All posts tagged "gambling"
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9.0K10Arts and LeisureEdgar Allan Poe Writes A Story Based on a Boston Harbor Legend
Edgar Allan Poe based the macabre short story, The Cask of Amontillado, on a legend he heard while serving in a fort...
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14.4K2Arts and LeisureKahlil Gibran Gets His Picture Taken in Boston
A wealthy Bohemian helped lift a young Lebanese boy named Kahlil Gibran from the squalor of Boston’s South End. At the end...
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26.5K31MassachusettsThe Orphan Train and the Children Who Rode Them
In 1926, a four-year-old orphan named Lorraine Williams and 13 other children were scrubbed, dressed in new clothes and put onto an...
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7.6K17MassachusettsRichard 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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6.4K4MaineLet Them Eat Lobster – Marie Antoinette Plans To Move to Maine
Marie Antoinette and Maine hardly trip off the tongue together, but an intrepid ship captain from the state nearly saved the life...
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5.8K9Crime and ScandalThomas Kemble, The Kissing Puritan
Capt. Thomas Kemble was a prominent ship’s captain in the 1650s in Massachusetts, but that didn’t stop him from getting into trouble...
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3.4K7Business and LaborRules for Living From an Old Massachusetts Farmer
Jared David Busby was a 78-year-old Massachusetts farmer who had the solution to ending the Great Depression: Work. So he told his...
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6.6K22MassachusettsThe Puritans Ban Gambling and a Whole Lot of Other Things
The Puritans had barely arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when they banned gambling. And then they banned a lot of other...
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2.2K7Arts and LeisureBabe Ruth: ‘A man ought to get all he can’
[jpshare]When Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announced he’d sold 24-year-old Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees on Jan. 5, 1920, The...
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19.4K41frontWe Won’t Go Until We Get Some: New England Colonial Christmas Traditions
Just how rowdy was a New England colonial Christmas? It depended on who was celebrating. But it bore little resemblance to Christmas...
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