All posts tagged "dance"
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11.5K4MassachusettsWhen the Pickwick Club Collapse Killed 44 in Boston; the Charleston Took the Blame
At 3 a.m. on July 4, 1925, 50 couples crowded onto the dance floor of the Pickwick Club in Boston’s Chinatown, kicking...
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18.3K9Arts and LeisureThe 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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19.7K7Massachusetts7 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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15.7K1Massachusetts11 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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6.0K4New 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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11.7K2ConnecticutPerkins 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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