Massachusetts
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6.6KA Brief History of the Plastic Pink Flamingo
Don Featherstone made landscape history in 1957 when he designed the plastic pink flamingo for a Leominster, Mass., plastics company. Little did...
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5.9KSix Fun Facts About New England Olympians
Hundreds of New England Olympians have won, lost and placed in the summer games since they restarted in Athens in 1896. New...
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3.6KThe Great Gale of 1879 and a Daring Nantucket Rescue
The Great Gale of 1879 showed why Nantucket earned the nickname the Graveyard of the Atlantic. The storm, which began on March...
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3.6KJohn Margolies Photographs Roadside America
John Margolies in 1970 caused a stir, and not a good one, in highbrow architectural citcles. He did it by putting on...
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3.7KThe Wreck of the Famine Ship St. John (According to Thoreau)
On Oct. 7, 1849, the brig St. John struck Grampus Ledge off the coast of Cohasset during a sudden and furious storm....
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4.7KBanbury Cake, the Puritans’ Favorite Treat
On Dec. 24, 1706, Judge Samuel Sewall brought a Banbury cake to a sick friend in Boston. Sewall, best known as one...
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