All posts tagged "government"
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80.7K25Arts and LeisureHow Portuguese Immigrants Came to New England
In 1915, four Madeiran men organized a feast at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Bedford, Mass. They did it...
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10.3K10Arts and LeisureThe Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company of New Haven Entertains the Masses (But Doesn’t Cure Them)
Kickapoo Joy Juice was a fictional moonshine created by Al Capp, but there were real Kickapoo ‘medicines’ that sold like wildfire in...
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26.4K6New HampshireA German POW Escapes the WWII Prison Camp in Stark, N.H.
On Aug. 1, 1944 German POW Franz Bacher escaped the World War II prison camp in Northern New Hampshire, eluding the manhunt...
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10.2K7Arts and LeisureThe 40 Angels of St. Ann, the Sistine Chapel of Woonsocket
St. Ann Roman Catholic Church in Woonsocket, R.I., was built from nickels and dimes donated by poor French-Canadian millworkers and their families...
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26.1K15New HampshireThe Sensational Surrender of Four Nazi U-boats at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
On May 15, 1945, onlookers tried to glimpse the first of four Nazi U-boats towed up the Piscataqua River to surrender at...
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6.5K4Business and LaborIn 1853, Boston Sends Food to Famine-Wracked Madeira – and the Island Says Thanks
When word spread that the poor of Madeira needed food during famine in 1852, wealthy Bostonians sent help. They never expected what...
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70.7K10MassachusettsThe Night Ethel Kennedy Met Jackie Bouvier
Ethel Kennedy loved to be the center of attention, but she couldn’t compete with her sister-in-law, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Ethel was outdoorsy...
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5.0KConnecticutGerald Chapman, The Gentleman Bandit With The Phony British Accent
Gerald Chapman, Prohibition’s celebrated ‘Gentleman Bandit,’ might have escaped the gallows if he hadn’t gone on a crime spree in Connecticut. While...
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19.1K6Crime and ScandalMary Latham Marries an Older Man – And Regrets It
Around 1643, Mary Latham fell in love with a boy who rejected her. About 17 years old and impetuous, Mary Latham decided...
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18.5K15Business and LaborKatharine Gibbs Invents the Modern Professional Secretary
Katharine Gibbs in 1911 founded her first secretarial school in Providence after learning the hard way that inherited wealth is an uncertain...
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