All posts tagged "cod"
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3.9KMassachusettsStephen Higginson Tells Fish Stories To Parliament In 1771 and Gets Arrested For It
In 1771, the British government desperately needed to know how American colonists felt about fishing policies. Stephen Higginson filled them in, and...
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17.3K3Arts and LeisureHow To Talk Like a Mainer
If you want to talk like a Mainer, there’s a lot more to it than ‘ayuh’ and ‘Bah Hahbah.’ And if you’re...
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26.0K2Business and LaborWhen Mussolini Stiffed Gloucester, Mass., for $1 Million
In 1923, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini refused to pay a Gloucester seafood company for a shipment of salt cod. Mussolini’s action...
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15.4KCrime and ScandalPhilip Ashton Escapes Pirates and Miraculously Survives on a Deserted Island
Philip Ashton, a 19-year-old fisherman, escaped captivity by the vicious pirate Edward Low on a remote Caribbean island. For 16 months he...
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8.8K6Arts and LeisureAnna Green Winslow Dines with King Hooper
Anna Green Winslow led quite a busy social life as an 11-year-old schoolgirl in pre-Revolutionary Boston. She socialized with the town’s elite,...
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19.5K11Business and LaborFebruary 1879 : The Deadliest Month for the Gloucester Fishing Fleet
Fishing the Georges Bank has always been a dangerous job taken on by the Gloucester fishing fleet of Cape Ann, Mass., but...
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