All posts tagged "art"
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18.6KMaineThe Siege of Scarborough and Maine’s Long War
In 1676, the colonial settlers in Scarborough, Maine, had abandoned the town after fierce fighting with a small army of Indians. That...
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12.9K2Arts and LeisureSix Famous Artists Houses (Where You Can Stay, Too)
Artists gravitate toward places that inspire them creatively, so you can often find artists houses among splendid scenery or in rural isolation....
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64.6K7Business and LaborJ.P. Morgan, The Robber Baron With the Disturbing Facial Feature
J.P. Morgan, the Gilded Age’s most powerful and feared financiers, had an Achilles heel – or nose, rather. He became so rich...
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10.5KConnecticutSix Gravesites of Military Heroes
Military heroes who sacrificed for their country certainly deserve to be remembered on Memorial Day weekend. Some people remember them with parades...
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7.9KArts and LeisureSamuel Bemis Takes America’s First Landscape Photo in the White Mountains
Samuel Bemis was a Boston dentist who bought one of the first cameras in America in 1840 and took the first known...
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20.8K2Arts and LeisureSix Iconic Paintings From the New England States
Iconic paintings capture the essence of a place or a person. American Gothic, for example, reveals the stoic plainness of the rural...
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