All posts tagged "MIT"
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8.2KArts and LeisureWorld War I Inspires Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting, the man who created the children’s book character Doctor Dolittle, was an MIT trained civil engineer who spent much of...
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7.4KArts and LeisureThe Rolling Thunder Revue Visits Jack Kerouac’s Gravesite
Bob Dylan returned to some of his most important roots in 1975 when he came to Massachusetts, particularly Cambridge and Lowell, with...
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7.7KArts and LeisureSix Historic College Pranks and Where They Were Played
College pranks have been part of the college experience since at least the 13th century, when Oxford students sent a prostitute to...
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5.4K2MaineThe Day Two Planes Crashed in Maine During WWII
During World War II, two planes crashed in Maine within four hours of each other, and each crash was the worst in...
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6.1K2Rhode IslandHow Percy Marks Got Fired from Brown for Exposing the Depravities of the Ivy League
In 1924, an obscure Brown University English instructor named Percy Marks rocketed to fame with his first novel, The Plastic Age, an...
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5.4K3bostonWilliamina Fleming, From Scottish Maid to Harvard Astronomer
Williamina Fleming worked as a maid for an astronomer who got frustrated with his staff at Harvard. One day he supposedly exclaimed,...
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10.6K8Politics and MilitaryJustin Morrill, Vermonter, Raises U.S. Tariffs in 1861
Justin Morrill for 30 years led the fight to raise tariffs on goods that competed with U.S. products. For that, he took...
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38.2K33bostonA Brief History of the Boston Brahmin
There’s more to being a Boston Brahmin than simply having an early Puritan ancestor, graduating from Harvard and living on Beacon Hill....
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9.1K10Arts and LeisureSix Churches (All Gorgeous) Designed by Ralph Adams Cram
Once the most famous architect of his day, Ralph Adams Cram designed many churches (mostly Episcopal), schools and libraries in New England....
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4.1K5ConnecticutHow 2 New England Architects Saved the White House, Part II
By the summer of 1950, the White House was a shell. President Harry Truman and his family had been evicted from their...
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