All posts tagged "Dartmouth"
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1.8K3Massachusetts8 Things You Didn’t Know About New England Olympians
Ever since a Bostonian won the first event in the first modern Olympics, New England has sent more than its share of...
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2.7K1MainePuritans Name, Shame and Take Over Anglican Maine
In 1652, Massachusetts Puritans decided to bring the English Civil War to North America by taking over Anglican Maine. The year before,...
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2.8K1Rhode IslandHow Percy Marks Got Fired from Brown for Exposing the Depravities of the Ivy League
In 1924, an obscure Brown University English instructor named Percy Marks rocketed to fame with his first novel, The Plastic Age, an...
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5.0KVermontThe First Black Phi Beta Kappas of New England
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, established at the College of William and Mary in 1776, is America's oldest and most prestigious honor...
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2.4K2Today's History Highlights ArchiveThe Historic Observatory, or Six New England Places to Gaze at the Stars
A historic observatory in New England could be a stone remnant on the Canadian border, a mountaintop clubhouse or a state-of-the-art, NASA-funded...
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2.5K2Today's History Highlights ArchiveSix of the Oldest Hospitals in New England, From Wine to Women
New England's oldest hospitals are all younger than such venerable institutions as schools, banks, businesses and taverns. Hospitals had been run for...
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3.0K1Politics and Military12 Fascinating Facts About the Fourth of July
The Fourth of July from the get-go has been a rowdy holiday with ringing bells, gunfire, cannonfire, fireworks, feasting, speeches and toasts. Over...
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5.2K1ConnecticutPerkins Metallic Tractors – Connecticut’s Cure for Everything That Ails You
At the close of the American Revolution, Connecticut surgeon Elisha Perkins had a bright future. He had taken up medicine under the...
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14.4K2MaineSix Historic New England Football Fields
Football, once called the Boston Game, was played on many historic New England football fields since the 19th century. An organized college...
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17.6K4Maine6 Tallest Trees in New England
Once New England had the greatest forests and the tallest trees in the world. They were a major attraction for English colonists...