blood relative

 

Secured French financing for the American Revolution while bathing with the wives of European nobility.

rite of passage

Primanti Brothers Sandwiches, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

"They laugh at us because we're different; we smile at them because they're all the same."
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania Amish

nature mastered

In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin discovered that lightening was electrical and that electricity was a force of nature waiting to be tapped. 

America's oldest brewery

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D.G. Yuengling & Son was founded in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in 1829.