All posts tagged "dance"
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15.2K9UncategorizedThe Many Mansions of Edward Searles
In 1921, coroners had Edward Searles body exhumed months after his death. Their conclusion, after examination, was that he had not been...
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18.1K7Massachusetts7 Fun Facts About John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams swam naked in the Potomac, kept an alligator in the White House and won freedom for Africans who mutinied...
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14.2K1Massachusetts11 Fascinating Facts About James Otis, the Revolutionary Who Went Insane
James Otis made taxation without representation a cause of the American Revolution, but when war broke out he had pretty much disappeared...
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5.4K4New England PlacesThe Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Six Historic Opera Houses
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...
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10.4K1ConnecticutPerkins Metallic Tractors – Connecticut’s Cure for Everything That Ails You
A reputable young Connecticut doctor went off the rails shortly after the American Revolution with an invention that supposedly cured everything: the...
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15.7K2Business and LaborPolly Peabody, The Bohemian Blueblood Who Invented the Bra
Inventing the bra was possibly the least interesting thing Polly Peabody did in her life. Born Mary Phelps Jacob, she was called...
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