All posts tagged "inheritance"
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10.9KConnecticutArchduke Leopold, the Connecticut Factory Worker Who Might Have Been King
Archduke Leopold of Austria, Prince of Tuscany, spent most of his life in exile trying to chase down money — at least...
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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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22.1KCrime and ScandalIn 1795 Dr. Elisha Phelps Takes a Wife – Or Two
In 1795, Abigail Wheelock looked out the window of her house in Hanover, N.H., to see Suky Eastman stepping out the back...
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14.9KArts and LeisureThe Two Loves of Louisa May Alcott
Before Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, she wrote a book about a young girl named Sylvia in love with an intellectual...
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14.5K4Business and LaborJohn Deere, Vermont Blacksmith, Breaks the Plains
When John Deere was eight years old, his father left their home in Middlebury, Vt., and boarded a ship for England. He had...
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6.8K7Arts and LeisureHow Diva Poet Amy Lowell Saved the Boston Athenaeum
Amy Lowell was 26, and not yet a poet but certainly a diva when she began her crusade to save the elegant...
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