All posts tagged "roosevelt"
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14.3K4Crime and ScandalFiction Becomes Fact – Murder on the Herbert Fuller
In July 1896, the Herbert Fuller put to sea from Boston with 11 people on board. The barkentine was loaded with lumber,...
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8.3K3Arts and LeisureEdie Sedgwick, Poor Little Rich Girl
In 1965, Edie Sedgwick appeared in one of Andy Warhol’s underground films in 1965 and said, “I’ve never been anywhere where I...
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7.0KbostonEat Like A President, Part II
In honor of President’s Day, the New England Historical Society brings you another guide to how to eat like a president. We...
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18.3K6Business and LaborThe Brunswick Children Strike the Cabot Mill
In the summer of 1881, eight-year-old children working in a Brunswick, Maine, textile mill found out eight-year-old children working in a Lewiston,...
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4.7K1Arts and LeisureConnecticut’s George Bye –Ten Percent of Anyone Who Was Anyone
Imagine hosting a dinner and inviting Hillary Clinton and Rush Limbaugh to sit side by side and they both cheerfully agreed. Hard...
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16.0K3MassachusettsMr. Marconi Builds a Radio Station on Cape Cod and Comes to the Rescue of the Titanic
On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic...
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