Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A dissected upland region of the Allegheny Plateau in northeast Pennsylvania. The Poconos are a popular resort area.
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race called the Pocono Mountains 125.
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race called the Pocono Mountains 125.
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Monroe County, Pa., in the heart of the Pocono Mountains, saw a 3% decline in transactions, but its Lake Naomi resort community was up nearly 15%.
Market for Vacation Homes Is on the Rise S. Mitra Kalita 2011
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Our homes would be washed away and we'd be forced into exile, wandering in the Pocono Mountains for forty years.
Sybil Adelman Sage: "He's Just not that Into You" -- God and me Sybil Adelman Sage 2011
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Our homes would be washed away and we'd be forced into exile, wandering in the Pocono Mountains for forty years.
Sybil Adelman Sage: "He's Just not that Into You" -- God and me Sybil Adelman Sage 2011
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Without power, the Tirado family's septic pump stopped working at their home in Lake Ariel, Pa., in the Pocono Mountains, sending sewage through their shower drain and into their finished basement, where the filth was an inch deep.
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He stayed in Pennsylvania, where he now lives on a 25-acre estate in the Pocono Mountains.
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He is charged with murdering 24-year-old Laura Ronning in 1991 as she hiked near a waterfall in the Pocono Mountains.
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In 1953, two adjoining Pennsylvania towns on the edge of the Pocono Mountains
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His son, Alfonso Frank Frazetta, 52, was charged in December with using a backhoe to break into the artist's museum in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains and trying to remove 90 paintings insured for $20 million.
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