All posts tagged "Navy"
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11.7K2Flashback PhotosOld Ironsides: The Poem
On Sept. 16, 1830, the Boston Daily Advertiser published the poem “Old Ironsides,” by a 21-year-old student named Oliver Wendell Holmes. Two...
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12.1K3ConnecticutGeorge 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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11.3K9Business and LaborBridgeport Women Workers and the Birth of the Eight Hour Day
On one summer day in 1915, thousands of women walked off the job in Bridgeport, Conn., demanding the eight hour day and...
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43.3K14MaineThe Greatest Submarine Rescue Ever: Saving the Squalus
On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the storm-tossed surface of the Atlantic on a sea...
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30.8K19Arts 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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