located in State College, Pennsylvania, USA, operated by The Pennsylvania State University. The individual 18-hole courses are named after the school colors (blue and white).
Penn State Harrisburg Penn State Harrisburg, also called The Capital College, is an undergraduate college and graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University, one of the largest and most widely recognized institutions in the nation. The main campus of Penn State Harrisburg is located in suburban Middletown, Pennsylvania, 9 miles (15 km) south of Harrisburg.
Penn State Hershey Medical Center Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, located in Hershey, Pennsylvania 10 miles (17 km) east of Harrisburg, is the medical campus of Pennsylvania State University and is the only medical school and university hospital in Pennsylvania located outside the urban areas of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Penn State McKeesport Penn State McKeesport is a Commonwealth Campus of the Pennsylvania State University in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. On September 15, 2006, the Penn State University Board of Trustees voted to rename the campus to Penn State Allegheny to reflect the campus's location in Allegheny County.
Penn State New Kensington Penn State New Kensington, located 25 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is one of twenty-four campuses that comprise The Pennsylvania State University. The campus has an enrollment of 1,000 and offers a master's degree program, seven bachelor's degree programs, and eight associate degree programs as well as seven men's and women's sports.
Penn State University Creamery The Penn State University Creamery is a producer and vendor of ice cream, sherbet and cheese, all made through the College of Agricultural Sciences of the Pennsylvania State University. It is the largest university creamery in the United States, using approximately 4.
Penn State University Press The Penn State University Press, also called Penn State Press was established in 1956, and is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals. It is the independent publishing branch of the Pennsylvania State University and is a division of the Penn State University Library system.
Penn State World Campus In 1998 The Pennsylvania State University launched its 25th campus of the University, Penn State World Campus. The World Campus is "Penn State online," and offers more than 50 distance education online degree and certificate programs to learners around the world.
Penn Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Penn Township is a defunct township that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The township ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.
Penn Traffic The Penn Traffic Company operates 109 supermarkets in Pennsylvania, upstate New York, Vermont and New Hampshire. The Penn Traffic Company of today was built through the merger of three strong regional supermarket companies in the late 1980s, The Penn Traffic Company, P&C Foods and Big Bear Stores.
Penn's Landing Penn's Landing is the waterfront area of the Center City along the Delaware River section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is so named since the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, was storied to have first docked here in 1682.
Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, commonly known as simply PHM, is a school district located in north-central Indiana, a region locally known as Michiana. The PHM district is located in the eastern part of St.
Penn, West Midlands Penn (population 12000) is a suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, located on the extreme edge of the border with South Staffordshire. Originally it was a village in Staffordshire, and has existed since at least around 1200 when St.
Pennacook The Pennacook or Pawtucket are a Native American group who once had villages in the Merrimack River valley in southern and central New Hampshire, northeastern Massachusetts, and southern Maine. The name comes from "penakuk" which means "at the bottom of the hill" in Abenaki.
Pennamite-Yankee War The Pennamite-Yankee War (or Wars) is the name given to fighting which occurred between 1769 and 1799 between settlers from Connecticut who claimed the land along the North Branch of the Susquehanna River in the present Wyoming Valley, and settlers from Pennsylvania who laid claim to the same territory. Because the combatants were from Connecticut and Pennsylvania, the wars are also known as the Yankee-Pennamite Wars.
Pennan Pennan is a small village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland consisting of a small harbour and a single row of houses, including a hotel. It is located on the north-facing coast and is approximately one hour's drive from Aberdeen.
Pennant (commissioning) The Commissioning pennant or Masthead pennant is a pennant (also spelt "pendant") flown from the masthead of a warship. The pennant reflects the fact that the ship is a ship of war, and is flown until the ship is decommissioned.
Pennant (church) The Church Pennant as used by the Royal Navy, European Navies and Commonwealth Navies is a broad pennant combination of the English Flag at the hoist and the Dutch National Flag in the fly originating from the Anglo-Dutch wars of the late 17th century on Sundays to indicate that a service was in progress and a ceasefire existed between the waring nations, hence the origin of the pennant. It is flown on Ships and Establishments (Bases) during religious services.
Pennant Hills High School Pennant Hills High School (or "Penno" as it is affectionately known by its students) is a comprehensive and co-educational high school situated in the northern suburb of Pennant Hills in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, with the motto "Nil Nisi Bonum" (Latin for "Nothing but the best"). Established in 1966, the school has a student population of 1,270 students (notable students do not include Peter Connell, Terence Sparkes and John Cleese) in 2004 , and has generally maintained these student numbers.
Pennant number In the modern Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth, ships are identified by pennant numbers (sometimes referred to as pendant numbers). The name pennant number arises from the fact that ships were originally allocated an pennant (flag) identifying a flotilla or particular type of vessel: for example, in the Royal Navy, the red burgee for torpedo boats, for torpedo boat destroyers.
Pennate muscle A pennate muscle (also called a penniform muscle) is a muscle with fascicles that attach obliquely to its tendon. These types of muscles generally allow better stabilization and force production but less flexibility.
Penne all'arrabbiata Penne all'arrabbiata is a Roman pasta dish consisting of penne (boiled in salted water) with Arrabbiata sauce (garlic, tomatoes, and red chili, cooked in olive oil). The dish is usually served with chopped fresh parsley sprinkled on top.
Penner River The Penner (also Pennar, Penna or Penneru) is a river of southern India. The Penner rises on the hill of Nandidrug in Kolar District of Karnataka state, and runs 560 km (350 miles) north and east through the state of Andhra Pradesh to empty into the Bay of Bengal.
Penneshaw, South Australia Penneshaw is a town on the northeast coast of Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, and is the island's main ferry port with regular services from Cape Jervis. Penneshaw features a Maritime and Folk Museum, and evening tours to a colony of the Little Penguin, the only species of penguin to breed in Australian waters.
Penngrove, California Penngrove, California (ZIP 94951) is a small, unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, between Petaluma and Cotati at the intersection of Old Redwood Highway and Petaluma Hill Road, and nestled in the foothills of Sonoma Mountain.
PennHIP PennHIP (an acronym for "University of Pennsylvania Hip Improvement Program") is a diagnostic technique for evaluating the hips of dogs for laxity. The acronym is also used for the network of veterinarians that use the PennHIP method of evaluation, and for the database of breed-specific hip dysplasia trends maintained at the University of Pennsylvania.
Pennchants It all began innocently enough. A group of men from the Penn Glee Club one day decided they were tired of singing all old barbershop and musical theater standards, and formed a subsect not unlike the Penn Pipers (who are still a part of the Glee Club).
Pennies from Heaven (song) Pennies from Heaven is a 1936 American popular song with music by Arthur Johnston and words by Johnny Burke. It was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1936 film of the same name, sung in the same year by Billie Holiday, and afterwards performed by Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennett, Arthur Tracy, Big Joe Turner, Frank Sinatra and countless other jazz and popular singers.
Pennies From Heaven (TV series) Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC television drama serial by the highly-regarded television playwright Dennis Potter. The title is taken from a famous song of the same name written by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston.
Pennine League The Pennine Amateur Rugby League, or Pennine League is a rugby league competition for amateur open age clubs that runs from September to April. The clubs are drawn from West and South Yorkshire and the east of Lancashire.
Pennines The Pennines are a mountain range in England. Often said to be the "backbone of England", they form an unbroken range stretching from the Peak District in the Midlands, through the Yorkshire Dales, parts of Greater Manchester, the West Pennine Moors of Lancashire and Cumbrian Fells to the Cheviot Hills on the Scottish border.
Penning ionization Penning ionization is a form of chemi-ionization, an ionization process involving reactions between neutral atoms and/or molecules. The term Penning ionization refers to the interaction between a gas-phase excited-state atom or molecule G* and a target molecule M resulting in the formation of a radical molecular cation M+.
Penning mixture A Penning mixture is a mixture of gases used in electric lighting or displaying fixtures. Although the popular phrase for the most common of these is a neon lamp, it's more efficient to have the glass tube filled not with pure neon, but with a Penning mixture, which is defined as a mixture of one inert gas with a tiny amount of another gas, one that has lower ionization voltage than the main constituent (or constituents).
Penning trap Penning traps are devices for the storage of charged particles using a constant magnetic field and a constant electric field. This kind of trap is particularly well suited to precision measurements of properties of ions and stable subatomic particles which have electric charge.
Pennington County Search and Rescue The Pennington County Search and Rescue (PCSAR) team is a volunteer search and rescue (SAR) team based in Rapid City, South Dakota. The team was established in October, 1973 prompted by a 1972 flood] in Rapid City.
Pennington Flash At the turn of the 20th century, coal mining subsidence and flooding created what has now become known as the "Flash", an area located just off St Helens Road of the Greater Manchester (formerly Lancashire) town of Leigh, England. The 70-hectare lake is the centrepiece of this rare and beautiful country park.
Pennington, KwaZulu-Natal Pennington is a small coastal town on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Apart from a large sugarcane and dairy farming, it also hosts scores of holiday makers who flock to the seaside during the December holidays.
Penninic nappes The Penninic nappes or the Penninicum are one of three nappe stacks and geological zones in which the Alps can be divided in the Alps. In the western Alps the Penninic nappes are more obviously present than in the eastern Alps (in Austria), where they crop out as a narrow band.
Penninic thrustfront The Penninic thrustfront is a major tectonic thrustfront in the French Alps. The thrustfront moves over a developing decollement horizon, and separates the (internal) high grade metamorphic rocks of the Penninic nappes from the (external) sedimentary rocks and crystalline basement of the Helvetic nappes.
Pennino Brothers Jewelry Pennino Brothers Jewelry was a United States jeweller founded by Oreste Pennino in 1926 and based in New York City. It designed and manufactured costume jewelry using rhinestones set in gold plate, sterling, vermeil or rhodium-plated base metal.
Pennisetum Pennisetum is a genus of grasses in the grass family (Poaceae, subfamily Panicoideae, tribe Paniceae), native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the world. They are large annual or perennial grasses, reaching 1-4 m tall.
Pennon Group Pennon Group plc is a British water utility and waste management company based in Exeter, Devon. Its main asset is South West Water Limited, which supplies water and sewerage services in Devon, Cornwall, and parts of Dorset and Somerset.
Pennoni Honors College The Pennoni Honors College, is a college of Drexel University tasked with recognizing and promoting excellence among Drexel students. Unlike the other colleges, the Pennoni Honors College encompases students who are also in one of the other colleges, but have applied to and been selected to be a part of the honors program.
Penns Grove High School Penns Grove High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Carneys Point Township and Penns Grove in Salem County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District. Students from Oldmans Township attend the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship.
Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District The Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District is a comprehenive regional public school district serving students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade from three communities in Salem County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves students from Carneys Point Township (1,076 students) and Penns Grove (1,040 students).
Pennsauken Public Schools The Pennsauken Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district serving students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade from Pennsauken Township, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.
Pennsbury High School Pennsbury High School is a public high school located in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. Between 2002 and 2005, the student population of the school was divided between two buildings, the East and West campuses.
Pennsbury School District The Pennsbury School District is located in Lower Bucks County, in southeastern Pennsylvania. Its boundaries include all of Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Lower Makefield Township, Pennsylvania and Yardley, Pennsylvania as well as portions of Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Tullytown, Pennsylvania.
Pennsville School District The Pennsville School District is a comprehensive community public school district, that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Pennsville Township, in Salem County, New Jersey, United States.
Pennsyltucky Pennsyltucky is a slang word used by Pennsylvania residents to refer to the rural part of the state outside the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia metropolitan areas, more specifically applied to the mountainous central region. At times the term is used to describe all of Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania 10th congressional district election, 2006 The 2006 Pennsylvania 10th congressional district election was held on November 7 to elect a representative from the . Republican four-term incumbent Don Sherwood was defeated by Democrat Chris Carney, a former Defense Department consultant and Navy Lieutenant Commander.
Pennsylvania 500 The Pennsylvania 500 is the second of two stock car races held at the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, on the NASCAR Nextel Cup schedule, the other being the Pocono 500. Both the Pennsylvania 500 and Pocono 500 are unique in that they have no title sponsor, a decision made by track management in response to feedback from fans.
Pennsylvania 6th congressional district election, 2006 The Pennsylvania 6th congressional district election, 2006 was an election for the United States House of Representatives that took place on November 7, 2006 between 2-term incumbent Republican Jim Gerlach and his Democratic opponent Lois Murphy.
Pennsylvania 7th congressional district election, 2006 The Pennsylvania 7th congressional district election, 2006 was an election for the United States House of Representatives that took place on November 7, 2006 between long-time incumbent Republican Curt Weldon and his Democratic opponent retired Navy 3-star admiral Joe Sestak. Sestak was elected with 56% of the vote.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was founded in 1805 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor William Rush, and other artists and business leaders. It is the oldest art museum and school in the nation.
Pennsylvania Air National Guard The Pennsylvania Air National Guard is the component of the United States Air National Guard operating within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The PA Air National Guard is comprised of 13 individual units, including 3 air wings.
Pennsylvania Avenue (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) Pennsylvania Avenue is a station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway, currently served mainly by the train, but also by the , , and trains. Located at Pennsylvania Avenue and Livonia Avenue in Brooklyn, it has two side platforms, one for each track.
Pennsylvania Ballet The Pennsylvania Ballet is a ballet company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, established in 1963 by Barbara Weisberger. The company became a regionally important institution, and performed in New York for the first time in 1968.
Pennsylvania Bluestone Pennsylvania Bluestone is a layered sandstone found only in the northeastern tier of Pennsylvania and the southern tier of New York. Pennsylvania Bluestone has many uses, from cut dimensional stone used in patios, walkways and stair treads to architectural stone used in buildings.
Pennsylvania class battleship The Pennsylvania-class battleships, of the United States Navy, were an enlargement of the Nevada class; having two additional 14 in (356 mm) 45 caliber main battery guns, greater length and displacement, four propellers and slightly higher speed. They also had a relatively large secondary battery of 5 in (127 mm) 51 caliber guns, which was soon reduced when many of the guns' locations proved prone to wetness.
Pennsylvania class cruiser The Pennsylvania class of six armored cruisers were built by the United States Navy between 1901 and 1908. All of them served during World War I, with the California (aka San Diego) being the only ship of its class to be lost.

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