All posts tagged "horse"
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5.0KMassachusettsJohn Adams Skipped the Inauguration of His Successor. So Did His Son.
At 4 AM on a warm spring day, a stagecoach rumbled from the White House carrying the outgoing president of the United...
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10.8K1MassachusettsSix Fun Facts About Paul Revere’s Ride
The poem Paul Revere’s Ride took an obscure patriot of the American Revolution and elevated him to American myth. In 1860, Henry...
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25.8K1Business and LaborJohnny Appleseed, The Real Reason He Wandered
Johnny Appleseed wasn’t quite a New England version of St. Francis, wandering the countryside in rags, scattering apple seeds and befriending woodland...
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8.8K7MaineMartha Ballard, Midwife. As Good As, In Some Ways Better Than, the Best Doctors
Martha Ballard somehow managed to deliver 797 babies in the frontier community of Hallowell (now Augusta), Maine, between 1785 and 1812. She...
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