All posts tagged "Northeastern"
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6.8KMassachusettsDenton Crocker Writes a Love Letter From a Train, 1943
Denton Crocker spent World War II fighting the Allies’ deadliest enemy in the South Pacific: the mosquito. Malaria struck as many as...
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26.2K10Flashback PhotosThe Worst Tornado in New England History Strikes Worcester, Mass.
The Worcester tornado of 1953 struck without warning and cut a swath of destruction, at times a mile wide, through a half-dozen...
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16.0K13Business and LaborMaine Twins Invent the Stanley Steamer, Climb Mt. Washington
Freelan O. Stanley and his wife Flora climbed Mt. Washington in a Stanley Steamer on Aug. 31, 1899, in one of the...
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13.2K1Politics and MilitaryThe Civil War Love Letter of Sullivan Ballou
Just before he died, Union Army Maj. Sullivan Ballou sat down in Washington, D.C., to write a love letter to his wife...
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7.1K7Arts and LeisureHow the Lowell Mill Girls Led to Masterpiece Theatre
In January 1971, WGBH-TV presented the first Masterpiece Theatre, made possible by a grant in 1836 from John Lowell, Jr. Really. John Lowell,...
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6.0KIrregularsUpdating the Historical Record – And Adding Some Color
The study of history has long had a chronic case of the disease, Great White Man Syndrome – focusing on the accomplishments...
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