All posts tagged "health"
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14.9KConnecticutElias Howe, Sewing Machine Inventor, Gets a Little Help From the Beatles
Why the Beatles dedicated a film to Elias Howe is a bit of a mystery, but some of the more preposterous explanations actually...
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13.0K3New 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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7.4K1Religion and Social MovementsJean-Louis Cheverus, the Catholic Priest Even the Puritans Liked
Boston, today that most Catholic of American cities, had no Catholic church within 300 miles when Father Jean-Louis Lefebvre Cheverus arrived in...
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14.5K2ConnecticutPerkins 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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17.8K4Arts and LeisureThe Gravesites of Six Revolutionary Heroines
The gravesites of such revolutionary heroes as Paul Revere and John Adams are well known and well marked, but where are the...
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29.5K8Arts and LeisureSix Brutalist Buildings
Two of the most famous Brutalist buildings in America are still provoking strong emotions in New England decades after they first reared...
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