All posts tagged "Cambridge Mass."
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8.0K1Science 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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11.9KMassachusettsHenning Jacobson Loses His Fight With the Board of Public Health Over Vaccination
Henning Jacobson, a Swedish minister, in 1905 refused vaccination during a smallpox epidemic in Cambridge, Mass., in 1905. Then he refused to...
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17.8KArts 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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21.4KArts and LeisureWorld War I Inspires Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting, who created the children’s book character Doctor Dolittle, was an MIT trained civil engineer who spent much of his life...
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24.1K4MassachusettsMargaret 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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48.5K14Arts and LeisureHow To Talk With a New Hampshire Accent
Woe to the presidential wannabe who doesn’t study the New Hampshire accent before entering the First in the Nation Presidential Primary (and...
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