All posts tagged "fiction"
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29.5K5Arts and LeisureGeorge Francis Train, One of the Few Sane Men in a Mad, Mad World
George Francis Train, a nutty, attention-seeking businessman, in 1871 traveled around the world in 80 days. The feat caused a sensation, but...
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12.7K6Crime and ScandalAgnes Surriage and Her Journey from Tavern Wench to Lady of the Manor
In 1742, Charles Henry Frankland, the king’s collector for the port of Boston, visited Marblehead, Mass. — probably to assess the improvements...
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11.4K10Arts and LeisureMolly Spotted Elk, From Poverty in Old Town, Maine, to Fame in Paris — and Back
In the fall of 1931, 27-year-old Molly Spotted Elk was far from home and unsure about marrying her French journalist lover. She...
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11.7K1New HampshireMurder in the North Woods: Coos County’s Treacherous David Robbins
David Robbins was nobody’s idea of a good man. But he was a legend of the New Hampshire woods, made infamous by...
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17.9K10MassachusettsSarah Bagley Avenges the New England Mill Girls
A powerful Massachusetts politician in 1845 learned the hard way not to mess with the mill girls – and especially not with...
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17.4K7Arts and LeisureJaws, Or The Tale of an Unfairly Maligned Shark
The 1974 bestseller Jaws and the blockbuster that followed created such animosity toward sharks that the book’s author became an ardent shark advocate. Twenty-five...
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