All posts tagged "Peabody"
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16.3K15Business and LaborThe Boatload of Ginseng That Launched the China Trade
The Empress of China launched the China trade on Feb. 22, 1784, when she sailed out of New York Harbor loaded with...
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29.8K13Arts and LeisureDelia Bacon, Driven Crazy By William Shakespeare
Delia Bacon hated William Shakespeare so passionately she lost her mind and her health trying to prove he didn’t write those plays....
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7.3K15MassachusettsElizabeth Peabody, Always a Bridesmaid…
In 1832, a young widower named Horace Mann moved into a Boston boardinghouse where he met two intellectual schoolteachers from Salem, Mary...
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10.2K6MassachusettsWitch Trial Records Produced Hysteria of Their Own
Whether you’re a Pawn Stars fan or Antiques Roadshow is more your speed, the story is the same. Money-hungry owner of a...
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