All posts tagged "humor"
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7.4KCrime and ScandalThe Murder of Jim Fisk, Vermont’s Robber Baron
Jubilee Jim Fisk liked to live large – too large for his own good. He rose from humble beginnings in Vermont to...
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5.6KPolitics and MilitaryCaleb Gibbs Leads George Washington’s Secret Service
At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, it became clear to George Washington that he needed personal protection. He formed the Commander-in-Chief’s...
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9.3KArts and LeisureThe Outrageous Comical Brown Comes to Town
If you live in a New England town with town hall, a school, a church or an opera house, chances are good...
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5.1K7New HampshireAbraham Lincoln in New England – Five Fast Facts
Abraham Lincoln came to New England twice, in September 1848 and February 1860. Newspapers reported extensively on Abraham Lincoln in New England, ...
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11.0K3MassachusettsMen in Drag: The Hasty Pudding Theatricals
Some of New England’s most distinguished statesmen and jurists kept a part of their past quiet later in their careers. They had...
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6.1K2Rhode IslandHow Percy Marks Got Fired from Brown for Exposing the Depravities of the Ivy League
In 1924, an obscure Brown University English instructor named Percy Marks rocketed to fame with his first novel, The Plastic Age, an...
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3.7K3MassachusettsJohn Adams’ Seriously OCD Nephew Founds the Boston Athenaeum
The stately Boston Athenaeum at 10-1/2 Beacon St. owes its storied existence to William Smith Shaw, the obsessive, sickly, curmudgeonly, hard-drinking nephew...
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8.0KConnecticutElias 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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12.7K3UncategorizedTen Takes on New England History by Maine Humorist Bill Nye
Edgar Wilson Nye left Maine (he was born in the small town of Shirley) as a small child, but somehow the dry...
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14.9K3Arts and Leisure10 Colonial Insults for Lollpools, Doxies and Prigs
Language being an ever-evolving thing, colonial insults of 1700 might be something quite different in 2017. So a prig of yesteryear is...
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