TIL in 1954, borough of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania purchased the remains of Olympian Jim Thorpe from Thorpe's widow, erected a monument to him, and renamed itself Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania in his honor. Thorpe had never visited the town. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim…
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AFC Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe receives freedom of borough certification at special town hall ceremony. Can now wander goats or cattle in the borough. bournemouthecho.co.uk/new…
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TIL: The once vibrant mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. In 1962 whilst burning rubbish the coal vein beneath the town was accidentally set alight. The coal vein is still burning and is expected to burn for another 250 years. The town is all by abandoned www-history-com.cdn.amppr…
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Lessons from the 1918 influenza pandemic - These small towns in Pennsylvania held a parade despite the growing epidemic in October 1918. It resulted in thousands of people hospitalized and left hundreds dead. wynninghistory.com/2018/0…
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A local borough in Pennsylvania USA has an obsolete emblem

Fountain Hill Emblem This features a Christian church symbol. At least they proclaim equality under the law.

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Springdale Borough, Pennsylvania LEO Mark Thom punches and tasers handcuffed man. youtu.be/-vp38qUzbXw
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Pet Symmetry - Please Don't Tell My Father That I Used His 1996 Honda Accord To Destroy The Town of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania in 2002
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πŸ‘€︎ u/maui_wowie_69
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[Lamborghini][Unknown] So crazy seeing this Lambo just sitting in the little working class town of Nazareth Pennsylvania!
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Left Pennsylvania - currently traveling through Virginia. Hit this little town famous for its caverns and have some locals show me to the deep hidden caves only locals know- decided to skip the touristy cavern tour. Working on making making episode 1 of β€œAmerican Discovery” really cool :)
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πŸ‘€︎ u/lukepakter
πŸ“…︎ Jun 24 2019
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Renovated an old house in a small Pennsylvania town to bring in modern amenities. And a urinal.
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The world's oldest roller coaster, built in 1902, is called "Leap The Dips" and is located in a small town in Pennsylvania youtube.com/watch?v=loQDD…
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β€œPottsville is a fair specimen of the mining towns of Pennsylvania...” An article written by a reporter for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in September 1866 details life in the Schuylkill County seat after the Civil War. wynninghistory.com/2020/0…
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[Abc Reporter] Earlier: β€ͺ@TulsiGabbard‬ was asked about β€ͺ#UBI‬ at a town hall by a member of the β€ͺ#YangGang‬ she said "I'm working on a resolution right now in Congress as we speak and hope to be introducing it here within the next week or two. So it's very high on my priority list." β€ͺ#AlohaGang‬ twitter.com/MissBeaE/stat…
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Anybody have any guesses as to what the name of this town in Pennsylvania might be? I’m pretty sure it’s something that ends in β€œood” Township (Twp.) Pennsylvania. The librarian in the Genealogy library at Carnegie library couldn’t even figure it out. This is from an 1886 death record.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/ZeugmaEnigma
πŸ“…︎ Feb 18 2020
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After 16 months and 793 recorded miles over 29 rides, I finished biking every public bikeable vehicular section of road in the borough of Manhattan on Saturday. (See comments for link to details.)
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Haringey Borough v Yeovil Town: FA Cup tie abandoned after reports of racial abuse bbc.co.uk/sport/football/…
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πŸ“…︎ Oct 19 2019
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Place in Pennsylvania remind me of Tarrey Town
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πŸ‘€︎ u/roggy999
πŸ“…︎ Jun 08 2019
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[Porsche] [Cayman] So crazy to spot one of these in Pen Argyl Pennsylvania a very small working class town.
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In the second semester of my first year of college, my depression and anxiety got 10x worse and I failed all of my classes. This year I'm at a new school in my home town and I'm working on myself. I landed myself a spot on the Dean's list! I'm getting there slowly but surely.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/espressofartz
πŸ“…︎ Jan 03 2019
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Using ImportXML to extract a list of borough

I have to compile a list of London Boroughs from a list of postcodes. To automate this, I want to use ImportXML to get it from a website.

For example, with the postcode E1 2LJ, though the following website: https://www.doogal.co.uk/ShowMap.php?postcode=E1%202LJ

The output should be "Tower Hamlets". The html element is

<a href="AdministrativeAreas.php?district=E09000030">Tower Hamlets</a>

So I'm trying this ImportXML script:

=IMPORTXML("https://www.doogal.co.uk/ShowMap.php?postcode=E12LJ", "//a/@href='AdministrativeAreas.php?district'")

As it isn't working, there's clearly something I'm missing or not using correctly, would appreciate pointers, as I'm very new to this. Thanks!

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Magic of the FA (Youth) Cup: Ninth-tier FC Broxbourne Borough have beat Yeovil Town 1-0 to progress to the Fifth Round! twitter.com/youthhawk/sta…
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Defending PGA champion Henry Picard posing before a tournament being played in his home town of Hershey, Pennsylvania, 1940.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/AxlCobainVedder
πŸ“…︎ Feb 24 2019
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From Pittsburgh PA, just finished our licensing for the state of Pennsylvania. Website launches end of the week maestrossauceco.com you can sign up and be notified when we go live. Also Facebook @CoMaestros where the list of our sauces are our pinned post.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Daramath
πŸ“…︎ Feb 28 2020
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Looking to grow the game and do a demo day in my town. Any advice on lists? I think I could get at least 2 100 point lists out of each faction besides Scum. Thanks for your help in advance, and may the force be with you!

IMPERIAL.
6 Tie.
1 Tie Advanced.
1 striker.
1 inquisitor.
1 decimator

REBEL.
2 Y-Wing.
3 X-Wing.
2 B-Wing.
1 Ghost.
1 YT-1300.

GALACTIC REPUBLIC
2 Red Aethersprite
1 Anakin Aethersprite
4 Torrents.
1 ARC.
1 Y-Wing

SEPARATISTS.
2 Belbalub
6 Vulture droids
1 Hyena Bomber
1 Infiltrator
1 Nantex.

SCUM AND VILLAINY
1 Fang Fighter
1 Firespray
1 YT-1300
1 Punishing One

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Place in Pennsylvania remind me of Tarrey Town
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[US] Be Afraid (2017): A man moves his family to rural Pennsylvania for work; shortly after moving in, he begins to experience episodes of sleep paralysis that may be linked to a dark secret of the town. netflix.com/title/8018969…
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I'm from PA (Pennsylvania), I'm on mobile. This is from the inside of my house. My niece (who is 6) sits in this room all day. The cops in my town say I can't do anything about it because the cameras are on their property. I'm at a loss, I don't know what to do.
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πŸ“…︎ May 14 2019
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After 16 months and 793 recorded miles over 29 rides, I finished biking every public bikeable vehicular section of road in the borough of Manhattan on Saturday. (See comments for link to details.)
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πŸ“…︎ Oct 01 2019
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Most depressing town in Pennsylvania?

My vote goes to Shamokin. I mean it’s not only run down and full of poverty but it’s isolated it’s almost like you’re stepping back in time when you go there. It just seems like there’s no hope there. Here are some honorable mentions: Aliquippa, McKees Rocks, Braddock, McKeesport, North Philadelphia, Mahanoy City & Mount Carmel. At least with those western Pennsylvania towns I named people can go to professional sporting games and enjoy the other things in the area Shamokin is just so isolated & has a huge drug problem.

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πŸ“…︎ Feb 19 2020
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[City] Not exactly a city but Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Most towns/cities in Pennsylvania have similar architecture and are walkable [5652 Γ— 3864]
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πŸ‘€︎ u/RPBot
πŸ“…︎ Apr 09 2018
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TIL: All states in the US are divided into counties, with two exceptions: Louisiana, which consists of parishes, and Alaska, which uses boroughs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou…
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Nevertheless, They Persisted: How one small town in Pennsylvania is successfully fighting the fracked gas industry sierraclub.org/sierra/202…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/oldbkenobi
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What does "The Spirit of Long Island" really mean? Do the four non-Manhattan boroughs actually matter? Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl', gentrification in lower Manhattan, and the drifting meaning of "backstreet guy".

I'm pretty confused about this song and how it jives with what I know of Billy Joel.

Are the Bronx and Queens part of the Long Island that he's the spirit of? I've always taken "The Spirit of Long Island" to refer to the whole Nassau county area, yuppies in the suburbs or in mansions on long beach.

I would assume that the character singing is from below 14th street, but I don't know how to reconcile that with Billy's reputation as king of the bourgeoisie. Were the backstreets(a term we'll get to later) he's referring to in the Bronx or something? I appreciate the Bronx in 2019 is kind of the ghetto now that Giulianni cleaned up the part of the city that people care about but I don't know how it compared to Lower Manhattan in 1983(which I understand was basically infested by ninjas and roving gangs, more or less like the worst parts of gotham).

If the Bronx were a sufficiently rough-and-tumble urban area that we could call it the backstreets, why would Billy be associated with it?

If the character is from the Bronx, it raises an even more suspension-of-disbelief shattering question: why would the uptown girl be in the Bronx? Why would anyone ever leave Manhattan if you're already there unless you were slumming it in Jersey or at Shea to attend a Giants game from the safety of a box seat?

But if the character is from lower manhattan, why is billy joel singing this song at all? Was he so ahead of the curve he knew his elite listenership would one day thrive there or is it just some sexy urban LARPing?

As for the term "backstreet", I think we all can see the contrast that the BSB have created between what the term once meant and how its perceived today, their influence being massive. Was this perhaps an intentional skewing of definitions by The Man that our hero Marshall Mathers subverted with 8mile? Is Eminem the Billy Joel of the 1990s?

Lastly, is it possible this the most thought anyone(including Billy Joel) has ever put into a Billy Joel song?

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πŸ“…︎ Oct 04 2019
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Lost dog- Ellie F 4y/o chipped, purple collar, very skittish, list near 43rd and Jefferson this morning. Last seen running south on Pennsylvania just north of the plaza.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/jillianmv
πŸ“…︎ Jun 02 2019
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A tier list of stupid plays people make in Town of Salem
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πŸ‘€︎ u/MysticMismagius
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AOC: "You’re right, Mr. President - you don’t have a racist bone in your body. You have a racist mind in your head, and a racist heart in your chest. That’s why you violate the rights of children and tell the Congresswoman who represents your home borough, to 'go back to my country.'" twitter.com/AOC/status/11…
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