Pennsylvania

Franklin's ideas formed the basis of the University of Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania used to have a big steel industry.

The Amish people use Pennsylvania German at home, English for business, and High German in church.

The Chesapeake watershed spans 64,000 squares miles, covering parts of six states—Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Over 17 million people live in this area.

Scientists first detected it in the United States in Pennsylvania, in the late 1990's. The invasive species has multiplied and spread in all directions from there.

The American Institute of Architects calls Fallingwater, in Pennsylvania, which is partly built over a waterfall, the "best all-time work of American architecture.”

Every state grows some pumpkins, but between 2016 and 2018, the highest-producing states were Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Texas and California.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

Empty shelves are seen at a grocery store in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, March 16, 2020, as shoppers have been buying up extra quantities of the products since the outbreak of the coronavirus.

"They're being very intentionally vague with their emails, because we can tell they don't have much figured out themselves," Lucia Macchi, a freshman at Pennsylvania State University, told VOA.