All posts tagged "sex"
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10.0KMassachusettsJohn and Abigail Adams Give Hamilton a Review – No Stars
There was no love lost between Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Hamilton famously castigated Adams in a pamphlet published in 1800 entitled,...
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12.8K1Religion and Social MovementsJohn Humphrey Noyes Finds Out Sex and Silverware Don’t Mix
John Humphrey Noyes started out in the 19th century as a conventional Yale-trained minister until he found out he was perfect and...
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93.5K19MassachusettsHow Scottish POWS Were Sold as Slave Labor in New England
As many as 400 Scottish POWS captured in the Battles of Worcester and Dunbar were shipped to New England in the 1650s...
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14.5KNew England PlacesSix Historic Love Nests
In honor of Valentines Day, the New England Historical Society chose to highlight six love nests. Love nests can be lavish mansions...
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9.6KMassachusettsMother Ann’s Work, or How a Lot of Embarrassing Ghosts Visited the Shakers
From 1837 to the mid-1840s, Shaker communities received a flood of ghostly visits they called Mother Ann’s Work. Their dead founder, Mother...
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31.6K3Massachusetts11 Famous People Committed to McLean Mental Hospital
Sylvia Plath called McLean mental hospital the best mental hospital in the United States. U.S. News & World Report did too. Though...
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