All posts tagged "military"
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11.0K3ConnecticutGeorge Washington’s Submarine: The Turtle, Made in Connecticut
New York Harbor — September 6, 1776, 11 p.m. At the foot of Whitehall Street in New York City, where the Staten...
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11.6K6MassachusettsWitch Trial Records Produced Hysteria of Their Own
Whether you’re a Pawn Stars fan or Antiques Roadshow is more your speed, the story is the same. Money-hungry owner of a...
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16.0K13ConnecticutBlack Kings and Governors of New England
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
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12.0K2Business and LaborHow the Polaroid Camera Was Born at a Connecticut Boys Camp
The Polaroid Corporation, which once employed 21,000 people, got started in a Lebanon, Conn., boys camp in 1922. It happened when a...
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6.3K3Arts and LeisureAnna Lowell Woodbury, The Forgotten Cambridge Chef
Few remember Anna Lowell Woodbury, the blueblood who spent her life tending to sick soldiers and teaching poor women — including poor...
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28.4K19Arts and LeisureRockport Motif No. 1, The World’s Most Celebrated Fishing Shack
A red fishing shack at the end of a granite wharf in Rockport, Mass., is an unlikely celebrity. The picturesque old building,...
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