All posts tagged "boxing"
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3.9K1MassachusettsBoston Corners, The Naughty Town That Massachusetts Lost to New York
Look closely at a map of Massachusetts and you’ll notice the southwestern corner doesn’t square off. It’s as if someone chopped off...
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4.4K2Arts and LeisureSix Art Deco Gems
You don't have to go to Miami or Hollywood for an Art Deco experience. New England has plenty of Art Deco office...
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4.4KMassachusettsRocky Marciano, the Real Rocky, Came From Massachusetts
Rocky Marciano, a favorite of working-class boxing fans in the 1950s, inspired the fictional Rocky Balboa in the films from 1976 to...
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5.2K2Today's History Highlights ArchiveThe New England Summer Theater — Six of the Oldest
Summer theater has been a feature of New England resort towns since a Maine entrepreneur started staging plays in a former skating...
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15.2K8MassachusettsNonantum, the New England Town With Its Own Special Language
No matter where Nonantum natives go, they can tell someone is from their village when they hear them speak Lake Talk. Lake...
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3.1KMassachusettsWe Wuz Robbed, or How Jack Sharkey Boxed His Way to a Catchphrase
Jack Sharkey not only won the world heavyweight championship but was responsible for the classic sports expression: We wuz robbed. Sharkey,...
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3.7K1MassachusettsEleonora Sears, Blueblood Bad Girl on the Tennis Courts
Eleonora Sears pioneered women's sports in the way only a Boston blueblood could. When she took up long-distance walking from Boston to...
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1.4K2New HampshireDancer’s Image, the NH Horse that Won and Lost the Kentucky Derby
The New Hampshire thoroughbred Dancer’s Image won, then lost, the Kentucky Derby in 1968 because his owner made a kind gesture to...
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5.3K17MassachusettsRichard Crafus, Black Captive King of the War of 1812
During the War of 1812, more than a thousand African-American prisoners in Dartmoor Prison toed the line set by a tall, powerful...
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6.6K10MassachusettsKing Charles Solomon, Boston’s Answer to Al Capone, Gunned Down in Mob Shooting
King Charles Solomon ruled Boston’s underworld without challenge until a small-time gangster gunned him down in the men’s room of the Cotton...