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New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean are to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city and the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston is the largest metropolitan area, with nearly a third of New England's population; this area includes Worcester, Massachusetts, the second-largest city in New England; Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest city in New Hampshire; and Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island.

In 1620, the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful settlement in British America after the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, founded in 1607. Ten years later, Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony north of Plymouth Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars until the English colonists and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquian allies. (Full article...)

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Gloria near peak intensity on September 24 1985

Hurricane Gloria was a powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season and prowled the Atlantic Ocean from September 16 to September 28. Gloria reached Category 4 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale near the Bahamas, but weakened significantly by the time it made landfall on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Gloria closely followed the Mid-Atlantic coastline and made a second landfall on Long Island, and, after crossing the Long Island Sound, it made a third landfall in Connecticut.

Overall, the storm caused extensive damage along the East Coast of the United States, amounting to $900 million ($2.55 billion in today's terms^[1]), and was responsible for eight fatalities. The storm was the first significant system to strike the northeastern United States since Hurricane Agnes in 1972 and the first major storm to affect New York and Long Island directly since Hurricane Donna in 1960. (Full article...)

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Russell, February 2011

William Felton "Bill" Russell is a retired American professional basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A five-time winner of the NBA Most Valuable Player Award and a twelve-time All-Star, Russell was the centerpiece of the Celtics dynasty that won eleven NBA Championships during Russell's thirteen-year career. Russell holds the record for the most championships won by an athlete in an American sports league.

Russell is widely considered one of the best players in NBA history. Listed as between 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) and 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), Russell's shot-blocking and man-to-man defense were major reasons for the Celtics' success. He also inspired his teammates to elevate their own defensive play. Russell was equally notable for his rebounding abilities. He led the NBA in rebounds four times, and remains second all-time in both total rebounds and rebounds per game. He is one of just two NBA players (the other being prominent rival Wilt Chamberlain) to have grabbed more than fifty rebounds in a game. Though never the focal point of the Celtics' offense, Russell also scored 14,522 career points and provided effective passing. (Full article...)

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Charles Pomeroy Stone

Credit: Unknown Photographer (1863)

Massachusetts native and Civil War General Charles Pomeroy Stone

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Image 1Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 2A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 3Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 4The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 5Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 6A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 74. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 88. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 9Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 109. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 11A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 12Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 13Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 14An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 15Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 163. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 17Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 18Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 19Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 20Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)
Image 21The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 22The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts. (from New England)
Image 23The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 24The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737. (from New England)
Image 25Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 26A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 27Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 28New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 29Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 30World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 31Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 32Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 332. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 34First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 35The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 36A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 375. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 38New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 39Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 40A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 4110. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 42The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 437. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 44A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 45Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine. (from New England)
Image 46A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north. (from New England)
Image 471. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 486. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 49Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 50An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 51Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 52Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 53New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 54Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 55Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)

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... that Benjamin Tompson's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War?
... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
... that New England Revolution manager Bruce Arena led the club to a record-breaking 73 points in the 2021 season?
... that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
... that the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
... that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?

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... that the racing roller coaster Derby Racer (pictured) killed or critically injured at least five people in its 25 years of operation, leading to a Massachusetts Supreme Court case?
... that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has been praised for an initiative to reduce health care spending, but public anger ensued when the compensation for its departed CEO was reported?
... that the Bank of New England went bankrupt in 1991, but its liquidation is still in progress?
... that New Hampshire-born Charles Coffin Harris, who served as cabinet minister and judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii, also had a business selling fern hair?
... that Ellen Hayes was not only a rare 19th-century female mathematics professor but was also the first woman to run for statewide office in Massachusetts?

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Massachusetts
Incorporated 1775
Co-ordinates 42.3°N 71.8°W

Massachusetts is the 7th least extensive, but the 14th most populous and the 3rd most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state features three separate metropolitan areas: Greater Boston in the east - which also includes all of Rhode Island - and the Springfield and Pittsfield metropolitan areas in the west.

Massachusetts has played a significant historical, cultural, and commercial role in American history. Plymouth was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, passengers of the Mayflower. Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. In 1692, the towns surrounding Salem experienced one of America's most infamous cases of mass hysteria, the Salem Witch Trials. Originally dependent on fishing, agriculture, and trade, Massachusetts was transformed into a manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution. In the 21st century, Massachusetts is a leader in higher education, health care technology, high technology, and financial services (Full article...)

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