All posts tagged "molasses"
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6.0KArts and LeisureSea Captains Carousing in Surinam
What happened in Surinam during the 18th century stayed in Surinam, until a painting called Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam surfaced in...
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42.0KArts and LeisureBlack Cake, A Christmas Treat Emily Dickinson Loved To Bake
If something called a black cake sounds like a perfect Christmas sweet from a famously reclusive poet prone to black moods –...
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23.7K2MassachusettsHow the Codfish Started the American Revolution
The American Revolution was to some extent a fight over the big, stupid, slow-moving codfish. Codfish were by far colonial New England’s...
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25.3K10MassachusettsJohn Adams Supports Toussaint Louverture, Horrifies Jefferson
From 1798 to 1801, President John Adams recognized a government led by Toussaint Louverture, a former slave, a self-educated black man and...
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30.0K17Crime and ScandalThe Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
On Jan. 15, 1919, an enormous molasses storage tank burst in Boston’s North End, and a 25-foot-high molasses flood surged through the streets...
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