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Taylor, Winchcombe. Ram: Being the Tale of One Ramillies Anstruther (1704-55), Who Was Found on a Battle Field, Served under Duke Marlborough in Flanders and Prince Eugene in Hungear; Was a General in Hindustan and a Nabob in London, Was a Condemned Murderer in Newgate Gaol and a Settler in Georgia Colony, and Who Perished through the Errors of General Braddock on the Monongahela River in the Province of Pennsylvania; Together With Intimate Details of His Loves and Amours With Carla, Chanda the Temple Whore, Lucinda, Erinne, and Other Delectable Females. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1960.
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  • organized crime
  • orphanages
  • orphans
  • Orthodox Christians
  • Ouija boards
  • oxen
  • pacifists
  • painters
  • Pakistani Americans
  • Panic of 1873
  • parallel universes
  • paramedics
  • paramilitary organizations
  • paranormal events
  • parent-teacher associations
  • parents opposing relationships
  • Parkinson's disease
  • pastors
  • Patrick Gass (1771-1870)
  • Paul Marin de la Malgue (c. 1692-1753)
  • pedophilia
  • penance (sacrament)
  • Penn State University
  • Pennsylvania Canal
  • Pennsylvania Dutch
  • Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine
  • Pennsylvania Game Commission
  • Pennsylvania oil rush
  • Pennsylvania Railroad
  • Pennsylvania rifles
  • Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company
  • Pennsylvania Society for the Supression of Lotteries
  • Pennsylvania State Police
  • Pennsylvania Turnpike
  • Pentecostals
  • People's Party
  • people with disabilities
  • people with intellectual disabilities
  • people with mental illness
  • performance artists
  • Peter Mowry (1770-1833)
  • Peter Soffel (1864-1936)
  • petnapping
  • petroleum butter (petroleum jelly)
  • pharmaceutical industry
  • pharmacists
  • Philip Murray (1886-1952)
  • photographers
  • physical therapists
  • physicians
  • physicists
  • Pierre de Contrecoeur (1705-75)
  • pies
  • Pie Traynor (1898-1972)
  • Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
  • pilots
  • pimps
  • Pinkerton Detective National Agency
  • pioneers
  • pirates
  • Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
  • Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
  • Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire
  • Pittsburgh Catholic Charities
  • Pittsburgh Citizens' Police Review Board
  • Pittsburgh Cotton Girls Strike of 1845
  • Pittsburgh Crawfords
  • Pittsburgh Dad
  • Pittsburgh Flood of 1936
  • Pittsburgh Great Race
  • Pittsburgh Marathon
  • Pittsburgh Penguins
  • Pittsburgh Pirates
  • Pittsburgh Plate Glass
  • Pittsburgh Police
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • Pittsburgh Public Schools
  • Pittsburgh Renaissance II
  • Pittsburgh Steelers
  • Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
  • plant nurseries
  • plutonium
  • poetry
  • poets
  • police
  • polio
  • Polish Americans
  • political corruption
  • political scandals
  • politicians
  • polka
  • pollution
  • Pontiac's Rebellion
  • Pontiac (c. 1714/20-69)
  • Pontius Pilate
  • pop bands
  • popular culture
  • populists
  • pornography
  • post-traumatic stress disorder
  • pottery industry
  • poverty
  • power plants
  • pranks
  • pregnant women
  • prejudice
  • prep schools
  • Presbyterians
  • Presley Neville (1755-1818)
  • Pressed Car Steel Strike of 1909
  • Pressed Steel Car Company
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • priests
  • Prince Henry of Prussia (1862-1929)
  • princes and princesses
  • printer and copier industry
  • prisoners
  • private investigators
  • producers
  • professional dance companies
  • professional sports
  • professional wrestling
  • professors
  • Prohibition
  • Prometheus
  • prophets
  • prosecutors
  • Protection from Abuse Orders (PFA)
  • Protestants
  • protestors
  • psychiatric hospitals
  • psychiatrists
  • psychics
  • psychic trauma in children
  • psychologists
  • psychotherapists
  • public defenders
  • public housing projects
  • public memorials
  • public parks
  • public television
  • publishing industry
  • pumpkins
  • Punxsutawney Phil
  • Quakers
  • Quecreek Mine rescue
  • Queen Alliquippa (c. 1670s/1700s-1754)
  • quests
  • rabbis
  • racism
  • radio industry
  • Ragnorok legend
  • rags-to-riches
  • railroad industry
  • Railroad Strike of 1877
  • Ralph Kiner (1922-2014)
  • ranchers
  • ransom
  • rap music
  • Reaganomics
  • real estate agents
  • real estate development
  • real estate industry
  • recluses
  • reconciliation
  • recovered memory
  • redemption
  • Red Scare
  • Reese Fell Alsop (1837-1922)
  • refugees
  • Regina Leininger (1746-unknown)
  • relief agencies
  • religious schisms
  • religious zealots
  • Renaissance fairs
  • rescues
  • resistance to real estate development
  • resort towns
  • restaurant industry
  • Restoration Movement
  • retail industry
  • retirement
  • revenge
  • reverends
  • Revolutionary War
  • rhythm and blues music
  • Richard Nixon (1913-94)
  • Richard Wagner (1813-83)
  • ride share companies
  • riverboats
  • rivers
  • road trips
  • robberies
  • Robert Fulton (1765-1815)
  • Robert Hanna (1738-86)
  • Robert Morris (1734-1806)
  • Roberto Clemente (1934-72)
  • (-) Robert Orme (c. 1725-90)
  • Robert Pitcairn (1836-1909)
  • Robert Reed (1821-86)
  • Robert Stobo (1726/7-70)
  • robotics
  • robots
  • rock and roll
  • Rocky Bleier (1946- )
  • Rocky Mountains
  • Roger Alden (1754-1836)
  • roller derby
  • Roman Catholic cardinals
  • Roman Catholics
  • Romanian Americans
  • romantic relationships
  • roofing industry
  • ROTC
  • rowers
  • Royal Proclamation of 1763
  • rubber industry
  • Rumspringa
  • runaways
  • runestones
  • runners
  • rural communities
  • Russian Americans
  • Russian Orthodox Christians
  • sailing
  • saints
  • Sala Udin (1943- )
  • salespeoples
  • Salute to Israel Parade (Pittsburgh)
  • same-sex adoption
  • same-sex marriage
  • Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872)
  • Samuel M. Kier (1813-74)
  • Samuel Semple (c. 1731-95)
  • Samuel W. Black (1816-62)
  • Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)
  • Sarah Jane Negley (1817-1909)
  • sasquatches
  • Satchel Paige (1906-82)
  • savings and loan associations
  • scavenger hunts
  • school board members
  • school plays
  • school principals and headmasters
  • scientists
  • Scots-Irish Americans
  • Scottish Americans
  • Scottish Highlanders
  • scouting
  • screenwriters
  • sculptors
  • Seaman (dog)
  • Second Great Awakening
  • secrets
  • security guards
  • seminaries
  • Seneca Oil Company
  • senior citizens
  • separatists
  • September 11 attacks
  • Serbian Americans
  • serial killers
  • servants
  • service industry
  • sewing
  • sewing machines
  • sex offenders
  • sexual assault
  • sexual harassment
  • sex workers
  • sharecroppers
  • sheriffs
  • Shingas (fl. 1740-63)
  • shoe factories
  • shopping malls
  • sibling rivalry
  • siblings
  • Siege of Ft. Pitt
  • silent movie theaters
  • silver mining industry
  • Simeon Ecuyer
  • Simon Girty (1741-1818)
  • Simon Kenton (1755-1836)
  • singers
  • single parents
  • sisters
  • Sisters of Charity
  • skiing
  • Skyliners, The
  • skyscrapers
  • slave catchers
  • slavery
  • Slavic Americans
  • sleepwalking
  • Slovak Americans
  • Slovenian Americans
  • small businesses
  • smallpox
  • small towns
  • snipers
  • snowstorms
  • soccer
  • social clubs
  • Socialism
  • social reformers
  • social workers
  • software engineers
  • soldiers
  • Solomon Spalding (1761-1816)
  • Sophie Masloff (1917-2014)
  • sororities
  • soul mates
  • souls
  • space and time
  • Spanish-American War
  • speakeasies
  • sperm donation
  • spies
  • sportscasters
  • St. Clair Expedition
  • stadium vendors
  • stalking
  • Standard Oil Company
  • Stanford White (1853-1906)
  • Stan Musial (1920-2013)
  • steamboats
  • steel industry
  • steel mills
  • Steel Strike of 1919
  • Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC)
  • stepfamilies
  • Stephen Bayard (1744-1815)
  • Stephen Foster (1826-64)
  • stigmata
  • Stockholm syndrome
  • Stone-Campbell Movement
  • street gangs
  • strikebreakers
  • students
  • suburbs
  • Sudan
  • suicide
  • summer camp
  • Super Bowl
  • superheroes
  • supermarket managers
  • surgeons
  • surrogate mothers
  • surveyors
  • SWAT
  • Swedish Americans
  • Swiss-German Americans
  • Swiss Americans
  • Sydney Rigdon (1793-1876)
  • Syrian Americans
  • Taft-Hartley Act
  • talking animals
  • Tanacharison (Half-King) (c. 1700-64)
  • tattoo artists
  • taxation
  • tax collectors
  • taxicab drivers
  • taxidermy
  • teachers
  • teenagers
  • teen pregnancy
  • telegraph employees
  • television industry
  • Temperance Movement
  • terrorism
  • Thanksgiving
  • theater industry
  • theaters
  • The Isaly's Company
  • Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
  • Theodosia Burr (1783-1813)
  • Thomas Carnegie (1843-86)
  • Thomas Dunbar (unknown-1767)
  • Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
  • Thomas Gage (1718/19-87)
  • Three Rivers Arts Festival
  • time travel
  • Timothy Webster (1822-62)
  • Tim Stevens (1945- )
  • Tony (W. A.) Boyle (1904-85)
  • Tories
  • tornados
  • town festivals
  • traders
  • trade unions
  • trains
  • Trainsmen's Union
  • tramps
  • transgender people
  • translators
  • trappers
  • trauma centers
  • Treaty of Ft. McIntosh
  • trench warfare
  • Trial of Harry Thaw
  • tribute bands
  • triplets
  • trolls
  • truck drivers
  • TV news anchors
  • twins
  • Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
  • U.S. Air Force
  • U. S. Army
  • U. S. Bureau of Mines
  • U. S. Coast Guard
  • U. S. Marshals
  • U. S. Merchant Marines
  • U. S. Mine Safety and Health Administration
  • U.S. Navy
  • U. S. senators
  • U. S. Steel Corporation
  • UFOs
  • Ukrainian Americans
  • Ukrainian Catholics
  • Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85)
  • undercover operations
  • Underground Railroad
  • unemployment
  • Union Army
  • union elections
  • union organizers
  • Union Switch & Signal
  • Unitarian Universalist Church
  • United Airlines Flight 93
  • United Mine Workers
  • United States Steel
  • United Steelworkers
  • United Transportation Union
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • unplanned pregnancies
  • urban life
  • used bookstores
  • used car salesmen
  • utopia
  • vacations
  • Valentine's Day
  • vampires
  • vaudeville
  • ventriloquism
  • veterans
  • veterinarians
  • Viagra
  • video games
  • Vietnam War
  • vigilantes
  • Viking explorers
  • villains
  • Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
  • virtual reality
  • viruses
  • visual artists
  • voyages
  • waitresses
  • Walt Whitman (1819-92)
  • ward heelers
  • War in Afghanistan
  • War of 1812
  • War of Regulation
  • War on Terror
  • waste collectors
  • wealthy people
  • weathermen
  • weddings
  • Welsh Americans
  • werewolves
  • Western Pennsylvania Coal Strike of 1927
  • Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation
  • Westsylvania
  • West Virginia
  • Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation
  • Whiskey Rebellion
  • widows and widowers
  • wilderness
  • wildlife conservation
  • Willa Cather (1873-1947)
  • William Bernard Conway (1802-39)
  • William C. McCarthy (1820-1900)
  • William Clark (1770-1838)
  • William Crawford (1722-82)
  • William Foster (1779-1855)
  • William Johnson (1715-74)
  • William Steinberg (1899-1978)
  • William Sylvis (1828-69)
  • William Trautmann (1869-1940)
  • William Trent (1715-87)
  • William Wilkins (1779-1865)
  • William Z. Foster (1881-1961)
  • window dressers
  • winter resorts
  • witchcraft
  • witches
  • WNBO radio station
  • Wobblies
  • wolves
  • women's suffrage
  • working class people
  • working mothers
  • Works Progress Administration
  • World Series
  • world travelers
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • writers
  • WYEP Summer Music Festival
  • x-ray technicians
  • Yellowstone National Park
  • Yugoslavian Americans
  • zombies
  • zoos

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