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13.3K2William Miller Convinced Thousands of Millerites the End Was Near
William Miller famously led thousands of people on a religious wild goose chase in 1844 that ended only when (to his followers’...
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8.2KJohnny Tremain Inspired by John Adams’ Boyhood Friend
The classic young adult book Johnny Tremain is still popular 80 years after Esther Forbes first wrote it (despite Walt Disney’s treatment)....
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6.6K7How Diva Poet Amy Lowell Saved the Boston Athenaeum
Amy Lowell was 26, and not yet a poet but certainly a diva when she began her crusade to save the elegant...
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11.8K11913, the Year of the Great Tango Controversy
In April 1913, 90-year-old Henry McHenry walked out of the Chelsea Old Soldiers Home, telling his friends he was going to town...
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7.9K3The 1948 World Series: Spahn, Sain and No Rain
It didn’t rain during the 1948 World Series, which may be why the Boston Braves lost to the Cleveland Indians in their...
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7.7K1Colonial Jack’s 9,024-mile Walk Around America
On June 1, 1908, John Albert Krohn dressed up in colonial garb and set out to win $1,000 by walking the U.S....
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