All posts tagged "space"
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6.3K2New HampshireAlan Shepard Takes a Divot on the Moon
Alan Shepard was only the second person to enter space, but the first to hit a golf ball on the moon. On...
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29.3K29Crime and ScandalEmma Snodgrass, Arrested for Wearing Pants
Emma Snodgrass created a sensation in 1852 by showing up in Boston wearing pants. She was mocked, arrested and sent home to...
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16.1K15Arts and LeisureHigh Thinking and Low Living in Old Lyme
Florence Griswold suffered reversals of fortune that, in the end, transformed her beautiful old Georgian home into the Old Lyme Art Colony,...
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8.4K4Business and LaborFour New England Shopping Malls – Landmarks of Changing Times
New England shopping malls not too long ago were monster-sized, congested and commonplace. But in the early days, they were not a...
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8.1K6Business and LaborGirl Power: The 1933 New Haven Garment Workers Strike
In 1933, a poor Italian-American teenager led the dramatic New Haven garment workers strike that lifted thousands of women into the middle...
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7.4K3Arts and LeisureAnna Lowell Woodbury, The Forgotten Cambridge Chef Who Pioneered Industrial Education
Few remember Anna Lowell Woodbury, the blueblood who spent her life tending to sick soldiers and teaching poor women — including poor...
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