Rhode Island
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6.7KThe Providence Tea Party: On Dry Land, in Daylight and Thrown By Women
Rhode Island patriots had no more love for tea than did their allies in Boston, and on March 2, 1775, they threw...
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10.3K2Clement Moore, Hebrew Scholar and Reluctant Author of ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’
Clement Moore took far more pride in the Hebrew dictionary he wrote than in A Visit from St. Nicholas, which he also wrote....
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26.9KThe Greatest New England High School Football Rivalries
New England high school football rivalries go back to the days when teams traveled by stagecoach to visit their opponents. When there...
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12.6K5How the Quahog Became a Rhode Island Icon
If you know anything about Rhode Island, you know the quahog is sacred and peculiar to America’s smallest and wateriest state. But...
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8.8KChopmist Hill, Rhode Island’s Secret Listening Post in WWII
Just before Pearl Harbor, Chopmist Hill in Scituate, R.I., was the center of the world. That’s what the Federal Communications Commission discovered...
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4.7K1Gordon Bennett, the Madcap, Scandal-Mongering Publisher Who Built the Newport Casino
Today in Britain people utter ‘Gordon Bennett’ when someone says something unbelievable, disgusting, surprising or outrageous. They probably don’t know they’re referring...
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