All posts tagged "london"
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10.4KArts and LeisurePaul Robeson Moves To Enfield, Conn.
In 1941, the most famous black man in the world moved with his wife and son to a 12-room Colonial house in...
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4.9KMassachusettsWhen Elizabeth Cady Stanton Met Lucretia Mott, the Women’s Movement Began (Supposedly)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a skilled propagandist who sometimes creatively remembered events in order to make a point. Or, to put it...
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17.4KCrime and ScandalThe Boon Island Cannibals of Maine
On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1711, the York County coroner was summoned to examine a frozen body discovered in a...
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9.3K11Crime and ScandalLona Cohen – The Spy Who Kept Her Cool Even in the Desert
The year was 1945 and 32-year-old Lona Cohen from Adams, Mass., was in the New Mexico desert. Americans had perfected the nuclear...
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10.8K30Politics and MilitaryCotton Mather and Joseph Dudley: Allies and Enemies in 1695
Our story of Cotton Mather and Joseph Dudley begins in 1686. Cotton Mather has just assumed leadership of the Second Church of...
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8.2K12Arts and LeisureWhy Gilbert Stuart Never Finished His Portrait of Washington
Early American painter Gilbert Stuart never finished his most famous work, the portrait of George Washington featured on the dollar bill for...
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