All posts tagged "Pawtucket"
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34.0K24ConnecticutThe 1918 Flu Epidemic Kills Thousands in New England
As World War I raged in Europe, New Englanders died at home from a foe more deadly than bullets: the 1918 flu...
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99.0K28Arts and LeisureHow Portuguese Immigrants Came to New England
In 1915, four Madeiran men organized a feast at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Bedford, Mass. They did it...
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30.4K2Arts and LeisureYogi Berra Hits His Way Through New England (Under a Fake Name)
Yogi Berra might never have starred for the New York Yankees had he not talked his way onto the Navy team based...
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22.1K12MassachusettsHow Victory Gardens Helped Win World War II
Victory gardens helped win World War II because they allowed the U.S. government to divert scarce tin supplies for military use. They...
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25.8K16Business and LaborFlashback Photo: Sam Slater and the Wildly Successful Startup of 1790
Inside of a three-story wooden building on the banks of the Blackstone River late in 1790, machinery groaned into motion for spinning,...
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7.3K5Arts and LeisureNelson Eddy, the Original Dudley Do-Right
The dimwitted cartoon character Dudley Do-Right began as a spoof of a singing Mountie played by Nelson Eddy in a 1936 movie,...
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