All posts tagged "family"
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12.1KArts and Leisure7 Fun Facts About the Trapp Family, Before & After The Sound of Music
There’s a lot more to the Trapp Family Singers than you’ll find in The Sound of Music, one of the most beloved...
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13.2KMassachusettsMary Bliss Parsons, the Witch of Northampton
The year 1656 wasn’t the first time Mary Bliss Parsons of Northampton was accused of witchcraft. Nineteen years later, in 1675, she...
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11.9KConnecticutA Daughter of the Puritans Leads a Life of Secret Terror
A daughter of the Puritans led two lives. One, a happy ordinary life of a New England girl filled with school, friends,...
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15.4K2Arts and LeisureThe Real People Behind Little Women
A century and a half after Little Women first reached the bookstore shelves, the story of four sisters and their mother still...
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33.6K3Arts and Leisure10 Colonial Insults for Lollpools, Doxies and Prigs
Language being an ever-evolving thing, colonial insults of 1700 might be something quite different in 2020. So a prig of yesteryear is...
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17.7K22Business and LaborThe 1871 Whaling Disaster: 33 Ships Crushed by Arctic Ice
In 1871, a whaling disaster in the Arctic hastened the end of the U.S. whaling industry as ice shipwrecked 33 whale ships....
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