Poles, bears and tigers

From Anna Marie Edmunds, ‘Historical Overview’ (in Landmarks of Greater Pittsburgh):

‘Native Americans were the original settlers of what is now known as Pittsburgh, and battered with fur traders for necessities in exchange for animal skins.’ (What nations were those, I wonder? Does the author know?)

‘[…] Immigrants, primarily Irish and Scots but also Germans, Italians, Hungarians, Poles, Slavs [underlined by me.—iad] and Greeks arrived […]’. (Argh! No, never mind that. Evidently the author doesn't know.)

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The Pittsburgh Zoo has a remarkable address: One Wild Place (Wild Place as such doesn't exist; 1 Wild Pl is an alias for 1 Hill Rd).

They asked me for my zip code at the ticket office. I said I was a foreigner. ‘Your postcode, then. Wherever.’ I stated it, and it was keyed in. I didn't name the country, though. I wonder how many places in the world have the same four-digit postcode as mine.

The zoo itself is quite good. ( More about it )