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Amish Mafia is an American reality television [1] series that debuted on December 12, 2012, on the Discovery Channel. The series follows "Lebanon Levi", along with three of his assistants, who are purported to be a "mafia" in an Amish community. Although portrayed by Discovery Channel as documentary "reality" television, the authenticity of the ...
On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] [3] Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse.
The Lancaster Amish affiliation is the largest affiliation among the Old Order Amish and as such a subgroup of Amish. Its origin and largest settlement is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The settlement in Lancaster County, founded in 1760 near Churchtown [1] is the oldest Amish settlement that is still in existence.
An explosion ripped through a hotel in Pennsylvania’s Amish country, leaving one person dead, police said. The blast occurred around 2:30 a.m. Dec. 18 at the Bird-in-Hand Family Inn in Lancaster ...
Anti-Amish sentiment is discrimination, persecution, hostility or prejudice directed against Amish people or the Amish religion. Hate crimes directed against Amish people are known as "Claping". [1] Amish people were subjected to violent persecution in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, causing many to leave Europe as refugees and ...
Pennsylvania State Police investigators are still working to determine a motive in the killing of a 23-year-old Amish woman in her Fish Flats Road home in Sparta Township, Crawford County, on Feb. 26.
The Amish Outlaws began in 2002. [1] Three of the founding members, Ezekiel, Amos Def, and Hezekiah X moved to New York City after leaving the Amish community. They originally began playing in a band for fun and eventually decided to become The Amish Outlaws to make a living from it. [2] Three of the six members [3] are from the Pennsylvania ...
Pennsylvania. ( 2020) Lancaster County ( / ˈlæŋkɪstər /; Pennsylvania Dutch: Lengeschder Kaundi ), sometimes nicknamed the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 552,984, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most populous county. [2]