All posts tagged "maritime"
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11.4K3Arts and LeisureWhy the Ghost of Eugene O’Neill Haunts a BU Dorm
Eugene O’Neill lay dying in Room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel in Boston just before Thanksgiving in 1953. For years he had...
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33.4K17New HampshireThe Sensational Surrender of Four Nazi U-boats at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
On May 15, 1945, onlookers tried to glimpse the first of four Nazi U-boats towed up the Piscataqua River to surrender at...
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20.0K10MassachusettsThe Stolen Library That Launched America’s 1st Math Genius, Nathaniel Bowditch
In 1791, two Salem ministers let an 18-year-old apprentice named Nathaniel Bowditch use their private library. Maritime navigation would never be the...
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8.8K10Crime and ScandalThe Scandalous 1806 Divorce of Elizabeth Derby West
Heiress Elizabeth Derby West caused a sensation in 1806 when she paraded a series of prostitutes through a Salem, Mass., courtroom to...
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22.5K12Business and LaborAbbie Burgess, Teenaged Heroine of Matinicus Rock Light
Abbie Burgess, at just 16, kept the light burning in Matinicus Rock Lighthouse for 21 days in 1856 during a violent storm....
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30.4K6MaineThe Revolutionary Flags That Fell to the Stars and Stripes
The patriots who fought for independence from Great Britain did so under a variety of revolutionary flags. But by June 14, 1777,...
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