All posts tagged "Cambridge Mass."
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4.1KScience and NatureFighting for Independence During a Smallpox Epidemic: Lake Champlain in 1776
Throughout the first six months of 1776, the soldiers of the American Northern Army in Canada fought against two deadly enemies: smallpox...
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4.5KMassachusettsHenning Jacobson Loses His Freedom to the Board of Public Health
Personal liberty took a hit in the United States when the Supreme Court ruled in the 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts case. Henning...
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6.6KArts and LeisureJacques Pepin, French From Connecticut
Jacques Pepin and Julia Child were serving up mashed sweet potatoes during a televised cooking show just before Thanksgiving in 2000. Julia...
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17.2K3MassachusettsMargaret Fuller Dies in a Shipwreck While People Watch
Margaret Fuller, who spent her life protesting injustice, died at the age of 40 in a shipwreck off New York Harbor while...
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34.9K14Arts and LeisureHow To Talk With a New Hampshire Accent
The New Hampshire accent started with the English colonists who first arrived in North America. They brought with them speech patterns from...
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32.8K4bostonSix Revolutionary Forts
Scattered throughout New England are dozens of revolutionary forts. Some, like Fort Halifax in Maine, date to the French and Indian wars....
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