All posts tagged "printing"
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9.5K4Business and LaborAmerica Gains Its First Map, the Mapmaker Gains Back His Ear
Abel Buell, an uncommonly ingenious cartographer, created the first map of the United States. But he did it only after he lost...
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9.9K2Arts and LeisureArtemus Ward Entertains Abraham Lincoln
Artemus Ward was a mischievous printer’s devil who slipped a funny essay about his hometown into his boss’s mail one day. The...
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10.2K2Arts and LeisureClarence DeMar Proves Running Isn’t Bad for the Heart (And Wins the Boston Marathon)
Clarence DeMar survived a Dickensian childhood and bad medical advice to win the Boston Marathon seven times, despite taking two long breaks...
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7.1K2MassachusettsPeter Edes: 107 Days in Prison for Watching the Battle of Bunker Hill
Peter Edes spent 107 days in a sweltering hellhole of a prison because the British didn’t like his attitude while he watched the...
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5.2K11MassachusettsThe ‘Ravishing Light and Glory’ of the Declaration of Independence
Shortly after the Declaration of Independence was first read in Philadelphia, John Adams wrote to Samuel Chase, a fellow signer from Maryland and a future...
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23.2K6MassachusettsPeter Edes, Apprentice Printer, Imprisoned by the British
Peter Edes, 18, ended up in prison on June 19, 1775, after he caught the attention of the British Regulars by watching the Battle...
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