All posts tagged "geography"
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34.2KNew England PlacesSix Abandoned Places
What is so appealing about abandoned places? Cyberspace abounds with photos, videos and bloggers waxing elegiac about abandoned old mills, mansions and...
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19.6K13Connecticut16 Fun Facts About Noah Webster, the Dictionary Writer Who Was Slightly Nuts
Noah Webster was an odd duck, a famously fussy lexicographer who not only Americanized the English language but created the idea of...
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11.1K30New England PlacesSix New England Places With a Unique Name
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
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19.0K3Connecticut6 Places That Used To Be Part of a Different State
For centuries, New England’s borders were anything but stable, and New Englanders didn’t agree on what they were. Maine was once part...
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17.0K25MassachusettsDaniel Webster Risks It All on the Seventh of March
The Seventh of March Speech was one of the most famous orations delivered by Daniel Webster, an orator who had no equal....
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35.9K28ConnecticutMiss Porter’s School Finishes Socialites, Scholars and a First Lady
The educational reformer who founded Miss Porter’s School in 1843 could not have imagined the fame, fortune, scandal and accomplishment her students...
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