Massachusetts
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3.7K1Fred Allen Jokes His Way Through Dirty Old Boston
Before Groucho Marx, before Johnny Carson and before Saturday Night Live, there was Fred Allen. A wildly popular radio comedian, he created...
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3.0KThe War of 1812 and How To Win When Outnumbered: Perspective
The past is a foreign country. Once upon a time I drove up through Maine and across the border into the wilds...
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5.0KBoston Riots Once Every 3 Years — for Centuries
Boston riots during the 18th century were so frequent you could have called the town Riot City. Between 1700 and 1764, 28...
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5.3KThe Death of Chow in Boston Harbor, 1798
Among the graves of British and American Revolutionary War soldiers on Boston Common lies the body of a 19-year old Chinese teenager...
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5.9KAlice Bishop, Pilgrim Murderess, Kills her 4-Year-Old Daughter
The mystery of why Alice Bishop cut her four-year-old daughter’s throat in Plymouth Colony still lingers 370 years later. Alice didn’t deny...
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3.4K2Clover Adams Takes Pictures of Grief (Her Own)
The famous statue “Grief” memorializes Clover Adams, a talented photographer whose husband wouldn’t let her work be published. She committed suicide in...
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