All posts tagged "Cambridge Mass."
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8.6K3Arts and LeisureEdie Sedgwick, Poor Little Rich Girl
In 1965, Edie Sedgwick appeared in one of Andy Warhol’s underground films in 1965 and said, “I’ve never been anywhere where I...
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9.1K6Crime and ScandalLightfoot and Thunderbolt – The Last New England Highwaymen
In July of 1816, Michael Martin encountered an odd clergyman at a tavern in his native Ireland. The cleric dazzled him with...
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18.9K4bostonGeorge Washington Breaks Up a Snowball Fight at Harvard
A snowball fight among Continental Army soldiers threatened to get ugly during the Siege of Boston until George Washington intervened. It was...
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34.3K4Business and LaborPercy Spencer Melts a Chocolate Bar, Invents the Microwave Oven
Percy Spencer had only a fifth-grade education, but that didn’t stop him from earning patents crucial to winning World War II –...
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8.7K2bostonMartha Washington Tries To Cheer the Troops in Cambridge
Martha Washington thought it would be a great idea to throw a Twelfth Night party in 1776 at Continental Army headquarters...
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8.0K5Business and LaborAmazing Grace Hopper, COBOL Inventor and Slayer of Dragons, Gremlins and Bugs
In 1946, the U.S. Navy considered Grace Hopper too old to be an officer. Thirty-seven years later, President Ronald Reagan promoted her...
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