All posts tagged "Atlantic Ocean"
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15.7K1Crime and ScandalCharles Lindbergh and the Other Kidnapping
The kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby rocked the world in 1932. But three years earlier it was Lindbergh’s sister-in-law who faced...
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10.9KMassachusettsJames Swan, The Man Who Financed Two Revolutions
In 1794, the Atlantic Ocean was a battleground, with the French and British at loggerheads. The British Navy, with the support of...
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11.9K1MassachusettsThe 1755 Earthquake Shakes Up John Adams and All of New England
The great 1755 earthquake was part of a series of earthquakes (probably related to each other) that wracked both sides of the...
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21.8K4New England PlacesSix Presidential Houses in New England
Before presidential libraries, there were presidential houses, and every New England state has at least one. Massachusetts, of course, was the birthplace...
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53.8KMassachusettsDon Pedro, The Last True Pirate To Raid the Atlantic
Don Pedro, the handsome, ruthless Spanish pirate, apparently didn’t get the memo in 1832 that piracy was over in the Atlantic Ocean....
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14.3K3MaineHow John Marin, America’s Greatest Artist, Vanished from Sight
In 1948, Look magazine took a poll of art critics and museum directors to determine America’s greatest artist. John Marin won. But...
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