From 1946 to 1953, Raschi won 120 games for the Yankees while losing 50, a .706
winning percentage. He pitched in three straight
All-Star Games from 1948 to 1950, and a fourth in 1952. Raschi led the
American League (AL) in won/lost percentage in 1950 (.724) and in strikeouts in 1951 (164). From 1949 through 1951, he won exactly 21 games a year, ranking second in the AL in wins in 1950 and 1951. After pitching in relief for the Yankees in the
1947 World Series, Raschi won five World Series in a row with the ballclub from 1949 to 1953, pitching a
shutout in Game 1 of the
1950 World Series. Later in his career, as a pitcher with the Cardinals, he was responsible for allowing
Hank Aaron's first MLB career hit as well as his first MLB career home run. In the remaining two years of his career, with the Cardinals and Athletics, Raschi won only 12 games while losing 16. (Full article...)
James Bowdoin II (/ˈboʊdɪn/BOH-din; August 7, 1726 – November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from
Boston, Massachusetts, during the
American Revolution and the following decade. He initially gained fame and influence as a wealthy merchant. He served in both branches of the
Massachusetts General Court from the 1750s to the 1770s. Although he was initially supportive of the royal governors, he opposed British colonial policy and eventually became an influential advocate of independence. He authored a highly political report on the 1770
Boston Massacre that has been described by historian Francis Walett as one of the most influential pieces of writing that shaped public opinion in the colonies.
From 1775 to 1777, he served as president of the
Massachusetts Provincial Congress's executive council, the de facto head of the Massachusetts government. He was elected president of the
constitutional convention that drafted
the state's constitution in 1779, and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1780, losing to
John Hancock. In 1785, following Hancock's resignation, he was elected governor. Due to the large debts of Massachusetts, incurred from the Revolutionary War, Bowdoin ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility. During his two years in office, the combination of poor economic conditions and his harsh fiscal policy laid down by his government led to the uprising known as
Shays' Rebellion. Bowdoin personally funded militia forces that were instrumental in putting down the uprising. His high-handed treatment of the rebels may have contributed to his loss of the 1787 election, in which the populist Hancock was returned to office. (Full article...)
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Miller in 2013
Madeline Miller (born July 24, 1978) is an American novelist, author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018). Miller spent ten years writing The Song of Achilles while she worked as a teacher of Latin and Greek. The novel tells the story of the love between the mythological figures
Achilles and Patroclus; it won the
Orange Prize for Fiction, making Miller the fourth debut novelist to win the prize. She is a 2019 recipient of the
Alex Awards. (Full article...)
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Charles Elliott Perkins (November 24, 1840 – November 8, 1907) was an American businessman and president of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. He was so well respected that historian Richard Overton wrote, "From the time that Charles Elliott Perkins became vice president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy [1876] ... until he resigned as president in 1901, he was the Burlington." (Full article...)
At the outbreak of the Civil War,
Abraham Lincoln appointed Banks as one of the first
political major generals, over the heads of
West Point regulars, who initially resented him, but came to acknowledge his influence on the administration of the war. After suffering a series of inglorious setbacks in the
Shenandoah River Valley at the hands of
Stonewall Jackson, Banks replaced
Benjamin Butler at
New Orleans as commander of the
Department of the Gulf, charged with the administration of
Louisiana and gaining control of the
Mississippi River. He failed to reinforce
Grant at
Vicksburg, and badly handled the
Siege of Port Hudson, taking its surrender only after Vicksburg had fallen. He then launched the
Red River Campaign, a failed attempt to occupy northern Louisiana and eastern
Texas that prompted his recall. Banks was regularly criticized for the failures of his campaigns, notably in tactically important tasks, including reconnaissance. Banks was also instrumental in early reconstruction efforts in Louisiana, intended by Lincoln as a model for later such activities. (Full article...)
Born in
Buckfield, Maine, Long was educated as a lawyer at
Harvard University, later settling in
Hingham, Massachusetts. He became active in
Republican Party politics in the 1870s, winning election for the
state legislature in 1874. He rose rapidly in prominence, and was elected lieutenant governor in 1879 and governor in 1880. He advocated modest reforms during his three years as governor, which were relatively uneventful. (Full article...)
The Metacomet Ridge, Metacomet Ridge Mountains, or Metacomet Range of southern
New England is a narrow and steep
fault-block mountain ridge known for its extensive cliff faces, scenic vistas,
microclimate ecosystems, and rare or endangered plants. The ridge is an important recreation resource located within 10 miles (16 km) of more than 1.5 million people, offering four long-distance hiking trails and over a dozen parks and recreation areas, including several historic sites. It has been the focus of ongoing conservation efforts because of its natural, historic, and recreational value, involving municipal, state, and national agencies and nearly two dozen non-profit organizations.
The Metacomet Ridge extends from
Branford, Connecticut, on
Long Island Sound, through the
Connecticut River Valley region of
Massachusetts, to northern
Franklin County, Massachusetts, 2 miles (3 km) short of the
Vermont and
New Hampshire borders for a distance of 100 miles (160 km). It is geologically distinct from the nearby
Appalachian Mountains and surrounding uplands, and is composed of volcanic
basalt (also known as trap rock) and
sedimentary rock in faulted and tilted layers many hundreds of feet thick. In most cases, the basalt layers are dominant, prevalent, and exposed. The ridge rises dramatically from much lower valley elevations, although only 1,200 feet (370 m) above sea level at its highest, with an average summit elevation of 725 feet (221 m). (Full article...)
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Epenow (also spelled Epanow) was a
Nauset man from
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts who was kidnapped by sailors from an English
merchant ship and taken to England in the 17th century. Being put on public display in
London, Epenow eventually returned to New England by tricking his captors into thinking that he knew the location of a
gold mine. Once he was back in New England, Epenow led Indian resistance to
Pilgrim settlement of the region. (Full article...)
In 1968, Joyce was appointed the
president of Boston College. His tenure was characterized by great change and major campus unrest, including numerous protests and
disruptions by students, and Joyce largely acquiesced to students' demands. Amidst controversy, Joyce disbanded the university's
ROTC program and dramatically increased the number of black students and university spending on
black studies and special black-student programs. Joyce also reorganized Boston College's governance, separating it from the Jesuit order, and implemented changes that reduced the Catholic and Jesuit character of the school. He oversaw several building projects on- and off-campus. (Full article...)
Controversial in design since before it was completed, the use of
Brutalist architecture for its main buildings, as well as the open brick-and-concrete plaza at the center of the development, have been alternately praised for its innovative design, and scorned for its lack of character and uninviting appearance. After decades of calls for a redesign to make it more friendly and usable, a major rebuild of City Hall Plaza, the main public space of Government Center, was begun in 2020 and is to include additional seating areas, play spaces for children, and space for public art. (Full article...)
Mulledy entered the Society of Jesus and was educated for the priesthood in
Rome, before completing his education in the United States. He twice served as
president of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C. At Georgetown, Mulledy undertook a significant building campaign, which resulted in Gervase Hall and Mulledy Hall (later renamed Isaac Hawkins Hall). He became the second provincial superior of the
Maryland Province of the Jesuit order, and orchestrated the
sale of the province's slaves in 1838 to settle its debts. This resulted in outcry from his fellow Jesuits and censure by the church authorities in Rome, who exiled him to
Nice in the
Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia for several years. While provincial superior, Mulledy was also the
vicar general for the
Diocese of Boston. (Full article...)
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Jeremiah's Gutter ran along the border of
Eastham and
Orleans.
Mary Carlisle (born Gwendolyn Witter; February 3, 1914 – August 1, 2018) was an American actress, singer, and dancer, best known for her roles as a wholesome
ingénue in numerous 1930s
musical-comedy films.
She starred in more than 60
Hollywood films, moving beyond bit parts after coming to attention, alongside the likes of
Gloria Stuart and
Ginger Rogers, as one of 15 girls selected by the Western Association of Motion pictures as their
WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1932. Her first major role was in the 1933 film College Humor with
Bing Crosby. The two performers worked together in two additional films, Double or Nothing (1937) and Doctor Rhythm (1938). After her marriage in 1942 and a starring role in Dead Men Walk (1943), she retired from acting. (Full article...)
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St. Stephen's Church, Boston
St. Stephen's Church is a historic church in the
North End of
Boston, Massachusetts. It was built in 1802–1804 as the New North Church or New North Meeting House and was designed by the noted architect
Charles Bulfinch. It is the only one of the five churches he designed in Boston to remain extant. The church replaced one which had been built on the site in 1714 and enlarged in 1730. The
Congregationalist church became
Unitarian in 1813, and the church was sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese in 1862, and renamed St. Stephen's. It was restored and renovated in 1964-65 by Chester F. Wright, and was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1975. (Full article...)
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The
U.S. state of
Massachusetts has 14
counties, though eight of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable,
Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (
Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government. Vestigial judicial and law enforcement districts still follow county boundaries even in the counties whose county-level government has been disestablished, and the counties are still generally recognized as geographic entities if not political ones. Three counties (Hampshire, Barnstable, and Franklin) have formed new county regional compacts to serve as a form of regional governance. (Full article...)
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The territory of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the fifty United States, was settled in the 17th century by several different English colonies. The territories claimed or administered by these colonies encompassed a much larger area than that of the modern state, and at times included areas that are now within the jurisdiction of other
New England states or of the Canadian provinces of
New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia. Some colonial land claims extended all the way to the
Pacific Ocean.
The first permanent settlement was the
Plymouth Colony (1620), and the second major settlement was the
Massachusetts Bay Colony at
Salem in 1629. Settlements that failed or were merged into other colonies included the failed
Popham Colony (1607) on the coast of Maine, and the
Wessagusset Colony (1622–23) in
Weymouth, Massachusetts, whose remnants were folded into the Plymouth Colony. The Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies coexisted until 1686, each electing its own governor annually. Governance of both colonies was dominated by a relatively small group of magistrates, some of whom governed for many years. The
Dominion of New England was established in 1686 which covered the territory of those colonies, as well as that of
New Hampshire,
Connecticut, and
Rhode Island. In 1688, it was further extended to include
New York and
East and
West Jersey. The Dominion was extremely unpopular in the colonies, and it was disbanded when its royally appointed governor Sir
Edmund Androswas arrested and sent back to England in the wake of the 1688
Glorious Revolution. (Full article...)
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Boston, the capital of the
U.S. state of
Massachusetts and the largest city in
New England, is home to 555 completed
high-rises, 37 of which stand taller than 400 feet (122 m). The city's
skyscrapers and high-rises are concentrated along the roughly 2.5 mile
High Spine, which runs from the
Back Bay to the
Financial District and
West End, while bypassing the surrounding low-rise residential neighborhoods. The tallest structure in Boston is the 60-
story200 Clarendon, better known to locals as the John Hancock Tower, which rises 790 feet (241 m) in the Back Bay district. It is also the tallest building in New England and the
80th-tallest building in the United States. The second-tallest building in Boston is the
Prudential Tower, which rises 52 floors and 749 feet (228 m). At the time of the Prudential Tower's completion in 1964, it stood as the tallest building in North America outside of
New York City.
Boston's history of skyscrapers began with the completion in 1893 of the 13-story
Ames Building, which is considered the city's first high-rise. Boston went through a major building boom in the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in the construction of over 20 skyscrapers, including 200 Clarendon and the Prudential Tower. The city is the site of 25 skyscrapers that rise at least 492 feet (150 m) in height, more than any other city in
New England. , the skyline of Boston is ranked 10th in the United States and 79th in the world with 57 buildings rising at least 330 feet (100 m) in height. (Full article...)
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The
Boston Reds were a
Major League Baseball franchise that played in the
Players' League (PL) in 1890, and one season in the
American Association (AA) in 1891. In both seasons, the Reds were their league's champion, making them the second team to win back-to-back championships in two different leagues. The first franchise to accomplish this feat was the
Brooklyn Bridegrooms, who won the AA championship in 1889 and the
National League (NL) championship in 1890. The Reds played their home games at the
Congress Street Grounds.
The Reds were an instant success on the field and in the public's opinion. The team signed several top-level players, and they played in a larger, more comfortable and modern ballpark than the
Boston Beaneaters, the popular and well established cross-town rival. Player signings that first year included future
Hall of FamersKing Kelly,
Dan Brouthers, and
Charles Radbourn, along with other veterans such as
Hardy Richardson,
Matt Kilroy,
Harry Stovey, and
Tom Brown. The PL ended after one season, leaving most of its teams without a league. (Full article...)
Godsmack is an American
rock band founded in 1995 by singer
Sully Erna and bassist
Robbie Merrill. The band has released eight
studio albums, one
EP, two
compilations, three
video albums, and thirty-four
singles. Erna and Merrill recruited local friend and guitarist Lee Richards and drummer
Tommy Stewart to complete the band's lineup. In 1996,
Tony Rombola replaced Richards, as the band's guitarist. In 1998, Godsmack released their
self-titled debut album, a remastered version of the band's self-released debut, All Wound Up.... The album was distributed by
Universal/
Republic Records and shipped four million copies in the United States. In 2001, the band contributed the track "Why" to the Any Given Sunday soundtrack. After two years of touring, the band released Awake. Although the album was a commercial success, it failed to match the sales of Godsmack. In 2002, Stewart left the band due to personal differences, and was replaced by
Shannon Larkin.
The band's third album, Faceless (2003), debuted at number one on the US
Billboard 200. In 2004, Godsmack released an acoustic-based EP titled The Other Side. The EP debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the
RIAA. The band contributed the track "Bring It On" to the Madden 2006 football game in 2005; this track is not featured on any known album or compilation. The band released its fourth studio album, IV, in 2006. IV was the band's second release to debut at number one, and has since been certified platinum. After touring in support of IV for over a year, Godsmack released a
greatest hits album called Good Times, Bad Times... Ten Years of Godsmack. The album included every Godsmack single (with the exception of "
Bad Magick"), a cover of the
Led Zeppelin song "
Good Times Bad Times" and a
DVD of the band's acoustic performance at the
House of Blues in
Las Vegas,
Nevada. (Full article...)
, there are 135 active stations on twelve lines, two of which have branches. 108 active stations are
accessible; 26 are not. Six additional stations (
Prides Crossing,
Mishawum,
Hastings,
Silver Hill,
Plimptonville, and
Plymouth) are indefinitely closed due to service cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two stations (
Winchester Center and
South Attleboro) are temporarily closed due to structural deterioration. Six additional stations are under construction as part of the
South Coast Rail project; several other stations are planned. (Full article...)
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Boston Latin School is a
publicexam school located in
Boston, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1635. It is the first public school and the oldest existing school in the United States.
The school's first class included nine students; the school now has 2,400 pupils drawn from all parts of Boston. Its graduates have included four
Harvard presidents, eight
Massachusetts state governors, and five
signers of the
United States Declaration of Independence, as well as several preeminent architects, a leading art historian, a notable naturalist and the conductors of the
New York Philharmonic and
Boston Pops orchestras. There are also several notable non-graduate alumni, including
Louis Farrakhan, a leader of the
Nation of Islam. Boston Latin admitted only male students at its founding in 1635. The school's first female student was admitted in the nineteenth century. In 1972, Boston Latin admitted its first co-educational class. (Full article...)
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This list of birds of Massachusetts includes
species documented in the
U.S. state of
Massachusetts and accepted by the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee (MARC). As of July 2023, there are 516 species included in the official list. Of them, 194 are on the review list (see below), six have been
introduced to North America, three are
extinct, and one has been
extirpated. An additional seven species are on a supplemental list of birds whose origin is uncertain. An additional accidental species has been added from another source.
This list is presented in the
taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 62nd Supplement, published by the
American Ornithological Society (AOS). Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the
Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them. (Full article...)
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The
Boston Red Sox are a
Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in
Boston,
Massachusetts. From
1912 to the present, the Red Sox have played in
Fenway Park. The "Red Sox" name originates from the iconic uniform feature. They are sometimes
nicknamed the "BoSox", a combination of "Boston" and "Sox" (as opposed to the
"ChiSox"), the "Crimson Hose", and "the Olde Towne Team". Most fans simply refer to them as the Sox.
One of the
American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Boston in
1901. They were a dominant team in the early 20th century, defeating the
Pittsburgh Pirates in the first
World Series in
1903. They won four more championships by
1918, and then went into one of the longest championship
droughts in baseball history. Many attributed the phenomenon to the "
Curse of the Bambino" said to have been caused by the trade of
Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in
1920. The drought was ended and the "curse" reversed in
2004, when the team won their sixth World Series championship. Championships in
2007 and
2013 followed. Every home game from May 15, 2003, through April 10, 2013, was sold out—a span of 820 games over nearly ten years. The team most recently won the World Series in
2018, the ninth championship in franchise history. (Full article...)
Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", the draft is MLB's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings, with the team possessing the worst record receiving the first pick. In addition, teams that lost
free agents in the previous off-season may be awarded
compensatory or supplementary picks. (Full article...)
Image 6Fenway Park, the home stadium of the
Boston Red Sox. Opened in 1912, Fenway Park is the
oldest professional baseball stadium still in use. (from Boston)
Image 8Harvard Stadium, the first collegiate athletic stadium built in the U.S. (from Boston)
Image 9An
MBTA Red Line train departing Boston for
Cambridge. Over 1.3 million Bostonians utilize the city's buses and trains daily as of 2013. (from Boston)
Image 16Certificate of government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury by Seth Davenport. September 1777 (from History of Massachusetts)
Image 17Historical population changes among Massachusetts municipalities. Click to see animation. (from History of Massachusetts)
Image 33Boston and its neighbors as seen from
Sentinel-2 with
Boston Harbor (center). Boston itself lies on the southern bank of the Charles River. On the river's northern bank, the outlines of Cambridge and Watertown can be seen; to the west are Brookline and Newton; to the south lie Quincy and Milton. (from Boston)
Image 57Major boundaries of Massachusetts Bay and neighboring colonial claims in the 17th century and 18th century; modern state boundaries are partially overlaid for context (from History of Massachusetts)
Image 63Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It, an 1860 photograph by
James Wallace Black, was the first recorded aerial photograph. (from Boston)
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From 1946 to 1953, Raschi won 120 games for the Yankees while losing 50, a .706
winning percentage. He pitched in three straight
All-Star Games from 1948 to 1950, and a fourth in 1952. Raschi led the
American League (AL) in won/lost percentage in 1950 (.724) and in strikeouts in 1951 (164). From 1949 through 1951, he won exactly 21 games a year, ranking second in the AL in wins in 1950 and 1951. After pitching in relief for the Yankees in the
1947 World Series, Raschi won five World Series in a row with the ballclub from 1949 to 1953, pitching a
shutout in Game 1 of the
1950 World Series. Later in his career, as a pitcher with the Cardinals, he was responsible for allowing
Hank Aaron's first MLB career hit as well as his first MLB career home run. In the remaining two years of his career, with the Cardinals and Athletics, Raschi won only 12 games while losing 16. (Full article...)
James Bowdoin II (/ˈboʊdɪn/BOH-din; August 7, 1726 – November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from
Boston, Massachusetts, during the
American Revolution and the following decade. He initially gained fame and influence as a wealthy merchant. He served in both branches of the
Massachusetts General Court from the 1750s to the 1770s. Although he was initially supportive of the royal governors, he opposed British colonial policy and eventually became an influential advocate of independence. He authored a highly political report on the 1770
Boston Massacre that has been described by historian Francis Walett as one of the most influential pieces of writing that shaped public opinion in the colonies.
From 1775 to 1777, he served as president of the
Massachusetts Provincial Congress's executive council, the de facto head of the Massachusetts government. He was elected president of the
constitutional convention that drafted
the state's constitution in 1779, and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1780, losing to
John Hancock. In 1785, following Hancock's resignation, he was elected governor. Due to the large debts of Massachusetts, incurred from the Revolutionary War, Bowdoin ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility. During his two years in office, the combination of poor economic conditions and his harsh fiscal policy laid down by his government led to the uprising known as
Shays' Rebellion. Bowdoin personally funded militia forces that were instrumental in putting down the uprising. His high-handed treatment of the rebels may have contributed to his loss of the 1787 election, in which the populist Hancock was returned to office. (Full article...)
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Miller in 2013
Madeline Miller (born July 24, 1978) is an American novelist, author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018). Miller spent ten years writing The Song of Achilles while she worked as a teacher of Latin and Greek. The novel tells the story of the love between the mythological figures
Achilles and Patroclus; it won the
Orange Prize for Fiction, making Miller the fourth debut novelist to win the prize. She is a 2019 recipient of the
Alex Awards. (Full article...)
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Charles Elliott Perkins (November 24, 1840 – November 8, 1907) was an American businessman and president of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. He was so well respected that historian Richard Overton wrote, "From the time that Charles Elliott Perkins became vice president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy [1876] ... until he resigned as president in 1901, he was the Burlington." (Full article...)
At the outbreak of the Civil War,
Abraham Lincoln appointed Banks as one of the first
political major generals, over the heads of
West Point regulars, who initially resented him, but came to acknowledge his influence on the administration of the war. After suffering a series of inglorious setbacks in the
Shenandoah River Valley at the hands of
Stonewall Jackson, Banks replaced
Benjamin Butler at
New Orleans as commander of the
Department of the Gulf, charged with the administration of
Louisiana and gaining control of the
Mississippi River. He failed to reinforce
Grant at
Vicksburg, and badly handled the
Siege of Port Hudson, taking its surrender only after Vicksburg had fallen. He then launched the
Red River Campaign, a failed attempt to occupy northern Louisiana and eastern
Texas that prompted his recall. Banks was regularly criticized for the failures of his campaigns, notably in tactically important tasks, including reconnaissance. Banks was also instrumental in early reconstruction efforts in Louisiana, intended by Lincoln as a model for later such activities. (Full article...)
Born in
Buckfield, Maine, Long was educated as a lawyer at
Harvard University, later settling in
Hingham, Massachusetts. He became active in
Republican Party politics in the 1870s, winning election for the
state legislature in 1874. He rose rapidly in prominence, and was elected lieutenant governor in 1879 and governor in 1880. He advocated modest reforms during his three years as governor, which were relatively uneventful. (Full article...)
The Metacomet Ridge, Metacomet Ridge Mountains, or Metacomet Range of southern
New England is a narrow and steep
fault-block mountain ridge known for its extensive cliff faces, scenic vistas,
microclimate ecosystems, and rare or endangered plants. The ridge is an important recreation resource located within 10 miles (16 km) of more than 1.5 million people, offering four long-distance hiking trails and over a dozen parks and recreation areas, including several historic sites. It has been the focus of ongoing conservation efforts because of its natural, historic, and recreational value, involving municipal, state, and national agencies and nearly two dozen non-profit organizations.
The Metacomet Ridge extends from
Branford, Connecticut, on
Long Island Sound, through the
Connecticut River Valley region of
Massachusetts, to northern
Franklin County, Massachusetts, 2 miles (3 km) short of the
Vermont and
New Hampshire borders for a distance of 100 miles (160 km). It is geologically distinct from the nearby
Appalachian Mountains and surrounding uplands, and is composed of volcanic
basalt (also known as trap rock) and
sedimentary rock in faulted and tilted layers many hundreds of feet thick. In most cases, the basalt layers are dominant, prevalent, and exposed. The ridge rises dramatically from much lower valley elevations, although only 1,200 feet (370 m) above sea level at its highest, with an average summit elevation of 725 feet (221 m). (Full article...)
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Epenow (also spelled Epanow) was a
Nauset man from
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts who was kidnapped by sailors from an English
merchant ship and taken to England in the 17th century. Being put on public display in
London, Epenow eventually returned to New England by tricking his captors into thinking that he knew the location of a
gold mine. Once he was back in New England, Epenow led Indian resistance to
Pilgrim settlement of the region. (Full article...)
In 1968, Joyce was appointed the
president of Boston College. His tenure was characterized by great change and major campus unrest, including numerous protests and
disruptions by students, and Joyce largely acquiesced to students' demands. Amidst controversy, Joyce disbanded the university's
ROTC program and dramatically increased the number of black students and university spending on
black studies and special black-student programs. Joyce also reorganized Boston College's governance, separating it from the Jesuit order, and implemented changes that reduced the Catholic and Jesuit character of the school. He oversaw several building projects on- and off-campus. (Full article...)
Controversial in design since before it was completed, the use of
Brutalist architecture for its main buildings, as well as the open brick-and-concrete plaza at the center of the development, have been alternately praised for its innovative design, and scorned for its lack of character and uninviting appearance. After decades of calls for a redesign to make it more friendly and usable, a major rebuild of City Hall Plaza, the main public space of Government Center, was begun in 2020 and is to include additional seating areas, play spaces for children, and space for public art. (Full article...)
Mulledy entered the Society of Jesus and was educated for the priesthood in
Rome, before completing his education in the United States. He twice served as
president of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C. At Georgetown, Mulledy undertook a significant building campaign, which resulted in Gervase Hall and Mulledy Hall (later renamed Isaac Hawkins Hall). He became the second provincial superior of the
Maryland Province of the Jesuit order, and orchestrated the
sale of the province's slaves in 1838 to settle its debts. This resulted in outcry from his fellow Jesuits and censure by the church authorities in Rome, who exiled him to
Nice in the
Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia for several years. While provincial superior, Mulledy was also the
vicar general for the
Diocese of Boston. (Full article...)
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Jeremiah's Gutter ran along the border of
Eastham and
Orleans.
Mary Carlisle (born Gwendolyn Witter; February 3, 1914 – August 1, 2018) was an American actress, singer, and dancer, best known for her roles as a wholesome
ingénue in numerous 1930s
musical-comedy films.
She starred in more than 60
Hollywood films, moving beyond bit parts after coming to attention, alongside the likes of
Gloria Stuart and
Ginger Rogers, as one of 15 girls selected by the Western Association of Motion pictures as their
WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1932. Her first major role was in the 1933 film College Humor with
Bing Crosby. The two performers worked together in two additional films, Double or Nothing (1937) and Doctor Rhythm (1938). After her marriage in 1942 and a starring role in Dead Men Walk (1943), she retired from acting. (Full article...)
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St. Stephen's Church, Boston
St. Stephen's Church is a historic church in the
North End of
Boston, Massachusetts. It was built in 1802–1804 as the New North Church or New North Meeting House and was designed by the noted architect
Charles Bulfinch. It is the only one of the five churches he designed in Boston to remain extant. The church replaced one which had been built on the site in 1714 and enlarged in 1730. The
Congregationalist church became
Unitarian in 1813, and the church was sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese in 1862, and renamed St. Stephen's. It was restored and renovated in 1964-65 by Chester F. Wright, and was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1975. (Full article...)
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The
U.S. state of
Massachusetts has 14
counties, though eight of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable,
Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (
Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government. Vestigial judicial and law enforcement districts still follow county boundaries even in the counties whose county-level government has been disestablished, and the counties are still generally recognized as geographic entities if not political ones. Three counties (Hampshire, Barnstable, and Franklin) have formed new county regional compacts to serve as a form of regional governance. (Full article...)
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The territory of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the fifty United States, was settled in the 17th century by several different English colonies. The territories claimed or administered by these colonies encompassed a much larger area than that of the modern state, and at times included areas that are now within the jurisdiction of other
New England states or of the Canadian provinces of
New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia. Some colonial land claims extended all the way to the
Pacific Ocean.
The first permanent settlement was the
Plymouth Colony (1620), and the second major settlement was the
Massachusetts Bay Colony at
Salem in 1629. Settlements that failed or were merged into other colonies included the failed
Popham Colony (1607) on the coast of Maine, and the
Wessagusset Colony (1622–23) in
Weymouth, Massachusetts, whose remnants were folded into the Plymouth Colony. The Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies coexisted until 1686, each electing its own governor annually. Governance of both colonies was dominated by a relatively small group of magistrates, some of whom governed for many years. The
Dominion of New England was established in 1686 which covered the territory of those colonies, as well as that of
New Hampshire,
Connecticut, and
Rhode Island. In 1688, it was further extended to include
New York and
East and
West Jersey. The Dominion was extremely unpopular in the colonies, and it was disbanded when its royally appointed governor Sir
Edmund Androswas arrested and sent back to England in the wake of the 1688
Glorious Revolution. (Full article...)
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Boston, the capital of the
U.S. state of
Massachusetts and the largest city in
New England, is home to 555 completed
high-rises, 37 of which stand taller than 400 feet (122 m). The city's
skyscrapers and high-rises are concentrated along the roughly 2.5 mile
High Spine, which runs from the
Back Bay to the
Financial District and
West End, while bypassing the surrounding low-rise residential neighborhoods. The tallest structure in Boston is the 60-
story200 Clarendon, better known to locals as the John Hancock Tower, which rises 790 feet (241 m) in the Back Bay district. It is also the tallest building in New England and the
80th-tallest building in the United States. The second-tallest building in Boston is the
Prudential Tower, which rises 52 floors and 749 feet (228 m). At the time of the Prudential Tower's completion in 1964, it stood as the tallest building in North America outside of
New York City.
Boston's history of skyscrapers began with the completion in 1893 of the 13-story
Ames Building, which is considered the city's first high-rise. Boston went through a major building boom in the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in the construction of over 20 skyscrapers, including 200 Clarendon and the Prudential Tower. The city is the site of 25 skyscrapers that rise at least 492 feet (150 m) in height, more than any other city in
New England. , the skyline of Boston is ranked 10th in the United States and 79th in the world with 57 buildings rising at least 330 feet (100 m) in height. (Full article...)
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The
Boston Reds were a
Major League Baseball franchise that played in the
Players' League (PL) in 1890, and one season in the
American Association (AA) in 1891. In both seasons, the Reds were their league's champion, making them the second team to win back-to-back championships in two different leagues. The first franchise to accomplish this feat was the
Brooklyn Bridegrooms, who won the AA championship in 1889 and the
National League (NL) championship in 1890. The Reds played their home games at the
Congress Street Grounds.
The Reds were an instant success on the field and in the public's opinion. The team signed several top-level players, and they played in a larger, more comfortable and modern ballpark than the
Boston Beaneaters, the popular and well established cross-town rival. Player signings that first year included future
Hall of FamersKing Kelly,
Dan Brouthers, and
Charles Radbourn, along with other veterans such as
Hardy Richardson,
Matt Kilroy,
Harry Stovey, and
Tom Brown. The PL ended after one season, leaving most of its teams without a league. (Full article...)
Godsmack is an American
rock band founded in 1995 by singer
Sully Erna and bassist
Robbie Merrill. The band has released eight
studio albums, one
EP, two
compilations, three
video albums, and thirty-four
singles. Erna and Merrill recruited local friend and guitarist Lee Richards and drummer
Tommy Stewart to complete the band's lineup. In 1996,
Tony Rombola replaced Richards, as the band's guitarist. In 1998, Godsmack released their
self-titled debut album, a remastered version of the band's self-released debut, All Wound Up.... The album was distributed by
Universal/
Republic Records and shipped four million copies in the United States. In 2001, the band contributed the track "Why" to the Any Given Sunday soundtrack. After two years of touring, the band released Awake. Although the album was a commercial success, it failed to match the sales of Godsmack. In 2002, Stewart left the band due to personal differences, and was replaced by
Shannon Larkin.
The band's third album, Faceless (2003), debuted at number one on the US
Billboard 200. In 2004, Godsmack released an acoustic-based EP titled The Other Side. The EP debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the
RIAA. The band contributed the track "Bring It On" to the Madden 2006 football game in 2005; this track is not featured on any known album or compilation. The band released its fourth studio album, IV, in 2006. IV was the band's second release to debut at number one, and has since been certified platinum. After touring in support of IV for over a year, Godsmack released a
greatest hits album called Good Times, Bad Times... Ten Years of Godsmack. The album included every Godsmack single (with the exception of "
Bad Magick"), a cover of the
Led Zeppelin song "
Good Times Bad Times" and a
DVD of the band's acoustic performance at the
House of Blues in
Las Vegas,
Nevada. (Full article...)
, there are 135 active stations on twelve lines, two of which have branches. 108 active stations are
accessible; 26 are not. Six additional stations (
Prides Crossing,
Mishawum,
Hastings,
Silver Hill,
Plimptonville, and
Plymouth) are indefinitely closed due to service cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two stations (
Winchester Center and
South Attleboro) are temporarily closed due to structural deterioration. Six additional stations are under construction as part of the
South Coast Rail project; several other stations are planned. (Full article...)
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Boston Latin School is a
publicexam school located in
Boston, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1635. It is the first public school and the oldest existing school in the United States.
The school's first class included nine students; the school now has 2,400 pupils drawn from all parts of Boston. Its graduates have included four
Harvard presidents, eight
Massachusetts state governors, and five
signers of the
United States Declaration of Independence, as well as several preeminent architects, a leading art historian, a notable naturalist and the conductors of the
New York Philharmonic and
Boston Pops orchestras. There are also several notable non-graduate alumni, including
Louis Farrakhan, a leader of the
Nation of Islam. Boston Latin admitted only male students at its founding in 1635. The school's first female student was admitted in the nineteenth century. In 1972, Boston Latin admitted its first co-educational class. (Full article...)
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This list of birds of Massachusetts includes
species documented in the
U.S. state of
Massachusetts and accepted by the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee (MARC). As of July 2023, there are 516 species included in the official list. Of them, 194 are on the review list (see below), six have been
introduced to North America, three are
extinct, and one has been
extirpated. An additional seven species are on a supplemental list of birds whose origin is uncertain. An additional accidental species has been added from another source.
This list is presented in the
taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 62nd Supplement, published by the
American Ornithological Society (AOS). Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the
Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them. (Full article...)
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The
Boston Red Sox are a
Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in
Boston,
Massachusetts. From
1912 to the present, the Red Sox have played in
Fenway Park. The "Red Sox" name originates from the iconic uniform feature. They are sometimes
nicknamed the "BoSox", a combination of "Boston" and "Sox" (as opposed to the
"ChiSox"), the "Crimson Hose", and "the Olde Towne Team". Most fans simply refer to them as the Sox.
One of the
American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Boston in
1901. They were a dominant team in the early 20th century, defeating the
Pittsburgh Pirates in the first
World Series in
1903. They won four more championships by
1918, and then went into one of the longest championship
droughts in baseball history. Many attributed the phenomenon to the "
Curse of the Bambino" said to have been caused by the trade of
Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in
1920. The drought was ended and the "curse" reversed in
2004, when the team won their sixth World Series championship. Championships in
2007 and
2013 followed. Every home game from May 15, 2003, through April 10, 2013, was sold out—a span of 820 games over nearly ten years. The team most recently won the World Series in
2018, the ninth championship in franchise history. (Full article...)
Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", the draft is MLB's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings, with the team possessing the worst record receiving the first pick. In addition, teams that lost
free agents in the previous off-season may be awarded
compensatory or supplementary picks. (Full article...)
Image 6Fenway Park, the home stadium of the
Boston Red Sox. Opened in 1912, Fenway Park is the
oldest professional baseball stadium still in use. (from Boston)
Image 8Harvard Stadium, the first collegiate athletic stadium built in the U.S. (from Boston)
Image 9An
MBTA Red Line train departing Boston for
Cambridge. Over 1.3 million Bostonians utilize the city's buses and trains daily as of 2013. (from Boston)
Image 16Certificate of government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury by Seth Davenport. September 1777 (from History of Massachusetts)
Image 17Historical population changes among Massachusetts municipalities. Click to see animation. (from History of Massachusetts)
Image 33Boston and its neighbors as seen from
Sentinel-2 with
Boston Harbor (center). Boston itself lies on the southern bank of the Charles River. On the river's northern bank, the outlines of Cambridge and Watertown can be seen; to the west are Brookline and Newton; to the south lie Quincy and Milton. (from Boston)
Image 57Major boundaries of Massachusetts Bay and neighboring colonial claims in the 17th century and 18th century; modern state boundaries are partially overlaid for context (from History of Massachusetts)
Image 63Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It, an 1860 photograph by
James Wallace Black, was the first recorded aerial photograph. (from Boston)
... that even though Robert W. Brady withdrew financial support of the nascent
Boston College, he later became its president?
... that the day employees of Boston television station WLVI received new business cards, they learned the station would be sold and they would lose their jobs?
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