All posts tagged "london"
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2.6KArts 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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2.8KMassachusettsWhen 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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13.6KCrime 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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11.3K16MassachusettsJohn Adams Wishes Thomas Jefferson ‘Many Happy New Years’
On New Year’s Day 1812, former president John Adams picked up his quill pen at his home in Quincy, Mass., and wrote...
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