All posts tagged "World War I"
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8.3K4ConnecticutThe Lusitania Survivor Who Founded Hill-Stead Museum
Lusitania survivor Theodate Pope was given up for dead when rescuers pulled her inert body from the Irish Sea with boat hooks....
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15.1K3ConnecticutThe 1919 Christmas Eve Massacre and the Mobster Who Got Away With Murder
On Christmas Eve and Christmas day in 1919 a tidal wave of patients began showing up at the hospitals in Western Massachusetts...
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10.6K10Arts and LeisureSix Churches (All Gorgeous) Designed by Ralph Adams Cram
Once the most famous architect of his day, Ralph Adams Cram designed many churches (mostly Episcopal), schools and libraries in New England....
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4.9KConnecticutThe Tungsten Light Bulb Scandal of 1908
John Allen Heany managed to fool some of the people with his tungsten light bulb, but he couldn’t fool General Electric. In...
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19.3K2Connecticut6 Places That Became a Summer White House
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
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12.1K5Business and LaborThe Mickey Mouse Watch Is Born in Connecticut
The Mickey Mouse watch put thousands of people to work in Waterbury, Conn., during the depths of the Great Depression. The employment...
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