All posts tagged "George W. Bush"
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10.6KbostonLincoln’s Bixby Letter, The Inspiration for Saving Private Ryan
In the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan, Gen. George Marshall reads a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to a Boston widow who...
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9.3KArts and LeisureRebekah Harkness, the Scorned Socialite of Watch Hill, R.I.
Rebekah Harkness spent much of the Standard Oil fortune she inherited on the ballet. Not just going to performances, but sponsoring entire...
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54.6K11ConnecticutSkull and Bones, or 7 Fast Facts About Yale’s Secret Society
Skull and Bones, Yale University’s most famous and most secret society, has inspired sinister conspiracy theories since its founding in 1832. Some...
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21.0K4New England PlacesSix Presidential Houses in New England
Before presidential libraries, there were presidential houses, and every New England state has at least one. Massachusetts, of course, was the birthplace...
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13.9K3New England PlacesSix of the Oldest Hospitals in New England, From Wine to Women
New England’s oldest hospitals are all younger than such venerable institutions as schools, banks, businesses and taverns. Religious orders had run hospitals...
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28.8K9bostonThe 6 Oldest Public High Schools in New England
The oldest public high schools in the United States all stand in New England, probably because the Puritans believed in educating children...
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