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Fenway Park – it’s as American as apple pie and, well, baseball. The “lyrical little bandbox of a ballpark,” as local…
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Scotland’s poet and bard Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21,1796) is honored in Boston with a statue at Winthrop Square in Boston’s Financial…
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The 150th anniversary of the American Civil War (1861-65) starts in 2011, and organizers across the country hope it will…
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In the early 1700s, Irish and Scottish settlers began infiltrating Boston’s solidly Puritan stock, coming by the boatload or as…
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Boston’s Logan International Airport was named for General Edward L. Logan (1875-1939), a first generation Irish-American, military leader, civic leader…
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One of Boston’s most beloved and influential mayors of the 20th century got his just due on November 1, 2006…
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The Boston Public Library has awarded its biennial Alicia Monti Research Fellowship this year to Michael P. Quinlin who will…
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HON. JOHN JOSEPH MOAKLEYof massachusettsin the house of representativesWednesday, March 17, 1999CONGRESSIOAL RECORDMr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, it is fitting that…
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